Beyond Sensing: Suitability of LoRa for Meshed Automatic Section Control of Agricultural Vehicles

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Abstract

LoRa is a wireless communication technology that is well-known for its use in long-range sensor data collection, primarily as a part of the LoRaWAN stack. In contrast, in this paper we investigate the suitability of plain LoRa and its use for more complex and more demanding applications in the agricultural domain. We describe meshed Automatic Section Control (m-ASC) as a prototypical application of connected vehicles in the agricultural domain. It allows multiple vehicles to conduct the same work in the same field in parallel by selectively turning off sections of their equipment (e.g., individual sprayer nozzles) in regions that have already been cultivated by another vehicle. We conduct both field experiments and computer simulations to investigate the performance of LoRa. We demonstrate that LoRa is a promising basis for this use case, allowing for long-range communication even under Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions and meeting the demands of this example application with ample room for higher-performance and more complex applications.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2022
EditorsMichael Welzl, Gunnar Karlsson, Ozgu Alay, Chunyi Peng
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (electronic)9783903176461
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85130232934
dblp conf/wons/Lautenschlaeger22
unpaywall 10.23919/wons54113.2022.9764458
Bibtex nsm-lautenschlaeger2022beyond