Visualization and Management Platform with Augmented Reality for Wireless Sensor Networks

Kenya Sato, Naoya Sakamoto, Hideki Shimada

Department of Information Systems Design, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2015.71001                

Abstract

Recently a ubiquitous sensor network which collects our environmental information gets increasingly popular, a visualization application is necessary for users to manage complicated wireless networks, however, these applications are developed individually for wireless communication standard or a type of wireless device. Therefore, users are forced to adopt and use the application individually according to the target of the wireless network. In this paper, we propose a visualization platform for wireless network environments using augmented reality technology, and evaluate the effectiveness of the platform. From the result of the evaluation, we have confirmed the proposed platform has availability for visualization and management of wireless networks.

Keywords

Network Management, Visualization, Augmented Reality

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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