AmICA - Design and implementation of a flexible, compact, and low-power node platform

  • Wireless sensor networks are the driving force behind many popular and interdisciplinary research areas, such as environmental monitoring, building automation, healthcare and assisted living applications. Requirements like compactness, high integration of sensors, flexibility, and power efficiency are often very different and cannot be fulfilled by state-of-the-art node platforms at once. In this paper, we present and analyze AmICA: a flexible, compact, easy-to-program, and low-power node platform. Developed from scratch and including a node, a basic communication protocol, and a debugging toolkit, it assists in an user-friendly rapid application development. The general purpose nature of AmICA was evaluated in two practical applications with diametric requirements. Our analysis shows that AmICA nodes are 67% smaller than BTnodes, have five times more sensors than Mica2Dot and consume 72% less energy than the state-of-the-art TelosB mote in sleep mode.

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Author:Sebastian Wille, Norbert Wehn, Ivan Martinovic, Simon Kunz, Peter Göhner
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-28076
Document Type:Report
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/10/01
Year of first Publication:2010
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2011/11/24
Tag:Node Platform Design
AmICA; Wireless Communication; Wireless Sensor Network
GND Keyword:Drahtloses Sensorsystem; Wireless sensor network
Page Number:12
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
CCS-Classification (computer science):A. General Literature
DDC-Cassification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 621.3 Elektrotechnik, Elektronik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vom 16.11.2011