Title :
Research on wireless sensor network supported inquiry-based learning system
Author :
Qian, Fu ; Longxiang, He
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Educ. Technol., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
To enable students to better participate in the entire process of inquiry learning, a kind of wireless sensor network supported inquiry-based learning system is introduced in this paper. It consists of three parts: infrastructure which contains wireless sensor network nodes and GPRS network, educational gateway middleware, and inetactive application software. As the core component of the system, the gateway middleware enables all kinds of inetactive application software to access wireless senseor network easily. The key technology to the gateway middleware implementing includes database virtualization, user-defined data conversion and automatic data filtering. In order to help students to study the climate change of the National Stadium in Beijing, the system has been deployed there, monitoring the temperature and humidity of the air and the temperature of the soil.
Keywords :
climate mitigation; computer aided instruction; geophysics computing; interactive systems; middleware; packet radio networks; wireless sensor networks; Beijing; GPRS network; National Stadium; automatic data filtering; climate change; database virtualization; educational gateway middleware; inquiry based learning system; interactive application software; user defined data conversion; wireless sensor network; Application software; Educational institutions; Flexible printed circuits; Logic gates; Middleware; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Inquiry-based Learning; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yichang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8162-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6056806
