Using Tagus-SensorNet with 6LoWPAN

Project Details:

Goal: The Tagus-SensorNet Platform runs multiple applications for differentiated purposes. However, the test-bed needs to be expanded to new areas within the Taguspark Campus. Furthermore, this expansion should be made exploring new approaches in WSNs, namely the use of IPv6 stacks in the sensor nodes.

This project aims to develop an application, preferably adapting the functionality of the already existing environmental interaction application, now over a 6LoWPAN platform. The use of a different (from the one already operating in the Tagus-SensorNet) Base Station is mandatory. Also, to take advantage of the individual connectivity provided by 6LowPAN, this Base Station should allow the implementation of a portal through which individual sensor's data can be retrieved on the Internet. Last but not the least, the project should encompass the full deployment of the required number of sensors, in the block E area, including the site survey and power supply provisioning for a full functioning network.

Assigned to: Bruno Lima e Filipe Marques

Project Website: Tagus-SensorNet with 6LowPAN

Details

The Tagus-SensorNet Platform runs multiple applications for differentiated purposes. However, the test-bed needs to be expanded to new areas within the Taguspark Campus. Furthermore, this expansion should be made exploring new approaches in WSNs, namely the use of IPv6 stacks in the sensor nodes.

This project aims to develop an application, preferably adapting the functionality of the already existing environmental interaction application, now over a 6LowPAN platform. The use of a different (from the one already operating in the Tagus-SensorNet) Base Station is mandatory. Also, to take advantage of the individual connectivity provided by 6LowPAN, this Base Station should allow the implementation of a portal through which individual sensor's data can be retrieved on the Internet. Last but not the least, the project should encompass the full deployment of the required number of sensors, in the block E area, including the site survey and power supply provisioning for a full functioning network.

Material

  • MicaZ

Architecture

6LowPAN

  • 6LowPAN is an acronym of IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks.
  • The 6LowPAN group has defined encapsulation and header compression mechanisms that allow IPv6 packets to be sent to and received from over IEEE 802.15.4 based networks.
  • The base specification developed by the 6LowPAN IETF group is RFC 4944.
  • The problem statement document is RFC 4919.

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About Us

Filipe Alexandre Ricardo Marques

Filipe.Marques@ist.utl.pt

+351 96 372 22 65

Bruno Filipe Ramoa Lima

Bruno.Lima@ist.utl.pt

+351 96 542 70 43