ZigBee and LoRa performances on RF Propagation on the Snow Hills area
Puput Dani Prasetyo Adi, Fransiska Sisilia Mukti, Panggih Nur Adi, Akio Kitagawa, Toni Toni, Gomal Juni Yanris, Volvo Sihombing, Zunaidy Abdullah Siregar
Abstract
In the research, the analysis of LoRa 915, 920 MHz, and ZigBee 2.4 GHz data transmission in an outdoor area with snow conditions and the transmitter and receiver position in the mountains full of Snow. Delivery conditions are sometimes hindered by heavy Snow; for this reason, in this research, ZigBee and LoRa Quality of Service calculations were carried out in severe snow conditions. They use the measurement method approach, i.e., two ray Ground reflection model, using the Free Space Path Loss (FSPL) approach between 2 Radio Frequency (RF) LoRa and ZigBee. A significant comparison is obtained from LoRa and ZigBee propagation regarding sending Tx to Rx data. The comparison between ZigBee and LoRa in this research is that the Transmitter (T <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</inf> ) position is on a hill and the Receiver (R <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</inf> ) is on a flat plane, with Transmitter Height (h <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">t</inf> ) and Receiver Height (h <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">r</inf> ) parameters, so that this allows signal reflection to occur. The difference between the standard ground layer and the snow-covered surface is also calculated in Attenuation during data transmission.