Performance analysis of Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have become popular in industries for measurement of process parameters like temperature, vibration, humidity etc. For the past few years, research and development efforts have increased to implement WSN technology in nuclear industry also. For this, wireless hardware and software must have a record of reliable performance along with verification and validation testing. In order to prove the robustness of WSN technology and to gain enough experience before deploying WSN in nuclear reactor environment, several hardware and software developments, experimental WSN deployments have been carried out in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). Prior to WSN deployments, experiments have been conducted in computer division by establishing test network to analyze various performance metrics. The test network was established with nodes communicating using ZigBee standard and the performance results specific to the configured transceiver, have been analyzed and used in various experimental deployments. This paper describes about the test network setup and performance analysis of the network.