On Friday, 14 June 2024, the municipality of Rüdersdorf near Berlin will be holding a workshop on the prototypical introduction of LoraWan sensors in the municipality with Prof. Dr André Nitze from Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, starting at 10 a.m.
From 10 a.m., interested parties are invited to commission the central receiver and transmitter, the so-called GateWay, together. Afterwards, some of the sensors that have already been purchased will be connected to the gateway and put into operation in a workshop at the municipality's building yard (OT Hennickendorf, Bergstraße 6, 15378 Rüdersdorf bei Berlin) until 2.30 p.m. at the latest and later brought to their place of use.
What is behind it? The aim of the cooperation project is to use the data to optimise work processes on the one hand and to collect interesting environmental data on the other. In a first step, for example, water level sensors are to be installed at two locations on the Kleiner Stienitzsee. Furthermore, sensors are to measure air and water temperatures at the small and large Stienitzsee lakes. In the future, the work of the building yard is to be organised more effectively with fill level sensors on waste bins, so that only those waste bins with a corresponding fill level are approached. People counters for public toilets are also being considered, as are sensors for measuring air quality in large rooms. Depending on the application, the data obtained will be publicly accessible or only available to the administration.
The workshop that is now taking place is intended to familiarise participants with the technology as a first step so that the possible applications can be expanded step by step. For example, soil moisture sensors on trees and much more are conceivable in the future.
The project is not intended to be a purely administrative project. Rather, it is expressly desired that interested parties get involved at an early stage, learn to understand the sensors and help build the network themselves.
About LoraWan:
LoRaWAN is an abbreviation that stands for Long Range Wide Area Network. The wireless standard enables energy-efficient transmission of data over long distances of up to several kilometres. The wireless standard is specially developed and used for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It is possible to manage many hundreds of sensors within a network and process the data obtained. The sensors are very energy-efficient and the batteries often last for many years, which significantly reduces maintenance costs. It is important to set up a central receiver (GateWay) at a central location, preferably on a tower, which records the data from the individual sensors and forwards it to a platform.
Anyone interested in the free workshop is asked to register in advance by emailing the project supervisor Alexander Reetz at alexander.reetz@ruedersdorf.de.