ABSTRACT ON Bluetooth Based Smart Sensor Networks
“Dragging the world towards wireless galaxy”
Various sensors are already in a broad use today as part ofdifferent devices or as standalone devices connected to a networkusually to monitor industrial processes, equipments or installations.The advancements in technology, wireless communications haveenhanced development of small, low power and low cost devices. Suchdevices when organized into a network, present a powerful platformthat can be used in many interesting applications.
Bluetooth is a low cost, short-range, wireless technology withsmall footprint, low power consumption and reasonable throughput.Bluetooth wireless technology has become global technologyspecification for “always on” wireless communication not just as a
point-to-point but was a network technology as well.The kernel of this paper, deals about an implementation ofbluetooth based sensor networks.
SENSOR NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION
The main goal of our implementation was to build a hardware platform andgeneric software solutions that can serve as the basis and a test bed for the researchof wireless sensor network protocols.Implemented sensor network consists of several smart sensor nodes and agateway. Each smart node can have several sensors and is equipped with a microcontrollerand a bluetooth radio module.Gate way and smart nodes are members of the Piconet and hence maximum
seven smart nodes can exist simultaneously in the network.
Future work is aimed to develop and design a blue tooth-enabled dataconcentrator for data quisition and analysis.