Design and construction of a wireless sensor and actuator network gateway based on 6LoWPAN

Author

Campos, Bruno Da Silva ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C ; Oliveira, Luís M L ; Mendes, Lucas D P ; Nakamura, Eduardo F. ; Figueiredo, Carlos Maurício S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

IPv6 over Low-power Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs) enables IPv6 support for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), making them connectable through the Internet. However, new gateway devices are needed in order to make end-to-end connectivity between sensor nodes and Internet devices possible. In this paper, a ready-to-use WSN gateway is constructed to connect WSNs and IPv6 hosts, allowing interaction with each other in real time through the IPv6 protocol. The experimental results show that the gateway successfully enables communication between a WSN comprising distinct nodes and IPv6 clients, allowing IPv6 clients to read and show sensor nodes data and to actuate on their assets.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; personal area networks; protocols; wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; IPv6 protocol; Internet; WSN gateway; actuator network gateway; low-power personal area networks; wireless sensor network; Hardware; Internet; Logic gates; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; 6LoWPAN; Gateway; IEEE 802.15.4; IPv6; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7486-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929390

Filename

5929390