Chapter 3
Engineering IoT Networks
Enrico Fraccaroli and Davide Quaglia
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things
break or fail.
Henry Petroski
Contents
3.1 IoT Network Scenarios ...................................................................
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3.2 The Simplified ISO/OSI Reference Model and IoT ..................................... 100
3.2.1 Fundamental Terminology ...................................................... 100
3.2.2 The ISO/OSI Layers ............................................................. 103
3.2.3 Standardization Bodies .......................................................... 108
3.2.4 IoT Network Standards and the Simplified ISO/OSI Model................... 110
3.3 IoT Network Technologies and Standards ............................................... 112
3.3.1 Modbus ........................................................................... 112
3.3.2 Near-Field Communication (NFC) ............................................. 113
3.3.3 Bluetooth ......................................................................... 114
3.3.4 IEEE 802.15.4.................................................................... 121
3.3.5 ZigBee ............................................................................ 124
3.3.6 ZigBee IP......................................................................... 124
3.3.7 WirelessHART ................................................................... 125
3.3.8 Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 Family) .................................................... 128
3.3.9 LoRaWAN ....................................................................... 128
3.3.10 Sigfox ............................................................................ 133
3.3.11 Z-Wave ........................................................................... 134
3.3.12 Wireless M-Bus .................................................................. 135
3.3.13 Optical Wireless Communications .............................................. 135
3.3.14 6LoWPAN........................................................................ 136
3.3.15 Thread ............................................................................ 138
3.3.16 ISA100.11a....................................................................... 139
3.3.17 Cellular Network Standards ..................................................... 140
E. Fraccaroli () · D. Quaglia
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
e-mail: enrico.fraccaroli@univr.it; davide.quaglia@univr.it
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