The uPart experience: building a wireless sensor network

Beigl, Michael; Krohn, Albert; Riedel, Till; Zimmer, Tobias; Decker, Christian; Isomura, Manabu

doi:10.1109/ipsn.2006.243849

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“…Each our local WoT domain is a smart resource management environment [28], which employs µPart sensor nodes [29] to detect movement around the chairs, the tables or of the devices, and to monitor temperature and lighting status in the rooms. Each socket is equipped with a Plugwise 1 Circle and each heater is controlled with FHT 2 sensor and actuator.…”

Section: A Distributed Energy Resource Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Smart Energy system: Distributed resource management, control and optimization

Ding

Decker²,

Vassileva

et al. 2011

2011 2nd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

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Abstract-This paper presents a novel concept of distributed energy resource and consumption management, which proposes to design a networked and embedded platform for realizing a dynamic energy mix and optimizing the energy consumption dynamically. Based on heterogeneous wireless sensor networks and a local Web of Things platform, the environmental parameters and energy data can be acquired and processed in a distributed manner in real time. In order to improve understanding on how different environmental factors and user behaviors influence the end use of energy, we propose a User Profiling module to investigate the characterization of user's goals and behaviors in terms of energy consumption. Besides the wireless sensor networks, the User Profiling module acquires data also from a questionnaire which mainly concerns four categories, i.e. characteristics of the residents, electrical appliances, attitudes towards energy and building structural information.Furthermore, based on the real-time information from the sensor network platform and the user profiling module, an embedded Resource and Consumption Controller will then adapt automatically for instance the regulation processes of energy consumption in a household locally for the users, so that the costs of all energy resources will not exceed the predetermined budget and be regulated in a user-preferred way.Index Terms-User profiling, Web of Things, energy management, multi-agent systems, PID controller, dynamic energy mix.

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Section: A Distributed Energy Resource Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Smart Energy system: Distributed resource management, control and optimization

Ding

Decker²,

Vassileva

et al. 2011

2011 2nd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

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“…The sensors and actuators that we utilize are shown in Figure9. Figure9a is a device called "uPart" [13], which is a tiny wireless sensor node with temperature, light, and movement sensors implemented. Figure9b is "d-bridge" [14], which is a programmable base-station for uPart.…”

Section: Smart Teco Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A distributed resource management architecture for interconnecting Web-of-Things using uBox

Namatame

Ding

Riedel

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Web of Things

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Although there are many smart devices and networked embedded object applications using World Wide Web technologies, it is still a big step to go towards a true Web of Things. It is e.g. difficult to build ubiquitous WoT applications that work in and accross multiple environments. Approaches which aggregate WoT ressources by centralizing all the resource information, have problems: total dependency on external infrasture, lack of private WoT management, inflexible communication patterns and limited dynamic ressource discovery and mapping. To solve these problems, we propose uBox, a local WoT platform which can be a stand-alone server to make your WoT environment, with interfaces to connect the other local WoT platforms. This way, which we call uBoXing, we can create World Wide WoT platform with a distributed architecture. This paper describes the concept of a distributed resource management architecture, and how we implement the concept into software. Also, we will discuss the platform with the example application in SmartTecO environment.

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“…Two examples of rather small, simplistic WSN development platforms are the uPart Sensor nodes [4] from the TecO group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the MITes [13] from House n at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Both have a single purpose (gathering sensory data), are as simplistic as the task allows, and both attempt to make the development and operation processes as easy to conduct as possible.…”

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“…On top of the RF communication interface, the nodes implement an over-the-air-configuration protocol that allows for remote configuration of parameters such as duty cycle length and sensing rate comparable to those found in uParts [4]. The node is well adapted to post-hoc computing applications along the lines of Smart-Its [5] which make them specifically suitable for the dinam concept.…”

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Dinam: A wireless sensor network concept and platform for rapid development

Gordon

Beigl

Neumann

2010

2010 Seventh International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS)

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Abstract-dinam is a novel approach to simplified rapid prototyping of wireless sensor network applications as well as an according WSN platform. As opposed to the traditional motebased development archetype, dinam proposes combining the development steps into a single continuous, fluid process that is completely integrated into the node. The dinam concept sensor node integrates all development tools, source code and other data into the sensor node system. It is claimed that this concept will greatly reduce the amount of effort required to develop wireless sensor network applications by removing the overhead of installation, iterative development steps and complexity of the development process. In order to confirm or refute this claim, a first prototype for educational purposes is developed and presented which implements the dinam approach. The development of applications is evaluated in terms of time required for a specific scenario with a user study. The results presented here indicate that an integrated instruction and development period of 10 minutes is sufficient for simple applications using the dinam approach.

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The uPart experience: building a wireless sensor network

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

A Smart Energy system: Distributed resource management, control and optimization

A Smart Energy system: Distributed resource management, control and optimization

A distributed resource management architecture for interconnecting Web-of-Things using uBox

Dinam: A wireless sensor network concept and platform for rapid development

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