Design of interference aware ZigBee building monitoring network

ZigBee is a new standard developed by the ZigBee Alliance for providing low cost, low power consumption wireless solutions. By integrating with dedicated sensors, ZigBee mesh network can be easily applied for large-scale building monitoring applications. However, the wide adoption of wireless produc...

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Published in2011 17th International Conference on Automation and Computin pp. 57 - 62
Main Authors Fang Yao, Shuang-Hua Yang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2011
Subjects
building monitoring
Buildings
IEEE 802.11 Standards
Interference
Monitoring
Sensors
Wireless sensor networks
Zigbee
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ISBN1467300004
9781467300001

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Summary:ZigBee is a new standard developed by the ZigBee Alliance for providing low cost, low power consumption wireless solutions. By integrating with dedicated sensors, ZigBee mesh network can be easily applied for large-scale building monitoring applications. However, the wide adoption of wireless products (e.g. IEEE 802.11 networks) makes the operations of ZigBee network easy to be affected as they all use 2.4 GHz ISM band. Particularly, interference existing inside a building environment includes static interference and dynamic interference, which pose challenges for ZigBee network communications. In this work, we present a set of guidance for deploying ZigBee devices to avoid static interference from Wi-Fi and propose a set of strategies to mitigate dynamic interference from Wi-Fi in a building environment. The mitigation guidance and strategies are derived from our experimental work and take various factors, including position selection, channel allocation, and dynamic interference response, into consideration.
ISBN:1467300004
9781467300001