SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai -400058

TITLE: Fire Monitoring System using ZigBee protocol with Temporal Control for Power Conservation in Wireless Sensor Network.

Student Names : Soham Chokshi, Mukund Khetan, Rishabh Shah, Gauri Walinjkar (Group 16) Course : B.E Electronics and Telecommunication

Project Guide : Dr. Y.S. Rao

SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Munshi Nagar, Andheri ( West ), Mumbai 400058

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that Soham Chokshi, Mukund Khetan, Rishabh Shah and Gauri Walinjkar ( Group No : 16) of B.E. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering has successfully completed the report on Fire Monitoring System using ZigBee protocol with Temporal Control for power conservation in Wireless Sensor Network under the guidance of Dr. Y.S. Rao as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Project Stage-1 in semester VII in the academic year 2011-2012 as per the curriculum laid down by the University of Mumbai.

Certified by

Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Sardar Patel Institute of Technology

Acknowledgements
We are thankful to the people who helped and supported us while writing this report. Our deepest thanks to our project advisor Dr.Y.S.Rao for his valuable guidance this semester. We would also like to thank Sardar Patel Institute of Technology and my colleagues for their valuable input and co-operation.

Contents
1. Abstract 2. Wireless Sensor Networks 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 Deployement Cost, Size, Resources and Energy Quality of Service Communication

2.2 Sensor Network Protocol Stack 2.2.1 Power, Mobility and Task Management Planes 2.2.2 Application Layer 2.2.3 Transport Layer 2.2.4 Network Layer 2.2.5 Data-link Layer 2.2.6 Physical Layer 3. FPGA 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Architecture 3.3 FPGA Design and Programming 3.4 Application 3.5 Implementation 3.5.1 Bit to Symbol Mapping 3.5.2 O-QPSK Modulation 3.5.3 Frequency Modulation 4. MAC Protocols

4.1 Requirements for Wireless Network MAC Protocols 4.2 Major Sources of Energy Wastage 4.3 Performance Matrices 4.4 Classification of MAC Protocols

5. Comparative Study of MAC Protocols 5.1 Bluetooth over IEEE 802.15.1 5.2 UWB over IEEE 802.15.3 5.3 Wi-Fi over IEEE 802.11a/b/g 5.4 ZigBee over IEEE 802.15.4

6. Implementation In Fire Monitoring System 6.1 Architecture 6.2 Hardware

7. Temporal Control 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Temporal Control ZigBee Network Simulation 7.3 Algorithm 8. FUTURE RESEARCH 9. CONCLUSION 10. REFERENCES

1. Abstract:
In this project, a group of kind of low power, multi-parameter composite fire detection nodes are designed, which can detect temperature, smoke concentration and CO gas concentration. And combining with the WSN (wireless sensor network), a real-time wireless fire monitoring system is established. The hardware and software implementation is based on 2.4GHz wireless communication chip CC2430. ZigBee protocol is adopted in the system to form reliable wireless communication. In the fire monitoring system many low-cost and low power micro-sensor nodes are deployed in the monitoring region to detect the fire parameters of the region. To form a ZigBee network, there needs three kinds of nodes: detection node, router and coordinator. The sensor nodes are configured as detection nodes in the ZigBee network to achieve a real-time data collection of fire parameter signals which include CO gas concentration, smoke concentration and temperature. The coordinator is responsible for PAN (personal area network) formation and collecting data from all detection nodes. Routers are responsible for data storage and delivery, router discovery, the connection with the devices, routing table maintenance, data forwarding, and the network link maintenance. The coordinator as a base station is connected to the computer through the RS232 interface. This system applies the ZigBee clutter-tree net topology and uses CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance Protocol) principle, so the transmission module has strong points of better information hiding, anti-interference, self-healing and big coverage. Sensor nodes operate at really low duty cycles with low latency. If the network nodes wake up, perform their tasks and then revert back to sleep state, this would be very beneficial in terms of extending network lifetime. Implementing this concept in ZigBee will require 2 major changes. Firstly, the DSSS nature of ZigBees underlying 802.15.4 cannot support a means for one node to wake its neighbors, so we must have an approach by which the nodes are scheduled to wake up at the appropriate time. Secondly, the ZigBee network does not support any type of suspended state for router nodes so we literally loose the mesh network when we sleep. Thus after waking, the ZigBee network must reestablish itself including the network routing tables. Compared to prior work on sleeping networks,

this may seem expensive, but the experiment results on this Temporal Control model, including rebuilding network, show it has lower power consumption than Standard ZigBee.

