The urban population, worldwide, is growing exponentially and with it the demand
for information on pollution levels, vehicle traffic, or available parking, giving rise to citizens
connected to their environment. This article presents an experimental long range (LoRa) and low
power consumption network, with a combination of static and mobile wireless sensors (hybrid
architecture) to tune and validate concentrator placement, to obtain a large coverage in an urban
environment. A mobile node has been used, carrying a gateway and various sensors. The Activation
By Personalization (ABP) mode has been used, justified for urban applications requiring multicasting.
This allows to compare the coverage of each static gateway, being able to make practical decisions
about its location. With this methodology, it has been possible to provide service to the city of
Malaga, through a single concentrator node. The information acquired is synchronized in an external
database, to monitor the data in real time, being able to geolocate the dataframes through web
mapping services. This work presents the development and implementation of a hybrid wireless
sensor network of long range and low power, configured and tuned to achieve efficient performance
in a mid-size city, and tested in experiments in a real urban environment.
