Design and implementation of a real-time wireless sensor network

• Author(s): Afonso, José A. ; Silva, H. R. ; Oliveira, P. M. ; Correia, J. H. ; Rocha, L. A.
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17412
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Medium access control; Wireless sensor networks; Body sensor networks; Quality of service
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This paper describes the development of wireless sensor network prototype that gathers biometrical data and posture information from several wearable sensor networks and sends it in real-time to a personal computer where the information is monitored and stored. The wireless sensor network is based on a low power real-time MAC protocol that was designed and implemented in the MICAz platform. This paper also presents some analytical results and several experimental results regarding the behavior of the developed system.