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Evaluation of Environmental Wireless Sensor Network - Case Foxhouse

Authors:
Ismo Hakala
Jukka Ihalainen
Ilkka Kivelä
Merja Tikkakoski

Keywords: wsn implementation; environmental monitoring; reliability; link quality; power-consumption

Abstract:
Environmental monitoring in agriculture is an interesting and promising area of application for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks can deliver valuable information about environment, animals and their habitat. This paper describes a case where such sensing application was implemented by the authors together with biologists. The wireless sensor network collected data in hard outdoors conditions over a period of one year, during which luminosity, temperature and humidity were measured in a foxhouse. Evaluation of IEEE802.15.4 based communication used was one of the main subjects of the study. The throughput and the link quality statistics are presented and some factors related to link quality are analysed. In addition to reliability analysis, this paper describes the Foxhouse Case implementation, reports on its results, presents the powerconsumption measurements and discusses the observations made during project.

Pages: 29 to 39

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2010. Used with permission.

Publication date: September 5, 2010

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2644