Weather Sensing for HEMS via LoRaWAN

Weather Sensing for HEMS via LoRaWAN

Weather Sensing for HEMS via LoRaWAN

Advisors: Cem Ersoy & Tuna Tuğcu (CMPE)

Sinan Işık (BOUN MATH) & Alper Yeğin (Actility)

Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic in the telecommunications world. It differs from the traditional wireless networks due to tremendous number of nodes (things) and their limited battery/communication/processing power. These limitations enforce a change in the communication paradigm, not provided by the off-the-shelf technologies.

LoRaWAN is an emerging technology that enables IoT. It can support up to 10 km range for low power devices that can run on battery for 10 years. We are in the stage of building a testbed for LoRaWAN in collaboration with one of the key vendors of technology, Actility.

If you would like to take part in this thrilling project, contact Cem Ersoy and/or Tuna Tuğcu. The project team will be composed of two students and will span one semester. You will first setup LoRaWAN gateway and end devices, followed by developing an application over this testbed. The project requires hands-on practice with the provided hardware and commitment.

Problem Definition:

As home energy use is increasing and renewable energy systems are deployed, home energy management system (HEMS) needs to consider both energy consumption and generation simultaneously to minimize the energy cost. In a scenario where we generate electricity via a solar panel and a small size wind tribune at the roof top of a building or at a nearby field, we need wind speed and light intensity information for our HEMS control unit.

In this project, we will measure wind speed and light intensity information by using an Ardunio/Raspberry Pi, a wind speed sensor and a light sensor. The next step is to transfer the information to our HEMS control unit. At this step we want to utilize LoRaWAN which is a media access control (MAC) protocol for wide area networks. It is designed to allow low-powered devices to communicate with Internet-connected applications over long range wireless connections. A typical LoRaWAN architecture can be seen in Figure 1.

Typical LoRaWAN Architecture

Figure 1.  A Typical LoRaWAN Architecture

In this project, we will use the existing LoRaWAN Gateway and build our own LoRaWAN end device.

Project Advisor: 

Cem Ersoy

Project Year: 

2017
  • Fall

Contact us

Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University,
34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Phone: +90 212 359 45 23/24
  • Fax: +90 212 2872461
 

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