ZigBee based network architecture for animal health monitoring

Wireless Sensor Network is collection of sensor nodes which consist of sensing device, storage device, processing unit and antenna. These nodes may be placed in difficult physical environment for sensing an event, collecting data, processing data and forwarding it using wireless network to the sink, where data can be stored, processed and analyzed. Animal monitoring, Building monitoring and other are some application area of WSN. The sensor node requires enough battery power to collect and communicate data with other network device/s. WSN has several constrains, one of them is low battery power. It thus becomes important to conserve energy of a node in WSN. Due to hardware limitation for efficient energy consumption, researchers are required to work on mechanisms to reduce the energy consumption by sensor nodes. One of the ways to increase the battery life of sensor node is to implement energy efficient network architecture and communication protocol. In this paper we have proposed ZigBee based network architecture for Animal Health Monitoring.