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In the introduction section authors discuss about previous research works related to this topic along with the potential communication technologies for this application. The paper purposes implementation of LoRa for air quality monitoring of large buildings. in this section they should clearly mention what is the novelty and contribution of this paper. In chapter two authors discuss about the previous research work done related to this field. In chapter 3 authors discuss about the experimental setup of this project. In this chapter authors discuss about the experimental setup of the project the. Two communication architecture has been tested. In first architecture end node is directly connected to the master node and in second architecture a repeater node has been used to hop data to the master node. In the results section authors conclude that the mesh network performs better than the direct end-node to master communication on the basis of experimental data.
Two communication architecture has been used
• Direct communication between end-node to master node
• Mesh network-based architecture where an intermediate node has been used for data hopping in case
of weak signal strength.
Authors haven't mentioned what is the uniqueness of their experiment as compared to previous research in this area.
Authors have compared the performance of the single hop and two hop based data transmission based on Packet delivery rate for different scenarios. From the experimental results the authors concluded that mesh network-based system provides better
Comments
• Data from table 2-4 can be represented more simply in terms of a chart.
• Figures should be made clearer.
• Use same kind of chart to represent PDR in different scenario in figure 11. Either both histogram of
both lines.
• Novelty not assessed.
• My question is why use LoRa for this specific application? Why not use preexisting communication
infrastructure available in the building like WIFI or LAN?
• Authors should clearly mention what is the nobility and contribution of this paper.
• Authors are suggested to include analysis regarding data rate of the network, Frequency of the data
extraction from each node and how does the size of network effect the data extraction frequency.
• One of the main abilities of LoRa is the ability to transmit data on multiple spreading factor which allows
it to trade data rate and range of communication. So instead of using mesh configuration variable
spreading factors can be used for reliable communication.
1.Some sentences in the text are not clear，for example "The repeater nodes were configured to receive the data and forward it to the end node while the end node was programmed to receive data from the repeater node instead of receiving it directly from the master node."
2.Literature references are sufficient.
3.Figure 1 is not necessary for illustration. Figure 4 is too simple to illustrate the algorithm flow.
4.The experimental results are convincing.
5.Please state the conclusion in more professional terms.
1.The content described in the article is within the objectives and scope of the magazine.
2.Research question well defined, relevant & meaningful. However, the description of the method used is too simple and the description of the network structure is not clear.
3.For the technical description, please specify the function of the mobile phone.
4.The steps in the method description are reasonable and the detailed information is insufficient. For example, the flow chart is too simple.
1.The article has certain novelty.
2.The data provided are reliable and sufficient.
3.Please carefully summarize the innovation of the article and write the conclusion in academic words.
1.It is suggested to merge the contents of "2. RELATED WORKS" into "1. INTRODUCTION" because they are all literature analysis.
- Your related works need more detail. I suggest that you consider the other works related to LoRa mesh networks and routing protocols for the wireless mesh networks.
- Figures 4, 5, 6 should be provided in high quality (for example with 600dpi)
- In Figures 11, 12 the comparison of PDRs should be described in 2 columns as the comparison in the Fig. 13.
- In the experiments, the authors added some repeater-nodes between master-nodes and end-node, which organizes multi-hop transmission between them. However, the author should consider the influence of the number of master-nodes and the number of repeater-nodes to PDR.
- The results have shown that using additional repeater-nodes increases the PDR and the network coverage in the duct air monitoring application.
- Amit Mullick et al have shown the significant of using a LoRa mesh network for monitoring application, in particularly in duct air monitoring. The authors have proposed a mesh network architecture based on LoRa technology. However, there are repeater-nodes used to relay packets from a master-node to an end-node, and the authors haven’t provided which routing protocols used in the LoRa mesh network.
- The authors should provide more detail about the proposed mesh architecture.
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