Solarux Wireless Mesh Network and Application for Monitoring Photovoltaic Solar Systems

Wireless mesh network is a technology that can dynamically self-organize and self-heal, provide flexible integration, rapid installation, easy maintenance, low cost, high scalability, and secure service capabilities. This technology includes mesh routers and mesh clients. They enable integration into networks such as the Internet, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16 and sensor networks through bridging capabilities in gateways and mesh routers. Wireless mesh networks provide wireless services for personal, local, campus and metropolitan area applications. In this paper, a method and an apparatus to deploy a wireless mesh network its and network nodes are described. In particular, a network with network node neighborhoods is described. A node consists of an antenna and a transceiver controller. Nodes are configured for installation with MAC addresses and geographic coordination with the network. In addition, the software architecture for the mesh network is described.