Prototype of Long-Range Radio Communication for e-Nelayan Devices using LoRaWAN

Febri Dawani (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Syifaul Fuada (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Sinantya Feranti Anindya (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Aditia Rifai (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Erick Adinugraha (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Irfan Gani Purwanda (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Trio Adiono (Institut Teknologi Bandung)

Jurnal INFOTEL
Vol 10 No 4 (2018): November 2018

In this paper, development progress of a long-range radio communication-based fishing assistant system called e-Nelayan is reported. The purpose of the system is to increase the productivity, safety, and welfare of fishermen using mobile phone and long-range radio based system that enables them to report maritime violations, access and exchange information regarding weather, fishing area, marketplace, and also communication with mainland using Android-based mobile phone within extended range. We used LoRaWAN as a base technology for long-range communication scheme. In this work, the test conducted to obtain an insight to e-Nelayan device (LoRa-based) received RSSI and its packet loss. The received data collected in a server also includes the GPS tracking data. The test results show that our system reached approximately 5 km of distance between end-node to the LoRa Gateway within urban area (LoS configuration) and about 2 km for NLOS configuration.