Presentation At 29th International Scientific Conference Organization and Maintenance Technology OTO 2020

At 29th International Scientific Conference Organization and Maintenance Technology OTO 2020 the paper titled "Wireless technology for wide and open areas" was presented. It was written by researchers from FERIT - Ana Pejković, Josip Spišić, Matko Zrnić, Krešimir Grgić and Josip Balen. 

In the paper it's described that there are a large number of wireless technologies used for IoT, and they are designed for different applications with different characteristics. A comparison of the most practical wireless technologies for use in agriculture in wide and open areas is conducted and it is concluded that the key aspects of wide and open areas are long communication range and extended battery life. It has been concluded that technologies that meet these requirements are LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT. NB-IoT provides better service quality, lower latency and higher data rates while LoRa and Sigfox can provide a very low cost end node and high coverage with low power consumption for asynchronous communication with the gateway.