A test-bed for habitat monitoring system using Wi-Fi in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's) recently has been proposed for several applications. WSN can be used for habitat and ecosystem monitoring, seismic monitoring, civil structure health monitoring and industrial process monitoring. Such applications may include stationary or mobile sensor nodes that can move in the intended area to achieve a certain objectives of networks. This paper presents the development of an experimental test-bed for real-world Habitat Monitoring System (HMS). Our system consists of stationary sensor nodes which are integrated with Wi-Fi network to acquire the remote physical environmental data. We have integrated temperature, humidity and light sensors in our Habitat Monitoring System for investigating the performance of our HMS test-bed. The proposed test-bed of Habitat Monitoring System (HMS) describes the data monitoring, data handling, data storing and database management system. However, by replacing the sensors the developed test-bed can also be used for air population, forest fire detection, health care monitoring and water quality monitoring.