Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Information Technical Science, Ministry of Education,Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
Bo LIU, Jinjie CHEN, Hao ZHANG, and Xiaoyi DONG. Research on Fiber-grating-based Wireless Sensor Networks[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2012, 2(2): 166
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A 20-node fiber-grating-based wireless sensor network is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Each sensor node is integrated with the light source, 1-3 FBG sensing probes, wavelength demodulation, and wireless communication module. Via self-organized clusters and low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) route protocols, the sensor nodes are able to exchange sensing data with the control center, and the maximum communication radius of a sensor node is over 170 m. The sensor node is battery-powered with a survival lifetime of up to 120 days at a network refresh rate of 5 minutes.