Airborne Wireless Sensor Networks for Airplane Monitoring System

Table 6

Summary of airborne wireless hardware prototypes.

	Wu et al. [39, 40]	Becker et al. [41], Gao et al. [45], Arms et al. [42–44],; Demo et al. [34], Samson et al. [52]	Gao et al. [46]	Pook et al. [35]; Kiepert et al. [36, 37], Hall et al. [60, 61]	Liu et al. [38], Yuan et al. [62]	Lu et al. [53]
Computing specifications
Processor	Atmel AVR ATMega 128L	Texas Instruments; MSP430F1611	Texas Instruments; TMS320F28335	Atmel AT32UC3A3256	Altera Cyclone II; EP2C5Q208c8	Texas Instruments; CC2530F256
Clock speed	8 MHz	8 MHz	30 MHz	66 MHz	50 MHz	32 MHz
Bus size	8-bit	16-bit	16-bit	32-bit	16-bit	16-bit
Program memory	128 KB	32 KB	64 KB	256 KB	64 KB	128 KB
Data memory	128 KB		64 MB	64 KB	128 KB	8 KB
Data acquisition specifications
Sensing type	Strain gauge	Strain gauge	Piezoelectric	CO, CO2, pressure,; temperature,; and humidity	Piezoelectric	MEMS
A/D channels	8	8	4	8	8	8
A/D resolution	12-bit	12-bit	16-bit	10-bit		12-bit
Wireless specifications
Radio	ChipCon CC1000	ChipCon CC2420	Atmel; RF233	ChipCon CC2420	ChipCon CC2420	iM22A
Frequency band	433 MHZ	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Outdoor range	70 m	75 m	100 m	75 m	75 m	100 m
Data rate	76.8 Kbps	250 Kbps	1 Mbps	250 Kbps	250 Kbps	250 Kbps