LoRaWAN Sensor Network Design Project: Semester 1, 2020

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Table of weekly activities................................................................................................................3
Roles and responsibilities of each member.....................................................................................5
Gantt chart.......................................................................................................................................7
Project design with diagram............................................................................................................8
Project individual design approaches............................................................................................10
Design approach 1.....................................................................................................................10
Design approach 2.....................................................................................................................12
Design approach 3.....................................................................................................................13
Design approach 4.....................................................................................................................15
Design approach 5.....................................................................................................................17
Budget with reference....................................................................................................................19
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................20
References:....................................................................................................................................21
Appendix 3.....................................................................................................................................22
List of Figures
Figure 1 Project design....................................................................................................................6
Figure 2 Detailed project diagram...................................................................................................7
Figure 3 Simple use case of the project...........................................................................................8
Figure 4 Design approach 1.............................................................................................................9
Figure 5 Flow chart of design approach 1.....................................................................................10
Figure 6 Design approach 2...........................................................................................................11
Figure 7 Flow chart of design approach 2.....................................................................................11
Figure 8 Design approach 3...........................................................................................................12
Figure 9 Flow chart of design approach 3.....................................................................................13
Figure 10 Design approach 4.........................................................................................................14
Figure 11 Flow chart of deisgn approach 4...................................................................................15
Figure 12 Design approach 5.........................................................................................................16
Figure 13 Flow chart of Design approach 5..................................................................................16

Introduction
The report is based on the assessment 1 of this assignment. Assignment 2 includes two major
sections. The first section will include the update summary of assignment 1 on the basis of
comments and feedback received. The main section of the report will cover the logbook which
will show the activities of the project as per weeks. This is followed by a detailed description of
the responsibilities and roles of the team members. Then this will include a Gantt chart according
to the activities and resources of the project. This will also cover the timeline of the project.
Next, it will include the design of project along with the diagram. Also it includes 5 design
approaches of each team member. At last it will cover the budget of the project with a detailed
description.

Table of weekly activities
Week number Date Time in hours Event
Week 1 9/11/2019 32 hours Analysis of software
requirements
Week 2 9/18/2019 31 hours Analysis of hardware
requirements
Week 3 9/25/2019 36 hours Analysis of other
resource requirements
Week 4,5 10/3/2019 71 hours Planning of budget
Week 6,7 10/17/2019 73 Hours Planning of process and
activity
Week 8,9,10 10/29/2019 109 Hours Planning of resource
management
Week 11,12,13,14 11/19/2019 151 Hours Planning of workflow
Week 15,16,17,18,19,20 12/17/2019 214 Hours Management of device
Week 21,22,23,24 1/28/2020 147 Hours Setting up all nodes
Week 25 2/25/2020 34 Hours Setting connectivity
between nodes
Week 26,27,28 3/6/2020 111 Hours Testing of sensors
Week 29,20 3/24/2020 76 Hours Testing of input and
outputs
Week 31 4/7/2020 37 Hours Testing of networks
Week 32 4/17/2020 29 Hours Security policies
implementation
Week 33,34 4/24/2020 34 Hours Implementation of
security algorithms
Week 35 5/4/2020 24 Hours Use of security tools
Week 35,36 5/8/2020 45 Hours Deployment and
connecting various
sensors
Week 37, 38 5/20/20 148 Hours Monitoring of
transmission
Week 39, 40 6/3/2020 139 Hours Nodes monitoring
Week 41, 42 6/15/2020 141 Hours Device monitoring
Week 43, 44 6/29/20 136 Hours Traffic monitoring
Week 45 7/17/2020 32 Hours Monitoring of users
included

Week 46, 47 7/23/2020 148 Hours Basic level controlling
Week 48, 49 8/4/2020 151 Hours High level controlling
Week 50, 51 8/18/2020 143 Hours Networking device
management
Week 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 9/1/2020 177 Hours Operational device
management
Week 57 9/29/2020 31 Hours Managerial device
management
Week 58 10/6/2020 36 Hours Connectivity
maintenance [1]

Roles and responsibilities of each member
There are five members in this project. Each member has their own set of responsibilities. The
roles of each team member are described below in detail:
Member name Role Responsible for
Disha dhavalkumar Patel: Project Manager  Completion of this project
according to planning
 Provide guidelines in
planning, execution,
control, monitoring and
finalization of the project.
 Prioritize the activities of
the project
 Avoid conflicts and assure
team bonding
 Communication
management
 Budget planning
 Proves and activity
planning
 Workflow planning [2]
Gurpreet Singh: Resource manager  Analyze the requirement
of the project including
software, hardware, and
other resources
 Resource management
planning
 Budget planning
 Managerial device
management
Sachin Kumar: Network administrator  Implementation of security
policies
 Implementation of security
algorithms
 Use of security tools to
prevent threats
 Networking device
management
Ravneet Kaur: Functional manager  Setting up all the nodes
 Maintain connectivity
between nodes
 Deployment of various
sensors

 Operational device
management
 Network controlling
process (basic level and
high level)
Jaspreet Singh: Analyst  Testing of sensors
 Testing of incoming and
outgoing traffic
 Testing of network
 Monitoring of
transmission, nodes,
devices, traffics and users
included to assure smooth
activities

Gantt chart

Project design with the diagram
Figure 1 Project design
Figure 2 Detailed project diagram

Figure 3 Simple use case of the project
The main design if the project is given above. The diagram shows the LoRaWAN design. The
diagram displays the modules and the design components of LoRaWAN sensor. The basic
network of LoRaWAN includes core network server, end devices, and gateways. The end
devices are connected with the gateways. They will use a single hop connection for
communication. In the project, the gateways are interfaced with the main server of network with
the help of standard connections of IP and connected together. The communication between
gateways and end devices is bidirectional. The traffic to the network from end device (uplink
traffic) is used for different applications and use cases. In the project, the communication
between the gateways and devices happens on various rates of data and channels. The range of
data rate will be from 300 bps to 5 kbps and the bandwidth range will be about 125 kilos Hz.
These different rates of data have been used to support various coverage ranges.

Project individual design approaches
Design approach 1
Figure 4 Design approach 1

Figure 5 Flow chart of design approach 1
The design approach given above includes different sensors. If anything goes wrong then the
system sends alerts or raise alarms in order to send the indication to the team. These intelligent
sensors are connected to a backend for remotely monitoring. In this design approach BLE
sensors will be planted to strategically monitor humidity and temperature. These sensors are able
to record the data of climate and send this information to the main hub device. This hub device is
able to do communication over both wi-fi hub and BLE. The wi-fi hub is used to do
communication with the local router. This can allow the uploading of data to the remote cloud
for periodic monitoring.

Design approach 2
Figure 6 Design approach 2
Figure 7 Flow chart of design approach 2
This design approach includes end nodes, gateway, network server, and application server. In
this approach all the communication are double encrypted. First encryption is done with a