Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Environments

Author

Low, Kay Soon ; Win, Win Nu Nu ; Er, Meng Joo

Author_Institution

Intelligent Syst. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

276

Abstract

Deployment of large population of sensors for sophisticated sensing and control in the industrial and commercial infrastructures is a challenging research area. The use of wireless sensor network (WSN) for industrial applications has attracted a great deal of interests today. Unlike the office networks, the industrial environment for wireless sensor networks are harsher due to the unpredictable variations in temperature, pressure, humidity, present of heavy equipments etc. In this paper, we present a survey of wireless sensor network for industrial applications. The interference and other issues that could be encountered in WSN are discussed and strategies to improve the link quality are described

Keywords

industrial control; radio links; telecontrol; wireless sensor networks; industrial environment; office network; wireless link quality; wireless sensor network; Condition monitoring; Costs; Electrical equipment industry; Electromagnetic interference; Humidity; Industrial control; Intelligent sensors; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce, International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2504-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2005.1631480

Filename

1631480