Lorawan - based delivery drones and tracking for transportation systems

Abstract

Urban networks aim at facilitating users for better experience and services through smart platforms such as the ITS. ITS focuses on information acquisition, sensing, contrivance control, data processing and forwarding to ground devices via user-specific application-interfaces. The utility of ITS is further improved via the IoT, which supports “Connectivity to All”. One of the key applications of IoT-ITS is urban delivery. The novelty in terms of network layout can be procured by the utilization of drones with LoRaWAN, which is the protocol designated for LPWAN. This paper uses drones as delivery transportation and proposes a communication as well as tracking strategy based on LoRaWAN protocol.