Feasibility of Wi-Fi enabled sensors for Internet of Things

Author

Tozlu, Serbulent

Author_Institution

Res. & Technol. Center - North America, Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

4-8 July 2011

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

296

Abstract

The recent trend towards “Internet of Things” combined with the vision of “Web of Things” generated a momentum in the wireless sensor networks industry. Due to the growing market for smart objects with IP connectivity, several companies introduced low-power Wi-Fi products optimized for sensing applications. However, since IEEE 802.11 standard was originally designed for high bandwidth applications targeting consumer electronics market, there exist many doubts on the viability of low-power Wi-Fi for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we empirically evaluate G2M5477, one of the available of-the-shelf low-power Wi-Fi modules, in terms of energy consumption and compare it with published 6LoWPAN results.

Keywords

IP networks; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; G2M5477; IEEE 802.11 standard; IP connectivity; Internet of Things; Web of Things; Wi-Fi enabled sensor; energy consumption; low-power Wi-Fi; wireless sensor network; Batteries; Current measurement; Energy consumption; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Power demand; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; 802.11; IP Sensor; Low-power Wi-Fi; WSN; battery lifetime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011 7th International

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9539-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982548

Filename

5982548