Title :
Passive Monitoring Software Tool for Evaluation of Deployed WirelessHART Networks
Author :
Kunzel, Gustavo ; Winter, J.M. ; Muller, Ian ; Pereira, Carlos E. ; Netto, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Porto Alegra, Brazil
Abstract :
Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in real-world control and monitoring applications may reveal performance problems caused by several factors. To track down such problems, it is necessary to inspect the conditions of network and nodes after deployment. In this paper, we discuss a monitoring software architecture for inspection of WirelessHART networks. Capture of information is done in a passive way using sniffers deployed in the network area. Messages are decoded, decrypted, filtered and then visualized in a graphic interface. A WirelessHART network was deployed in a laboratory for performance evaluation using the developed tool.
Keywords :
data visualisation; decoding; graphical user interfaces; protocols; software architecture; system monitoring; telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; deployed WirelessHART network evaluation; graphic interface; message decoding; message decrypting; message filtering; message visualization; monitoring application; monitoring software architecture; network condition inspection; passive information capture; passive monitoring software tool; performance problem; sniffer; wireless sensor network; Authentication; Decoding; Information filters; Monitoring; Protocols; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks; WirelessHART; performance evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Computing System Engineering (SBESC), 2012 Brazilian Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Natal
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5747-0
DOI :
10.1109/SBESC.2012.11
