Design and Implementation of Digital Sensor Simulator

Abstract:

With the rapid development of sensor technology recently, sensors have been applied to various fields for detecting object states, e.g. intelligent agriculture, intelligent power, intelligent city, the Internet of Things, etc., and have becoming more and more critical for dynamic data acquisition. Due to detection environment, detection technology, costs and other factors, access to actual sensors for developing or debugging a sensor application may cause additional costs and time. Meanwhile, testing new sensor applications and protocols needs appropriate feasible ways with low costs and short time. Therefore, it is fairly urgent for designing and developing a simulation environment of sensors and sensor applications. This paper parsed the general structure of digital sensors, and then designed domain-based high level architecture of digital sensor simulator. Finally, the prototype of digital sensor simulator was developed and demonstrated the proper performance. Results show that digital sensor simulator would provide an effective way for testing novel sensors and protocols and also play an important role for constituting sensor network simulation environment.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 411-414)
• Pages: 1581-1587
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.411-414.1581
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Gai Fang Wang, Feng Feng Fan, Xi Tao Xing, Yong Wang
• Keywords: Digital Sensor, Internet of Things (IOT), Sensor Network, Simulator, Telemetry

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