Energy Efficient Sensor Network with Service Discovery for Smart Home Environments

Author

Pensas, Harri ; Raula, Henrik ; Vanhala, Jukka

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

18-23 June 2009

Firstpage

399

Lastpage

404

Abstract

A communications network for sensors and actuators is an important part in the realization of any smart home or intelligent environment. This paper presents a new protocol specialized for smart home environments emphasizing energy efficiency and service discovery functionality. Energy efficiency has been attained by using device specific low power listening schemes together with minimal number of message transactions. This protocol was compared to other academic and industry protocols and found promising for use in smart home environments. Prototype implementation of the new protocol has been implemented using TinyOS, a wireless sensor network enabled operating system.

Keywords

intelligent networks; operating systems (computers); protocols; wireless sensor networks; TinyOS; intelligent environment; operating system; protocol; service discovery; smart home environments; wireless sensor network; Communication networks; Energy efficiency; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent networks; Intelligent sensors; Operating systems; Prototypes; Smart homes; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; TinyOS; intelligent spaces; service discovery; smart home; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2009. SENSORCOMM '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens, Glyfada

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3669-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2009.66

Filename

5210897