LoRa mesh networks for the IoT (ASSET)
Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (PDC2023-145809-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033), the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism of the European Union, and by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
January 2024 – December 2025

[ Objectives | Methodology | People | Achievements ]

• Prototype development: Add functionality and services to the LoRaMesher software to support challenging distributed applications.

• Demonstrator development: Provide a Web-accessible demonstrator.

• Early adopter customization: Work with our early adopters, build new partnerships, and open new application opportunities

• Innovation management: Manage the innovation outcoming from the project through dissemination, exploitation, and standardization activities.

Development to increase the capacities and TRL of the LoRaMesher library and for supporting challenging distributed applications. Deployments of LoRa mesh networks to demonstrate their operation and applications.

Roger Baig, Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Felix Freitag, Roc Meseguer

• The Effects of Weight Quantization on Online Federated Learning for the IoT: A Case Study,
  by N. Llisterri Gimenez, Lee, J. K., Freitag, F., and Vandierendonck, H. IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 5490-5502, 2024. (open access). (Video).

• Demonstrator LoRaMesh Network Monitor operational at Campus Nord (UPC), code in open git repository

• LoRaMesher showcased by CIT UPC within UPC projects at IoTSolutions World Congress 2024 (21-23/05/2024).

• Presentation “LoRaMesher: Advanced IoT services for LoRa Mesh networks, at Alianzas Estratégicas entre Universidad y Empresa: Tecnología y Talento para la innovación, in the program of the side event of IoTSolutions World Congress 2024, 21/05/2024.

• LoRaMesher project was awarded the Finalist Prize in V Jornada UPC de Ciència Oberta, 21/06/2024.

• A minimalistic distance-vector routing protocol for LoRa mesh networks,
  by R. Pueyo Centelles, R. Meseguer, F. Freitag, R. Baig and L. Navarro, IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3443605, 2024. (open access).

• Some of the LoRaMesher enhancements: Added support for compiling in Expressif framework only to enable Bluetooth and Wifi support concurrently. Testing specific issues reported from user feedback. Extended parameter selection and configuration of routing protocol. Added support in LoRaMesher for T-Beam v1.2 boards. Added support for Hacking Ecology Nayad board.