Query: ZigBee temperature and humidity monitoring

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abstract: ZigBee is a short range wireless networking standard backed by such industry leaders as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Freescale, etc. It supports mesh networking, each node can transmit and receive data, offers high security and robustness, and is being rapidly adopted in industrial, control/monitoring, and medical applications. This book will explain the ZigBee protocol, discuss the design of ZigBee hardware, and describe how to design and implement ZigBee networks. The book has a dedicated website for the latest technical updates, ZigBee networking calculators, and additional materials. Dr. Farahani is a ZigBee system engineer for Freescale semiconductors Inc.Table of ContentsChapter 1: ZigBee BasicsChapter 2: ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 Networking ExamplesChapter 3: ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol LayersChapter 4: Transceiver RequirementsChapter 5: RF Propagation, Antennas, and Regulatory RequirementsChapter 6: Battery Life AnalysisChapter 7: Location Estimating Using ZigBee Chapter 8: ZigBee CoexistenceChapter 9: Related TechnologiesAppendicesKEY FEATURES* Provides a comprehensive overview of ZigBee technology and networking, from RF/physical layer considerations to application layer development. Discusses ZigBee security features such as encryption. Describes how ZigBee can be used in location detection applications. Explores techniques for ZigBee co existence with other wireless technologies such as 802.11 and Bluetooth.
author_names: Shahin Farahani
title: ZigBee Wireless Networks and Transceivers
year: 2008

abstract: Bluetooth (over IEEE 802.15.1) ultra wideband (UWB, over IEEE 802.15.3) ZigBee (over IEEE 802.15.4) and Wi Fi (over IEEE 802.11) are four protocol standards for short range wireless communications with low power consumption. From an application point of view, bluetooth is intended for a cordless mouse, keyboard, and hands free headset, UWB is oriented to high bandwidth multimedia links, ZigBee is designed for reliable wirelessly networked monitoring and control networks, while Wi Fi is directed at computer to computer connections as an extension or substitution of cabled networks. In this paper, we provide a study of these popular wireless communication standards, evaluating their main features and behaviors in terms of various metrics, including the transmission time, data coding efficiency, complexity, and power consumption. It is believed that the comparison presented in this paper would benefit application engineers in selecting an appropriate protocol.
author_names: Jin-Shyan Lee

Yu-Wei Su

Chung-Chou Shen
title: A Comparative Study of Wireless Protocols: Bluetooth, UWB, ZigBee, and Wi Fi
venue: IECON 2007 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
year: 2007

abstract: In recent years, the home environment has seen a rapid introduction of network enabled digital technology. This technology offers new and exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity of devices within the home for the purpose of home automation. Moreover, with the rapid expansion of the Internet, there is the added potential for the remote control and monitoring of such network enabled devices. However, the adoption of home automation systems has been slow. This paper identifies the reasons for this slow adoption and evaluates the potential of ZigBee for addressing these problems through the design and implementation of a flexible home automation architecture. A ZigBee based home automation system and Wi Fi network are integrated through a common home gateway. The home gateway provides network interoperability, a simple and flexible user interface, and remote access to the system. A dedicated virtual home is implemented to cater for the system's security and safety needs. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system, four devices, a light switch, radiator valve, safety sensor and ZigBee remote control have been developed and evaluated with the home automation system.
author_names: Khusvinder Gill

Shuanghua Yang

Fang Yao

Xin Lu
title: A zigbee based home automation system
venue: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
year: 2009

abstract: Wireless personal area network and wireless sensor networks are rapidly gaining popularity, and the IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Working Group has defined no less than different standards so as to cater to the requirements of different applications. The ubiquitous home network has gained widespread attentions due to its seamless integration into everyday life. This innovative system transparently unifies various home appliances, smart sensors and energy technologies. The smart energy market requires two types of ZigBee networks for device control and energy management. Today, organizations use IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee to effectively deliver solutions for a variety of areas including consumer electronic device control, energy management and efficiency, home and commercial building automation as well as industrial plant management. We present the design of a multi sensing, heating and airconditioning system and actuation application the home users: a sensor network based smart light control system for smart home and energy control production. This paper designs smart home device descriptions and standard practices for demand response and load management "Smart Energy" applications needed in a smart energy based residential or light commercial environment. The control application domains included in this initial version are sensing device control, pricing and demand response and load control applications. This paper introduces smart home interfaces and device definitions to allow interoperability among ZigBee devices produced by various manufacturers of electrical equipment, meters, and smart energy enabling products. We introduced the proposed home energy control systems design that provides intelligent services for users and we demonstrate its implementation using a real testbad.
author_names: Dae-Man Han

Jae-Hyun Lim
title: Smart home energy management system using IEEE 802.15.4 and zigbee
venue: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
year: 2010

abstract: Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology for low cost, unattended monitoring of a wide range of environments. Their importance has been enforced by the recent delivery of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for the physical and MAC layers and the forthcoming ZigBee standard for the network and application layers. The fast progress of research on energy efficiency, networking, data management and security in wireless sensor networks, and the need to compare with the solutions adopted in the standards motivates the need for a survey on this field.
author_names: Paolo Baronti

