  In recent years, the use of Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is increasing
for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In order to demonstrate the
application of LPWAN technologies for a realistic smart metering scenario, we
set-up and implement a widely used LPWAN protocol which is called LoRaWAN. In
this study, the LoRaWAN is implemented by using Multitech devices (end-node and
gateway) and the performance of the network is evaluated for different physical
(e.g. location, distance etc.) and link parameters (e.g. data rate,
transmission power etc.), under the European regulations. To evaluate the
performance of the networks, we collected uplink packets in different indoor
and outdoor scenarios at various locations. Our results show that LoRaWAN is
easy to setup, configurable, scalable, and it performs well for real-time smart
metering applications. Moreover, it is necessary to evaluate the physical
conditions for the selection of the available system parameters for deploying a
robust LoRaWAN network.
