A vehicular wireless sensor network for CO2 monitoring

Micro-climate monitoring usually requires deploying a large number of measurement tools. By adopting vehicular wireless sensor networks (VSNs), we can use fewer tools to achieve fine-grained monitoring. This work proposes a VSN architecture to realize micro-climate monitoring based on GSM short mess...

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Main Authors: Shu-Chiung Hu, You-Chiun Wang, Chiuan-Yu Huang, Yu-Chee Tseng
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Carbon dioxide
Communication system control
Global Positioning System
GSM
Monitoring
Network servers
Prototypes
User interfaces
Vehicles
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Micro-climate monitoring usually requires deploying a large number of measurement tools. By adopting vehicular wireless sensor networks (VSNs), we can use fewer tools to achieve fine-grained monitoring. This work proposes a VSN architecture to realize micro-climate monitoring based on GSM short messages and availability of GPS receivers on vehicles. We demonstrate our prototype of a ZigBee-based car network to monitor the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas in areas of interest. The reported data are sent to a server, which is integrated with Google Maps as our user interface. Since mobility of these vehicles is not controllable and sending short messages incurs charges, we also design an on-demand approach to adjust vehicles' reporting rates to balance between the micro-climate accuracy and the communication cost.
ISSN:1930-0395
2168-9229
DOI:10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398461