The NTP experimental platform for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

— 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 context-aware 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 s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: TRIDENTCOM
• Authors: 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
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor, ITRI Sensor Platform, Moteiv Tmote Platform, TRIDENTCOM 2008