Paper Info
Title
Smartphone with Augmented Gateway Functionality as Opportunistic WSN Gateway Device
Abstract
Sensors and actuators are being increasingly deployed for monitoring and controlling different phenomena and processes in a stand-alone manner or attached to sensor nodes with communication capabilities as part of larger wireless sensor networks (WSN). In addition to the protocols for communication within the WSN, sensor nodes may also provide the gateway functionality towards other networks and/or support communication with other external devices. These devices either represent additional gateways for exposing data and metadata to external networks, or serve as connection points to WSN for instance for the on-site calibration and maintenance. Smartphones as advanced mobile terminals appear particularly suitable for such role. This paper investigates the role a smartphone augmented with WSN gateway functionality can play in WSN with respect to regular dedicated sensor and gateway nodes. As a practical example we show the implementation of a gateway augmented smartphone using a Samsung i8910 phone and a VESNA sensor node connected via Bluetooth. The role of a gateway augmented smartphone is to interface between WSN, which is using a proprietary networking protocol, and the mobile network. The data obtained from WSN can be enriched using smartphone's embedded sensors before being sent to the remote server. We demonstrate this on an example of geo-tagging the collected data from WSN with the smartphone's Global Positioning System-based location data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11277-014-1908-7
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
Opportunistic,Participatory,Gateway,Wireless sensor networks,Metadata,Adaptation layer,Testbed
Sensor node,H.248,Computer science,Computer network,Testbed,Default gateway,Cellular network,Residential gateway,Wireless sensor network,Bluetooth,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
3
0929-6212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marko Pesko1282.76
Miha Smolnikar2305.05
Matevz Vucnik3102.41
Tomaz Javornik4579.30
Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic510221.55
Mihael Mohorcic623528.66