@inproceedings{bibcite_15725,
  author = {Anna Strzoda and Rafa{\l} Marjasz and Krzysztof Grochla},
  title = {How Accurate is LoRa Positioning in Realistic Conditions?},
  abstract = {<p>The LoRa communication technology has been developed for data transmission, but recent research papers showed that it could also be used to estimate the transmitting devices{\textquoteright} location. The location can be found with reasonable accuracy, with median error as low as tens of meters; however, in many cases, it is evaluated in very optimistic transmission conditions, e.g. using line-of-sight communication and on a small data set. We estimate how LoRa localization performs in a realistic scenario, using an extensive data set of a telemetric network of a few thousand devices to calculate the location using the trilateration and estimate the error of the calculation. Within the analysed dataset the true-range multilateration provides highly inaccurate location estimation, with a median error of 588.64 m and an average error of 808.57 m. We argue that the LoRa localization in real-life conditions is ineffective, as the estimation of the distance between the node and the gateway changes heavily depending on the location of the node and radio channel attenuation.</p>
},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {ACM MSWIM 22 - The 25th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, DIVANET Symposium},
  month = {10/2022},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  isbn = {9781450394826},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3551662.3561260?cid=99659913397},
  doi = {10.1145/3551662.3561260},
  language = {eng},
}