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WIRELESS SENSORS FOR HOME MONITORING

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posted on 2022-09-01, 02:57 authored by Anuroop GaddamAnuroop Gaddam
Due to the advances in wireless communications and electronics over a few years, the development of networks of low cost, low – power, multifunctional sensors has received increasing attention. These sensors are small in size and able to sense, process data and communicate with each other typically over an RF channel. A sensor network is designed to detect events or phenomena, collect and process data, and transmit sensed data to interested user/users. Compared to the use of few expensive but highly accurate sensors for habitat monitoring, the strategy of deploying a large number of different inexpensive sensors has significant advantages, at smaller or comparable total system cost; much higher spatial resolution; higher robustness against failures through distributed operations. It can be understood that pure sensing in a fine‐grained manner may revolutionize the way in which complex physical systems are understood. The opportunities for this kind of devices are ubiquitous, a wireless monitoring system called “Selective Activity Monitoring (S.A.M) system” has already been developed based on three sensors; the sensors detect the use of electricity while the target appliances are connected to mains supply. But it has been realized so there is a requirement of a few more sensors to making a smart home monitoring system more effective and efficient. In this report, the development and prototyping of a bed‐sensor which forms one sensor of the home monitoring system have been discussed. And finally, the effort to reduce the size of the unit drastically by using various latest techniques and through efficient designing has been discussed, keeping in the mind that the ideal design would hide the sensor components from the user almost completely.

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AN.1 Other book, or book not attributed to Deakin University

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Mukhopadhyay S

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