2. Wireless Sensor Networks

Today it is possible to build very small hardware devices with wireless communication for monitoring and measuring miscellaneous values of the environment. There are a lot of application areas. One is monitoring buildings and their surrounding terrain. A common solution is to install wired sensors. Wired solutions have a continuous energy supply, but it is very expensive to lay or replace cables for them. Therefore a wireless solution with a battery which can be completely exchanged periodically is more eligible, but only if the exchange period is not too small. Another utilization for wireless sensors is medical observation. Patients, who have for example a pacemaker or comparable medical devices, want to move as free as possible, but the medical devices have to exchange information about their health status. A small wireless sensor can realize this task. It could send an emergency signal in case and with a long battery lifetime it needs less servicing. That seems more useful than a large or even wired device. Other applications can report position or traffic flow information. This may be helpful for congestion prevention and warning of accidents. In agriculture sensor nodes could monitor the growth of field crops on large areas. They could check if the ground is humid and can even report statistics about the fall of rain.There are a lot of possible applications for the general concept of wireless sensor nodes, but they are limited by the technical specifications.

2.1 Wireless Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network is a collection of tiny sensor nodes organized into a cooperative network. These nodes are deployed either inside the phenomenon to be sensed or very close to it. Sensor nodes are battery operated and each node consists of processing capability (one or more microcontrollers, CPUs or DSP chips), may contain multiple types of memory (program, data and flash memories), have a RF transceiver (usually with a single omni-directional antenna), have a power source (e.g., batteries and

solar cells), and accommodate various sensors and actuators. The nodes communicate wirelessly and often self-organize after being deployed in an ad hoc fashion. In the recent past, wireless sensor networks(WSN) have found their way into a wide variety of applications and systems with vastly varying requirements and characteristics such as environmental observations, military monitoring, building monitoring, health care, etc.

2.1.1 Deployment
Sensor nodes may be deployed in a physical environment at random or installed at deliberately chosen spots. Deployment may be a one-time activity or it may also be a continuous process, with more nodes being deployed at any time during the use of the network - for eg, to replace failed nodes or to improve coverage. Sensor nodes may change their location after initial deployment due to enviromnental influences such as wind or water, sensor nodes may be attached to or carried by mobile entities, and sensor nodes may possess automotive capabilities. The network size may vary from a few nodes to thousands of sensor nodes or even more depending upon required network connectivity and coverage, and by the size of the area of interest. The network size determines the scalability requirements with regard to protocols and algorithms.

2.1.2 Cost, Size, Resources and Energy

Depending on the actual needs of the application, the form factor of a single sensor node may vary significantly in size. Similarly, the cost of a single device may vary from hundreds of dollars (for networks of very few, but powerful nodes) to a few cents (for large-scale networks made up of very simple nodes). Varying size and cost constraints directly result in corresponding varying limits on the energy available (i.e., size, cost, and energy density of batteries or devices for energy scavenging), as well as on computing, storage, and communication resources. Hence, the energy and other resources available on a sensor node may also vary greatly from system to system. Power may be either stored (e.g., in batteries) or scavenged from the enviromnent (e.g., by solar cells).

Depending on the application, the required lifetime of a sensor network may range from some hours to several years. The necessary lifetime has a high impact on the required degree of energy efficiency and robustness of the nodes.

21.1.

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Depending on the application, a sensor network must support certain quality-of-service aspects such as : Real-time constraints (e.g., a physical event must be reported within a certain period of time) Robustness (i.e., the network should remain operational even if certain well-defined failures occur) Tamper-resistance (i.e., the network should remain operational even when subject to deliberate attacks) Eavesdropping-resistance (i.e., external entities cannot eavesdrop on data traffic) Stealth (i.e., the presence of the network must be hard to detect)

2.1.4 Communication
For wireless communication among sensor nodes, a number of communication modalities can be used such as radio, diffuse light, laser inductive and capacitive coupling or even sound. The most common modality is radio waves, since these do not require a free line of sight and communication over medium ranges can be implemented with relatively low power consumption and relatively low power consumption and relatively small antennas (a few centimeters in the common sub-Ghz frequency bands). Sometimes, multiple

modalities are used by a single sensor network system. The communication modality used influences the design of medium access protocols and communication protocols, but also affects other properties that are relevant to the application

2.2 Sensor Network Protocol Stack

The protocol stack combines power and routing awareness, integrates data with networking protocols, communicates power efficiently through the wireless medium, and promotes cooperative efforts of sensor nodes.

