Como a rede LoRa pode auxiliar a transferência de dados à longa distância no meio rural

Abstract

Long Range or LoRa is a wireless technology designed for low power and long range operation. LoRaWAN is a long distance network protocol that incorporates LoRa. With the incessant technological progress, it is necessary to modernize agriculture for precision agriculture, that is, with new technologies. In this sense, the present work has as a general objective to analyze the connectivity problem in rural areas showing LoRa as a viable alternative to solve this problem. To achieve this goal, the bibliographical research was adopted as the main theme, which is the state of the art of LoRa and its ramifications, that is, the problem of the growing demand for food and the lack of connectivity in rural areas to highlight and present LoRa as a solution to increase connectivity in rural areas. A questionnaire was also applied to 22 rural landowners to answer questions related to internet in rural areas and their technologies related to Precision Farming. The results show from the implementation of LoRa in a rural property in measuring the temperature of a reservoir 3km away show the efficiency of LoRa in practice and prepare the ground for new applications that show its unlimited possibilities, especially in rural areas where connectivity at kilometers away is essential. It is inevitable that the entire agricultural sector undergoes transformations in parallel with technological progress, and therefore it is more than necessary to modernize with new technology to remain competitive and efficient in production to meet the demand for food, and LoRa is the ideal technology to enhance day to day operations.