EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

The wireless interrogator that has been constructed by ICCS and AMS ought to be tested in the framework of task 1.2 “Design and Development of the Base Station Wireless Interrogator and the High Gain, High Efficiency Antenna Unit Using Hybrid Technologies”.

According to the description of work, wireless test signals have to be sent and evaluated at different distances of communication with different environmental and obstruction situations. This deliverable describes the simulation and the measurement results from the wireless interrogator including the antenna.

This document provides some general information about the communication link implementation between the Base Station Wireless Interrogator and the several sensor nodes that have been installed in a building for the acceleration and the strain measurement data transmission. The Zigbee protocol has been selected and Zigbit units have been utilised for the purposes of the communication link. More information about this procedure has been provided by AMS in an internal report since 12/08. The content of this report has been included in the Annex I of this deliverable.

This deliverable summarizes the results of the simulations that were performed using the Agilent ADS2009 software in order the appropriate function of the Wireless Transceiver to be verified.

Last but not least, the series of measurements in an indoor and an outdoor environment (in both semi-urban and typical urban area) are given. All of the results prove that the selection of the zigbee protocol was the appropriate one for the MEMSCON application.