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The NTP Experimental Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

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  • @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
Sheng-Po Kuo1, Chun-yu Lin2, Yueh-Feng Lee3, Hua-Wei Fang4, Y.-W. Peter Hong5, Hwa-Chun Lin2, Yu-Chee Tseng1, Chung-Ta King2, Chin-Liang Wang5,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • 2: Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 3: Information & Communications Research Labs., Industrial Technology Research Inst., Taiwan
  • 4: Networks and Multimedia Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
  • 5: Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
*Contact email: clwang@ee.nthu.edu.tw

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.

Keywords
Context-aware services location-based services middleware architecture over-the-air remote update wireless sensor networks.
Published
2010-05-16
Publisher
ICST
Modified
2010-05-16
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3115
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