A Wireless IP Multisensor Deployment

Every sensor node in a Wireless Sensor Network has a microcontroller, a transmitter/receiver and a sensor. It is able to acquire data from specific point in a real environment and transmit it through the Wireless sensor Network. Sometimes it is useful to gather different types of data from the same place in order to obtain a final result. In the related literature, very few works are about sensing different parameters using a unique sensor. In this paper we present a Wireless IP multisensor that is able to gather several types of data from the environment and transmit the result of their combination. Our decision has being mainly based on its development costs, its expansion capacity, the possibilities provided by the operating system, and its flexibility to add more features to the sensor node. We will show all the characteristics of our proposal and the hardware needed for its expansion. Then we will discuss its main application areas. A comparison with many wireless IP sensors offered in the market is also provided.

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