Gatherer: an environmental monitoring application based on IPv6 using wireless sensor networks. (30th July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ramos, Manuel Delamo; Foster, Andrew David; Felici–Castell, Santiago; Fos, Vicent Gallart; Solano, Juan José Pérez
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 13:Number 3/4(2013)
• Page Start: 209
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2013-07-30
• Subjects: IPv6 -- 6LoWPAN -- BLIP -- WSNs -- wireless sensor networks -- environmental monitoring -- data collection -- wireless networks -- temperature -- relative humidity; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

In this paper, we present an environmental monitoring application based on IPv6 using wireless sensor networks. We show the guidelines to connect this network to internet using the 6LowPAN standard with a real prototype in the evolution of the Internet of Things. We assign a unique IPv6 address to the different nodes (motes) of the network. Gatherer is based on TinyOS using IPv6 and UDP protocols and allows the data gathering of temperature and relative humidity from the different motes, requesting specific data from individual motes when required, increasing the accuracy of the measures. We compare the performance of our IPv6–based proposed application against others and show the benefits of the client/server architecture defined.