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Project IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title
Proposed MESH-WPAN Applications and Usage
Scenarios Date Submitted July,
2004 Source Myung J. Lee, Chunhui Zhu
Company Samsung Lab _at_ CCNY
Address 140 St. Convent
Ave., New York, NY 10031, USA.
Voice1-212-650-7260

E-Maillee_at_ccny.cuny.edu, zhuc_at_ccny.cuny.edu Re
AbstractThis document proposes
potential applications of mesh WPAN network and
its usage scenarios
PurposeTo derive the Marketing Requirement
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MESH-WPAN Application and Usage Scenarios

• Myung J. Lee, Chunhui Zhu
• Samsung Lab _at_ CCNY

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Application 1 Low Rate Sensor Mesh Network

• Low transmission power and long battery live for
  sensor nodes
• Large coverage area of monitoring and control
• Reliable sensory data transmission via multiple
  paths.

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Usage Scenarios (1/8)

• Asset management assistance
• Touch/Pressure sensors (e.g. art works, windows
  and doors)
• Audio and video surveillance
• Smoke and gas sensors
• Structural integrity/health monitoring (bridges,
  tunnels and highways)

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Usage Scenarios (2/8)

• Building/Home Automation
• Temperature/Humidity, Heating, Ventilation and
  Air-Conditioning monitoring and controls
• Light sensor and remote light switch
• Remote Dimmer Control
• Occupancy/Activity Sensor
• Damper/Fan/Valve controls

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Usage Scenarios (3/8)

• Defense/Homeland Security
• Battlefield monitoring
• C/B/N threat detection
• Subway/Rail/Bus monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring

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Usage Scenarios (4/8)

• Industrial
• Machine condition monitoring
• Inventory tracking and surveillance
• Supply chain management
• Process monitoring
• Temperature/Pressure/Flow monitoring

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Usage Scenarios (5/8)

• Agricultural
• Crop disease / nutrient management
• Microclimate monitoring
• Transportation
• Traffic monitoring/management
• Fleet management

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Usage Scenarios (6/8)

• Retail
• Inventory management
• Alarms / building security
• Healthcare
• Hospital personnel and equipment tracking
• Inventory tracking
• Patient monitoring/management

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Usage Scenarios (7/8)

• Research
• Habitat monitoring
• Remote Ecological Sensor Network (e.g. endangered
  species of plants)
• Environment Observation and Forecasting System
• Weather
• Environmental pollution
• Seismic sensing

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Usage Scenarios (8/8)

• Automatic meter readings
• Gas/Water/Electric
• Active tags
• Personnel tracking (e.g. coal mine security)
• Ship/Airplane monitoring and control

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Application 2 High Rate Data/Media Mesh
Network

• For high rate data applications, mesh networks
  can be used to provide
• Higher throughput (via multipaths)
• Extended communication range
• Multi-tier networks combining high/low rate
  devices
• Frequency/time reuse
• Reliability/Robustness.

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Usage Scenarios (1/2)

• Video and audio streams go through different
  paths and integrated into a single AV session at
  the destination
• The I, B and P frames of an MPEG video stream go
  through different paths and integrated into a
  single MPEG video at the destination The devices
  can determine to accept one or more streams
  depending on their capability.

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Usage Scenarios (2/2)

• Multiple paths between the source and the
  destination, either being uses simultaneously or
  in a main-path/backup-path manner, provides low
  latency and robustness
• Replacement of IEEE 1394 and USB 2.0.