Indoor experiment with WSN application

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) will probably play a crucial role in creation of ubiquitous intelligent sensing environment in future. During involvement of the authors into a CRUISE IST NoE FP 6 project supported by European Commission, one of the goals was to support inclusion of WSN area of knowledge into Bc., MSc. and PhD. curricula. This paper is a result of work done in follow-up projects supported by grant agencies in Slovakia oriented on WSN technology and knowledge transfer into education. For practical use of WSN, it is necessary to have theoretical knowledge backed-up with results from experiments. Realization of experimental WSN application is way how to gain practical skills. Together with theoretical knowledge this experiment can give solid background to students, interested in area of WSN, or wireless ad hoc networks. The experiment described in this paper was focused on monitoring of functionality and reliability as well as on the influence on varying parameters of WSN placed in the indoor environment.