WIRELESS
Wireless Data Acquisition
Real-time data acquisition is commonly required in a diversity of areas such as power grid, healthcare, industrial production, water conservancy, meteorology and agriculture. In practice, there must be numbers of acquisition spots scattered throughout large areas that are mostly enduring harsh environment. The use of phone lines or cables in these areas for data transfer would get half the result with twice the effort. While wireless networks could cover all the data acquisition points with much lower cost and less effort for installation and maintenance than wired networks.
A complete wireless data acquisition system is basically made up of sensors, analog front-end, a MCU, wireless transceivers, and a remote host. The sensors collect analog information in the natural world and convert it into electronic signals. Then the analog front-end implements sampling, amplifying, filtering and A/D conversion on the output signals from those sensors. The MCU is responsible for processing the digital signals from the front-end and transferring to the wireless transceivers, as well as controlling other function units of the system. The wireless transceiver transmits the acquired data to the remote host and also receives instructions from the host. Currently most transceivers work on ISM band, but other bands used for ZigBee, Wi-Fi, and GPRS/GSM/CDMA can also be found in some wireless data acquisition systems. The selection of wireless bands in practice should be determined by the required data transfer rate, distance and power consumption.
As the wireless communication and RF technologies keep evolving, wireless data acquisition systems present remarkable advantages in terms of easy and fast installation with low cost, and are gradually taking the place of the traditional wired systems.
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Power Amplifier to enhance the transmitting power in order to extend transmitting distance
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| ANALOG DEVICE | Transceiver | Designing a Wireless Transceiver System to Meet the Wireless M-Bus Standard | AN-0987 | ADF7020-1BCPZ, ADF7021BCPZ | Click here |
| ANALOG DEVICE | Transceiver | CDR Operation for ADF7020, ADF7020-1, ADF7021, and ADF7025 | AN-915 | ADF7020, ADF7020-1, ADF7021, and ADF7025 | Click here |
| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | Wi-Fi Module | DIGI Wi-Fi Guide | Click here | ||
| NXP | Transceiver | Reference Oscillator Crystal Requirements for the MC1320x, MC1321x, MC1322x, and MC1323x IEEE 802.15.4 Devices | AN3251 | MC1319x, MC1320x, MC1321x, MC1322x | Click here |
| NXP | Transceiver | Considerations for the Application of Land Grid Array (LGA) Style Packages | AN3311 | MC1320x and MC1321x | Click here |
| NXP | Transceiver | Computer Operating Properly (COP) Watchdog (Integrating the COP into MC1321x Synkro, BeeStack and 802.15.4 Applications) | AN3792 | MC1321x | Click here |
| NXP | Proximity Sensor-based Remote Control | AN3783 | MC13213 | Click here | |
| NXP | Compact Integrated Antennas: Designs and Applications for the MC1319x, MC1320x, and MC1321x | AN2731 | MC1319x, MC1320x, and MC1321x | Click here | |
| NXP | MC1319x Coexistence in the 2.4GHz ISM Band | AN2935 | MC1319x | Click here | |
| NXP | Transceiver | NXP IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBee Hardware Design Considerations Reference Manual | ZRFETRM | MC1320x and MC1321x | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | Interfacing the MRF49XA Transceiver to PIC Microcontrollers | AN1252 | MRF49XA | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | MRF49XA Radio Utility Program | AN1309 | MRF49XA | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | MRF89XA Radio Utility Driver Program | AN1340 | MRF89XA | Click here |
| TELIT WIRELESS SOLUTIONS | GPRS Module | Telit_Event_Monitor_Application_Note_r2 | GM862 | Click here | |
| TELIT WIRELESS SOLUTIONS | GPRS Module | Telit_Run_AT_Remotely_Application_Note_r4 | GM862 | Click here | |
| TELIT WIRELESS SOLUTIONS | GPRS Module | Telit_AT_Run_and_Event_Monitor_Services_App_Note_r0 | GM864 | Click here | |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | CC1100/CC2500 Wake on Radio (Rev. B) | AN047 | CC1100/ CC2500 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Software for CC1100/CC2500 and MSP430 – Examples and Function Library | AN049 | CC1100/ CC2500 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Small Size 2.4 GHz PCB Antenna (Rev. D) | AN043 | CC25xx/ CC24xx | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Using UART in CC111xFx CC243x CC251xFx and CC253xFx (Rev. B) | DN112 | CC111xFx CC243x CC251xFx | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Interfacing CC1100 - CC2500 with MSP430 (Rev. A) | DN400 | CC1100 - CC2500 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | CC111xFx CC243xFx CC251xFx CC253xFx SPI Interface (Rev. A) | DN113 | CC111xFx CC243xFx CC251xFx CC253xFx | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Powering Low-Power RF Products (Rev. B) | DN019 | CC1111/ CC2430/ CC2500 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Transceiver | Power Modes in CC111xFx, CC243xFx, and CC251xFx (Rev. B) | DN106 | CC111xFx, CC243xFx | Click here |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | The Wireless World in 2012 | Click here | |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | WLAN Design Considerations | Click here | |
| FREESCALE | Wireless Everywhere: ZigBee Markets and Technologies | Click here | |
| ANALOG DEVICE | The Use of Short Range Wireless in a Multi-Metering System | Click here | |
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| TELIT WIRELESS SOLUTIONS | User Guide | 3990150474 | GE864 | Click here | |
| ANALOG DEVICE | Transceiver | Evaluation Boards for SRD Band Transmitters/Transceivers | EVAL-ADF7020-1DBZ5 | ADF7020 | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | MRF49XA PICtail Plus Daughter Board (433.92 MHz) | AC164137-1 | MRF49XA | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | MRF49XA PICtail Plus Daughter Board (868/915 MHz) | AC164137-2 | MRF49XA | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Transceiver | MRF89XAM8A PicTail Plus Daughter Board | MRF89XAM8A | MRF89 | Click here |
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| MICROCHIP | RF Transceiver | ISM Band Sub-GHz RF Transceiver | Click here | |
| ATMEL | RF Transceiver | 2.4G Radio Transceiver for IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee Applications | Click here | |
| CYAN | ISM Band RF Module | ISM Band RF Module in AMR Application Based on Cy-Net | Click here | |
| NXP | RF Transceiver | Zigbee Based on NXP | Click here | |
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