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Enabling Generic Sensing Devices to use LoRa Communication

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Page Count

18

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41173

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https://peer.asee.org/41173

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Ciprian Popoviciu East Carolina University

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Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University – Assistant Professor

Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu has over 20 years of experience working in technical and leadership roles in the IT industry. He is an industry-recognized domain expert in IPv6 who has worked with large service providers, enterprises, and governments. Popoviciu founded Nephos6, which did groundbreaking work OpenStack for IPv6, authored two books on IPv6, and has worked on IPv6-related internet standards and patents. He is an IPv6 Forum Fellow, IPv6 Hall of Fame 2019 inductee, and a technology expert for the European Commission. His research focuses on next generation infrastructures and IOT. Dr. Popoviciu completed his Executive MBA at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Popoviciu is currently an assistant professor at East Carolina University's College of Engineering and Technology, where he teaches and participates in cyberinfrastructure research.

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Colby Sawyer East Carolina University

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Colby Sawyer, East Carolina University – Software Developer

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Abstract

There is a rapidly increasing need for real-time sensing data; data typically collected by devices deployed in remote locations, inaccessible by standard wireless and cellular technologies at scalable costs. With the emergence of LoRa wireless technology as a viable data communication methodology, there is a clear opportunity to instrument the environment at scale with sensors to collect real-time data at low cost and low power budgets. In this paper, we cover the approach used to develop an edge device capable of interfacing with any environmental sensor to transmit collected data via LoRa to a cloud- based data collection service. We document the development of the physical edge node, the development of a methodology to generalize connectivity to sensing devices, the development of software capable of interfacing with the connected sensors, the development of software capable of translating data into meaningful information, and the development of software to send/receive data over LoRa to a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring service. We aim to streamline the instrumentation of this device to enable any scientific group to easily set up an instrumentation infrastructure to collect data over large geographical footprints.

Popoviciu, C., & Sawyer, C. (2022, August), Enabling Generic Sensing Devices to use LoRa Communication Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41173

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