Intermediate measurement node for extension of WSN coverage

Authors

  • Rabin Biplab Pant Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway
  • Hans Petter Halvorsen Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway
  • Frode Skulbru National Instruments Norge Lensmannslia 4, 1386 Asker, Postboks 177,N-1371 Asker, Norway
  • Saba Mylvaganam Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.212

Keywords:

WSN topologies, Wi-Fi, Zig-bee, Multi-hop WSN, Indoor transmission, Sensor Node

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are considered as viable options for data communication for various monitoring and control applications in industries. Improvements in transmission range, security issues, real time monitoring and control issues, system integration and coexistence with other WSN systems are some of the main issues limiting their widespread usage in the industries. After a brief literature survey on some of the recent WSN applications and security management, two designs of WSNs based on Wi-Fi and Zig-bee are presented in this paper. Wireless Distribution System (WDS) and router mode are used in Wi-Fi based and Zig-bee based designs respectively. Zig-bee based design was economic but supports lower sampling rate. Wi-Fi based design was expensive but supports high sampling rate up to 51.2 K samples per second per channel. WSN was setup using NI Zig-bee modules. NI WSN-3202 (sensor node) and NI WSN-9791 (Gateway) were connected in star network topology and multi-hop network topology. Using multi-hop topology, indoor transmission range was increased significantly from 23.1 meters to 47.1 meters with link quality more than 55%. Since maximum sampling rate of Zig-bee modules is1 sample per second per channel, monitoring measurands demanding high sampling rates are deliberately avoided in this work. In both topologies, temperature is the only measuarand handled by both WSN solutions in the solutions presented here.

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Author Biographies

Rabin Biplab Pant, Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway

Rabin Biplab Pant did his Master degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IT and Cybernetics of TUC and has joined the industry in Nepal.

Hans Petter Halvorsen, Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway

Hans-Petter Halvorsen is Research/Senior Engineer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IT and Cybernetics of TUC. He works with Research and Development, Programming and System Development, Laboratory Work and Data Acquisition within the fields Measurement and Control Systems.He has worked in industrial IT projects involving LabVIEW and many other programing languages in the Norwegian IT companies CARDIAC and BrazeTechnology.

Frode Skulbru, National Instruments Norge Lensmannslia 4, 1386 Asker, Postboks 177,N-1371 Asker, Norway

Frode Skulbru belongs to the management team of NI in Norway.

Saba Mylvaganam, Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical, Information Technology andCybernetics, Department of Energy and Environmental Technology, TelemarkUniversity College, Porsgrunn, Norway

Saba Mylvaganam is professor in Process Measurements and Sensorics at TUC.

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Published

2013-06-10

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Pant RB, Halvorsen HP, Skulbru F, Mylvaganam S. Intermediate measurement node for extension of WSN coverage. JCSANDM [Internet]. 2013 Jun. 10 [cited 2024 Nov. 28];2(1):29-61. Available from: https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JCSANDM/article/view/6129

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2012: Vol 2 Iss 1

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