  This letter presents a transducer network framework that supports the
amalgamation of multiple transducers into single wireless nodes. This approach
is aimed at decreasing energy consumption by reducing the number of wireless
transceivers involved in such networks. To make wireless nodes easily
reconfigurable, a plug and play mechanism is applied to enable the clustering
of any number of transducers. Furthermore, an algorithm is proposed to
dynamically detect added and removed transducers from a node. Lastly, an XML
based protocol is devised to allow nodes to communicate a description of their
layout, measured data and control information. To verify the proposed
framework, multiple reconfigurable wireless nodes are used to monitor the
dynamic condition of a multiple rooms during a period of 24 hours in order to
emulate a smart home scenario.
