Performance Assessment of ESP8266 Wireless Mesh Networks

This paper presents a wireless mesh network testbed based on ESP8266 devices using painlessMesh library. It evaluates its feasibility and potential effectiveness as solution to monitor perishable goods, such fresh fruit vegetables, which are often stored transported inside refrigerated containers. Performance testing experiments with different numbers of nodes traffic loads message payload sizes conducted under unicast transmission. The impact performance is evaluated in terms delivery ratio delay, which, consequently, affect the energy consumption and, hence, lifetime. results this investigation an important contribution help researchers propose mechanisms, schemes, protocols improve challenging networks.