Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks with Virtual Instrumentation in a Residential Environment

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates integrating wireless sensor networks with virtual instrumentation in a smart house, enabling remote monitoring and control of environmental parameters via web and mobile interfaces.

Contribution

It introduces a system architecture and implementation for WSN integration with LabVIEW, facilitating data acquisition, logging, and remote access in residential environments.

Findings

Successful data acquisition of temperature, humidity, and light

Enabling remote monitoring and control via web and mobile

User-friendly virtual instrumentation interface

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to integrate wireless sensor networks (WSN) with the LabVIEW graphical development environment through a dedicated software driver. As personal constribution, a system architecture and concept implementation are described, in the context of a smart house monitoring scenario. Data acquisition is performed via the deployed wireless sensor network with focus on three main parameters: temperature, humidity and light. The data logging, monitoring and control functions are realized through a virtual instrumentation project. This also enables an easy-to-use user interface and the accesibility of data through standards-based web server technologies. The potential of remote monitoring and control through mobile terminals is opened up.