A real mesh: Low-cost wireless sensors test performance, battery life

Cyrus W. Taft, Aaron J. Hussey, Teja Kuruganti, John N. Sorge, Asis Nasipuri

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Abstract

Researchers from EPRI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Southern Company Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Taft Engineering worked jointly to demonstrate the effectiveness of wireless sensors in a power plant. They made such efforts, as low-cost battery-powered, wireless sensors have the potential to significantly change traditional methods of equipment monitoring in power plants. They wanted to provide guidance for users deploying a wireless sensor network in a plant on the allowable distance between sensors, focusing on radio performance and battery life. Each wireless device consisted of two small circuit boards, including one for the processor and radio and the other for sensors or data acquisition. The research team also deployed two types of processors and radios and three types of sensor boards to conduct their investigations.

Original languageEnglish
Volume56
No11
Specialist publicationInTech
StatePublished - Nov 2009

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