Barro, Pape AbdoulayeZennaro, MarcoDegila, JulesPietrosemoli, Ermanno2022-04-192022-04-192019-04-08Barro P.A., Zennaro, M., Degila, J., Pietrosemoli, E (2019). A Smart Cities LoRaWAN Network Based on Autonomous Base Stations (BS) for Some Countries with Limited Internet Access, 1-12.http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1393While IoT devices are popular in industrialized countries, their deployment in some developing countries faces additional hurdles such as the prohibitive cost of Internet access or its unavailability. The most appealing applications focus on environmental data: water and air quality monitoring, landslide detection, water levels in rivers, meteorological data and so on. In many countries, there is little information about the environment, creating a knowledge divide that adds to the digital divide. countries faces additional hurdles such as the prohibitive cost of Internet access or its unavailability. The most appealing applications focus on environmental data: water and air quality monitoring, landslide detection, water levels in rivers, meteorological data and so on. In many countries, there is little information about the environment, creating a knowledge divide that adds to the digital divide.An increasing number of implementations of IoT for development use the LoRaWAN protocol as many of them leverage the free network and application servers provided by The Things Networks (TTN) to fulfill their needs. Unfortunately, in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Internet access cannot be taken for granted, therefore, TTN might not be available. Moreover, low-cost and low-power consumption options devices are the most sustainable ones. In this paper, we propose a LoRaWAN network with autonomous base stations that can work without Internet connectivity for essential services, while being able to provide additional features whenever Internet access becomes available, even in an intermittent fashion. Security and privacy are preserved, with support for mobile nodes.encommunity networksICT4DIoTLoRaWANEdge/Fog computingwireless networksIoT4Dsmart cityArticle