Communication strategies for low cost environmental monitoring in Uganda. Case study: GSM vs LoRaWAN.

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dc.contributor.author Abaasa, Peace Ella
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-23T09:07:03Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-23T09:07:03Z
dc.date.issued 2022-06-18
dc.description A final year project report submitted to the College of Engineering Design and Art in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering of Makerere University. en_US
dc.description.abstract The project analyzed two communication strategies used to relay data from environment monitoring devices. The technologies studied were Global Systems for Mobile communication (GSM) and Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN). These two were analyzed by setting up a circuit which had a BME280 sensor, sending temperature and humidity data using both technologies to an SQLite database that was hosted on a Google cloud server and were displayed using a web application. Results showed that GSM incurs more running costs despite less initial costs than LoRaWAN. This implies that there is need for LoRaWAN to be embraced despite the popularity of GSM in Uganda, as it consumes low power and still supports long range communication for data transfer in environmental monitoring systems. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Abaasa, Peace Ella. (2022). Communication strategies for low cost environmental monitoring in Uganda. Case study: GSM vs LoRaWAN. (Unpublished undergraduate dissertation) Makerere University; Kampala, Uganda. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/12885
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Makerere University en_US
dc.subject Communication strategies en_US
dc.subject Low cost environmental monitoring en_US
dc.subject GSM vs LoRaWAN en_US
dc.title Communication strategies for low cost environmental monitoring in Uganda. Case study: GSM vs LoRaWAN. en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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