SNOWWEB - Wirelessly connected weather stations in Antarctic
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TitleSNOWWEB - Wirelessly connected weather stations in AntarcticaAbstractAntarctica is a harsh and challenging continent to study, particularly with regard to scientific equipment. This paper presents SNOWWEB, a Wireless Sensor Network equipped with environmental sensors designed to capture distributed meteorological measurements in Antarctica and report them in real-time to a base station. To accomplish this we used XBee Pro S2B transceivers utilising the ZigBee standard. Combined with high gain omnidirectional antennae we were able to establish reliable multi-hop links with inter-node distances spanning up to 10 km during testing in Antarctica in January 2013. Over a one week period we experienced exceptional network performance, despite a snowstorm, with all stations reporting as expected. Copyright 2013 IEEE.AcknowledgementsN/A
TypeConferenceCitationJolly, B., Willig, A., McDonald, A., Pannell, M. and Plank, G. (2013). SNOWWEB - Wirelessly connected weather stations in Antarctica. Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN: 194-202 IdentifierJolly2013Relevancerank3
