Communication Buses and Protocols for Sensor Networks
Open Access
- 3 July 2002
- Vol. 2 (7) , 244-257
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s20700244
Abstract
This paper overviews existing digital communication buses which are commonly used in sensor networks, discusses sensor network architectures, and introduces a new sensor bus for low power microsystem applications. The new intra-module multi-element microsystem (IM2) bus is nine-line interface with 8b serial data which implements several advanced features such as power management and plug-n-play while maintaining minimum hardware overhead at the sensor node. Finally, some issues in wireless sensor networking are discussed. The coverage of these issues provides a guideline for choosing the appropriate bus for different sensor network applications.Keywords
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