Towards a New Opportunistic IoT Network Architecture for Wildlife Monitoring System

Abstract

In this paper we introduce an opportunistic dual radio IoT network architecture for wildlife monitoring systems (WMS). Since data processing consumes less energy than transmitting the raw data, the proposed architecture leverages opportunistic mobile networks in a fixed LPWAN IoT network infrastructure. This solution will facilitate an IoT devices to be deployed for ultra-low power and sustainable wildlife monitoring applications. As part of the IoT infrastructure, a LoRa based network is presented with coverage characterization and preliminary test bed deployment for wildlife tracking purpose. In addition, through simulation, the utilization of existing BLE based opportunistic data collection protocols for the proposed architecture is investigated.