The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal

2014, 6 : 1246-1252
Published online 2014 December 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874444301406011246
Publisher ID: TOAUTOCJ-6-1246

Design on Energy-saving Mechanism of 6LoWPAN Wireless Sensor Network

Zhenfeng Qu and Xiaoguang Li
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, 471023, China.

ABSTRACT

Wireless sensor network LAN is mostly ad hoc form, and it only can access and process information in the dedicated control center. IP network is widely used, if such a local wireless sensor network access can be accessed to internet backbone network, it will bring users more convenience. This paper designs a new wireless sensor network of 6LoWPAN using IPv6 and IEEE802.15.4 protocol, and adopts the low duty and multi distributed IP to optimize the network, finally saving cyber source and reducing the network energy consumption in the process of sending, receiving data, which achieves a seamless mosaic of wireless sensor network and IP network. This paper uses solar cell technology to improve the terminal sensor of sensor network and reduce the energy consumption of sensor and processor. Finally, based on the testing of wireless network, 6LoWPAN wireless networks has a significant energy consumption decrease in each function module and information transmission environment, which provides a theoretical reference for the study on wireless sensor network energy saving mechanism.

Keywords:

6LoWPAN network, C language, Contiki integration, distributed IP, IEEE802.15.4.