The New Engine of Energy IoT: LoRaWAN Architecture & 5 Key Application Scenarios

1. Overview

2. What is LoRaWAN?

Core Advantages:

• Ultra-Long Range: Covers 2–5 km in urban environments and up to 15–20 km in line-of-sight conditions, easily meeting the large-scale deployment needs of parks and factories.
• Flexible Deployment: Based on unlicensed frequency bands, it supports rapid private network construction without complex wiring, enabling seamless integration with existing systems.
• Cost-Effective: Eliminates the need for SIM cards and monthly carrier fees, resulting in lower hardware and long-term O&M costs compared to 4G/NB-IoT solutions.
• Deep Integration: Seamlessly fuses with energy management platforms to support intelligent functions such as automatic meter reading, real-time monitoring, fault，and energy efficiency analysis.

3. Five Key Application Scenarios

1. Smart Parks

• Functionality: Achieves sub-item energy consumption monitoring, equipment status collection, intelligent lighting, and security linkage across the entire park.
• Benefit: Enhances overall operational efficiency and safety levels.

2. Smart Buildings

• Functionality: Suitable for office buildings, shopping malls, and residential complexes. It enables collection and control of electricity, water, gas, air conditioning, and lighting data without wall-breaking wiring.
• Benefit: Facilitates building energy conservation and refined operations.

3. Smart Factories

• Functionality: Monitors production line energy consumption, power distribution safety, and environmental parameters in real-time. Supports energy efficiency analysis, fault ，and predictive maintenance.
• Benefit: Provides a reliable data foundation for the digital transformation of manufacturing.

4. Smart Cities

• Functionality: Applied in municipal projects such as smart street lighting, environmental monitoring, and remote meter reading.
• Benefit: Promotes visual and refined management of urban energy, supporting the realization of “Dual Carbon” goals.

5. Schools & Hospitals

• Functionality: Implements electrical monitoring, prepaid management, and electrical safety in laboratories, wards, dormitories, etc.
• Benefit: Improves energy usage safety and management efficiency.

4. Networking Solution

1. Terminal Layer (Nodes)

• Devices: LoRaWAN nodes such as the AWT100-LW and ADW300-LW.
• Role: Responsible for on-site data collection.

2. Network Layer (Gateways)

• Role: Acting like “base stations,” they receive data from nodes and upload it to the platform via LoRaWAN.

3. Platform Layer (Server)

• Role: Completes data aggregation, analysis, alarm management, and visualization.

5. Scenario-Based Solutions

Energy Metering

• Features: Supports real-time collection and measurement of multi-energy data (electricity, water, gas, etc.). Enables long-term data storage, trend tracking, and abnormal energy consumption warm.
• Value: Provides data support for energy management, operational optimization, and energy conservation. Helps enterprises identify potential energy-saving opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and improve overall energy efficiency.

Wireless Temperature Measurement

• Features: The ARTM series of online temperature monitoring devices is suitable for temperature monitoring of cable joints, circuit breaker contacts, knife switches, high-voltage cable intermediate joints, dry-type transformers, and low-voltage high-current equipment in high and low voltage switchgear.
• Value: Enhances equipment safety and protection.