Rama Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Wireless Sensor Platform for Sporting Applications: Taking Academic Research Towards Industrial Reality Rama Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

This book revolves around the application of the wireless sensor networks for monitoring the fitness levels of the sports players in real time. A wireless sensor platform is developed to enable rapid proto-typing for such applications. The main focus of this work is the design and implementation of a time-sharing protocol,considering the application specific requirements like huge volume of raw data from that of say, a 3-axis accelerometer and covering the entire play-field with the tiny nodes. Real world tests are conducted with multiple nodes in various environments to validate the performance of the protocol. Test results indicate that the packet error/loss is less than 1% with multiple nodes streaming data to a single server. Further enhancements and optimization are performed to make the protocol better suited for the sporting applications. This book is the outcome of the Master Thesis of Rama Subramanian S in Delft University of Technology and is carried out in and funded by Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands.