Title :
An implementation of battery-aware wireless sensor network using ZigBee for multimedia service
Author :
Huang, Heng-Chih ; Huang, Yueh-Min ; Ding, Jen-Wen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Sci., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
To support multimedia service in WSN (wireless sensor network), there are two important design issues: how to make efficient use of network bandwidth and how to increase the life time of nodes. It is known that an industry standard for WSN - ZigBee has been recently finalized for TEXT data transmission. However, it has many problems as far as multimedia services (grabbing audio/video data) are concerned. In this paper, we first introduce ZigBee-based WSN, then discuss its problems in supporting multimedia services, and finally propose our reference design that can overcome these problems. The design proposed includes the aspects of sensor node´s hardware and software architecture, network configuration and data transmission. In the end of this paper, we present our implementation of a WSN using a ZigBee device to validate the feasibility of our design.
Keywords :
data communication; multimedia communication; software architecture; telecommunication computing; telecommunication standards; wireless sensor networks; ZigBee; battery-aware wireless sensor network; data transmission; multimedia service; network configuration; software architecture; Bandwidth; Bluetooth; Control systems; Data communication; Delay; Energy consumption; Hardware; Relays; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2006. ICCE '06. 2006 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9459-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2006.1598464
