Wake-up apparatus and wake-up method for low power sensor node

• US 8,824,345 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Ji-Eun, Kang, Ho-Yong, Kim, Nae-Soo, Pyo, Cheol-Sig
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hsiung, Hai-Chang
• Application Number:
  US12/808,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20110194471A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,139 Days
• Field of Search: 370/311
• US Class Current: 370/311
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command

Abstract

Provided are a wake-up apparatus and wake-up method for a low power sensor node, and more particularly, to a wake-up apparatus and wake-up method for a low power sensor node, which can extend the battery life of the sensor node and minimize the amount of power consumed by an entire sensor network power by minimizing unnecessary power consumption of the sensor node. The wake-up apparatus for a low power sensor node includes: a wake-up signal detector receiving and detecting a wake-up signal of a sensor node; a wake-up radio frequency (RF) circuit unit filtering and amplifying the wake-up signal; and a wake-up baseband transducer detecting a wake-up address from the wake-up signal and comparing and verifying the wake-up address with a wake-up address that is provided from a server managing the sensor node. The wake-up apparatus outputs an interrupt signal for transmitting a sensing event of the sensor node or outputs a wake-up address of another sensor node in an area where the interrupt signal is to be sensed if errors are not detected when the wake-up address is verified.

Claims

1. A wake-up apparatus for a low power sensor node, the apparatus comprising:

a wake-up signal detector receiving and detecting a wake-up signal of a sensor node;

a wake-up radio frequency (RF) circuit unit filtering and amplifying the wake-up signal; and

a wake-up baseband transducer detecting a wake-up address from the wake-up signal and comparing and verifying the wake-up address with a wake-up address that is provided from a server managing the sensor node, and outputting an interrupt signal for transmitting a sensing event of the sensor node or outputting a wake-up address of another sensor node in an area where the interrupt signal is to be sensed if errors are not detected when the wake-up address is verified,

wherein the wake-up signal comprises;

a start packet region indicating the received signal is a wake-up signal; and

a wake-up address information region comprising a mode information region storing a wake-up mode method of the sensor node and a region storing a wake-up address of the sensor node,

wherein start packet region information, indicating that the received signal is a wake-up signal, is output as a reversed value of 0 or 1 and has an output form of one of 2 bits, 8 bits, and 16 bits.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a wake-up transmission transducer transmitting a wake-up operation signal of the wake-up baseband transducer to a main RF apparatus transmitting a sensing event of the sensor node.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a wake-up mode method of the sensor node comprises at least one of a unicast method, a broadcast method, and a multicast method.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wake-up address is formed using an ON/OFF Key (OOK) transmission method or a Manchester coding method.

5. A wake-up method for a low power sensor node, the method comprising:

receiving and detecting a wake-up signal of a sensor node;

filtering and amplifying the received and detected wake-up signal;

comparing and verifying an address with a wake-up address that is provided from a server managing the sensor node by detecting a wake-up address from the filtered and amplified wake-up signal; and

outputting an interrupt signal for transmitting a sensing event of the sensor node or outputting a wake-up operation signal of another sensor node in an area where the interrupt signal is to be sensed if errors are not detected when the wake-up address is verified,

wherein the wake-up signal comprises;

a start packet region indicating the received signal is a wake-up signal; and

a wake-up address information region comprising a mode information region storing a selected wake-up broadcast method among wake-up broadcast methods of the sensor node one of which to be selected and used upon wake-up and a region storing a wake-up address of the sensor node, and

wherein start packet region information, indicating that the received signal is a wake-up signal, is output as a reversed value of 0 or 1 and has an output form of one of 2 bits, 8 bits, and 16 bits.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

initializing the sensor node located in the sensing area and a sink node which is transmitting the sensing event of the sensor node to the server for collecting the both node'"'"'s location information.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the wake-up mode method of the sensor node comprises at least one of a unicast method, a broadcast method, and a multicast method.

8. A low power sensor node comprising:

a wake-up apparatus unit detecting a wake-up address of an input signal and comparing and verifying the detected wake-up address with a wake-up address that is provided from a server, and outputting an interrupt signal for transmitting a sensing event or outputting a wake-up operation signal if errors are not detected when the wake-up address is verified;

a power source apparatus management unit receiving the interrupt signal or wake-up operation signal and supplying power; and

a main RF apparatus unit transmitting the sensing event and outputting the wake-up operation signal after the power is supplied,

wherein the wake-up signal comprises;

a start packet region indicating the received signal is a wake-up signal; and

a wake-up address information region comprising a mode information region storing a selected wake-up broadcast method among wake-up broadcast methods of the sensor node one of which to be selected and used upon wake-up and a region storing a wake-up address of the sensor node, and

wherein start packet region information, indicating that the received signal is a wake-up signal, is output as a reversed value of 0 or 1 and has an output form of one of 2 bits, 8 bits, and 16 bits.

9. The low power sensor node of claim 8, comprising:

a wake-up signal detector receiving and detecting an input wake-up signal of the sensor node;

a wake-up RF circuit unit filtering and amplifying the received and detected input wake-up signal; and

a wake-up baseband transducer detecting a wake-up address from the wake-up signal and comparing and verifying the wake-up address with the wake-up address that is provided from a server managing the sensor node, and outputting an interrupt signal for transmitting a sensing event of the sensor node or outputting a wake-up address of the other sensor node in an area where the interrupt signal to be sensed if errors are not detected when the wake-up address is verified.

10. The low power sensor node of claim 9, further comprising:

a wake-up transmission transducer transmitting a wake-up operation signal of the wake-up baseband transducer to the main RF apparatus unit.