Leveraging LoRaWAN to Support IoBT in Urban Environments

Continued advances in IoT technology have prompted new investigation into usage of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) technologies for military operations. Key to these efforts have been expanded empirical research on the coverage of IoT communication protocols in the presence of dense urban infrastructure. Through use of a supporting COTS IoT architecture, a LoRaWAN data collect was conducted in the city of Montreal aimed at testing device coverage over roadways in the downtown area. For this data collect, LoRa performance was compared for different data rate values on the North American Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) 915 MHz band. This work is seen as a key initial step in supporting expanded usage of civilian IoT communication protocols within tactical C2 systems for urban deployment.