Sensicast

Crossbow Seminar
January 15, 2003
Sensicast Overview
About Sensicast Systems
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Sensicast creates solutions using wireless
technology
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Our first focus was on cultural artifacts
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Founded in September 2002
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Mission: Be the leading provider of Wireless
Sensor Networks
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End-to-end Solutions
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Gateways / embedded controllers
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Software Technology
Located in Needham, MA
Tool Kits
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Evaluation Upgrade
A useful example of how to sample data with
TinyOS. Open source example code.
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Development Software
A data collection tool for arbitrary sensors and
for the MDA300CA. A complete sensor
network with no need to write TinyOS code.
Evaluation Upgrade
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Dated: TinyOS 0.6 plus
Mica Sensor Board
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Manual Actuation
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Temperature
Light
LEDs
Sounder
Connectivity test
Does not sleep (TinyOS issue)
No routing
Evaluation Upgrade
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Standalone application (GUI)
„ GUI must be running to collect samples
„ GUI logs samples in a single user database
„ One User at a time
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Development Software
Development Software
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Development Software
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Development Software
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Simple Flood Routing
„ Edge Nodes Sleep when idle
„ Arbitrary Sensors (MDA300CA, MicaSB)
„ Radio Range Test
„ Manual actuation
„ Automatic Actuation from Sensor readings
(rule based)
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Development Software
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Active and Hidden nodes
„ Data gathered as a service
„ Multiple simultaneous users
„ Alerts (rule based)
„ Conversion to arbitrary Engineering units
„ Client server Architecture
„ Socket Interface
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