Design and implementation of industrial network monitoring protocol for networked industrial sensors

We propose a new industrial network monitoring protocol to monitor spatially distributed autonomous sensors. The proposed protocol is designed for a monitoring network using low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-PANs), and has low resource overheads and low-cost for devices that retrieve sensor data, which operate on the SoC (System on Chip) with Microcontroller Unit (MCU), memory and 2.4GHz RF transceiver. The proposed protocol network is implemented in a monitoring network system that comprises a monitoring server and industrial monitoring devices such as a gateway and several acquisition devices. In this paper, we have established a realistic environment for the performance evaluation of the proposed protocol. Several sets of experiments are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed protocol.