LouPe: LoRa Performance Measurement Tool

Abstract

With the popularity and the high demand of Internet of Things (IoT), company and university are striving to deliver innovations every day. LoRa is one of the trending technologies in the IoT field, and it can build Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN). However, the network performance of LoRa strongly depends on an environment where LoRa is installed. Therefore, before deploying a network with LoRa, we need to evaluate network performance. At present, researchers or developers evaluate it manually. In this paper, we provide a design of a measurement tool for evaluating network performance with LoRa to support for deploying a LoRA network. We also show experimental results by using our measurement tool, and we then discussed installing the LoRa network in our crab park environment.