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Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino

Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino

By : Matthijs Kooijman
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Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino

Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino

4.2 (11)
By: Matthijs Kooijman

Overview of this book

Arduino has been established as the de facto standard microcontroller programming platform, being used for one-off do-it-yourself projects as well as prototypes for actual products. By providing a myriad of libraries, the Arduino community has made it very easy to interact with pretty much any piece of hardware out there. XBee offers a great range of low-power wireless solutions that are easy to work with, by taking all of the complexity of wireless (mesh) networking out of your hands and letting you focus on what to send without worrying about the how. Building wireless sensor networks is cost-effective as well as efficient as it will be done with Arduino support. The book starts with a brief introduction to various wireless protocols, concepts, and the XBee hardware that enables their use. Then the book expands to explain the Arduino boards to you, letting them read and send sensor data, collect that data centrally, and then even control your home from the Internet. Moving further more advanced topics such as interacting through the standard Zigbee Home Automation protocol, or making your application power-efficient are covered. By the end of the book, you will have all the tools needed to build complete, real-world solutions.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Chapter 1. A World without Wires

In this chapter, you are going to set up some XBee modules and send your first couple of bytes wirelessly. You will see how to wire up an XBee module, how to flash and configure it using the XCTU program, and how to manually transmit data. You will also learn about ZigBee networks, addressing, and network formation.

To follow the examples, the following components are recommended:

Together, they will look like this:

A World without Wires

Note that the XBee ZB modules mentioned will likely be replaced by a newer version soon (ordering code XB24CZ7xIT-xxx). One of the modules shown in the preceding photograph is the new S2C module, the other is the older S2 module.

The first two chapters include instructions on using other types of hardware too, so if the preceding hardware items are not easy to obtain, or you want to use different hardware for another reason (because you need features offered by other XBee modules, or you want to save a bit of money by using a second shield instead of the SparkFun Explorer board), read these two chapters first before you decide what to order.

If you run into problems at any time during this chapter, you could refer to Chapter 2, Collecting Sensor Data, which contains more details on how to connect XBee modules and has a troubleshooting section.

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