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

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing System Engineering (SBESC), 2012 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Natal

ISSN

2324-7886

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5747-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBESC.2012.11

Filename

6473624