O'Flynn, Brendan and Barroso, Andre and Bellis, Stephen and Benson, Jonathan and Roedig, Utz and Delaney, Kieran and Barton, John and Sreenan, Cormac and O'Mathuna, Sean (2005) The development of a novel minaturized modular platform for wireless sensor networks. In: Proceedings of the IPSN Track on Sensor Platform, Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems (IPSN2005/SPOTS2005), Los Angeles, USA :. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 370-375. ISBN 0780392019
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks are collections of autonomous devices with computational, sensing and wireless communication capabilities. Research in this area has been growing in the past few years given the wide range of applications that can benefit from such a technology. In this paper, the development of a highly modular and miniaturized wireless platform for sensor networks is described. The system incorporates a radio transceiver (in the 2.4 GHz ISM Band) with embedded protocol software to minimize power consumption and maximize data throughput. Additional input capability for sensor and actuator integration can be incorporated seamlessly due to the modular nature of the system. The total system is packaged in a modular 25mm cubed form factor.