Design of Building Monitoring Systems Based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Qifen Dong, Li Yu, Huanjia Lu, Zhen Hong, Yourong Chen

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DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2010.29085                

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network provides a potential technique for monitoring the indoor environment. This paper presents a Building Monitoring system based on Wireless Sensor Networks. A clustering-based network specified for building monitoring is proposed, which is inspired by LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Cluster Hierarchy) method. Further, two key ideas are used to implement the clustering-based network. First, the configuration module of building management software is used to conduct all nodes in a room forming a local cluster. This cluster formation method does not consume node energy. Second, because cluster-heads cannot directly transmit packets to the sink node due to limited wireless communication range, the cluster-head communications are represented by a multi-hop tree rooted at the sink node. The experiment has been made to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed results.

Keywords

Wireless Sensor Networks, Building Monitoring, LEACH, Cluster

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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