Carputer with LoRa: Car Location Monitoring System Based on LoRa Network

Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the most promising topics in the technical, social and economic area and its market has been growing rapidly since then. At Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, there are many IoT-related projects which are being conducted for school or for enterprises collaborations. The primary objective of this project was researching the solid background and creating an understandable concept of LoRa and LoRaWAN for anyone who would want to get started with LoRa modulation technology and explore how they enable the potential of IoT worldwide with a very large-scale network. The secondary aim was to demonstrate how LoRa is applied to our real-life application. A GPS tracking system will be installed in a car for monitoring the vehicle’s location on a website application. Throughout the theory parts of this thesis, LoRa and LoRaWAN were exploring from the roots. The basis, as well as the most important key parameters, were discussed with examples and different comparisons with other technologies. The final GPS system was an example of LoRa devices and a server network forming a LoRa Wide Area Network. It was successful to demonstrate how data was sent from the GPS node to the gateway and finally displayed on a visualized web application while consuming low power