Xarmbee: uma arquitetura de hardware modular multi-rádio para gateways de redes de sensores sem fio

Abstract

This work presents a modular architecture for hardware development and integration of various technologies of wireless communication (Bluetooth, GSM / GPRS and ZigBee) in a gateway for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Thus, the proposal seeks to address an issue not widely explored in a practical way that is the local and remote collection of data from geographically distributed networks. The objective of this research is to focus on practical technological aspects that allow the integration of different technologies in a practical and real hardware platform. The proposed architecture includes power management and selection of several technologies for wireless communication that will be used according to the application. To validate the proposed architecture case study is carried out in order to present the results achieved during the experiments.