TITLE:
An Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network Temperature Acquisition System with an FPGA
AUTHORS:
Rachid Souissi, Mohsen Ben-Ammar
KEYWORDS:
Wireless Sensor Network; ZigBee; System-on-Chip CC2430; FPGA DE2-70
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.6 No.1,
January
10,
2014
ABSTRACT: The use of FPGAs in the design of
wireless sensor networks can improve the processing system performance so as to
develop sensor nodes with powerful embedded processor. In fact, FPGA has a
super-parallel processing capacity in data processing and its use and
configuration is flexible. This allows intensive digital signal processing
tasks like Fast Fourier Transforms to be implemented on the sensor node and
this can even support intelligent applications and new security algorithms.
This paper presents a wireless sensor network system that monitors and
visualizes periodically the environment temperature. The proposed system
consists of a base station node based on an FPGA DE2-70 and five sensor nodes
having the architecture of the System-on-Chip CC2430.