2.2.1 Power, Mobility and Task Management Planes

These planes help the sensor nodes coordinate the sensing task and lower overall power consumption. The power management plane manages how a sensor node uses its power. The mobility plane detects and registers the movement of sensor nodes, so a route back to the user is always maintained, the sensor nodes can keep track of who their neighbour sensor nodes are, and the sensor nodes can balance their power and task usage. The task management plane balances and schedules the sensing tasks given to a specific region.

2.2.2 Application Layer

Different application softwares can be can be built and used on the application layer based on the sensing tasks. Three application layer protocols for sensor networks are sensor management protocol (SMP), task assignment and data advertisement protocol (T ADAP), and sensor query and data dissemination protocol (SQDDP).

2.2.3 Transport Layer

The transport layer helps to maintain the flow of data if the sensor network application requires it. The transport layer is required when a system is planned to be accesses through the Internet or other external networks.

2.2.4 Network Layer

The network layer takes care of routing the data supplied by the transport layer. It is usually designed based on power efficiency, sensor networks are mostly data- centric, and data aggregation is useful only when it does not hinder the collaborative effort of the sensor nodes.

2.2.5 Data Link Layer

The data link layer is responsible for multiplexing data streams, data frame detection, medium access, and error control. It ensures reliable point-to-point and point-tomultipoint connections in a communication network. The MAC protocol in a wireless multi-hop self-organizing sensor network has two goals. Firstly, to create the network infrastructure i.e. establish communication links for data transfer. Secondly, it must fairly and efficiently share communication resources between sensor nodes. It must have built-in power saving mechanisms and strategies for proper management of node mobility or failure.

2.2.6 Physical Layer

The physical layer is used for providing simple and robust modulation, transmission, and receiving techniques. It is responsible for frequency selection, carrier frequency generation, signal detection, modulation and data encryption.

3. FPGA
3.1 INTRODUCTION
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturinghence "field-

programmable". The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL), similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). FPGAs can be used to implement any logical function that an ASIC could perform. The ability to update the functionality after shipping, partial re-configuration of the portion of the design and the low non-recurring engineering costs relative to an ASIC design (notwithstanding the generally higher unit cost), offer advantages for many applications. FPGAs contain programmable logic components called "logic blocks", and a hierarchy of reconfigurable interconnects that allow the blocks to be "wired together". Logic blocks can be configured to perform complex combinational functions, or merely simple logic gates like AND and XOR. In most FPGAs, the logic blocks also include memory elements, which may be simple flip-flops or more complete blocks of memory.

3.2 ARCHITECTURE
The most common FPGA architecture[34] consists of an array of logic blocks (called Configurable Logic Block, CLB, or Logic Array Block, LAB), I/O pads, and routing channels. Generally, all the routing channels have the same width (number of wires). Multiple I/O pads may fit into the height of one row or the width of one column in the array. An application circuit must be mapped into an FPGA with adequate resources. While the number of CLBs/LABs and I/Os required is easily determined from the design, the number of routing tracks needed may vary considerably even among designs with the same amount of logic. Since unused routing tracks increase the cost (and decrease the performance) of the part without providing any benefit, FPGA manufacturers try to provide just enough tracks so that most designs that will fit in terms of LUTs and IOs can be routed..

In general, a logic block (CLB or LAB) consists of a few logical cells (called ALM, LE, Slice etc.). A typical cell consists of a 4-input Lookup table (LUT), a Full adder (FA) and a D-type flip-flop, as shown below. The LUTs are in this figure split into two 3-input LUTs. In normal mode those are combined into a 4-input LUT through the left mux. In arithmetic mode, their outputs are fed to the FA. The selection of mode is programmed into the middle multiplexer. The output can be either synchronous or asynchronous, depending on the programming of the mux to the right, in the figure example. In practice, entire or parts of the FA are put as functions into the LUTs in order to save space

3.3 FPGA DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING

To define the behavior of the FPGA, the user provides a hardware description language (HDL) or a schematic design. The HDL form is more suited to work with large structures because it's possible to just specify them numerically rather than having to draw every piece by hand. However, schematic entry can allow for easier visualisation of a design. Then, using an electronic design automation tool, a technology-mapped netlist is generated. The netlist can then be fitted to the actual FPGA architecture using a process called place-and-route, usually performed by the FPGA company's proprietary place-androute software. The user will validate the map, place and route results via timing analysis, simulation, and other verification methodologies. Once the design and validation process is complete, the binary file generated (also using the FPGA company's proprietary

software) is used to (re)configure the FPGA. This file is transferred to the FPGA/CPLD via a serial interface (JTAG) or to an external memory device like an EEPROM.

