University of Skvde School of Humanities and Informatics

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Information Fusion Visitor Lab Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) test bed

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics WSN research in Information Fusion? • Real-time sensing in several IF scenarios – Vehicle detection, Agriculture, Situation awareness • Distributed information fusion – Larger infrastructures – Improved fault tolerance • Collaboration – Companies within the IF profile – WSN group at University of Virginia (UVA) • Two long visits to UVA • Assisted living, Medical monitoring, Environmental monitoring – Sensor integration, Leo Selavo (University of Latvia)

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Basic requirements • • • Mobile sensors and gateways (database nodes) Off-the-shelf products Industry standards Open platform Wi-Fi Usefulness in classes too Zigbee

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Mobile sensor node: Crossbow Telos B • On-board sensors – Visible light, IR, humidity, temperature • Digital I/O, I 2 C, serial port, 8 x ADC, 2 x DAC – Open interface to integrate other sensors – Serial port, shared: Radio/1 MB Flash/RS-232 port • 16 -bit RISC (MSP 430), 10 k. B RAM, 1 MB Flash • Zigbee communication – <100 m, ’ 5 x modem speed’ Battery time <7 days

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Mobile gateway node: Nokia N 800 • • • ’PDA performance’ Maemo Linux 128 MB RAM, 256 MB FLASH Web cam Microphone, Stereo speakers 2 x SD slots (2 x <8 GB) Touch screen (800 x 480 pxl) and stylus Wireless: Wi. Fi 802. 11 b/g, Bluetooth 2. 0 1 x USB Battery time <12 days

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Open platforms • Crossbow ’Telos. B’ - sensors – Tiny. OS and nes. C • Nokia ’N 800’ - gateway – Linux based Open source project ’Maemo’, supported by Nokia – Continous development: N 810 (keyboard, GPS, faster), OS 2008 release

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics WSN lab equipment • Sensor nodes – ~20 Telos. B: USB, serial TTL, digital I/O, analog I/O – ~20 MICAz: serial TTL, digital I/O, analog I/O + sensor boards: accelerometer, sounder, . . – ~10 Tiny mote (Mini-SD) – 3 Seemote – Soil sensors (SLU), Vehicle sensors (Exensor) • Gateways/Database nodes – 2 Nokia N 800 + 2 GPS modules – 3 Nokia N 810

University of Skövde School of Humanities and Informatics Next • Summer integration project • Demonstrator development • External project application for collaboration