A Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network for Sensor and Actuator Management in Smart Sustainable Cities

In developing Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC), we consider providing communication networks to communicate with sensors and actuators. Internet of Things devices are expected to send data over a long distance and save energy consumption. Understanding the challenges of data transmission in the urban area, the authors propose a hybrid wireless mesh network as a network infrastructure for managing sensors and actuators deployed in the SSC. Studying wireless technologies proposed for IoT networks, the authors describe the hybrid network architecture within SSC systems. An experiment was performed using modules equipped with various wireless interfaces. As the experimental results, the nodes far from the gateway can exchange data with the remote server in the mesh network.