3.4 APPLICATION
Applications of FPGAs include digital signal processing, software-defined imaging, computer hardware

Radio, aerospace and defense systems, ASIC prototyping, medical vision,speech

recognition, cryptography, bioinformatics, computer

emulation, radio astronomy, metal detection and a growing range of other areas. FPGAs originally began as competitors to CPLDs and competed in a similar space, that of glue logic for PCBs. As their size, capabilities, and speed increased, they began to take over larger and larger functions to the state where some are now marketed as full systems on chips (SoC). FPGAs are increasingly used in conventional high performance computing applications where computational kernels (Fast Fourier transform, convolution etc) are performed on the FPGA instead of a microprocessor. FPGA implementation of these kernels offer order of magnitude performance improvements over microprocessors. Other benefits are in terms of power used: an FPGA implementation of FFT or convolution is expected to consume lesser power than a microprocessor. Low-power usage is due to the lower clock rate and literally no wasted cycles for instruction fetch/decode in FPGAs. The inherent parallelism of the logic resources on an FPGA allows for considerable computational throughput even at a low MHz clock rates. The flexibility of the FPGA allows for even higher performance by trading off precision and range in the number format for an increased number of parallel arithmetic units. For example, a floating point adder takes too many FPGA resources (LUTs and Flip-Flops) as compared to a fixed point adder. However latest Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs may have as much as 2048 DSP blocks, allowing hundreds of floating point adders/multipliers.

3.5 IMPLEMENTATION
IEEE 802.15.4 works mainly on 3 different 2.4GHz, 915 MHz and 868 MHz as mentioned in Fig. 6. Out of three different modulations functions, the proposed design is implemented with 2.4GHz design.

Fig 1: IEEE 802.15.4 modulation functions as per frequencies

3.5.1 Bit to Symbol Mapping

The 4 LSBs (b0, b1, b2, b3) of each octet shall map into one data symbol, and the 4 MSBs (b4, b5, b6, b7) of each octet shall map into the next data symbol. Each octet of the PPDU is processed through the modulation and spreading functions (see Fig. 6) sequentially, beginning with the Preamble field and ending with the last octet of the PSDU.

3.5.2 O-QPSK Modulation

The chip sequences representing each data symbol are modulated onto the carrier using OQPSK with half sine pulse shaping. Even-indexed chips are modulated onto the in-phase (I) carrier and odd-indexed chips are modulated onto the quadrature-phase (Q) carrier. Because each data symbol is represented by a 32-chip sequence, the chip rate (nominally 2.0 Mchip/s) is 32 times the symbol rate. To form the offset between I-phase and Q-phase chip modulation, the Q-phase chips shall be delayed by Tc with respect to the I-phase chips (see Fig 7), where Tc is the inverse of the chip rate.

Fig 7: Offset QPSK chip offsets

3.5.3 Frequency Modulation

Fig 8 represents the simplified IEEE 802.15.4 transmitter section. The design depicted in this section was carried out utilizing the SINE WAVE GENERATOR to generate the SINE and COSINE waveforms. The SWG is used to generate a 16-bit SINE and COSINE values. The generated values are then added with the modulated data generated out of the In-Phase and Quadrature Phase respectively. The out signal, thus generated, is then transmitted.

Fig 8: IEEE 802.15.4 Transmitter Section

Fig 9: IEEE 802.15.4 Receiver Section

The receiver section, illustrated in Fig 9, then de-serializes the output signal and is passed onto the SINE WAVE generator where the SINE and COSINE values are subtracted. Once the original signal is obtained after the SINE and COSINE removal, the data is demodulated from other blocks from which the original frame structure is received. From the data structure the data is extracted after the comparison of frame control signal.

