Readying CERN for connected device era

Speaker: Rodrigo Sierra

Hubert Odziemczyk

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Devices

“Everything that can be connected will be connected”

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IoT networking
• Range
• Data rate
• Traffic pattern
• Power
• Mobility
• Number of devices
• Price
• Security
• Coverage
• Spectrum

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IoT networking…
Power consumption WLAN Cellular
802.11xx 2G, 3G, 4G
Bandwidth

PAN LPWAN
LoRa, Sigfox, NB-
NFC, ZigBee, BLE
IoT
Rang
e
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LPWAN Long range

Easy and
Low data
cheap
rate
deployment

LPWAN

Low device Long battery

cost life

Massive
number of
devices

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LoRaWAN
• LoRa Alliance (Semtech, Orange, IBM, Cisco… up to 500)
• Mature: several national-wide and private networks deployed
• Unlicensed spectrum: independent of national operators (and
borders)
• High sensitivity (-137dBm): indoor coverage
• Datarate between 0.3 and 50 kbps
• Symmetric encryption and authentication using AES
• Downlink capabilities (although primarily uplink)

LoRa Physical layer

• Enables long-range link
• Proprietary modulation technology from Semtech

LoRaWAN Medium Access Control

• Open standard developed by the LoRa Alliance

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LoRaWAN architecture
Radio
Engineering IoT service development User application

End-devices Gateways

• Packet forwarding
• CRC control

Application
Server #1

Network Application
Server Server #2

Application
Server #3

• Provisioning
• Security (encryption, identity, key mgmt)
• Duplicate control
T
• Application differentiation
LoRa
LoRaWAN

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CERN LoRaWAN architecture

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CERN LoRaWAN architecture
• Central IT services:
• Service orchestration
• Monitoring & operation
• Device provisioning
• Network configuration
• Central IT data services for the end user:
• Kafka connection
• AAA managed by the data services
• User decides processing, storage and access

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Tunnels
• Coverage
• Radiation tolerance
• Specific services

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What’s coming?
• New requirements and use cases
• New technologies and standards
• Wireless is cool
• Challenges will remain:
• Interoperability
• Security
• Privacy
• Scalability
• Coverage
• QoS
• IoT as a Service
• …
• Control BYOD 2.0

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