Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sensor networks
- 1.wireless sensor networks are
- low power
- small size
- low cost
- sensors to monitor the
- the system or enviroment
- by sensing of physical characteristics such as
- pressure
- temperature
- and humidity
- 2.the sensor node consist of
- radio front end
- microcontroller
- power supply
- and sensor
- Transducers
- Measures
- Physical parameters such as
- pressure
- temperature
- velocity
- acceleration
- An embedded processor
- An embedded processor is used for local processing
- The processor provides bidirectional communication at kbps
- Memory Unit
- This unit stores data
- Transceivers
- The wireless transceivers are used to send or receive data
- Battery
- The battery supply is the required energy to run all the devices
- Design issues and challenges
- 1.Ease of development
- The wireless sensor nodes can be placed or dropped from a plane at desired location
- once placed the sensors do not need any human intervention thus reducing the installation cost and time
- 2.Coverage area
- AS there is no central admininstration or fixed BS in WSN all routing and maintenance algorithms need to be
distributed among the various sensor nodes to communicate with each other
- 3.Energy consumption
- The life of sensor nodes strongly depends on battery life
- In many cases it is impossible to recharge or replace the battery
- Hence designer has to consider available energy and design power aware protocol and algorithm
- 4.Hardware constraints
- the prime requrements to design hardware for sensor is to consider energy efficiency
- As size maybe few cublic mm
- ,it has to fit into tight modules of size 2*5*1 or even less as 1*1*1 cm
- 5. Environment
- Sensor nodes should be able to communicate with each other in a completely distributed manner because
- sensor nodes may be placed or dropped from a plane , or widely scattered.
- This gives rises to challenging management of data from all sensor nodes
- 6.Cost of sensor node
- The cost of each sensor node should be kept as low as possible for global acceptance
- currently cost of sensor based on blue tooth is $10
- 7.Transmission channels
- the sensor nodes are connected by wireless links
- These wireless links operate in in the optical range or infrared waves.
- Some low energy consuming sensors use single RF channel transceiver
- that operates on 916 MHz
- To facilitate global operations of these sensor nodes
- the transmission channel selected must be available for all users.
- 8.Connectivity and Network topology
- Thousands of sensor nodes are placed or deployed in interested area in close proximity
- The density of nodes maybe as large as 27 nodes- m cube
- To remain connected with all of these nodes
- many protocols and
- algorithms are required
- 9. Scalability
- As thousands of nodes or more are installed in bounded area
- routing area must be scalable to respond to events
- and enough capable to work with such high number of sensor nodes
- 10.Fault Tolerance
- Some sensor nodes may fail due to jamming,physical damage, damage of battery and so on.
- if this happens to many nodes and they stop to operate , MAC protocols and routing protocols update
- and accomodate formation of new wireless links and route accordingly to collect the data