4. MAC Protocols
A medium access control (MAC) protocol coordinates actions over a shared channel. The most commonly used solutions are contention-based. One general contention-based strategy is for a node which has a message to transmit to test the channel to see if it is busy, if not busy then it transmits, else if busy it waits and tries again later. After colliding, nodes wait random amounts of time trying to avoid re-colliding. If two or more nodes transmit at the same time there is a collision' and all the nodes colliding try again later. Many wireless MAC protocols also have a doze mode where nodes not involved with sending or receiving a packet in a given timeframe go into sleep mode to save energy. Many variations exist on this basic scheme. In general, most MAC protocols optimize for the general case and for arbitrary communication patterns and workloads. However, a wireless sensor network has more focused requirements that include a local uni-or broad-cast, traffic is generally from nodes to one or a few sinks (most traffic is then in one direction), have periodic or rare communication and must consider energy consumption as a major factor. An effective MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks must consume little power, avoid collisions, be implemented with a small code size and memory requirements, be efficient for a single application, and be tolerant to changing radio frequency and networking conditions. Many MAC protocols use a request to send (RTS) and clear to send (CTS) style of interaction. This works well for ad hoc mesh networks where packet sizes are large (1 OOOs of bytes). However, the overhead of RTS-CTS packets to set up a packet transmission is not acceptable in wireless sensor networks where packet sizes are of the order of 50 bytes. Recently, there has been new work on supporting multi-channel wireless sensor networks. In these systems it is necessary to extend MAC protocols to multi-channel MACs. Consequently, multi-frequency MAC protocols consist of two phases: channel assignment and access control. The advantages of multi-channel MAC protocols include providing greater packet throughput and being able to transmit even in the presence of a crowded spectrum, perhaps arising from competing networks or commercial devices such as phones or microwave ovens.

4.1 Requirements for Wireless Network MAC Protocols

The medium access control protocols for the wireless sensor network have to achieve two objectives. The first objective is the creation of the sensor network infrastructure. A large number of sensor nodes are deployed and the MAC scheme must establish the communication link between the sensor nodes. The second objective is to share the communication medium fairly and efficiently. To design a good MAC protocol for the wireless sensor networks, the following attributes are to be considered: Energy Efficiency: The sensor nodes are battery powered and it is often very difficult to change or recharge batteries for these sensor nodes. Sometimes it is beneficial to replace the sensor node rather than recharging them. Hence nodes should consume energy efficiently so that batteries can last for long before having to replace the node. Latency: Latency requirement basically depends on the application. In the sensor network applications, the detected events must be reported to the sink node in real time so that appropriate action could be taken immediately. Throughput: Throughput requirement also varies with different applications. Some of the sensor network applications, the detected events must be reported to the sink node in real time so that the appropriate action could be taken immediately.

Fairness: In many sensor network applications when bandwidth is limited, it is necessary to ensure that the sink node receives information from all sensor nodes fairly.

However among all of the above aspects the energy efficiency and throughput are the major aspects. Energy efficiency can be increased by minimizing the energy wastage.

4.2 Major Sources of Energy Wastage

There are four major sources of energy waste in wireless sensor network: Collision: When a transmitted packet is corrupted due to interference, it has to be discarde and the follow on retransmissions increase energy consumption. Collision increases latency also. Overhearing : This means that a node picks up packets that are destined to other nodes. Packet Overhead: Sending and receiving control packets consumes energy too and less useful data packets can be transmitted. Idle Listening: This means listening to receive possible traffic that is not sent. This is especially true in many sensor network applications. If nothing is sensed, the sensor node will be in idle state for most of the time.

The main goal of any MAC protocol for sensor network is to minimize the energy wastage due to idle listening, overhearing and collision.

4.3 Performance Matrices

To evaluate and compare the performance of energy conscious MAC protocols, the following matrices are being used by the research community. Energy Consumption per bit: The energy efficiency of the sensor nodes can be defined as the total energy consumed / total bits transmitted. The unit of energy efficiency is joules/bit. The

lesser the number , the better is the efficiency of a protocl in tranmsitting the information in the network. This performance matrices get affected by all the major sources of energy waste in wireless sesnor network as explained above. Average Delivery Ratio: The average packet delivery ratio is the number of packets received to the number of packets sent averaged over all the nodes. Average Packet Latency: The average packet latency is the average packet latency is the average time taken by the packets to reach to the sink node. Network Throughput: The network throughput is defined as the total number of packets delivered at the sink node per time unit.

4.4 Classification of MAC Protocols

The MAC protocols for the wireless sensor networks can be classified broadly into two categories as follows: Contention based : Contention occurs when two nearby sensor nodes attempt to access the communication channel at the same time. Contention causes message collisions, which are very likely to occur when traffic is frequent and correlated, and they decrease the lifetime of a sensor network . A MAC protocol is contention-free if it does not allow any collisions. The contention based protocols can relax time synchronization requirements and can easily adjust to the topology changes as some new modes may join and others may die few years after deployment. These protocols are based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access(CSMA) technique and have higher costs for message collisions, overhearing and idle listening. Schedule based: The schedule based protocol can avoid collisions, overhearing and idle listening by scheduling transmit and listen periods but have strict time synchronization requirements.

