Measurements of LoRaWAN Technology in Urban Scenarios: A Data Descriptor

This work is a data descriptor paper for measurements related to various operational aspects of LoRaWAN communication technology collected in Brno, Czech Republic. This paper also provides data characterizing the long-term behavior of the LoRaWAN channel collected during the two-month measurement campaign. It covers two measurement locations, one at the university premises, and the second situated near the city center. The dataset's primary goal is to provide the researchers lacking LoRaWAN devices with an opportunity to compare and analyze the information obtained from 303 different outdoor test locations transmitting to up to 20 gateways operating in the 868 MHz band in a varying metropolitan landscape. To collect the data, we developed a prototype equipped with a Microchip RN2483 Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) LoRaWAN technology transceiver module for the field measurements. As an example of data utilization, we showed the Signal-to-noise Ratio (SNR) and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) in relation to the closest gateway distance. Dataset: Available on GitHub: https://github.com/BUTResearch/MDPI_Data_Urban_LPWA_Measurement (accessed on 30 May 2021). Dataset License: CC-BY 4.0

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This data descriptor paper presents measurements related to various operational aspects of LoRaWAN communication technology collected in Brno, Czech Republic. It also provides data characterizing the long-term behavior of the LoRaWAN channel during a two-month measurement campaign. The dataset aims to allow researchers without LoRaWAN devices to compare and analyze information obtained from 303 different outdoor test locations transmitting to up to 20 gateways in a varying metropolitan landscape.