A Study On ’LPWAN’ Technologies For A Drone Assisted Smart Energy Meter System In 5g-smart City Iot-cloud Environment

Abstract

The multilayer IoT-Cloud architecture offers a distinctive system for deployment of a ‘drone assisted’ real-time data gaining and monitoring using IOT energy meters in the smart cities. Despite of the advantages of flexibility, cost-effectiveness, functionality, and availability of the Cloud-Fog architecture comprising present day LPWAN technologies for sensor devices, there is a need for study of various competing LPWAN algorithms that will support cloud-fog-IoT computing environment. The present article is some studies on present-day technologies for IoT-Cloud Smart city adoptability. A pilot run is simulated using MATLAB SIMULINK to obtain the drone movement and the smart meter readings were obtained using the same. The article studies and compares compatibility of present-day LPAWAN technologies NB-IoT, LoRa, and SigFox for the multi-layer IoT-Cloud architecture for drone assisted smart meter monitoring in smart city environment.

Keywords

• iot-cloud architecture
• lpwan technologies
• drones
• smart meters
• smart cities