IMPLEMENTATION OF LABVIEW BASED PACKET LOGGER FOR ZIGBEE NETWORK

摘要

ZigBee is a wireless technology being deployed for wireless sensor networks. Low data rate personal area network applications like smart home automation, greenhouse monitoring and healthcare use ZigBee, a high level communication protocol as a standard to acquire the data. The data from the sensor nodes are monitored and logged using packet sniffer. The available sniffers in the market need additional hardware with dedicated software which costs more. Also the packet sniffer has to be compatible with the sensor node hardware. In this paper, sniffing of packets at the base station is implemented using LabView. With Texas Instruments Z-Accel Modules, a tree topology is established and temperature is monitored, logged with time stamping and packet data analysis is presented.