RF propagation analysis of MICAz Mote´s antenna with ground effect

Author

Ahmed, Sanaa Hanafi ; Bouk, S.H. ; Javaid, Nadeem ; Sasase, Iwao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., COMSATS Inst. of Inf. Technol., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2012

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

274

Abstract

In this paper we analyzed the Radio Frequency (RF) propagation characteristics of monopole antenna in MICAz mote. During the experimental analysis, two scenarios are considered. In Scenario-I, a pair of MICAz nodes (one transmitting and one receiving node) are placed on the ground and the RSSI is measured in presence of the ground effect. In Scenario-II, only the transmitting node is placed above the ground; however, the receiving node is placed on the ground. The RSSI is measured by changing the antenna orientation at different angles and distances between them. The results show that the ground effect, antenna orientation and distance between the sensor nodes drastically affect the RSSI.

Keywords

monopole antennas; radiowave propagation; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; wireless sensor networks; MICAz Mote´s antenna; MICAz nodes; RF propagation analysis; RF propagation characteristics; RSSI; antenna orientation; ground effect; monopole antenna; radio frequency propagation characteristics; receiving node; sensor nodes; transmitting node; wireless sensor networks; MICAz Mote; RF propagation; RSSI; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multitopic Conference (INMIC), 2012 15th International

Conference_Location

Islamabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2249-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511469

Filename

6511469