Characteristics of Delin's sensor web architecture

Delin advised a sensor web as a web of commutual pods. All pods in a sensor web are agnate in accouterments (there are no appropriate "gateway" or "slave" pods). Nevertheless, there are added functions that pods can accomplish besides accommodating in the accepted sensor web function. Any pod of a sensor web can be a aperture pod and provides users admission to the sensor web (both ascribe and output).11 Admission can be provided by RF modem, corpuscle buzz connections, laptop connections, or even an Internet Server. In some cases, a pod will accept an absorbed disposable anamnesis assemblage (such as a USB stick or a laptop) that food calm data.1213

The appellation of mother pod refers to the pod that contains the adept alarm of the ancillary sensor web system. The mother pod has no appropriate accouterments associated with it, its appellation as a mother is alone based on the ID amount associated with the pod.14 Often the mother pod serves as a primary aperture point to the Internet, but this is done alone for deployment convenience. Early affidavit referenced the mother pod as "a prime node" if it additionally independent appropriate accouterments for a accurate blazon of input/output accessory (say an RF modem).

Because of the inherent bent of abstracts aural a sensor web, a pod with no absorbed sensors can be deployed as a broadcast with the individual purpose of facilitating advice amid the added pods and to aggrandize the advice ambit to a accurate end-point (such as a mother pod).13 Sensors can be absorbed to broadcast pods at a after time and relays can aswell serve as aperture pods.

Each pod usually contains:2

one or added sensor arch to one or added abstracts channel,