Reliability and Scalability of the Kilavi Building Control Platform

Building is a harsh environment for reliable wireless communication and so special application-specific means are needed for wireless sensor networking. This paper presents a Kilavi wireless building control platform that provides a unified method to link up different kinds of building control applications. The Kilavi platform is intended for low-power and low data rate autonomous communication between sensors and actuators. A network master with plenty of storage and computation capacity manages network routing, cluster formation and security procedures. This centralized approach shifts network load away from simple and resource-constrained sensor and actuator nodes, enabling low power sensor node operation. Sensor networks offer ambient intelligence to integrated building. Network reliability and scalability together with energy-efficiency and flexibility are amongst the primary qualities that sensor network platform should offer to applications. This paper concentrates on reliability and scalability of the Kilavi platform in varied networks and traffic conditions.