A WSN-Based Experiment Platform for Monitoring

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely discussed in many applications. But a key design challenge is to solve power consumption, the reliability of radio communication and self-organizing of network. This paper proposes a design scheme of wireless sensor networks node architecture, builds a computer monitoring platform for experimenting with several of these nodes and designs a flexible PC-monitoring program. The design of a wireless sensor node adopts low power sensors, microcontroller and a Zigbee-based wireless transceiver, the server is based on .Net Framework architecture with database supported. The platform realizes such functions as network monitoring, collection and storage of required data, and so on. The prototyping results verify that our ideas are practical and feasible.