A Home Automation Application Based on WSN and Service Robot

Abstract:

In recent years, the home environment has seen a rapid introduction of network enabled digital technology. This technology offers new and exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity of devices within the home for the purpose of home automation. The use of wireless technologies in automation systems offers attractive benefits and in the same time introduces a number of new technological challenges.Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have recently been proposed for a large range of applications in home and industrial automation, and for health and environment monitoring. ZigBee standard is getting more and more attention as it can be used to implement wireless sensor networks for its low data rate and low power consumption. There are a large number of reseaches dealing with WSN applications, but it is still possible to explored in WSN development and maintenance. Based on the integration of WSN and the service robots, this paper implemented a home automation application. In this work the service robots can be considered to be mobiles nodes that provide additional sensorial information, improve/repair the connectivity and collect information from wireless sensor nodes. And the WSN provide a smart environment for the service robots.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 664)
• Pages: 1087-1092
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.664.1087
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Hui Yong Wang
• Keywords: Home Automation, Service Robot, Smart Home, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), ZigBee

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