Deployment of MICAz Mote for Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a new technology that enables remote monitoring and data gathering to be
realized in many applications such as traffic control, health monitoring, disaster management and many others. WSN is built by connecting a group of nodes together to perform the required tasks. These nodes cooperate and automatically
create a network among themselves. One of the most common
wireless sensor node, also commonly known as mote, used is
the MICAz mote. MICAz is easy to implement and can be
used to build WSN for various applications. This paper
demonstrates the deployment of MICAz motes using a test case
of soil moisture sensor for environmental monitoring
applications. A detailed description of hardware and software requirements, sensor calibrations, mote firmware, testing, debugging and verifications is given. This will enable researchers and engineers to quickly obtain a working
knowledge in the implementation of various WSN applications.