224. COMPARISON OF LORAWAN AND MOBILE IOT NETWORKS AND SERVICES

Hristijan Slavkoski; Toni Janevski

doi:10.51466/JEEIT2492224100s

Hristijan Slavkoski Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, 18 Rugjer Bošković Str., 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Toni Janevski Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, 18 Rugjer Bošković Str., 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51466/JEEIT2492224100s

Keywords: 5G networks, Internet of Things, IoT, latency, long range, LoRa, LoRaWAN, LTE-M, NB-IoT, network coverage, QoS, scalability

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the telecom world by introducing billions of low power devices each day since the start decade of this century. Massive IoT deployments are provided by using mobile IoT technologies in 4G, 5G and beyond. On the other side, there are widespread non-cellular or non-mobile IoT solutions such as LoRaWAN that provide long-range, lowpower solution in areas with limited mobile coverage. As more low power and low demanding IoT devices connect to the global Internet, choosing the right network technology for their connectivity is becoming increasingly important. Thus, this paper compares LoRaWAN, used for wide-area networks connecting low power devices, and mobile IoT technologies like Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M. We compare how these technologies handle data, their battery life, how fast they send data, how many devices they can support, how much data they can handle, and how far their network can reach. This paper contributes to being able to decide which technology is best for different IoT scenarios.