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A SERVEY ON WIRELESS MESH NETWORKING MODULE

Mamta Nakhate1, Abhay Satmohankar2
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M.Tech Scholar, Department of Electronics Engineering. Wainganga collage of Engineering, Nagpur, India.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, WCEM, Nagpur, India.

Abstract
There is a rapid development in sensor devices as well as increase in communication range with various low power wireless radio
transmitter and receiver using wireless mesh network. Wireless mesh networking is useful to collect the information from different
sensors that are widely distributed over a large area. In this survey, we mainly focus on open source module that is shown by
various authors. For this purpose many authors use Zigbee module for the development of sensor systems with capability of mesh
networking. In this survey, we mainly focus on wireless mesh networking, for that we studied different wireless sensors to transmit
and receive the data from them and can monitor the output at regular interval on our screen. WSN consist of different sensors that
are distributed with the capabilities of computing, processing and communication can continuouslysense the data in terms of
packets and transmit that data at regular interval. They design such model in which integrates the various functions such as type
of network, data routing and scheduled of transmission data. Also design wireless mesh network structure for various monitoring
application such as industrial, agricultural, medical and so many with a good average packet delivery ratio upto 93%. This
proposed system has the advantage of low cost combined with high reliable information of transmitter without complications of
wireless mesh networking. And finally we conclude from that study of WMN, the range of communication can be increased by
Using Pro-Zigbee module (up to 1.6Km) as well as we can monitor that, if one of the node is fail to transmit a data ,then their
data will automatically stored in neighboring node as backup.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Mesh Network, Different Sensors, Zigbee Module.
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The wireless mesh networking is used to monitor the
environmental issues. It has the advantage of imposing no
issues due to cabling of data transmission. Wireless mesh
network consist of more than one node and it has combined
multiple transceiver to co-operatively transmit and depend
their data thereby the range of communication can be
extended.
The WSN generally consist of large number of low cost and
power multi functional sensor nodes. In Wireless sensor
network, the different nodes are communicated with each
other wirelessly over a short distance and those capable of
organizing themselves in an autonomous multi hop network.
WSN system also has been used in many applications such
as, health monitoring, environmental monitoring and
agricultural monitoring. Wireless sensor network unable for
environment monitoring of large areas with so many
wireless sensors. Therefore in many of the paper they
combined the characteristics of WSN for the formation of
mesh network. In WSN, there is sink as master node and
multiple slave nodes are connected with each other for the
formation of mesh network.
In this we described, combines various nodes and form a
network that regularly sense and may control after
monitoring data. The main objective of developing such
system, that formation of wireless mesh network design,
and adjust the topology according to the changes of radio
interference

obstacles, transfers the various sensors data back to the sink

and upload the data from sensors at regular intervals. We
design WMN module, which can be integrate easily with
sensor system for extending the communication range as
well as reduce the interference between them.
In this module we used Pro Zigbee model, it is one of the
most popular design which supports wireless mesh
networking module which is based on the IEEE standard
802.15.4. Zigbee is used as the wireless communication unit
with various sensor nodes and Pro-Zigbee protocol is
selected because it has low cost and low power wireless
communication protocol.

Fig-1: RF module of PRO-ZIGBEE

The silent feature of Pro Zigbee module is as follows
Power output is 63mW
Indoor Range is upto 90meters
Outdoor range/Line of sight range is upto 1.6Km

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RF data rates is upto 250Kbps
Interface data rate is upto 115.2Kbps
Operating frequency is 2.4Ghz, because operating on
ISM band
Receiver sensitivity is -100dBm.
They design wireless module which are easy to configure
with system and its suitable for point to point, point to
multipoint network and also compatible with mesh network.
The various sensor nodes in WSN consist, main processor,
data aquaization unit, memory unit to stored the data and
different sensors.
In our paper, we use one master node and three slave nodes
for the different monitoring application such as agricultural,
industry and monitor power of any type of circuit. For that
purpose we use ATMEGA16 processor for master node and
for slave node we use ATMEGA8 processor. We can collect
the data at any instant of time from any nodes and that data
can easily stored in main processing unit. In survey we can
clearly seen that many authors, worked on open source
module which is compatible for both hardware and software.
But we can also be used to study the performance of WMN
on real time base parameters and that we are shown in future
scope.

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Monitoring Node

Node 2

Node 1

Wireless
Temp

Humidity

Temp

Processor

2.4GHz
Transceiver

2.4GHz
Transceiver

Processor

Sensor

Gas

Sensor

Fig-3: Basic structure of WMN

2.2 DESIGN OF WSN MODULE

A WSN is the combination of, various hardware sensors,
combines sensing, computation and communication for
monitoring and recording conditions at diverse location.
Wireless network consist of various sensor nodes which are
used to detect or sense the data. The parameters that are
commonly and regularly monitored such as temperature,
humidity, pressure, sound intensity, gas, voltage, power, soil
and many other applications.

2.1 ARCHITECTURE OF WMN

In wireless mesh networking we use various sensor nodes
for the monitoring of various application such as industrial,
agricultural and power measurements of given that means
we can measure the current and voltage. The WMN module
can design using 8 bit controller based on AVR enhanced
RISC architecture, ATMEGA16 is low power CMOS 8 bit
controller with low cost RF transmitter and receiver circuit
in which output power is nearly equal to 1mW at 2.4GHz.
CONTROL SIGNAL

CS

TX
PKT

RX

RF
TRANS
CEIVER

RAM

PKT

PROCESS
UNIT

Fig-4: Structure of Wireless sensor network

A WSN consists of multiple stations in given region called
as sensor nodes. The size of sensor node is very small,
lightweight and its portable. The sensor nodes are
connected to the user through internet and the master node

GET DATA
HOST
PROCESSOR

PACKET

MEMORY
UNIT

2.3 TRANSMITTER NODE

There are three different nodes we are used in this proposed
system as transmitter nodes for different application such as
industry, agriculture and power saving circuit. And the final
structure of one of the node is as shown below.

