A wireless sensor netwok for RF characterisation of buildings

Author

Kangni Guo ; Rigelsford, Jonathan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

3517

Lastpage

3518

Abstract

This paper presents a wireless sensor network (WSN) designed to assist in the characterization of radio propagation within buildings. The WSN comprises a number of 2.4GHz Zigbee nodes which measure RF power within the building and transmit these values to a central controller to record the values. Tunable band-pass filters (BPF) are used to select the frequency at which the RF signals are measured. In this paper two systems are presented, one for measuring signal strength within the Trans-European Trunked Radio (TETRA) band (380M-420MHz), the other within the AMPS and GSM 900 bands (806MHz-960MHz). Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of the 2.4GHz Zigbee signal are also sampled and recorded.

Keywords

Zigbee; band-pass filters; cellular radio; radiowave propagation; wireless sensor networks; AMPS; BPF; GSM 900 band; RF characterisation; RSSI; TETRA band; Trans-European trunked radio; WSN; Zigbee node; buildings; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 380 MHz to 420 MHz; radio propagation; received signal strength indicator; tunable band-pass filter; wireless sensor network; Band-pass filters; Buildings; Frequency measurement; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; RF propagation; ZigBee; characterization; tunable band-pass filter; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546965