An approach to wireless sensor network design in home environment using ZigBee protocol

Although wireless sensor networks (WSN) are mainly designed for gathering information and measuring environmental parameters, they can be effectively used to control and manage the electrical devices in the house. Thus, they become part of an intelligent and autonomous environments that can take part of the obligation of the tenant in the house. By combining the WSN with other networks such as the Internet or mobile phone network, ZigBee networks receive full functionality and the ability of remote monitoring and control. This paper describes an example of the design of wireless networks with Xbee module and its application in home use. The achieved tasks of the network that was implemented through this paper are: measuring the temperature of home area, automatic and manual control of individual actuator nodes and ZigBee network connectivity with other networks, storage and graphical representation of measured values.