Internet of (weather) Things on a Grassroot LoRaWAN

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Manolis NikiforakisBoussias IoT conference 17-12-2015

My background

Enterprise IoT experience

Building Management System (PlegmaOpenBMS)

Operational on various buildings includingEurobank Building – Plaza, Marousi�20+ IoT hardware devices/sensors cross-vendor on 4 floors�300+ acquiring values/sec �Advanced energy analytics

Open Source (GitHub Plegma Labs)

Hyperlocal weather forecast...or skroutz.gr for weather

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Big Data Architecture

Actual WeatherConditions

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IoT to the rescue

Wireless tech trade-offs

BatteryRangeCost

Wireless tech trade-offs

Wireless tech trade-offs

Long - Range wireless tech

LoRa Attributes

Getting closer to the Smart City

OPEN for Business NOW

Multi-Vendor ecosystem

Athens LoRaWAN Public Network

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?free flow of data - the actual “internet” of things

● Inertial sensors for wind● Capacitive sensor for rain● STM32 ARM Cortex-M3● Microchip RN2483 (9$)

WxM solid state open weather station

LoRaWAN low-cost DIY gateways

LoRaWAN gateways

CISCO IR910Calao Toti-LoRa-pico

TTN was kickstarted on NOV 20

€295,331934

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http://sentilo.weatherxm.com:8080/sentilo-catalog-web/

Athens as an Open Smart City

Advanced weather services

We are...

● Weather Analytics B2C -> B2B

● Unique IoT weather hardware

LoRaWAN...

● Enables large scale low-cost deployment of sensors

● Leading to advanced Weather Services

● Additional IoT use cases through open - shared infrastructure

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Grassroot

Together we can

Thank you!

Manolis @ WeatherXM.com23