Wireless Sensor Network
Wireless Sensor Networks (commonly abbreviated WSNs) are networks of wireless sensor nodes, used for various monitoring, surveillance, security and detection purposes.
Contents
Mica Motes
- Mica Motes: http://www.sensorsmag.com/networking-communications/mica-the-commercialization-microsensor-motes-1070
Tools
TinyOS
TinyOS is an open source, BSD-licensed operating system designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in sensor networks, ubiquitious computing, personal area networks, smart buildings, and smart meters. A worldwide community from academia and industry use, develop, and support the operating system as well as its associated tools, averaging 35,000 downloads a year.
- TinyOS: http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/
- TinyOS Project (download): https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main[1][2]
TinyDB
TinyDB is a query processing system for extracting information from a network of TinyOS sensors.
Unlike existing solutions for data processing in TinyOS, TinyDB does not require you to write embedded C code for sensors. Instead, TinyDB provides a simple, SQL-like interface to specify the data you want to extract, along with additional parameters, like the rate at which data should be refreshed -- much as you would pose queries against a traditional database.
Resources
- TinyDB architecture paper: http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu/tinydb/tinydb.pdf
- TinyDB schema design paper: http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu/tinydb/tinyschema.pdf
- Radio Communication Stack on Mica Motes: http://www.isi.edu/scadds/projects/commstack/
Tutorials
- How Motes Work: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/mote4.htm
- TinyDB - A Declarative Query System for Motes: http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu/tinydb/tutorial/tinydb.html
- TinyDB tutorial: https://sites.google.com/site/stevozip/home/text/tinydb
- AppInventor Tiny Web DB Tutorial - EXAMPLE APPS: http://www.appinventor.org/appInventorTutorials
- Working with the Mobile Sensor API: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/mobile-sensor-api-172849.html?msgid=3-2517886426
External Links
- wikipedia: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
- wikipedia: Sensor grid
- wikipedia: Sensor web
- wikipedia: Semantic Sensor Web (SSW)
- wikipedia: Transducer
- wikipedia: Gyroscope
- wikipedia: Accelerometer
- wikipedia: Inclinometer
- wikipedia: Potentiometer
- wikipedia: Magnetometer
- wikipedia: Motion detector
- wikipedia: Occupancy sensor
- wikipedia: Proximity sensor
- wikipedia: Level sensor
- wikipedia: Seismometer
- wikipedia: Vibration calibrator
- wikipedia: Geophone
- wikipedia: Microphone
- wikipedia: Thermometer (aka. Temperature Sensor)
- wikipedia: Pressure sensor (typically categorized by these types: Absolute, Vaccuum, Barometric/Atmospheric, Gauge, Differential, Sealed)
- wikipedia: Capacitive displacement sensor (Capacitive sensing commonly used for stylus pens, electronic signatures, drawing surfaces & touchscreens)
- wikipedia: Gas detector
- wikipedia: Oxygen sensor (gas detector that detects the presence of oxygen)
- wikipedia: Hydrogen sensor (gas detector that detects the presence of hydrogen)
- wikipedia: Hydrogen sulfide sensor (gas detector that detects the presence of hydrogen sulfide)
- wikipedia: Nitrogen–phosphorus detector (aka. Thermionic Specific Detector)
- wikipedia: MicroMegas detector (Micro-MEsh Gaseous Structure, gaseous particle detector)
- wikipedia: Gas chromatography ion detector
- wikipedia: Gaseous ionization detectors
- wikipedia: Differential refractometer
- wikipedia: Fluorescence spectroscopy
- wikipedia: Surface acoustic wave sensor
- wikipedia: Hygrometer (instrument for measuring the water vapor in the atmosphere)
- wikipedia: Thermal conductivity detector
- wikipedia: Heat detector
- wikipedia: Flame detector
- wikipedia: Flame ionization detector
- wikipedia: Smoke detector
- wikipedia: Aspirating smoke detector
- wikipedia: Carbon monoxide detector
- wikipedia: Explosive gas leak detector
- wikipedia: Charged aerosol detector
- wikipedia: Photoionization detector
- wikipedia: Electrochemical gas sensor
- wikipedia: Evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD)
- wikipedia: Passive infrared sensor
- wikipedia: Mass spectrometer
- wikipedia: Metal detector
- wikipedia: Semiconductor detector
- wikipedia: Radar detector
- wikipedia: X-ray detector
- wikipedia: Electron capture detector
- wikipedia: Particle detector
- wikipedia: Neutrino detector
- wikipedia: Digital sensors
- Raspberry PI -- Sense HAT: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/
- Sense HAT: https://astro-pi.org/about/hardware/sense-hat/
- LOW POWER WIRELESS SENSING THROUGH MICA MOTES: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53923033/Mica-Motes
References
- ↑ former TinyOS google project page: http://code.google.com/p/tinyos-main/
- ↑ TinyOS v2.0 on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyos/
See Also
Internet of Things | Smart Grid | Robot | Microcontroller | Mobile | Wi-Fi | LTE | LBS | Beacons | AI