It was a pleasure giving a power-point presentation on the new trending LPWAN technology i.e. the weightless standard. Weightless-p is indeed a truly open sourced technology with a definite future, specifically designed for IIOT in order to make M2M communications better.

2. WEIGHTLESS
A NEW STANDARD, A NEW TECHNOLOGY

3. WHAT IS WEIGHTLESS?
– Simply better
Weightless technology delivers wireless connectivity for
low power, wide area networks (LPWAN) specifically
designed for the Internet of Things.

4. INTRODUCTION TO
WEIGHTLESS
• Fully acknowledged 2-way communication offering best in class quality of
service
• Data rates ranging from 200bps to 100kbps.
• Enables higher capacity than existing LPWAN and cellular technologies for
uplink-dominated traffic with short-to-medium payload sizes.
• Using common commercially-available chipsets it also supports both stationary
and mobile end devices
• Characteristics :-Utilizes low-power, innovative handover, cell re-selection and
roaming methods.
• Other advanced reliability features include fast network acquisition, paging, FEC,
ARQ, power control and adaptive channel coding.

5. WHY WEIGHTLESS
•Open standard
•Low cost($2 Vs $3000)
•Low power
•Long range(Upto 10Km)
•High Capacity

6. WEIGHTLESS SYSTEM CHANNEL TYPES
• Three physical channels for baseband data processing
1. The downlink physical channel
2. The uplink physical channel
3. The uplink contended access physical channel
Since weightless system uses frequency hopping between
the channels , hence in weightless system both the uplink
and downlink portions of a weightless frame can use the
same channel.

7. WEIGHTLESS ARCHITECTURAL
NETWORK
Main Entities are:
1.Base Station
Controller
2.Authentication
3.Location Register.
4.Broadcast Register
5.OMC
6.Billing
7.Whitespace Database

8. THREE STANDARDS
Weightless-
N
Weightless-P Weightless-
W
Directionalit
y
1-way 2-way 2-way
Feature set Simple Full Extensive
Range 5km+ 2km+ 5km+
Battery life 10 years 3-8 years 3-5 years
Terminal
cost
Very low Low Low-
medium
Network cost Very low Medium MediumIF LOW COST & 1 WAY COMMUNICATION IS NEED USE N.
IF HIGH PERFORMANCE AND 2 WAY COMMUNICATION IS
REQ USE P.
IF TVWS IS REQUIRED USE W.

9. WEIGHTLESS W
1. DESIGNED TO OPERATE IN TV WHITE SPACE (TVWS) SPECTRUM.
2. BATTERY LIFE IS 5 YEARS.
3. IDEALLY USED IN SMART OIL AND GAS SECTOR.
4. QUITE DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT TVWS BECAUSE OF ITS SMALL ANTENNA SIZE 400
MHZ TO 800 MHZ

10. WEIGHTLESS N
• DESIGNED AROUND A DIFFERENTIAL BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DBPSK)
DIGITAL MODULATION .
• OPERATES IN SUB-GHZ SPECTRUM USING ULTRA NARROW BAND (UNB)
TECHNOLOGY.
• VERY LOW POWER CONSUMPTION.
• LONG BATTERY LIFE(10YEARS).
• MINIMAL TERMINAL HARDWARE AND NETWORK COSTS.
• 868 MHZ AND 915 MHZ BANDS
• IDEALLY USED FOR SENSOR-BASED NETWORKS, TEMPERATURE READINGS,
TANK LEVEL MONITORING, METERING.

11. WEIGHTLESS-P
• IT IS AN ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE LPWAN
CONNECTIVITY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE IOT.
• 2WAY COMMUNICATION
• EXCELLENT CAPACITY AND SCALABILITY FOR IOT
DEPLOYMENT.
• LONG RANGE
• HIGH CAPACITY
• LOW POWER
• SECURE AND EFFICIENT NETWORKING
• IDEALLY USED IN PRIVATE NETWORKS.

12. AUTHENTICATION
• PROVISIONING OF MASTER KEY (AES-128/256 ENCRYPTION)
• RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• OVER-THE-AIR FIRMWARE UPGRADE

13. APPLICATION'S OF
WEIGHTLESS
1. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
2. STREET LIGHT OPTIMIZATION
3. SMART LOGISTICS
4. ‘SMART’ LITTER BINS
5. PARKING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
6. USED IN AGRICULTURE

14. CASE STUDY- THE INTERNET OF AGRI
THINGS
A Company named Agri-Tech East (UK) uses
Weightless N standard for obtaining data useful
to farmers like-
Track and follow – sensors on cultivate
hardware and resources
Checking wellbeing and location of
domesticated animals – smart ear labels contain
data about individual creature
Smart water irrigation – pivot water system is a
settled structure where sprayers turn around a
focal rotate. Connecting water application to
soil dampness can decrease water utilization by
up to 40%
Compost tank level and status were observed
remotely evacuating the requirement for nearby
resource administration.
Source- http://www.newsstartshere.co.uk/article/weightless-meets-agri-tech-to-define-internet-of-(a

15. CONCLUSION
• Efficiency in Cost , Power, and Range.
• Variety of Sub-Standards
• In Implementation Stage
• Unlimited scope of applications and
devices

16. THE END