A Real-Time Monitoring and Controlling System for Grain Storage with ZigBee Sensor Network

Author

Zhou, Huiling ; Zhang, Fengying ; Liu, Jingyun ; Zhang, Fenghui

Author_Institution

Autom. Sch., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a real-time monitoring and controlling system for grain storage. Because ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 indicates a network system which is highly reliable, cost-effective, low power consumption, programmable and fast establishing, we use ZigBee technology into this system for industry and research applications. The system developed in this application includes a host computer and a data management and control system based on LabWindows/CVI, a ZigBee sensor network. In addition to describing the system architecture, hardware and software, the paper also reports on the performance of the transmission distance of ZigBee wireless node in grain and the node lifetime estimation.

Keywords

IEEE standards; wireless sensor networks; IEEE802.15.4; ZigBee sensor network; grain storage; node lifetime estimation; transmission distance; Application software; Computer network reliability; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Energy consumption; Power system reliability; Real time systems; Sensor systems; System testing; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5303719

Filename

5303719