Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks on Reconfigurable Hardware

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks on Reconfigurable Hardware
Author: Li-minn Ang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642382037

Traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) capture scalar data such as temperature, vibration, pressure, or humidity. Motivated by the success of WSNs and also with the emergence of new technology in the form of low-cost image sensors, researchers have proposed combining image and audio sensors with WSNs to form wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). This introduces practical and research challenges, because multimedia sensors, particularly image sensors, generate huge amounts of data to be processed and distributed within the network, while sensor nodes have restricted battery power and hardware resources. This book describes how reconfigurable hardware technologies such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer cost-effective, flexible platforms for implementing WMSNs, with a main focus on developing efficient algorithms and architectures for information reduction, including event detection, event compression, and multicamera processing for hardware implementations. The authors include a comprehensive review of wireless multimedia sensor networks, a complete specification of a very low-complexity, low-memory FPGA WMSN node processor, and several case studies that illustrate information reduction algorithms for visual event compression, detection, and fusion. The book will be of interest to academic researchers, R&D engineers, and computer science and engineering graduate students engaged with signal and video processing, computer vision, embedded systems, and sensor networks.

Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems
Author: Kiyofumi Tanaka
Publisher: IntechOpen
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9789535103509

Nowadays, embedded systems - computer systems that are embedded in various kinds of devices and play an important role of specific control functions, have permeated various scenes of industry. Therefore, we can hardly discuss our life or society from now onwards without referring to embedded systems. For wide-ranging embedded systems to continue their growth, a number of high-quality fundamental and applied researches are indispensable. This book contains 13 excellent chapters and addresses a wide spectrum of research topics of embedded systems, including parallel computing, communication architecture, application-specific systems, and embedded systems projects. Embedded systems can be made only after fusing miscellaneous technologies together. Various technologies condensed in this book as well as in the complementary book "Embedded Systems - Theory and Design Methodology", will be helpful to researchers and engineers around the world.

Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems
Author: Kiyofumi Tanaka
Publisher: IntechOpen
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9789535103509

Nowadays, embedded systems - computer systems that are embedded in various kinds of devices and play an important role of specific control functions, have permeated various scenes of industry. Therefore, we can hardly discuss our life or society from now onwards without referring to embedded systems. For wide-ranging embedded systems to continue their growth, a number of high-quality fundamental and applied researches are indispensable. This book contains 13 excellent chapters and addresses a wide spectrum of research topics of embedded systems, including parallel computing, communication architecture, application-specific systems, and embedded systems projects. Embedded systems can be made only after fusing miscellaneous technologies together. Various technologies condensed in this book as well as in the complementary book "Embedded Systems - Theory and Design Methodology", will be helpful to researchers and engineers around the world.

Reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Platform for Training and Research in Networked Embedded Systems

Reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Platform for Training and Research in Networked Embedded Systems
Author: Oscar V. Gonzalez
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

ABSTRACT: Ever since the University of California, Berkeley released the first commercial Wireless Sensor Network, (WSN), "mote", applications that employ the WSN technology have increased many fold. There are many kinds of prototypes and architectures for WSNs that are being developed by major communication companies. Due to the lack of a common standard for different physical and MAC layer protocols, interoperability among the wireless systems is constrained. Additionally, remote sensing capability, reconfigurability and interoperability have not yet been designed. In the current platforms hardware upgrading has to be performed on-site by replacing the old sensors with new ones. This procedure increases considerably the costs of deployment and maintenance. On-site upgrading also imposes serious constraints on applications that operate in very limited access environments.

Reconfigurable Medium Access Control Solutions for Resource Constrained Wireless Networks

Reconfigurable Medium Access Control Solutions for Resource Constrained Wireless Networks
Author: Noemí Arbós Linio
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of several autonomous resource constrained sensor nodes distributed over a geographical area. The sensor nodes can measure, for instance humidity, temperature or vibration. Therefore, these networks can be deployed in many different types of dynamic environments. Traditionally, Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols used in WSNs are implemented in a monolithic fashion with tight coupling to the underlying hardware. Although this approach of design and implementation can usually make full use of the capability of the underlying hardware, theMACsolution is static and provides satisfying performance only under the pre-defined conditions. However, as application requirements and network conditions may change, adaptability and reconfigurability of MAC protocols are desired. In this thesis, we have designed and implemented a toolchain which enables runtimeMACprotocol reconfiguration for WSNs. The toolchain has been implemented in TinyOS using component-based design and hardware independence, allowing users to develop MAC solutions for WSNs, execute and reconfigure them in many platforms. Finally, a user is able to interact with the sensor node through a user interface developed in Java. Furthermore, this toolchain has been enhanced by the features introduced in [1] to enable also simplifying the design of MAC protocols, allowing non-specific sensors users to implement and finally execute and reconfigure them in sensor nodes. The toolchain has been compared to monolithic implementations in terms of execution time and reconfiguration costs. The results show that the toolchain enables fast runtime reconfiguration of MAC protocols with an quantify execution time overhead. Our toolchain saves from 26% up to 98% the time needed to reconfigure a MAC protocol compared to the monolithic approach.

Artificial Reconfigurable Wireless Network Optimization Based on Battery Levels

Artificial Reconfigurable Wireless Network Optimization Based on Battery Levels
Author: Petrus Van Staden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019
Genre: Battery chargers
ISBN:

A Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) was developed, along with a testbed that could evaluate the system under scrutiny on energy consumption parameters. The development of an artificial reconfigurable wireless network optimization routing protocol based on battery levels was created in a lab environment where certain variables were controllable. This study focused on measuring energy of a network based on different routing protocols. To capture data, physical batteries were replaced with a power source that was developed to capture the energy usage of each node in the system simultaneously. The development of a system that could test the energy consumed by a WSN was one part of the study, whilst the important part was to be able to analyse energy consumed by a network as a whole. Analysing a WSN by capturing data based on routing topology formed a conclusion based on data that was captured in the lab. Different packet sizes, TX power levels and routing protocols were tested in this dissertation on a custom developed testbed. Results did show a predictable outcome clearly indicating different energy consumptions per topology.