EXPERIMENTAL CALCULATION OF RSSI FOR JENNIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK PLATFORM

Wireless Sensor Network received signal strength and link quality Indicators, RSSI and LQI respectively, of Wireless Sensor Network are considered as a crucial indication for channel characterization and thus network communication success. Most of researcher used LQI as an estimation of RSS, although it is not accurate since it depend on approximation estimation. This research introduces an experimental method to calculate the RSS value of Jennie wireless network transceiver in dBm. The work has done indoor and outdoor environments to validate the results. The results can be used by researchers who adopt this platform based propagation and network communication prospective.