LoRa Performance in Short Range Industrial Applications

Abstract

With the growing interest in Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, the LoRa technology has started to be tested for the use in industrial environments. In this work, LoRa performance and noise robustness for a specific industrial application is assessed. Experimental results demonstrate that LoRa communication can be used without severe impact on the reliability and packet loss. An accurate analysis determines also the best configuration and the trade off between data rate and packet loss.