Wireless sensor network for animal monitoring using both antenna and base-station diversity

Author

Sasloglou, Konstantinos ; Glover, Ian A. ; Kwong, Kae-Hsiang ; Andonovic, Ivan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2008

fDate

19-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

33

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are widely used for condition monitoring applications. Much effort has been invested in improving the performance of such networks. Diversity is a well-proven technique in this context. Here, we present the practical application of base station and antenna diversity. Empirical measurements of performance in a realistic environment are reported and a statistical analysis of the resulting data is presented.

Keywords

antennas; diversity reception; statistical analysis; wireless sensor networks; animal monitoring; antenna diversity; base-station diversity; condition monitoring; statistical analysis; wireless sensor network; Animals; Batteries; Global Positioning System; Microstrip antennas; Monitoring; Relays; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Transceivers; Wireless sensor networks; animal monitoring; antenna diversity; base station diversity; fading; rayleigh distribution; ricean distribution; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, 2008. ICCS 2008. 11th IEEE Singapore International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2423-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2424-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.2008.4737137

Filename

4737137