We have presented a wireless monitoring network
system for smart home. The proposed system is a ZigBee
based wireless sensor and actuator network which can be
used to build various indoor monitoring applications such as
resident tracking, energy-efficient home appliance control
and home security. A complete prototype system has been
implemented which includes general nodes, sensor modules,
actuator modules and the base station. The working status of
the nodes has been tested by performing voltage monitoring
experiments. Future work will focus on adding localization
functions to the system for indoor navigation of home
service robots.