Fig-2: Functional diagram of WMN

The primary stage to design such model is connecting
ATMEGA16 to main processor and that main processor
interface the control signal and transfers the data in terms of
packets to main processor. In this, the main processor only
deals with ATMEGA16 8 bit microcontroller whenever the
data packets send or receive. The main processor does not
need to worry about the various nodes that are connected
through this controller.

Fig-5: Example of sensor node for industrial application

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Each transmitting nodes consist of one ATMEGA 8

microcontroller with Zigbee wireless module and various
sensors such as temperature sensor, Gas sensor, smoke
detector sensor and LDR sensor.

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- They design mesh network for 10 node with average

packet delivery ratio is 95.58%.
- They implement different various module and compare
the results of two different module.

2.4 FORMATION OF MESH NETWORK

In our proposed system, we use total four nodes including
master node for various applications. Each sensor node of
the system having identification number assigned to it. And
each nodes has corresponding timeslot in every TDMA
cycle, to avoid the different sensor nodes try to transmit the
data at same timeslot. When the formation of mesh network,
use master node as Sink node and other node act as sensor
node. Master node assigned the unique identificatiob
number as ID 0 functioned as Sink. And the other nodes
which identificatib number is not zero are sensor nodes
which sense the data and transfer to sink node.

2) Ashenafi Lambebo, Sasan Haghani, Department of

Electrical and computer Engineering, University of District
of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave N.W., Building 42.[2]
Wshingtion DC, 20008[2]
A WSN for Envirnmental Monitoring of Greenhouse
Gases
- In this paper, they implement WSN for real time and
continuous environmental monitoring of greenhouse gases
[2].
- They used tree topology as well as WSN network
consisting two sensor nodes and one base station [2].

Figure-6: TDMA structure for different slot

3. LITERATURE SURVEY
1) Hsiao-Hsien Lin1, Hsi-Yuan Tsai1, TengChieh Chan1,
Yen-Shuo Huang1, Yuan Sun Chu1, Yu Chieh Chen2
An Open-Source Wireless Mesh Networking Module for
Environmental Monitoring[1] 978-1-4799-6144-6/15/2015
IEEE
- In this paper, They design such model in which integrates
the various functions such as type of network, data routing
and scheduled of transmission data..

Fig-8: Output result of Gas sensors

-They tested using open source and inexpensive hardware to
measure the concentration level of several greenhouse
gases[2].
3) B.P. Ladgaokar and A.M. Pawar, IJAET[5], July 2011,
ISSN: 2231-1963
Design and implementation of sensor node for wireless
sensors network to monitor humidity of high tech polyhouse
environment.[5]
- In this paper they monitor the environmental parameters of
high tech polyhouse the wireless sensor network are
developed[5].
- Based on embedded technology and RF module Zigbee
wireless sensor node is designed about highly promising
AVR ATMEGA 8L microcontroller and implemented for
WSN development[5].
4) Akshay D. Deshmukh, Dr. Ulhas B. Shinde, Krishna M.
Biradar, IJIERT,ICITDCEME15. Conference proceedings
ISSN No. 2394-3696

Fig-7: Two version of WSN proposed based on WMN

module

A review: Environmental monitoring applications using

wireless sensor technology.

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- In this paper WSN system is proposed with open source

hardware and software platform.
- For this purpose they used Raspberry Pi microcomputer
which act as base station, Zigbee and graphical user
interface for application.
5) Stefan Bouckaert, Eli De Poorter, Pieter De Mil, Ingrid
Moerman, Piet Demeester
Interconnecting Wireless Sensor and Wireless Mesh
Networks: Challenges and Strategies
IEEE "GLOBECOM"2009.
- In this paper, they shown that how WSN network can be
combined with wireless mesh networks to obtain optimized
solution.
- The wireless mesh network can be used to connect
separate sensor networks, to connect various WSN sensor
nodes with a monoting platfoem.

4. CONCLUSION
There are so many papers on environmental monitoring
using wireless sensor network. But in this paper we used
more than one application for monitoring. We make mesh
module in that different wireless sensors are combinly used
to transmit the data to main node at every time without fail.
We not only monitored the different fields but also control
them if they cross the threshold level of particular sensor.
For that purpose we provide a relay and buzzer, which
indicates threshold level crossed and we provide relay in
each system to control the application. If any of the node is
fail in mesh topology then their data is stored as backup to
its neighboring node.
So according to this we can monitor environmental
application as well as control the appliances that are
connected as sensor.

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6. BIOGRAPHIES
Miss. Mamta Nakhate, B.E. in Electronics
Engineering(2009),Nagpur. Student of
M.Tech 4th Semester (Electronics Engg.),
Wainganga College Of Engineering &
Management. Nagpur.
Mail id:- [email protected]
Prof. Abhay Satmohankar, M.Tech in
Communication Electronics(2013), Nagpur
B.E. in Electronics and communication
(2008), Nagpur Faculty of Electronics and
Telecommunication
department,
Wainganga College of Engineering and
Management, Nagpur.
Mail id :- [email protected]

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