WIRELESS SENSOR ACTUATOR NETWORK AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130169407A1
• Filed: 06/25/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Central University
• Original Assignee: Jia-Hong Dai
• Inventors: Chen, Ching-Han, Dai, Jia-Hong, Hsieh, Hsin Pei, Liou, Jia-Wei
• Application Number:
  US13/531,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169407A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/28 characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks] wireless communication networks H04W ; arrangements for dividing the transmission path H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007

Abstract

A wireless sensor actuator network (WSAN) is provided, which includes: at least one sensor, for sensing situations of surrounding environments to generate a transferring condition, the transferring condition corresponding to a transferring condition serial number; at least one actuator, driven by a driving signal; and a gateway, for receiving the transferring condition of the sensor corresponding to the transferring condition serial number, transferring an active state serial number to a transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition according to an encoding table of the gateway, and executing functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the actuator.

Claims

1. A wireless sensor actuator network (WSAN), comprising:

at least one sensor, for sensing situations of surrounding environments to generate a transferring condition, the transferring condition corresponding to a transferring condition serial number;

at least one actuator, driven by a driving signal; and

a gateway, for receiving the transferring condition of the sensor corresponding to the transferring condition serial number, transferring an active state serial number to a transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition according to an encoding table of the gateway, and executing functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

2. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the encoding table comprises a state quantity, a transferring condition quantity, a motion quantity, a transferring condition array and a motion array of the WSAN.

3. The WSAN according to claim 2, wherein,

the transferring condition array comprises the active state serial number, the transferring state serial number, the transferring condition quantity, a transferring condition descriptor index and a function serial number.

4. The WSAN according to claim 2, wherein,

the motion array comprises the active state serial number, a function quantity, a motion descriptor index and a function serial number.

5. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway transfers the active state serial number to two transferring state serial numbers which meet the transferring condition according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the two transferring state serial numbers to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

6. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway receives the transferring condition of a first sensor corresponding to a first transferring condition serial number and the transferring condition of a second sensor corresponding to a second transferring condition serial number, according to the encoding table, the gateway transfers the active state serial number to a first transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the first transferring condition serial number and transfers the active state serial number to a second transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the second transferring condition serial number, and executes functions called by the first transferring state serial number and the second transferring state serial number respectively to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

7. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway transfers a first active state serial number and/or a second active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

8. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway receives the transferring condition of a first sensor corresponding to a first transferring condition serial number and the transferring condition of a second sensor corresponding to a second transferring condition serial number, according to the encoding table, the gateway transfers a first active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the first transferring condition serial number and/or transfers the second active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the second transferring condition serial number, and executes functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

9. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway is a microprocessor, and the microprocessor comprises:

a random access memory (RAM), for storing the encoding table;

a read only memory (ROM), for storing functions and a virtual machine for executing the encoding table;

a central processing unit (CPU), for receiving the transferring condition, executing functions and the virtual machine to generate the driving signal, transmitting the driving signal to the at least one actuator, and receiving the encoding table and storing the encoding table in the RAM; and

a transceiver, receiving the encoding table and transmitting the encoding table to the CPU.

10. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein, the communication protocol of the gateway and the at least one sensor is one of Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C).

11. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the at least one sensor transmits the transferring condition to the gateway in a ZigBee wireless communication way.

12. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the gateway receives the encoding table via a network.

13. The WSAN according to claim 12, wherein,

the network is one of Internet, Local Area Network and Cloud.

14. The WSAN according to claim 1, wherein,

the encoding table is translated from an application program of graphic descriptive language via a translator of a remote terminal machine.

15. The WSAN according to claim 14, wherein,

the application program is edited from the WSAN via an editor of the remote terminal machine.

16. The WSAN according to claim 14, wherein,

the remote terminal machine is one of a computer, a tablet computer and a smart phone.

17. An operating method of a wireless sensor actuator network (WSAN), wherein the WSAN comprises at least one sensor, at least one actuator and a gateway, the operating method comprising:

sensing, by the at least one sensor, situations of surrounding environments to generate a transferring condition, the transferring condition corresponding to a transferring condition serial number;

driving the at least one actuator via a driving signal;

receiving, by the gateway, the transferring condition of the sensor corresponding to the transferring condition serial number; and

transferring, by the gateway, an active state serial number to a transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition according to an encoding table of the gateway, and executing functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

18. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the encoding table comprises a state quantity, a transferring condition quantity, a motion quantity, a transferring condition array and a motion array of the WSAN.

19. The operating method according to claim 18, wherein, the transferring condition array comprises the active state serial number, the transferring state serial number, the transferring condition quantity, a transferring condition descriptor index and a function serial number.

20. The operating method according to claim 18, wherein, the motion array comprises the active state serial number, a function quantity, a motion descriptor index and a function serial number.

21. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the gateway transfers the active state serial number to two transferring state serial numbers which meet the transferring condition according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the two transferring state serial numbers to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

22. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein,

the gateway receives the transferring condition of a first sensor corresponding to a first transferring condition serial number and the transferring condition of a second sensor corresponding to a second transferring condition serial number;

and

the gateway transfers the active state serial number to a first transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the first transferring condition serial number and transfers the active state serial number to a second transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the second transferring condition serial number according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the first transferring state serial number and the second transferring state serial number respectively to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

23. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the gateway transfers a first active state serial number and/or a second active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

24. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein,

the gateway receives the transferring condition of a first sensor corresponding to a first transferring condition serial number and the transferring condition of a second sensor corresponding to a second transferring condition serial number;

and

the gateway transfers a first active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the first transferring condition serial number and/or transfers the second active state serial number to the transferring state serial number which meets the transferring condition of the second transferring condition serial number according to the encoding table, and executes functions called by the transferring state serial number to generate the driving signal for driving the at least one actuator.

25. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein,

the gateway is a microprocessor, the microprocessor comprises a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), a central processing unit (CPU) and a transceiver, and the operating method comprises:

storing, by the RAM, the encoding table;

storing, by the ROM, functions and a virtual machine for executing the encoding table;

receiving, by the CPU, the transferring condition, executing functions and the virtual machine to generate the driving signal, transmitting the driving signal to the at least one actuator, and receiving the encoding table and storing the encoding table in the RAM; and

receiving, by the transceiver, the encoding table and transmitting the encoding table to the CPU.

26. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the at least one sensor transmits the transferring condition to the gateway in a ZigBee wireless communication way.

27. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the gateway receives the encoding table via the network.

28. The operating method according to claim 17, wherein, the encoding table is translated from an application program of graphic descriptive language via a translator of a remote terminal machine.

29. The operating method according to claim 28, wherein, the WSAN is edited into the application program via an editor of the remote terminal machine.