Smart Neighbourhood: LoRa-based environmental monitoring and emergency management collaborative IoT platform

There are emergency situations which affect a smaller number of households (fires, gas leakages, floods) but which are prone to extend and damage furthermore adjacent areas (neighbourhoods, large buildings) and increase the life and material losses. An efficient solution proposed in this paper comprises a collaborative IoT platform that monitors each neighbourhood and alerts the inhabitants and the response teams when a danger occurs either in their households or in other neighbouring buildings. In order to cover a large area and to reduce the costs related to energy consumption, the solution described uses LoRa technology for monitoring and WiFi communication only for alerting purposes. In this paper, a testbed was also proposed and fire scenarios were investigated.