Simulation and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Home Automation

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Simulation and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Home

Automation

Chowdhury, Ashraful Bari ([email protected]) SFU ID: 301327355

Fan, Sheng ([email protected]) SFU ID: 301373437

Peng, Mian ([email protected]) SFU ID: 301365371

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Outlines

• Motivation

• WiFi Protocol

• ZigBee Protocol

• Related Works

• Simulation Scenarios and Results

• Conclusion

• References

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Motivation

• Save the consumer’s money

• Prevention from the wastage of resources

• Ensure home security

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https://www.statista.com/chart/15736/smart-home-market-forecast/

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Motivation

• One major issue for smart home automation : Effective Wireless Communication

Our solution for Smart Home Automation is to use Wi-Fi protocol and ZigBee protocol

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Wi-Fi Technology

• Stands for Wireless Fidelity.

• The standard wireless local area network(WLAN) technology for connecting computers and myriad electronic devices to each other and to the Internet.

• the wireless version of a wired Ethernet network.

• Wi-Fi is the common name for the IEEE 802.11 standard.

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Wi-Fi Standards

http://www.l-com.com/blog/post/2015/12/17/WiFi-Alphabet-Soup.aspx

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Wi-Fi Application

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Zigbee Technology

• Control and sensor networks on IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs)

• Operation at low-data rates to handle many devices (868 MHz, 902-928MHz and 2.4 GHz)

• low-cost and low-powered mesh network which can be

widely deployed for controlling and monitoring applications

• Product from Zigbee alliance in 2002 which is a group of companies that maintain and publish the Zigbee standard

https://www.elprocus.com/what-is-zigbee-technology-architecture-and-its-applications/

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ZigBee Architecture

• Zigbee system structure

• Zigbee coordinator

• Router

• End device

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 Zigbee protocol architecture

– Physical Layer – MAC Layer – Network Layer – Application Layer

https://www.elprocus.com/what-is-zigbee-technology-architecture-and-its-applications/

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ZigBee Topologies

• Star

• simple and easy to deploy

• Mesh

• Mostly used in industries

• Cluster Tree

• Allow any device to

communicate with any other adjacent node for providing redundancy to the data

https://www.elprocus.com/what-is-zigbee-technology-architecture-and-its-applications/

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ZigBee Data Transmission

• Data Transfer Modes

• Beacon Enabled Mode

• Non-beacon Enabled Mode

• Traffic Types

• Periodic Data

• Intermittent Data

• Repetitive Data

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https://www.digi.com/resources/documentation/Digidocs/90002002/Reference/r_zb

_data_transmission.htm

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ZigBee Applications

• Industrial Automation

• Reduce the communication cost as well as optimize the control process for greater reliability

• Home Automation

• Control home appliances

remotely (e.g. lighting system control)

• Smart Metering

• Smart Grid monitoring

https://www.elprocus.com/what-is-zigbee-technology-architecture-and-its-applications/

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Related Works

• R. Kavitha, "Smart Home Systems Using Wireless Sensor Network –A Comparative Analysis", ResearchGate, 2012.

This paper has excellent insights about the smart home system. It gives us the idea of how to build our wireless sensor network.

• S. Arif and S. Supangkat, "Simulation and analysis of ZigBee - WiFi

interference", 2014 International Conference on ICT For Smart Society (ICISS), 2014.

The idea of the coexistence of Zigbee and Wifi protocol in the same network is surfaced from this paper.

• W. Gomez, J. Kim, and S. Leung, “ZigBee Mesh Network Simulation Using OPNET and Study of Routing Selection,” 2009 ENSC 427 Communication Networks Project.

This project is a good reference for setting up some typical scenarios, including self-healing mechanism simulation and limitation of OPNET.

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Overview of The Project

• Analysis of several Home Automation scenarios based on WiFi and ZigBee protocol.

• Scenarios are:

1. Device performance based on distance

2. Multiple device performance in real-time network 3. Performance for mobile devices

4. Device performance in failure and recovery situation

5. Network performance under the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi

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Scenario 01:Device performance based on distance

WiFi Protocol

• From work station to WLAN server

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Performance gets affected due to

distance

Simulation Results

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Scenario 01:Device performance based on distance

ZigBee Protocol

• From coordinator to end device

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Less than 50m

Less than 200m

End to End Delay is not affected by the distance

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Scenario 02: Multiple device performance in the network

WiFi Protocol

• Home network with 3, 6 and 12 Work Stations

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Scenario 02: Multiple device performance in the network

WiFi Protocol

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No. of the work stations has determine the task processing

time and throughput.

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Scenario 02: Multiple device performance in the network

ZigBee Protocol

• One coordinator

• 6 routers

• 6 mobile end devices

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Star Topology

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Scenario 02: Multiple device performance in the network

ZigBee Protocol

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Mesh Topology Tree Topology

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Scenario 02: Multiple device performance in the network

ZigBee Protocol

• Performance comparison among star, mesh and tree topology

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Scenario 03: Performance for mobile devices

WiFi Protocol

• Home network with mobile work-station

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Throughput performance is dependent of the position of mobile work station from the WLAN

server.

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Scenario 03: Performance for mobile devices

ZigBee Protocol

• Mobile end device traveling through different PAN

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Route of the mobile end device 0

Trajectory Settings

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Scenario 03: Performance for mobile devices

ZigBee Protocol

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Simulation Data

Mobile end device hand-off

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Scenario 04: Device performance in failure and recovery situation

ZigBee Protocol

• Tree Visualization for 60s

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Scenario 04: Device performance in failure and recovery situation

ZigBee Protocol

• Tree Visualization for 200s

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Scenario 04: Device performance in failure and recovery situation

ZigBee Protocol

• Tree Visualization for 800s

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Scenario 04: Device performance in failure and recovery situation

ZigBee Protocol

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Failure and Recovery Settings Simulation Data

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Scenario 05: Network performance under the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi

• ZigBee Star Topology With WiFi

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Scenario 05: Network performance under the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi

• ZigBee Mesh Topology With WiFi

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Scenario 05: Network performance under the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi

• ZigBee Tree Topology With WiFi

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Scenario 05: Network performance under the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi

• Performance analysis among different ZigBee topologies with WiFi

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ZigBee (star topology) + WiFi shows highest throughput

Maximum throughput is achieved by

ZigBee tree topology

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Conclusion

• The goal of the project is to build a home automation using wireless sensor network where different devices can co-exist using different network protocol such as WiFi and ZigBee.

• Different scenarios of a typical home automation system has shown to simulate several characteristics and features of WiFi and ZigBee protocol and their coexistence.

Future Work

• Building a more sophisticated home automation system with security measures.

• Developing a mobile app which will act as main control hub to control all the connected devices under the wireless sensor network.

• Adding the GPS feature for locating the exact positon of the device.

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Thank You!

Any Questions?

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References

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• "Zigbee data transmission", Digi.com, 2019. [Online]. Available:

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• S, K. (2015). Engineering Hub | WiFi Alphabet Soup. [online] L-com.com. Available at: http://www.l-com.com/blog/post/2015/12/17/WiFi-Alphabet-Soup.aspx [Accessed 17 Dec. 2015].

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