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Case study: Building a lighting control system for smart cities

Case study: Building a lighting control system for smart cities

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Case study: Building a lighting control system for smart cities

- [Instructor] To cover a wide area of your wireless network for smart street lighting applications, there are two ways to do so. You can use the long-range communication technology, such as low power WAN, or you can use LoWPANs in exchange for overall communication range with the use of a mesh network setting. Both of them can provide wireless connectivity but the number of nodes we should use, data transmission delays, and the other performance metrics may be a concern if we use the LoWPAN solution. In this video we'll discuss how to use LTE-M for smart street lighting applications. First, let's still check the system requirements. Compared to the smart home lighting application there are several changes made here. The environment gets changed from indoors to outdoors, then as we're going to use the LTE-M technology we need to use a star topology as there's only one base station connecting multiple and low power end devices in a cell. The traffic pattern needs to adjust as well, as…

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