Design and performance analysis of wireless sensor network location node system for underground mine

Aiming at the application of a wireless sensor network to locating miners in underground mine, we design a wireless sensor network location node system, considering the communication performance and the intrinsic safety. The location node system consists of a mobile node, several fixed nodes, and a sink node, all of whose circuits were designed based on CC2430. A varistor and a RC circuit were used in the reset circuit of a sensor node to guarantee the intrinsic safety by reducing discharge energy, the theoretical analysis of the discharge energy shows that the reset circuit is an intrinsic safety one. The analysis and simulation about the performance of the location node system are discussed, such as network communication delay and packet loss rate, the results show that the highest network communication delay of the system is about 0.11 seconds, and the highest packet loss rate is about 0.13, which assures the location node system has a high reliability, and can locate miners in the underground mine.