Meshtastic Infrastructure-less Networks for Reliable Data Transmission to Augment Internet of Things Applications

Abstract

This paper has reported a practical implementation of meshtastic networks data transmission via web interface for an IoT theme of the application. The integrated network architecture and the interconnecting mechanisms for reliable, low-cost data transmission of the infrastructure-less network are depicted. Features of meshtastic communication such as addressing and tunneling that can swiftly assimilate with co-systems of IoT were presented. The system setup, transmission, and data gathered in the real-world campus environment are intricacies. The assessment of quality parameters related to data transmission using Heltec Lora devices is described. Results are encouraging as the prototype was tested to generate real-time information exchange using mesh networks rather than a testbed scenario.