Using WSN Technology for Industrial Monitoring: A Real Case

This paper describes a real experience of industrial monitoring realized with WSN technology. By adopting Telos platforms, we built a WSN in which a gateway node collects monitoring data coming from some probe nodes. We present our TinyOS design developed to realize the application and to meet its requirements. The implementation of a reliable radio communication protocol and the integration of an external probe with a Telos node have been the most challenging activities. Numerous trials have been conducted to successfully verify the long-term application stability when a few probe nodes are involved. A brief discussion on a possible extension solution in order to cope with a large number of nodes is provided too.