Shuo-Tsung Chen¹, Chih-Chiang Hua², Ching-Chun Chuang^3
1Bachelor Program in Interdisciplinary, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology;123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan, R.O.C
²Department of Electrical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology;123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan, R.O.C.
³Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Formosa University; No. 63, Wunhua Rd., Huwei Toshnship, Yunlin 632, Taiwan, R.O.C
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ABSTRACT
In recent years, the technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) has developed rapidly and has been successfully used in different fields. Moreover, the application context of the IoT will be extended more widely. This work applies the IoT technology to forestry management, including: 1. Transmission of sensing data about forest information using wireless network communication technology of Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) such as LoRa and NB-IoT; 2. Apply different sensing technologies to survey resource of forest and monitor the microclimate changes in forest. In order to verify the proposed LPWAN communication technology, sensors, and sensor deployment, we built LoRa and NB-IoT communication equipment (including repeat equipment) and various sensors to transmit the real-time sensing data in the Fushan Botanical Garden with the most diverse and complex terrain in Taiwan. The returned data also proves the successful operation of various communication devices and sensors.

ARTICLE INFO
Article History
Received 30 October 2020
Accepted 01 September 2021

Keywords
Internet of things (IoT)
Low power wide area network (LPWAN)
LoRa
NB-IoT

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