KEYWORDS: Telecommunications, Sensor networks, Sensors, Control systems, Wireless communications, Data communications, Data processing, Process control, Transceivers, Reliability
A photo-bioreactor is a bioreactor that incorporates some types of light source to provide photonic energy input into
the reactor[1][2]. In the situation of Large-scale industrialization production of micro-algae, hundreds of
photo-bioreactors will be deployed in a factory, thus the design of entire system is based on the distribution theory and
the remote monitoring must be deployed. So the communication in the entire photo-bioreactors system is very important.
However, the recent solution of communication is based on RS-485 data bus, and the twisted-pair cable is used as the
communication medium, so the flexibility and scalability of entire system reduce. In this paper, the wireless sensor
network (WSN) based on ZigBee technology is applied to this photo-bioreactors system, and the related key problems
include the architecture of entire system and the design of wireless sensor network nodes[3]~[6]. The application of this
technology will also reduce the cost and effectively raise the intelligence level of the large-scale industrialization
photo-bioreactors system.
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