A Sensing Platform to Support Smartphones Accessing into Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

He, Nengqiang ; Li, Zhihua ; Jiang, Chunxiao ; Yang, Chaoqun ; Fan, Shuai ; Ma, Xin ; Ren, Yong ; Zhang, Jinfeng ; Chen, Canfeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

17-22 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

175

Abstract

In this paper, a platform "uSensing" is proposed to support mobile smartphones accessing into wireless sensor networks(WSNs). Since phones have different platforms, e.g. operating systems and CPU processors, it is a challenge to provide a universal platform for smartphones. To solve it, we design novel hardware and software: 1) "uSD": a SD card with zigbee radio; 2) "uSinkWare": a software running on smartphones. The uSD card and uSinkWare consists of uSensing platform. With uSensing, any phones can communicate with WSNs and parse sensor messages. We demonstrate the proposed uSensing in Nokia 5800XM to connect with our WSNs testbed, and evaluate the performance of uSensing through measuring the phone CPU and RAM. The experiment results show that the uSensing can support the smartphones very well to access into the WSNs as the data sink.

Keywords

Zigbee; mobile handsets; wireless sensor networks; CPU processors; RAM; WSN; Zigbee radio; mobile smartphones; sensing platform; smartphone accessing; uSensing; uSinkWare; wireless sensor networks; Hardware; Mobile communication; Routing protocols; Smart phones; Software; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

2155-6806

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1345-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.2011.124

Filename

6076613