Building a Large Scale Wireless Sensor Network for the Industrial Environment

Real-time wireless sensor networks in the industrial settings usually consist of tens of nodes. Seldom do we see a network of over 100 wireless nodes. The smaller size is usually sufficient as a typical plane unit is no larger than a football field size, and the critical data points of interest are not many. We believe, however, there is need for large scale real-time wireless sensor networks. In this paper we shall use WirelessHART as the platform to study and build one. We shall study the possibility, propose the methods to achieve, and test our solutions with experimentations.