Community-based wireless IoT infrastructure using ubiquitous vending machines

This paper proposes the concept of community-based wireless IoT infrastructure using ubiquitous vending machines. Assuming to configure a mesh/tree network with data multi-hopping function based on the wireless standard “Wi-SUN (Wireless Smart Utility Network),” which is to use IEEE802.15.4e/4g for its MAC and PHY layers specifications, this paper shows a network design to be applied to a real deployment plan in Sumida ward, Tokyo, Japan, considering fundamental measured RSSI versus distance performance in a line-of-sight (LoS) environment. This paper also discusses several beacon-based IoT data dissemination applications for the community-based IoT infrastructure combined with flooding routing technique. Based on the above concepts and the real deployment plan, this paper discusses and shows the estimated results of some key network performance factors, such as coverage, capacity, success ratio, and latency by a theoretical or a simulation approach.