LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications

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Introduction to low-power wide-area networks

Bharat S. Chaudhari¹ and Marco Zennaro²,    ¹School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MIT World Peace University, Pune, India,    ²T/ICT4D Laboratory, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Abstract

With the emergence of the Internet of things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, massive growth in the sensor node deployment is expected soon. According to IHS Markit forecast, the number of connected IoT devices would grow to 125 billion by 2030. The exponential growth in IoT is impacting virtually all stages of industry and nearly all market areas. It is redefining the ways to design, manage, and maintain the networks, data, clouds, and ...