5. COMPARITIVE STUDY OF WIRELESS PROTOCOLS

5.1 Bluetooth over IEEE 802.15.1
Bluetooth, also known as the IEEE 802.15.1 standard is based on a wireless radio system designed for short-range and cheap devices to replace cables for computer peripherals, such as mice, keyboards, joysticks, and printers. This range of applications is known as wireless personal area network (WPAN). Two connectivity topologies are defined in Bluetooth: the piconet and scatternet. A piconet is a WPAN formed by a Bluetooth device serving as a master in the piconet and one or more Bluetooth devices serving as slaves. A frequencyhopping channel based on the address of the master defines each piconet. All devices participating in communications in a given piconet are synchronized using the clock of the master. Slaves communicate only with their master in a point-to-point fashion under the control of the master. The masters transmissions may be either point-to-point or pointtomulti point. Also, besides in an active mode, a slave device can be in the parked or standby modes so as to reduce power consumptions. A scatternet is a collection of operational Bluetooth piconets overlapping in time and space. Two piconets can be connected to form a scatternet. A Bluetooth device may participate in several piconets at the same time,thus allowing for the possibility that information could flow beyond the coverage area of the single piconet. A device in a scatternet could be a slave in several piconets, but master in only one of them.

5.2 UWB over IEEE 802.15.3

UWB has recently attracted much attention as an indoor short-range high-speed wireless communication. One of the most exciting characteristics of UWB is that its bandwidth is over 110 Mbps (up to 480 Mbps) which can satisfy most of the multimedia applications such as audio and video delivery in home networking and it can also act as a wireless cable replacement of high speed serial bus such as USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394. Following the United States and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) frequency allocation for UWB in February 2002, the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC TG3) is

progressing in the elaboration of a regulation for the UWB technology in Europe. From an implementation point of view, several solutions have been developed in order to use the UWB technology in compliance with the FCCs regulatory requirements. Among the existing PHY solutions, in IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3a (TG3a), multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MB-OFDM), a carrier-based system dividing UWB bandwidth to sub-bands and direct-sequence UWB (DS-UWB), an impulse-based system that multiplies an input bit with the spreading code and transmits the data by modulating the element of the symbol with a short pulse have been proposed by the Wi-Media Alliance and the UWB Forum, respectively. The TG3a was established in January 2003 to define an alternative PHY layer of 802.15.3. However, after three years of a jammed process in IEEE 802.15.3a, supporters of both proposals, MB-OFDM and DS-UWB, supported the shutdown of the IEEE 802.15.3a task group without conclusion in January 2006. On the other hand, IEEE 802.15.3b, the amendment to the 802.15.3 MAC sub-layer has been approved and released in March 2006.

5.3

Wi-Fi over IEEE 802.11a/b/g

Wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) includes IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN). It allows users to surf the Internet at broadband speeds when connected to an access point (AP) or in ad hoc mode. The IEEE 802.11 architecture consists of several components that interact to provide a wireless LAN that supports station mobility transparently to upper layers. The basic cell of an IEEE 802.11 LAN is called a basic service set (BSS), which is a set of mobile or fixed stations. If a station moves out of its BSS, it can no longer directly communicate with other members of the BSS. Based on the BSS, IEEE 802.11 employs the independent basic service set (IBSS) and extended service set (ESS) network configurations. As shown in Fig. 1, the IBSS operation is possible when IEEE 802.11 stations are able to communicate directly without any AP. Because this type of IEEE 802.11 LAN is often formed without pre-planning, for only as long as the LAN is needed, this type of operation is often referred to as an ad hoc network. Instead of existing independently, a BSS may also form a component of an extended form of network that is built with multiple BSSs. The architectural component used to interconnect BSSs is the distribution system (DS). The DS with APs allow IEEE 802.11 to create an ESS network of

arbitrary size and complexity. This type of operation is often referred to as an infrastructure network

5.4 ZigBee over IEEE 802.15.4

ZigBee over IEEE 802.15.4, defines specifications for low rate WPAN (LR-WPAN) for supporting simple devices that consume minimal power and typically operate in the personal operating space (POS) of 10m. ZigBee provides self-organized, multi-hop, and reliable mesh networking with long battery lifetime [8-9]. Two different device types can participate in an LR-WPAN network: a full-function device (FFD) and a reduced-function device (RFD). The FFD can operate in three modes serving as a PAN coordinator, a coordinator, or a device. An FFD can talk to RFDs or other FFDs, while an RF can talk only to an FFD. An RFD is intended for applications that are extremely simple, such as a light switch or a passive infrared sensor. They do not have the need to send large amounts of data and may only associate with a single FFD at a time. Consequently, the RFD can be implemented using minimal resources and memory capacity. After an FFD is activated for the first time, it may establish its own network and become the PAN coordinator. All star networks operate independently from all other star networks currently in operation. This is achieved by choosing a PAN identifier, which is not currently used by any other network within the radio sphere of influence. Once the PAN identifier is chosen the PAN coordinator can allow other devices to join its network. An RFD may connect to a cluster tree network as a leave node at the end of a branch, because it may only associate with one FFD at a time. Any of the FFDs may act as a coordinator and provide synchronization services to other devices or other coordinators. Only one of these coordinators can be the overall PAN coordinator, which may have greater computational resources than any other device in the PAN.

