15-03-2011, 03:40 PM
Introduction:
The technological drive for smaller devices using less power with greater
functionality has created new potential applications in the sensor and data acquisition
sectors. Low-power microcontrollers with RF transceivers and various digital and analog
sensors allow a wireless, battery-operated network of sensor modules (“motes”) to
acquire a wide range of data. The TinyOS is a real-time operating system to address the
priorities of such a sensor network using low power, hard real-time constraints, and
robust communications.
The first goal of WISENET is to create a new hardware platform to
take advantage of newer microcontrollers with greater functionality and more features.
This involves selecting the hardware, designing the motes, and porting TinyOS. Once the
platform is completed and TinyOS was ported to it, the next stage is to use this platform
to create a small-scale system of wireless networked sensors.
The technological drive for smaller devices using less power with greater
functionality has created new potential applications in the sensor and data acquisition
sectors. Low-power microcontrollers with RF transceivers and various digital and analog
sensors allow a wireless, battery-operated network of sensor modules (“motes”) to
acquire a wide range of data. The TinyOS is a real-time operating system to address the
priorities of such a sensor network using low power, hard real-time constraints, and
robust communications.
The first goal of WISENET is to create a new hardware platform to
take advantage of newer microcontrollers with greater functionality and more features.
This involves selecting the hardware, designing the motes, and porting TinyOS. Once the
platform is completed and TinyOS was ported to it, the next stage is to use this platform
to create a small-scale system of wireless networked sensors.
