Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications
Recent standardization efforts on low-power wireless communication technologies, including time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) and DASH7 Alliance Mode (D7AM), are starting to change industrial sensing applications, enabling networks to scale up to thousands of nodes whilst achieving high reliability...
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| author | Xavier Vilajosana Pere Tuset-Peiro Francisco Vazquez-Gallego Jesus Alonso-Zarate Luis Alonso |
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| description | Recent standardization efforts on low-power wireless communication technologies, including time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) and DASH7 Alliance Mode (D7AM), are starting to change industrial sensing applications, enabling networks to scale up to thousands of nodes whilst achieving high reliability. Past technologies, such as ZigBee, rooted in IEEE 802.15.4, and ISO 18000-7, rooted in frame-slotted ALOHA (FSA), are based on contention medium access control (MAC) layers and have very poor performance in dense networks, thus preventing the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm from really taking off. Industrial sensing applications, such as those being deployed in oil refineries, have stringent requirements on data reliability and are being built using new standards. Despite the benefits of these new technologies, industrial shifts are not happening due to the enormous technology development and adoption costs and the fact that new standards are not well-known and completely understood. In this article, we provide a deep analysis of TSCH and D7AM, outlining operational and implementation details with the aim of facilitating the adoption of these technologies to sensor application developers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47184ec44cc64a0c9a324b8fab9649132022-12-22T04:25:18ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202014-02-011422663268210.3390/s140202663s140202663Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing ApplicationsXavier Vilajosana0Pere Tuset-Peiro1Francisco Vazquez-Gallego2Jesus Alonso-Zarate3Luis Alonso4Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) C/Roc Boronat 117, Barcelona 08018, SpainInternet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) C/Roc Boronat 117, Barcelona 08018, SpainDepartment, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, Castelldefels 08860, SpainDepartment, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, Castelldefels 08860, SpainSignal Theory and Communications Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Av. Esteve Terradas 7, C4-204, Castelldefels 08860, SpainRecent standardization efforts on low-power wireless communication technologies, including time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) and DASH7 Alliance Mode (D7AM), are starting to change industrial sensing applications, enabling networks to scale up to thousands of nodes whilst achieving high reliability. Past technologies, such as ZigBee, rooted in IEEE 802.15.4, and ISO 18000-7, rooted in frame-slotted ALOHA (FSA), are based on contention medium access control (MAC) layers and have very poor performance in dense networks, thus preventing the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm from really taking off. Industrial sensing applications, such as those being deployed in oil refineries, have stringent requirements on data reliability and are being built using new standards. Despite the benefits of these new technologies, industrial shifts are not happening due to the enormous technology development and adoption costs and the fact that new standards are not well-known and completely understood. In this article, we provide a deep analysis of TSCH and D7AM, outlining operational and implementation details with the aim of facilitating the adoption of these technologies to sensor application developers.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/2/2663low-power wirelesswireless sensor networksradio frequency identificationmedium access controltime-slotted channel hoppingDASH7 alliance mode |
| spellingShingle | Xavier Vilajosana Pere Tuset-Peiro Francisco Vazquez-Gallego Jesus Alonso-Zarate Luis Alonso Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications Sensors low-power wireless wireless sensor networks radio frequency identification medium access control time-slotted channel hopping DASH7 alliance mode |
| title | Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications |
| title_full | Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications |
| title_fullStr | Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications |
| title_short | Standardized Low-Power Wireless Communication Technologies for Distributed Sensing Applications |
| title_sort | standardized low power wireless communication technologies for distributed sensing applications |
| topic | low-power wireless wireless sensor networks radio frequency identification medium access control time-slotted channel hopping DASH7 alliance mode |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/2/2663 |
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