Rural IoT.

For the innovation challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, we propose to demonstrate a two-tier Low Power Wide Area Network (LP-WAN) based on UAV base stations suitable for dynamic deployment and reconfiguration in deep rural areas. The proposed UAV-based LP-WAN network augments the existing macro-cellular NB-IoT network (Tier 1) with either an additional layer of mobile NB-IoT base stations or an additionaly layer of mobile LoRa base stations (Tier2).