LoRa Modulation: A 2.4GHz Communication Strategy

In the past decade the internet that we know has changed from being governed by humans to inter-object devices that are able to communicate and share information by means of wireless communication protocols. This growth has led to a set of problems related to Internet of Things device coexistence that usually communicate on a shared radio channel. This paper focuses on LoRa modulation technology and its potential. The LoRa modulation was seen as a holy grail that came to solve many problems of the IoT concept, problems related to power energy efficiency and achieve large communication distances. In this paper, we present the performance evaluation of the LoRa 2.4GHz modulation considering the main advantages that it brings to IoT concept. Also, we present a Software Defined Radio (SRD) traffic generator for LoRa technology that can be used for the scalability evaluation of the LoRa 2.4GHz technology. The traffic generator is implemented and tested using SRD hardware.