Prashant Pillai

Vince W C Chook

Stefano Chessa

Alberto Gotta

Yim-Fun Hu
title: Wireless sensor networks: A survey on the state of the art and the 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards
venue: Comput. Commun.
year: 2007

abstract: This paper introduced a system based on wireless network technology, which achieved node to node data collection and transmission. The ZigBee based wireless network of the system adopted the chip CC2530 of TI company. The system developed applications based on Z STACK for data collection and wireless transmission, it used VC+ to make a PC software for real time monitoring of temperature and humidity. The research results show the feasibility of the system, and it would be widely used in the measure field of agriculture.
author_names: Bo Xu

Yongjun Zheng

Yan Xin Yin

Yu Tan
title: Temperature and Humidity Monitoring System Based on CC2530
year: 2013

abstract: Abstract This paper presents the development of an automatic wireless sensor monitoring system for civil engineering structures. The objective is to provide a solution to measure both temperature and humidity inside a concrete structure. The research has been focused in the early age and curing phase period. Four solutions have been addressed. The first one involves the use of a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor and an IRIS mote allowing for the creation of an IEEE 802.15.4 network. However, the results have shown that the sensor measurements present a 5 degC standard deviation between the actual and the experimental values. The second one considers the use of the SHT15 (humidity/temperature) sensor, together with the PIC18F4680 microcontroller or the Arduino platform. The third solution involves the use of the SHT21S (humidity/temperature) sensor and the eZ430 RF2500 wireless development tool platform for the MSP430 microcontroller. In this case, the temperature readings were successfully performed for the first 16 h, while the humidity values were successfully obtained for the first 24 h of the experiment. Although the set of measured values is very promising for the SHT15 and SHT21S sensors, both sensors have stopped working after some time, showing that direct contact between the sensor and the concrete alkaline environment causes its breakdown. Finally, the fourth solution considers both the SHT15 and SHT21S sensors completely shielded allowing for the creation of a long term solution. As, the SHT15 and SHT12S sensors have not been affected by the alkaline environment for more than two months of operation, enabling real time and continuous monitoring with almost non intrusive tiny devices, the potential of applying the proposed inexpensive wireless sensor network approach is verified.
author_names: Norberto Barroca

Luis M Borges

Fernando Jose Velez

Filipe Monteiro

Marcin Gorski

Joao Castro-Gomes
title: Wireless sensor networks for temperature and humidity monitoring within concrete structures
year: 2013

abstract: An animal health monitoring system for monitoring the physiological parameters, such as rumination, body temperature, and heart rate with surrounding temperature and humidity, has been developed. The developed system can also analyze the stress level corresponding to thermal humidity index. The IEEE802.15.4 and IEEE1451.2 standards based sensor module has been developed successfully. The Zigbee device and PIC18F4550 microcontroller are used in the implementation of sensor module. The graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented in LabVIEW 9 according to the IEEE1451.1 standard. The real time monitoring of physiological and behavioral parameters can be present on the GUI PC. The device is very helpful for inexpensive health care of livestock. A prototype model is developed and tested with high accuracy results.
author_names: Anuj Kumar

Gerhard Petrus Hancke
title: A Zigbee Based Animal Health Monitoring System
venue: IEEE Sensors Journal
year: 2015

abstract: Localization in wireless sensor networks gets more and more important, because many applications need to locate the source of incoming measurements as precise as possible. Weighted centroid localization (WCL) provides a fast and easy algorithm to locate devices in wireless sensor networks. The algorithm is derived from a centroid determination which calculates the position of devices by averaging the coordinates of known reference points. To improve the calculated position in real implementations, WCL uses weights to attract the estimated position to close reference points provided that coarse distances are available. Due to the fact that Zigbee provides the link quality indication (LQI) as a quality indicator of a received packet, it can also be used to estimate a distance from a node to reference points.
author_names: Jan Blumenthal

Ralf Grossmann

Frank Golatowski

Dirk Timmermann
title: Weighted Centroid Localization in Zigbee based Sensor Networks
venue: 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing
year: 2007

abstract: Today, organizations use IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee to effectively deliver solutions for a variety of areas including consumer electronic device control, energy management and efficiency home and commercial building automation as well as industrial plant management. The Smart home energy network has gained widespread attentions due to its flexible integration into everyday life. This next generation green home system transparently unifies various home appliances, smart sensors and wireless communication technologies. The green home energy network gradually forms a complex system to process various tasks. Developing this trend, we suggest a new Smart Home Energy Management System (SHEMS) based on an IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee (we call it as a "ZigBee sensor network" The proposed smart home energy management system divides and assigns various home network tasks to appropriate components. It can integrate diversified physical sensing information and control various consumer home devices, with the support of active sensor networks having both sensor and actuator components. We develop a new routing protocol DMPR (Disjoint Multi Path based Routing) to improve the performance of our ZigBee sensor networks. This paper introduces the proposed home energy control system's design that provides intelligent services for users. We demonstrate its implementation using a real environment.
author_names: Dae-Man Han

Jae-Hyun Lim
title: Design and implementation of smart home energy management systems based on zigbee
venue: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
year: 2010