Test bed for wireless sensor networks using XMesh networking protocol

The advent of wireless networking, sensor and embedded system technology has given rise to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In WSN, tiny sensor motes manifest the concept of ubiquitous computing by collaborating with each other. Extraction of the information about various events in the field from the data collected by these motes is a crucial stage in any end-to-end WSN solution. Furthermore, the extracted information is required to be stored in local or remote databases and should be retrieved as per the end user requirements. In this paper, a laboratory set-up for WSN with XMesh networking protocol is discussed and the results of experiments carried using WSN hardware are presented. This work also provides an insight into the XMesh protocol and is useful during the setting up of a WSN laboratory.