An Improved ZigBee Routing Strategy for Monitoring System

ZigBee offers a practical application solution coupled with low rate, low cost, low energy consumption characteristics for WSNs. There are many ZigBee monitoring systems which have been developed based on ZigBee. Energy consumption and latency are two critical performance measurements in most monitoring systems. The design of routing strategy in network layer may affect these two performance measurements. Energy consumption and latency of different routing algorithms are given based on analysis about ZigBee routing strategy including AODVjr and the hierarchical routing algorithm. This paper describes an improved ZigBee routing strategy for monitoring system and gives the realization about it. This paper is meant to aid researchers in developing their own monitoring system based on ZigBee and assist users in determining the ZigBee routing strategy that best fits their needs.