LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications

Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is a promising solution for long range and low power Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communication applications. The LPWANs are resource-constrained networks and have critical requirements for long battery life, extended coverage, high scalability, and low device and deployment costs. There are several design and deployment challenges such as media access control, spectrum management, link optimization and adaptability, energy harvesting, duty cycle restrictions, coexistence and interference, interoperability and heterogeneity, security and privacy, and others.

LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications is intended to provide a one-stop solution for study of LPWAN technologies as it covers a broad range of topics and multidisciplinary aspects of LPWAN and IoT. Primarily, the book focuses on design requirements and constraints, channel access, spectrum management, coexistence and interference issues, energy efficiency, technology candidates, use cases of different applications in smart city, healthcare, and transportation systems, security issues, hardware/software platforms, challenges, and future directions.

• One stop guide to the technical details of various low power long range technologies such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M and others
• Describes the design aspects, network architectures, security issues and challenges
• Discusses the performance, interference, coexistence issues and energy optimization techniques
• Includes LPWAN based intelligent applications in diverse areas such as smart city, traffic management, health and others
• Presents the different hardware and software platforms for LPWANs
• Provides guidance on selecting the right technology for an application

Dr. Bharat S. Chaudhari is working as a Professor (HAG) in Electrical/Electronics and Communication Engineering at MIT World Peace University, Pune, India. He graduated in Industrial Electronics Engineering from Amravati University in 1989 and received M. E. Telecom. E. and PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He has previously held positions like Principal, Dean, and Professor at various Institutes in Pune. He is a recipient of the 2020 IETE N V Gadadhar Memorial Award, the MAEER Pune’s Ideal Teacher Award 2015, and the Young Scientist Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, in 2003. He was appointed as a Visiting Scientist (Simons Associate/Regular Associate) to Wireless Network Research Group, ICTP, Trieste, Italy from January 2007 to December 2020. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, Fellow of IE (I), and a Founder Chairman of the IEEE Pune Section (2010 – 2011). He also chaired the IEEE Communications Society, Pune Chapter. He serves as a Program Evaluator of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, United States, for accreditation of computer, communications, and similar engineering programs. His current research interest includes LPWANs, AIoT, TinyML, and Si-Photonics.

Dr. Marco Zennaro is a Research Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he coordinates the Science, Technology, and Innovation Unit. He received his PhD from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and his MSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Trieste. He is a visiting Professor at KIC-Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. His research interest is in ICT4D, the use of ICT for Development, and in particular, he investigates the use of IoT in Developing Countries. He is TinyML4D Chair and Academic Network Co-Chair in the framework of the TinyML4D initiative. He has given lectures on wireless technologies in more than 30 different countries. More info here: https://www.ictp.it/member/marco-zennaro#biography