Energy Consumption Model for Sensor Nodes Based on LoRa and LoRaWAN.

Taoufik Bouguera,Guillaume Andrieux,Jean-François Diouris,Randa Jaouadi,Jean-Jacques Chaillout

doi:10.3390/s18072104

Abstract

Energy efficiency is the key requirement to maximize sensor node lifetime. Sensor nodes are typically powered by a battery source that has finite lifetime. Most Internet of Thing (IoT) applications require sensor nodes to operate reliably for an extended period of time. To design an autonomous sensor node, it is important to model its energy consumption for different tasks. Each task consumes a power consumption amount for a period of time. To optimize the consumed energy of the sensor node and have long communication range, Low Power Wide Area Network technology is considered. This paper describes an energy consumption model based on LoRa and LoRaWAN, which allows estimating the consumed power of each sensor node element. The definition of the different node units is first introduced. Then, a full energy model for communicating sensors is proposed. This model can be used to compare different LoRaWAN modes to find the best sensor node design to achieve its energy autonomy.

Highlights

Wireless Sensor nodes enable a wide range of applications, such as infrastructure security, environment monitoring, event detection, etc. [1]
We focus on the LoRaWAN protocol which was developed by LoRa Alliance to serve Internet of Thing (IoT) applications
We focus on LoRa modulation without considering the Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation because the LoRa modulation is more adapted to long range communication with low power consumption as indicated in [25]

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Introduction

Wireless Sensor nodes enable a wide range of applications, such as infrastructure security, environment monitoring, event detection, etc. [1]. Such applications have the purpose of collecting information about a given phenomena or event. These sensor nodes are generally deployed in harsh and inaccessible environments. For these reasons, sensor nodes are supposed to operate over long time periods without human intervention [1,2]. Modeling of energy consumption is an important consideration in the design of communicating sensors for monitoring a specific target application. An accurate energy consumption model of the sensor node is essential to estimate the sensor lifetime [5]. This energy model allows optimizing the power consumption of the sensor node

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