An information gathering solution for wireless sensor network using open source tools

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo González;Miguel Landaeta

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela;Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a new paradigm that has been growing very fast nowadays. A WSN is composed of a certain number of sensor nodes or motes, which are set up in a terrain of interest. Each mote has the capacity of collecting data from physical world, such as: temperature, pressure, humidity, etc., which are then sent to a node called Gateway that connects a WSN to a wider area network. In this paper, we describe an information gathering solution to support wireless sensor network data collecting activities. It was built using end-to-end open source code tools. We describe the architecture of a simple WSN, and how open source code can be used in every step. Beginning with data collection from the physical world, continuing through wireless and traditional networks sending, and ending when data reaches the place where the users can store and use them. Open Source tools can offer great benefits on extensibility, in order to adapt them to new information requirements. Every software development application that was used in this work is an open source code tools that is available for free on the Internet.