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Method and Apparatus for Management of a Global Wireless Sensor Network

  • US 20110280154A1
  • Filed: 06/09/2011
  • Published: 11/17/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A scaleable wireless self-organizing ad hoc mesh sensor network comprising:

  • a plurality of multi-waveform sensor nodes that include wireless radio and sensors to detect and track events, some of which are gateway nodes while others are neighbor nodes;

    at least one wireless local area network cluster using at least one of a commercial and a proprietary ad hoc link and routing protocol that operationally connects said plurality of sensor nodes automatically, said nodes being located in either one WLAN cluster or multiple, geographically separated WLAN clusters having no fixed infrastructure;

    an operations center connected to each said gateway node using at least one standard wide area network protocol; and

    a central sensor node manager connected to said operations center using at least one standard wide area network protocol,wherein each cluster incorporates both gateway nodes and neighbor nodes, the neighbor nodes within each cluster each acting as micro-routers by passing data node-to-node through one of a plurality of possible redundant, non-predetermined multipath RF link paths to a gateway node from which the data is transmitted to said central sensor node manager and wherein further some nodes are stationary while other nodes including at least one gateway node for each cluster are mobile during operation of the network such that each stationary node and each mobile node in the network is enabled to communicate with said central sensor node manager and any other node in the network whether or not the communicating nodes are within line-of-sight of each other.

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