Design and implementation of a generic hybrid wireless sensor network platform

Author

Capo-Chichi, E. Pamba ; Guyennet, H. ; Friedt, Jean-Michel ; Johnson, Ian ; Duffy, Craig

Author_Institution

Lab. of Comput. Sci.- LIFC, Univ. of Franche Comte, Besancon

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

836

Lastpage

840

Abstract

There exist several platforms of wireless sensor networks. Each of them has specific characteristics, such as hardware and software architecture, for example a processing unit, RAM memory, wireless technology. The complexity of novel applications and the number of existing platforms have resulted in the design of hybrid wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of a hybrid wireless sensor networks based on the Tmote sky sensor and Fox board platform. They use IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee and Bluetooth respectively. The paper presents a new model of sensor network which is a mixture of the both previous platforms using only IEEE 802.15.4 wireless technology. We have also compared IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth. In this work, a generic platform of wireless sensor networks with several levels of sensors is presented.

Keywords

Bluetooth; IEEE standards; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth; Fox board platform; IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee; Tmote sky sensor; generic hybrid platform; hardware architecture; hybrid wireless sensor networks; software architecture; Application software; Bluetooth; Computer architecture; Hardware; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Software architecture; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee; 802.15.4; Bluetooth; embedded system; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2008. LCN 2008. 33rd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2412-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2413-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2008.4664289

Filename

4664289