- The document summarizes the author's research advance from February to April, which involved developing an advanced wireless sensor network prototype.
- The advanced prototype integrated another Zigbee solution called Xbee that acts as a coordinator and link routers to enable larger network coverage, and allows sensor information to be sent through satellite communication channels.
- It also has the capability of hardware encryption using the AES algorithm. The network topology includes one Xbee coordinator, one router node, six sensor nodes, and an Iridium 9603 satellite server for communication.