Performance Evaluation of LoRaWAN Applied to Smart Monitoring in Onshore Oil Industries

A performance evaluation of the physical layer of the long-range (L αRa) technology is presented in this paper. Aπ experimental setup with off-the-shelf LoRa wide area network (LoRaWAN) devices were prepared to demonstrate the feasibility of this technology. Feasible communication between a central oilproducing process used to monitor several oil wells, located in a rural area, was achieved at distances up to V 2.7 km, according to measurements of the average received signal indicators around -100 dCm fur an average SNR 5.6 dB. It is possible to conclude from the experimental results that LoRaWAN is a suitable long-range and low power wide area network for smart monitoring in oil Industries.