학술논문

ITRI ZBnode: A ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks
Document Type
Conference
Source
2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on. 2:1462-1467 Oct, 2006
Subject
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
ZigBee
Wireless sensor networks
Mathematical analysis
Computational modeling
Analytical models
Wireless application protocol
Wireless communication
Prototypes
Costs
Mesh networks
IEEE 802.15.4
wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
ZBnode
network formation
Language
ISSN
1062-922X
Abstract
Research of the past years has led to numerous novel developments and approaches for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, most previous work has focused on either mathematical analysis or theoretical algorithms with extensive simulation results. In this paper, in order to realistically understand the complexity of WSNs, a ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 platform has been designed and implemented. Based on an IEEE 802.15.4 radio and ZigBee protocol stack, the developed ITRI ZBnode is an autonomous wireless communication and computing platform aimed at fast prototyping and research in WSNs. The platform attempts to provide a low data rate, low power, and low cost wireless networking on the device-level communication. Finally, examples of tree and mesh network formation are provided to demonstrate practicability of the developed ZBnode platform.