Hardware Development and Evaluation of Multihop Cluster-Based Agricultural IoT Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy and LoRa Communication Technologies

In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a contextually relevant, cost-effective, multihop cluster-based agricultural Internet of Things (MCA-IoT) network. This network utilizes commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) and LoRa communication technologies, along w...

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Published in:	Sensors
Main Authors:	Emmanuel Effah, George Ghartey, Joshua Kweku Aidoo, Ousmane Thiare
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-09-01
Subjects:	Internet of Things (IoT) agricultural IoT (Agri-IoT) multihop cluster-based agricultural IoT (MCA-IoT)
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/18/6113

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