Hardware Platforms for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Rambabu A. Vatti; Arun N. Gaikwad

Selection of hardware platform for implementation of wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) for a specific application is a challenging task. There exists several severe constraints like, the processor power, power consumption, size and battery life etc. The nodes in the WPAN are the devices with few sensors, a microcontroller and a radio. These nodes are expected to collect process and transmit data to the coordinator. The nodes are battery powered and expected to serve long time, may be few years without replacement of the batteries. IEEE 802.15.4 technology is low power, low data rate technology, suitable for implementing most of the applications in the consumer sector. Thorough study of the various existing platforms is needed to select a proper hardware platform to implement any application. Here in this paper, the authors attempt to provide the comparative study of the some of the existing hardware platforms to help the researchers and product developers to select a suitable hardware platform for a specific application without spending much time in literature study.

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• Volume 6 Issue 1, Jan. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Hardware Platform; ISM Band; Low Power; WPAN

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

6

Number:

1

Pages:

90-92

Month:

Jan.-Feb.

ISSN:

2249-071X