A detection scheme for reactions of optical fiber sensors with the Internet standard protocol

This paper proposes a detection scheme for reactions of optical fiber sensors and shows experiments and results to identify sensor conditions with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as the Internet standard protocol. Optical Sensory Nerve network (OSN) with optical fiber sensors has been developed in order to alleviate issues on wireless sensor networks about battery lifetime and data communication. Moreover, a method to gather sensed information with SNMP and a commercially available device has been devised; however, this method holds issues on limited performance. Thus, this paper demonstrates the detection scheme using original SNMP agent software and experiments utilizing two types of sensors (binary switch sensors & mat sensors). The SNMP agent software allows to increase the number of sensors which can be detected and installed in OSN.