Bluetooth Low Power Modes Applied to the Data Transportation Network in Home Automation Systems

Sensors

Gerardo Aranguren¹  Josu Etxaniz¹ 

[1] Electronic Technology Department, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao 48980, Spain;

关键词: ACL;    Bluetooth;    Delay;    Empirical model;    Home Automation;    Latency;    Multi-hop;    Scatternet;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s17050997

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Even though home automation is a well-known research and development area, recent technological improvements in different areas such as context recognition, sensing, wireless communications or embedded systems have boosted wireless smart homes. This paper focuses on some of those areas related to home automation. The paper draws attention to wireless communications issues on embedded systems. Specifically, the paper discusses the multi-hop networking together with Bluetooth technology and latency, as a quality of service (QoS) metric. Bluetooth is a worldwide standard that provides low power multi-hop networking. It is a radio license free technology and establishes point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links, known as piconets, or multi-hop networks, known as scatternets. This way, many Bluetooth nodes can be interconnected to deploy ambient intelligent networks. This paper introduces the research on multi-hop latency done with park and sniff low power modes of Bluetooth over the test platform developed. Besides, an empirical model is obtained to calculate the latency of Bluetooth multi-hop communications over asynchronous links when links in scatternets are always in sniff or the park mode. Smart home devices and networks designers would take advantage of the models and the estimation of the delay they provide in communications along Bluetooth multi-hop networks.

【 授权许可】

Unknown