5.5 Following table summarizes the main difference between the 4 protocols

Standard IEEE Spectrum Frequency Band Max Signal Rate Nominal TX Power Channel Bandwidth Max no of cell nodes Extension of Basic cell Data Protection

Bluetooth 802.15.1 2.4Ghz 1 Mbps 0-10 dBm 1 MHz 8 Scatternet 16-bit CRC

ZigBee 802.15.4 868/915Mhz,2.4Ghz 250 kbps (-25) - 0 dBm 0.3/0.6 MHz >65000 MHz;

Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g 2.4Ghz,5 Ghz 54Mbps 15 - 20 dBm

UWB 802.15.3a* 3.1-10.6 Ghz 110Mbps -41.3 dBm/MHz 500 MHz - 7.5 GHz 8 Peer-to-peer 32-bit CRC

2 22 MHz 2007 ESS 32-bit CRC

Cluster tree, Mesh 16-bit CRC

The problem, though, is that most wireless sensors use too much power, which means that their batteries either have to be very large or get changed far too often. Add to that some scepticism about the reliability of sensor data that's sent through the air, and wireless sensors simply haven't looked very appealing. Because of ZigBee applications' low bandwidth requirements, a ZigBee node can sleep most of the time, thus saving battery power, and then wake up, send data quickly, and go back to sleep. And, because ZigBee can transition from sleep mode to active mode in 15 msec or less, even a sleeping node can achieve suitably low latency. Someone flipping a ZigBee-enabled wireless light switch, for example, would not be aware of a wake-up delay before the light turns on. In contrast, wake-up delays for Bluetooth are typically around three seconds. A big part of ZigBee's power savings come from the radio technology of 802.15.4, which itself was designed for low power. 802.15.4 uses DSSS (direct-sequence spread spectrum) technology, for example, because the alternative FHSS (frequency-hopping spread spectrum) would have used too much power just in keeping its frequency hops synchronized. ZigBee nodes, using 802.15.4, can communicate in any of several different ways, however, and some ways use more power than others. Consequently, ZigBee users can't necessarily implement a sensor network any way they choose and still expect the multiple-year battery life that is ZigBee's hallmark. In

fact, some technologists who are planning very large networks of very small wireless sensors say that even ZigBee is too power hungry for their uses. A ZigBee network node can consume extra power, for example, if it tries to keep its transmissions from overlapping with other nodes' transmissions or with transmissions from other radio sources. The 802.15.4 radio used by ZigBee implements CSMA/CA (carrier sense multiple access collision avoidance) technology. From ZigBee's relatively simple implementations, cost savings naturally accrue. RFDs, of course, reduce ZigBee component costs by omitting memory and other circuitry, and simple 8-bit processors and small protocol stacks help keep system costs down. Often, an application's main processor can easily bear the small additional load of ZigBee processing, making a separate processor for ZigBee functions unnecessary.

6. IMPLEMENTATION IN FIRE MONITORING SYSTEM

6.1 ARCHITECTURE
In the fire monitoring system many low-cost and low power micro-sensor nodes are deployed in the monitoring region to detect the fire parameters of the region. To form a ZigBee network, there needs three kinds of nodes: detection node, router and coordinator. The sensor nodes are configured as detection nodes in the ZigBee network to achieve a realtime data collection of fire parameter signals which include CO gas concentration, smoke concentration and temperature. The coordinator is responsible for PAN (personal area network) formation and collecting data from all detection nodes. Routers are responsible for data storage and delivery, router discovery, the connection with the devices, routing table maintenance, data forwarding, and the network link maintenance. The coordinator as a base station is connected to the computer through the RS232 interface. This system applies the ZigBee clutter-tree net topology and uses CSMA/CA principle, so the transmission module has strong points of better information hiding, anti-interference, self-healing and big coverage

Fire monitoring system based on wireless sensor network, as shown in above figure, deploys a great deal of detection nodes sensing parameter in the monitoring region, with a base station as a cluster node connected to the computer. Detection nodes not only can configure

a network automatically with a multihop routing, but also have the ability to perceive temperature and humidity and smoke concentrations. The base station is responsible for collecting data from all detection nodes to the computer to process and display.

