LOW POWER

WIRELESS SENSOR
NETWORK

PREPARED BY
PRANAV KUMAR
EC 3rd YEAR
CONTENTS
 Introduction.
 Sensor Node.
 Power Operation In Network.
I. Power Awareness From Radio Communication
Hardware.
II. Microcontroller.
III. System Partitioning.
 Applications.
 Advantages.
 Disadvantages
 Conclusion.
 Future Scope
 References 2
INTRODUCTION
 A wireless sensor network is a collection of
wireless sensors covering a small area.
 Every sensor perform independent sensing,
processing and transmission of data over wireless
link with minimum power consumption.
 These include low energy signaling and
networking.

3
SENSOR NODE

 A sensor node, also known as “MOTE”.

 It is a node in a wireless sensor network
that is capable of performing some
processing, gathering sensory information
and communication with gateway sensor
node.

4
SENSOR NODE

5
POWER OPERATION IN
NETWORK
 Power awareness from radio
communication hardware.
 Microcontroller.
 Energy efficient network.
 Signal processing in the network.
 System partitioning.

6
POWER AWARENESS FROM
RADIO HARDWARE
 The functionality of both transmitter and
receiver are combined into a single device
known as Transceiver that are used in
sensor nodes.
 The operational states are Transmit,
Receive, Idle and Sleep.
 Low voltage operation.
 1.8V minimum supply.

7
MICROCONTROLLER

 Here we use ultra low power

microcontroller “TEXAS MSP430”.
 1.8V power supply.
 Active power 6mW.
 Sleep power 3μW.
 <6μS clock start-up time.
 <50 nA pin leakage current.

8
SYSTEM PARTITIONING
 System partitioning is a computation
among multiple sensor nodes and
performing the computation in parallel
permits a greater energy saving through
frequency and voltage scaling.

9
SYSTEM PARTITIONING

10
APPLICATIONS

 Environmental sensing.
 Home automation.
 Security & military surveillance.
 Industrial control & monitoring.
 Health care.
 Agriculture field.

11
ADVANTAGES

 Low cost.
 Low power.
 Small size.
 Fast operation.
 Reduces use of man power.

12
DISADVANTAGES

 Short communication distance.

 It’s damn easy for hackers to hack.
 Comparatively low speed of
communication.

13
CONCLUSION

 In
human life a sensor network may
be the powerful tool, because they
can be deployed at the places where
a man can not reach.

14
FUTURE SCOPE
 Smart Home/Smart Office
 Sensor controlling appliances and
electrical devices in house.
 Better lightning and heating in office
buildings.

15
 Biomedical/Medical
 Health Monitor
 Chronic Diseases
 Hospital Sensor
 Traffic Management and Monitoring
 Future cars could use wireless sensors
to handle thefts and accidents.
 Sensors embedded in roads to monitor
traffic flow, provide real- time route updates.

16
 References

[1] Rajgopal Kannan, Ram Kalidindi, S. S. Iyengar Energy and

Rate based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks ,
International Symposium on Communication Theory and
Applications, Louisiana State University, Dec2003
[2] N. Bulusu, D. Estrin, L. Girod, J. Heidemann, Scalable
coordination for wireless sensor networks: self-configuring
localization systems, International Symposium on Communication
Theory and Applications (ISCTA2001), Ambleside, UK, July 2001.
[3] Heidemann, F. Silva, C. Intanagonwiwat, Building efficient
wireless sensor networks with low-level naming, Proceedings
of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Banff,
Canada, 2001.
17
Any Question Or
Quires......

18
19