Research Article
The NTP Experimental Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3115, author={Sheng-Po Kuo and Chun-yu Lin and Yueh-Feng Lee and Hua-Wei Fang and Y.-W. Peter Hong and Hwa-Chun Lin and Yu-Chee Tseng and Chung-Ta King and Chin-Liang Wang}, title={The NTP Experimental Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks \& Communities}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Context-aware services location-based services middleware architecture over-the-air remote update wireless sensor networks.}, doi={10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3115} }- Sheng-Po Kuo
Chun-yu Lin
Yueh-Feng Lee
Hua-Wei Fang
Y.-W. Peter Hong
Hwa-Chun Lin
Yu-Chee Tseng
Chung-Ta King
Chin-Liang Wang
Year: 2010
The NTP Experimental Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
TRIDENTCOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3115
Abstract
This paper presents the NTP experimental platform for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSN), which is built on the campus of National Tsing Hua University under the support of the National Science and Technology Program for Telecommunications (NTP) in Taiwan. The unique purpose of this testbed is to provide an open platform for research communities to test and to showcase their WSN systems and applications. The heterogeneous testbed is composed of three different sensor platforms: the III Zigbee Advanced Platform, the ITRI Sensor Platform and the Moteiv Tmote Platform. A middleware architecture is developed to support contextaware services (CASs) and location-based services (LBSs) across different sensor platforms. Specifically, a SENSORINFO gateway is implemented to hide the discrepancy of different sensor platforms from application developers, which allows application developers to deploy their CASs and/or LBSs while being oblivious to the underlying sensor hardware or system architecture. Moreover, to facilitate the experiments, an over-the-air (OTA) remote update function is available on the platform to enable reprogramming of sensors from a remote location. To demonstrate the unique features of this platform, we present two sample applications: the People Tracking System and the Green Building Monitoring System, which are examples of the LBS and the CAS, respectively.
