Application Research of the ZigBee Technology in the Navigation Marks Monitoring System

This paper presents a navigation marks monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks. The system adopts the ZigBee technology, using wireless sensor networks as data transmission link, and self-organization, to achieve the collection of the message such as: beacon working state, power supply, tides, hydrology, weather etc. In this paper we introduce the composition and working principle of the system, show the implementation scheme of the network nodes and the software of the monitoring center. By combining with the CDMA network, the sytenkcan achieve network communication in two ways. The results of experiment in lab show that: in the case of limited communication range, ZigBee networks can work stably and reliably, with the characters of low complexity and low cost. It can be used as the reliable supplement of the existing monitoring system which uses the public mobile communication networks. Therefore, the system has broad application prospects and promotional value.