Environmental Monitoring System Based on Hybrid Mode Network Structure

To achieve large-scale and high bandwidth environmental monitoring, this paper proposes a hybrid network structure based on the ZigBee network and Mesh network, which consists of the backbone network and nodes, branch network and nodes, and monitoring center. Both the backbone network node and branch network node with sensor information collection and wireless communication functions are designed. And a monitoring center is developed to display environmental information in real time. With the hybrid-mode network, the environment monitoring experiments were carried out to verify the feasibility of the system. The results show that compared to traditional environmental monitoring systems, the proposed system has the advantage of strong networking ability, large bandwidth, long transmission distance, and low cost.