Caracterización de la propagación a 868MHz en una red estática de sensores

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are formed by a large number of sensing nodes at the ground level. These devices are monitoring and measuring physical parameters from the environment. Simulation is used to study WSN, since deploying test-beds supposes a huge effort. However simulation results rely on physical layer assumptions, which are not usually accurate enough to capture the real behaviour of WSN. In this work several measurement campaigns are performed in three different scenarios: an open quasi-ideal area, a university yard and a park. The main contribution of this work is that a two slopes lognormal path-loss near ground outdoor channel model at 868 MHz is validated, and compared to the widely used one slope model. This model is useful