Industrial Monitoring and Troubleshooting Based on LoRa Communication Technology

This paper presents design and implementation of a real-time monitoring and troubleshooting system using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) technology operating based on LoRa protocol. The main focus in this study was given to applications in industry, where most of the machinery are conventional and do not support modern digital data communication technologies common for factory networking. The general procedure and the details of implementation are presented through a prototype implementation performed on production machines of a food-processing plant. Proposed system consists of LoRA-based wireless motes that record the variations in operating temperature and vibrations on production machines through sensors and, wirelessly report summary data in real-time to a developed monitoring software interface for system diagnostics, troubleshooting and preventative maintenance.