Wireless ANDON Tower with NRF24L01

The ANDON tower uses the low-cost NRF24L01  transceiver to send the experimental data from the sensor node to the coordinator node, with a computer connected to the coordinator node to store the data in a CSV file. The transceiver uses the SPI protocol for communication with the ANDON tower microcontroller. Its maximum range is 30 meters, however the maximum distance in the experimental scenario is 16 m. The transceiver works in the 2.4GHz free band and allows setting the transmission power in -18dBm, -12dBm, -6dBm and 0dBm. The transmission rate setting options are 250kbps, 1Mbps and 2Mbps. The communication tests were realized sending a payload of  2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 bytes.