6.2 HARDWARE
ZigBee Wireless detection node is composed of the data acquisition unit, data processing unit, data transmission unit and battery-powered unit. Data acquisition unit is primarily through sensors to detect CO gas concentration, temperature and smoke concentration of the region. Data processing unit controls the node to process the detection data. Data transmission unit completes the interaction with the router and coordinator. Power supply unit is responsible for the energy of the node. The early fire is in the smoldering stage, there would be a lot of smoke particles and harmful gases such as CO gas in the combustion and the temperature will rise. Based on these parameters, we design a fire detection module including three parts: smoke detection unit, CO gas detection unit, temperature detection unit.

The detection nodes in ZigBee wireless sensor network are deployed in the detection area for collecting and transmitting information, collaborating to complete the assigned task. Program running on each node can be exactly the same, but the ID is unique. In order to increase the capacity of ZigBee wireless sensor network and to resolve an important issue of energy supply in sensor network, the detection nodes in this network apply the operation of timing wake-up. This model can greatly save the power consumption of sensor nodes, reduce the probability of information collision and extend the life of the network.

7. TEMPORAL CONTROL
7.1 INTRODUCTION
ZigBee networks have 3 types of devices -coordinator, router and end-device. As it stands today, the protocol is not designed to support sleep mode of operation in the entire network. The end-devices can operate in sleep state, but in order to guarantee reliability the routers need to remain on and constantly listening for activity. If this protocol is to be used in WSN applications, the sleep mode of operation will clearly be required in all ZigBee devices. Sensor nodes operate at really low duty cycles with low latency. If the network nodes wake up, perform their tasks and then revert back to sleep state, this would be very beneficial in terms of extending network lifetime. Implementing this concept in ZigBee will require 2 major changes. Firstly, the DSSS nature of ZigBees underlying 802.15.4 cannot support a means for one node to wake its neighbours, so we must have an approach by which the nodes are scheduled to wake up at the appropriate time. Secondly, the ZigBee network does not support any type of suspended state for router nodes so we literally loose the mesh network when we sleep. Thus after waking, the ZigBee network must re-establish itself including the network routing tables.

7.2 TEMPORAL CONTROL ZIGBEE NETWORK SIMULATION

To provide sleeping, we need to develop a local scheduler on each node. Given that schedule, the nodes can wake up and do their tasks, including network tasks when needed for their own operation, or when needed to route. The simulation proposes 4 operating modes for ZigBee nodes constituting the various tasks a node might be required to perform. Modes 0 and 1, for instance, are local tasks (tasks that nodes perform on themselves) for the node to check its device clock for overflow, and for data-sampling/saving, respectively. Modes 2 and 3 are network tasks (tasks requiring data communication/routing over the network) to transmit a sample set captured by that node and to route samples that were captured by another node, respectively. When a node is not operating in any of the above 4 modes, then the node is set to sleep state, conserving power until the schedule says it needs to wake up to perform any of the above mentioned operations. Importantly, the global

scheduling operations determine when intermediate nodes need to wake up to allow construction of a sub network sufficient to support the required transmissions. 7.3 ALGORITHM

8. Future Research
The ZigBee Protocol is the only international standard wireless sensor network protocol in existence, catering to the specific needs of low-power, low-cost, low maintenance monitoring and control systems with talks of using it in sensor networks. While already well suited to simple control systems, if the ZigBee protocol is to be used in WSN applications, it cannot afford to have routers operating powered up in Idle mode. Routers will need to be capable of running in lower power sleep modes, waking up in time to perform any of their assigned tasks and then going back to sleep mode. This effort clearly brings out the fact that providing Temporal Control by creating a schedule of operations for all routers in a ZigBee network would significantly increase network lifetime, in comparison with the current Standard ZigBee approach. A possible enhancement to the routing mechanism might be to have multiple routing options for communication from source to sink. This way, if any of the nodes in one routing path is down and cannot be woken up as a result of some node defect, then there will be nodes in alternate routes that the scheduling algorithm could choose to wake up. This would provide routing robustness to the currently proposed model.

9. CONCLUSION
The study of the WSN and its protocols laid the foundation for the implementation of the Fire Monitoring System using ZigBee protocol. The design of the Wireless Sensor Network will be based on FPGA to create a power efficient Fire Monitoring System.

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