Is it possible to receive signals from third party WSN nodes?

[SKauth]

For the research on advanced WSN applications it might be beneficial to have a radio gateway being able to communicate with nodes of different manufacturers. For example programmable nodes using ZigBee or the Texas Instruments SimpliciTI protocoll. Is this technically possible with a NI Gateway?

Regards,

Simo

[jkurtw]

Hi Simo,

This is not possible with the NI WSN Gateway, but there are LabVIEW drivers for several WSN vendors. You would need to include their gateway. 

Kurt 

[SKauth]

Hi Kurt,

but with another vendor's gateway, I would still be  bound to their nodes, right? I'm looking for a more versatile solution to receive signals from all kinds of sensors... Simply being able to receive some data would already be nice for evaluation of different solutions. Any further suggestions?

Regards,

Simo

[Kevin_H]

Hey Simo,

NI-WSN Nodes can only communicate with NI-WSN Gateways. There is an application layer on top of the Zigbee standard that NI has implemented, and that prevents third party hardware from working with these devices.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Kevin