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Architecture and evaluation of INGA an inexpensive node for general applications
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2012-12-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
1
End Page
4
Article Number
6411295
Citation
IEEE sensors, 2012: 6411295, 1-4 (2012-12-01)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
IEEE
ISBN of container
978-1-4577-1766-6
INGA is a cost-efficient and universal wireless sensor node for activity monitoring and for general applications. INGA's architecture bases on an 8-bit Atmel microcontroller and runs Contiki OS and TinyOS 'out of the box'. The motivation to develop INGA was driven by the need for a reasonable, cheap and expandable node for several use cases: On the one hand, in a research project, we intend to do a gait analysis of elderly persons with it, on the other hand we want to equip our student WSN lab with new nodes. For the first case none of the existing nodes fulfilled our requirements concerning assembled sensors and functionality. In this paper, we present the motivation and design for 'yet another sensor node' furthermore, we present the detailed architecture and its benefits in comparison to other nodes. The first measurement results using INGA show its characteristics and usability. INGA is completely under open-source license and all resources are provided to the community.
DDC Class
004: Informatik
600: Technik
More Funding Information
The Lower Saxony research network “Design of Environments for Ageing” acknowledges the support of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture through the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” grant programme (grant ZN 2701).