Monitoring and Application of Wireless Sensor Network

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "Monitoring and Application of Wireless Sensor Network"

by

Mr. Min GAO


Abstract:

With the recent advances in wireless sensor network technology, wireless 
sensor networks (WSN) are widely deployed in many industrial and civilian 
applications, such as military application, energy management, health 
care, environment monitoring and etc. Most of these applications require 
the deployment of large-scale WSN.

Due to the limitation of sensor nodes, few of them could provide user 
interface. Thus, it is difficult to monitor the operation of the sensor 
nodes within a WSN. In some applications, the whole system consists of 
thousands of sensor nodes. How to guarantee the performance of such 
systems would be a great challenge. One method to avoid the problem raised 
in operating such large scale system is to conduct extensive testing by an 
experiment tool in the real environment. If the developer could obtain 
energy consumption of the sensor nodes and topology info of the whole 
sensor system, the performance of the large scale WSN system can be fully 
monitored.

In this work, we propose an experiment and monitoring tool for WSN where 
the internal data and energy consumption of sensor nodes can be caught, 
and the topology and routing paths of the whole network can be shown. The 
major challenges and methods in the development and deployment of our 
solution are discussed. In the future, a real and useful health care 
system will be developed to verify this tool.


Date:			Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Time:                   3:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:                  Room 3501
                         lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Qian Zhang (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Bo Li (Chairperson)
 			Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung
 			Dr. Qiong Luo


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