Raspberry Pi as a Wireless Sensor node: Performances and constraints

Author

Vujovic, Vladimir ; Maksimovic, Milan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 May 2014

Firstpage

1013

Lastpage

1018

Abstract

The main building block of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is sensor node consisted of four basic elements: the sensor unit, processing unit, communication and power units. In this paper we propose the Raspberry Pi, cheap, flexible, fully customizable and programmable small computer board and abilities of its usage as WSN node and SensorWeb node. The Raspberry Pi brings the advantages of a PC to the domain of sensor network, what makes it the perfect platform for interfacing with wide variety of external peripherals. Comparative analysis of its key elements and performances with some of current existing wireless sensor nodes have shown that despite few disadvantages, the Raspberry Pi remains an inexpensive computer with its very successfully usage in sensor network domain and diverse range of research applications.

Keywords

Internet; wireless sensor networks; Raspberry Pi; SensorWeb node; wireless sensor network; wireless sensor node; Computers; Hardware; Operating systems; Pins; Ports (Computers); Universal Serial Bus; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2014 37th International Convention on

Conference_Location

Opatija

Print_ISBN

978-953-233-081-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859717

Filename

6859717