Integrated wireless sensor network for large scale intelligent systems

There is a critical need to improve the efficiency of the large systems and eco-system of this planet. It is important to successfully integrate a variety of technology blocks ranging from sensors to communication system to analytics software in order to realize our goal of smarter systems and eco-systems. In order to apply a proactive approach to solve this planet's problem, everything must be instrumented. We would like to deploy the sensors widely so that these sensors act as the eyes, ears, and noses for the analytics engine and provide real time data at a desired frequency. In this paper, we demonstrate the first step to realize a convergence of wireless sensor network with analytics software. The wireless sensors transmit data at regular intervals through the 2.4 GHz ISM band to a coordinator. The coordinator forwards the aggregated data to a messaging software. The time stamps, topics, and payloads of the messages can be visualized using a GUI explorer of the messaging software. These messages can be further forwarded through a message broker to database servers and web servers via internet. Accordingly, the analytics software could make use of the live data to provide decision support for engineers, automated control system, and actuators.