A design and implementation of wireless sensor network routing on Nano-Qplus platform

Recent advancement in wireless technologies has enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. The wireless sensor networks can be used for various application areas such as home, health, and robotics. Sensor nodes are scattered densely in a field either close to or inside the phenomenon. Therefore, special multihop wireless routing protocols between the sensor nodes and the sink node are needed. Furthermore, wireless sensor network routing protocols are influenced by many challenging factors in terms of energy, processing, and storage capacities. We developed a wireless sensor network routing system based on the Nano-Qplus platform. The Nano-Qplus platform is composed of nano HAL, sensing and actuating, task management, power management, and message handling module. In addition, the Nano-Qplus platform includes a ATmega128 MCU and cc2420 IEEE802.15.4 RF communication module. In consideration of the functional and hardware limitation of the Nano-Qplus platform, we developed an energy efficient routing system based on the Nano-Qplus platform