Title :
A Study of the RF Characteristics for Wireless Sensor Deployment in Building Environment
Author :
Jafer, Essa ; O´Flynn, Brendan ; O´Mathuna, Cian ; Spinar, Rosta
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
In this paper, The radio Frequency (RF) Monitoring and Measurement of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) located in Cork city will be monitored and analyzed in both the Zigbee (2.44 GHz) and the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM 433 MHz). The main objective of this survey is to confirm what the noise and interferences threat signals exist in these bands. It was agreed that the surveys would be carried out in 5 different rooms and areas that are candidates for the Wireless Sensors deployments. Based on the carried on study, A Zigbee standard Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) will be developed employing a number of motes for sensing number of signals like temperature, light and humidity beside the RSSI and battery voltage monitoring. Such system will be used later on to control and improve indoor building climate at reduced costs, remove the need for cabling and both installation and operational costs are significantly reduced.
Keywords :
building management systems; wireless sensor networks; RF characteristics; building environment; radio frequency monitoring and measurement; wireless sensor deployment; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Cities and towns; Costs; Frequency measurement; Interference; Radio frequency; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks; Working environment noise; ZigBee; Building monitoring; Motes deployment; RF Characterestics; Wireless Sensor Network;
Conference_Titel :
Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2009. SENSORCOMM '09. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens, Glyfada
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3669-9
DOI :
10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2009.41