Time synchronous Bluetooth sensor networks
Jens Eliasson, Mathias Lundberg, Per Lindgren · 2006
Abstract — Bluetooth-equipped wireless sensor nodes can be quickly integrated in small home networks. These networks can be utilized e.g. for surveillance, home monitoring and automation. Accurate time is an important factor for time-stamping of sensor data, encryption/authentication and it can also to used to implement time synchronous schemes for low power radio communication. We argue that IP-based time synchronization, such as various flavors of the NTP protocol, can be used with Bluetooth networks. This in combination with an activation schedule allows an efficient trade-off between energy consump-tion and communication delay, and provides easy integration with available infrastructure. The proposed approach in this paper is well suited for smaller wireless home networks, typically single-hop networks with access points that are always available. Our approach is verified by experiments performed on a COTS-based platform using Bluetooth. I.