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This paper aims to report on the design, analysis, and performance evaluation of a low-cost LoRa transceiver interface unit (433 MHz band) for the real-time monitoring and storing of IoT sensor data in the cloud. We designed and analyzed a low-cost LoRa transceiver interface unit consisting of a LoRa communication module and Wi-Fi module in the laboratory. The system was built (prototype) using radially available hardware devices from the local electronics shops at about USD 150. The transmitter can securely exchange IoT sensor data to the receiver node at about 10 km using a LoRa Wi-Fi module. The receiver node accumulates the sensor data and stores it in the cloud for processing. The performance of the proposed LoRa transceiver was evaluated by field experiments in which two transmitter nodes were deployed on the rooftop of Auckland University of Technology\u2019s Tower building on city campus (New Zealand), and the receiver node was deployed in Liston Park, which was located 10 km away from the University Tower building. The manual incident field tests examined the accuracy of the sensor data, and the system achieved a data accuracy of about 99%. The reaction time of the transmitter nodes was determined by the data accumulation of sensor nodes within 2\u201320 s. Results show that the system is robust and can be used to effectively link city and suburban park communities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22218380","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,2]],"date-time":"2022-11-02T08:15:12Z","timestamp":1667376912000},"page":"8380","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Secure Long-Range Transceiver for Monitoring and Storing IoT Data in the Cloud: Design and Performance Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2770-8319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nurul I.","family":"Sarkar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"}]},{"given":"Asish Thomas","family":"Kavitha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"}]},{"given":"Md Jahan","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Camarillo-Escobedo, R., Flores, J.L., Marin-Montoya, P., Garc\u00eda-Torales, G., and Camarillo-Escobedo, J.M. 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