Demo: Snap: rapid sensornet deployment with a sensornet appstore

  • Authors:
  • Simon Duquennoy;Niklas Wirström;Adam Dunkels

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Despite ease of deployment being seen as a primary advantage of sensor networks, deployment remains difficult. We present Snap, a system for rapid sensornet deployment that allows sensor networks to be deployed, positioned, and reprogrammed through a sensornet appstore. Snap uses a smartphone interface that uses QR codes for node identification, a map interface for node positioning, and dynamic loading of applications on the nodes. Snap nodes run the Contiki operating system and its low-power IPv6 network stack that provides direct access from nodes to the smartphone application. We demonstrate rapid sensor node deployment, identification, positioning, and node reprogramming within seconds, over a multi-hop sensornet routing path with a WiFi-connected smartphone.