IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Conference Manager system

Author

Prokic, M. ; Chenard, J.-S. ; Zhang, R. ; Khalid, A.U. ; Zilic, Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que.

fYear

2005

fDate

7-10 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

829

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a wireless system infrastructure made for data collection and sharing during educational and business conferences. The system is designed to be flexible and rapidly reprogrammable, while keeping low-power and low-cost as the primary design objectives. The system comprises of three distinct components - embedded nodes with user interface, network coordination and routing unit, as well as the WWW and database subsystem. The hardware and the software were designed to be modular and expandable. Our Wireless Conference Manager - WCM has already been deployed at two high-profile IEEE international conferences. Testing and verification results collected at these events demonstrate its suitability as well as expendability for new requirements and applications

Keywords

IEEE standards; Web sites; hardware-software codesign; personal area networks; telecommunication network routing; user interfaces; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.15.4; WWW; Wireless Conference Manager; business conference; data collection; data sharing; database subsystem; educational conference; embedded nodes; hardware-software design; network coordination; routing unit; user interface; wireless system infrastructure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. 48th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Covington, KY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9197-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2005.1594229

Filename

1594229