LoRa-SENSE

LoRa-SENSE aims to create a new generation of wireless industrial tools—autonomous, intelligent, and modular—tailored to predictive maintenance, environmental monitoring, and real-time equipment oversight. Running over three years, the project focuses on:

• Ensuring robust wireless communication in industrial settings

• Developing energy-efficient, “smart” sensors

• Deploying demonstrators for cement and wind power industries

Additionally, LoRa-SENSE addresses the challenge of transmitting data in harsh radio environments, including strongly metallic or buried contexts, by perfecting LoRa-based networks that meet strict industrial constraints

Led by a consortium of small companies (I-care, Micromega Dynamics and MoDyVA) in collaboration with two research providers, Multitel and CERISIC, the LoRa-SENSE project aims to develop new autonomous, intelligent and modular wireless industrial tools for predictive maintenance, environmental monitoring and industrial equipment monitoring applications.

It also aims to develop networks based on the LoRa standard capable of responding to ‘hard’ industrial constraints for radio transmission, such as environments with a high metal content or high burial rates. These latter points will be addressed using multi-frequency technologies and directional and adaptive antennas.

The project will run for 3 years, during which time a number of technological challenges will be tackled, in particular to ensure wireless communications in industry, or to implement intelligent sensors with low energy consumption. Demonstrators of the solutions developed, as well as industrial pre-validation, will be set up in the cement and wind power sectors (the project's sponsoring partners). The exploitation of the project's results is expected to create around forty direct jobs in Wallonia.