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Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Applications: Practical Approach

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provides information for data acquisition and data distribution. It is a network that consists of spatially distributed and automated wireless sensor nodes which are capable of monitoring several physical environmental fields such as air pressure, luminosity, vibration and temperature. This paper focuses on the design of a WSN utilising ZigBee protocol and Waspmote technologies; the purpose is to provide telemetry services for industrial applications which will be required to collect data about light bulb luminosity as well as its associated surroundings. At the end of the processes, WSN framework was designed showing initial results of bulb luminescence reading, temperature and accelerometer; the designed system has the capability of sending real-time data over a network platform utilising the ZigBee 802.15.4 protocol with sensor nodes attached to the circuit board; this will provide radio frequency telemetric services, utilising a cost effective platform that has the benefits of overcoming the cumbersome measures presently in operation. Sensor networks methods of development overtime have suffered setbacks for lack of well-defined practical approach that will produce results patterned for industrial acceptance; this paper measures on this area using a model that is environmental and eco-friendly.

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2014

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) incorporate wireless sensor networks with intelligent industrial systems providing many advantages over existing industrial applications, such as wireless communication, low cost, rapid deployment, self-organization, intelligent controlling, and processing capability. With the proliferation of wireless sensor networks in industrial applications, IWSNs technologies promise to play a significant role in developing more reliable, efficient, stable, flexible, and application-centric industrial systems.

Application of Wireless Sensor Networks in Industrial Settings

Advances in civil and industrial engineering book series, 2012

Research on sensor networks started around 1980 with distributed sensor networks program at Defense Advanced Research project Agency (DARPA). By this time the Arpanet (predecessor of Internet) had been operational for a number of years with about 200 hosts at Universities and Research institutes. Current sensor networks can exploit technologies not available 20 years ago and perform functions that were not even dreamed of at that time. Sensors, processors, and communication devices are all getting much smaller and cheaper. In addition to sensor nodes,

From academia to the field: Wireless sensor networks for industrial use

2008

Fundamental differences exist between academic research on wireless sensor networks and industrial wireless sensor networks as envisaged by the BMBF-funded project ZESAN. Their requirements and underlying assumptions are described to bridge the gap between research and industrial application.

Improving Productivity & Efficiency of Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

DESCRIPTION In IWSNs, designing scalable network architecture is of primary importance. It is 80% lower in installation cost versus wired sensors. One of the design approaches is to deploy homogeneous sensors and program each sensor to perform all possible application tasks. Sensors are used to monitor temperature, humidity, noise levels, pressure, soil makeup, lighting conditions, vehicular movement, the presence or absence of convinced kinds of objects or substances, mechanical stress levels on attached objects, and other properties. In industrial equipment, wireless tiny sensor modules are integrated on to monitor the parameters of each equipment efficiency based on a permutation of measurements. All measurements are then wirelessly transmitted to a sink node that analyzes the data from each sensor. As well, IWSN standards are offered for the system vendors, who plan to operate new IWSN technologies for industrial computerization applications. This research paper simulates the ef...

Experimental Characterization of Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Applications

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2000

The effects of interference in the setup of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent a critical issue, and as such, it needs to be carefully addressed. To this aim, helpful information can be achieved through measurements to be carried out in advance on suitable prototypes and testbeds. In this paper, the measurement of industrial WSN performance is dealt with. In particular, a suitable testbed enlisting IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor nodes is presented along with the results of some experiments carried out even in the presence of interference. The purpose is to show how to evaluate some specific parameters of a WSN employed for industrial applications to obtain useful information for its setup optimization in the presence of interference. The analysis will show that from the measurement of these parameters (number of failed pollings, polling round-trip time, experimental cycle time, and alarm latency), interference effects can effectively be recognized, and the network setup can be optimized.

RECENT TRENDS IN USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT

TJPRC, 2013

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are now established as one of the most cost effective and efficient mechanism for collecting data on the industrial shop floor. Industrial WSN (IWSN) is gaining ground in many diversified industries as the technology at the lowest layer for collecting raw data from shop floor. The sensor nodes, apart from collecting data, can also be used to detect abnormal conditions occurring in the process that is being monitored by them. This paper takes a comprehensive look at recent trends in the industry in using WSN. It details about how the technology is shaping up the various components of WSN over last few years. The paper also describes the current scenario of integration of WSN with business processes and later mentions about few of the success stories in IWSN. The paper concludes with a brief description of current focus areas of research in this field.

Wired and wireless sensor networks for industrial applications

Microelectronics Journal, 2009

Distributed architectures for industrial applications are a new opportunity to realize cost-effective, flexible, scalable and reliable systems. Direct interfacing of sensors and actuators to the industrial communication network improves the system performance, because process data and diagnostics can be simultaneously available to many systems and also shared on the Web.

Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications and Challenges

2020

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) allow innovative applications and involve non-conventional models for the design of procedures owing to some limitations. Due to the necessity for low device complication and low consumption of energy, an appropriate equilibrium among communication and signal processing abilities should be instituted. This stimulates an enormous effort in research actions, standardisation procedure, as well as manufacturing investments on this aspect since the preceding years. Therefore, this chapter aims at presenting a summary of WSNs machineries, foremost applications and values, structures in WSNs project, and the developments drawn from some evidence and meta-data-based survey and assessments. Precisely, some applications, such as those based on ecological monitoring, and design approaches that emphasise a real implementation are discussed briefly. The trends and conceivable developments are outlined. Emphasis is given to “the Institute of Electrical and Electron...

An Introduction to the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

2012

This article provides an overview of wireless sensor networks, their architecture, application areas, and some open research issues. This article is submitted to the G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering and Management as a part of partial fulfilment for the award of the degree of Master of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication (VLSI and Embedded Systems Design) of the University of Pune in the academic year 2011-2012. Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks have recently come to the forefront of the scientific community. This results from the increasingly smaller-sized devices being engineering, enabling many applications. The use of these sensors and the possibility of organizing them into networks have revealed many research issues and have highlighted new ways to cope with specific problems. A wireless sensor network is a collection of nodes organized into a cooperative network. Each node consists of processing capability that may contain multiple types of memory (program, data and flash memories), have an RF transceiver (usually with a single omnidirectional antenna), have a power source (e.g., batteries and solar cells), and accommodate various sensors.