A Zigbee based smart sensing platform for monitoring environmental parameters

Author

Haefke, M. ; Mukhopadhyay, S.C. ; Ewald, H.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The ability to monitor environmental conditions is crucial to research in fields ranging from climate variability to agriculture and zoology. Being able to document baseline and changing environmental parameters over time is increasingly essential important and researchers are relying more and more on unattended weather stations for this propose. A Zigbee Based Smart Sensing Platform for Monitoring Environmental Parameters has been designed and developed. The smart weather station consists of SiLab C8051F020 microcontroller based measuring units which collect the value of the temperature, relative humidity, pressure and sunlight. These units send their data wireless to a central station, which collects the data, stores and displays them into a database. The facility of adding a few more sensors and a few more stations has been provided.

Keywords

Zigbee; computerised monitoring; condition monitoring; intelligent sensors; microcontrollers; SiLab C8051F020 microcontroller; Zigbee based smart sensing platform; climate variability; document baseline; environmental condition monitoring; environmental parameter monitoring; microcontroller based measuring unit; relative humidity; relative pressure; relative sunlight; smart weather station; unattended weather station; Humidity; Humidity measurement; Pressure measurement; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Environmental monitoring; Smart Sensing; Zigbee; humidity measurement; light measurement; pressure measurement; temperature measurement; weather station; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Binjiang

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7933-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944154

Filename

5944154