The OpenWSN project and the OpenMote teamed up to organize the first “OpenWSN & OpenMote” tutorial at the IEEE GLOBECOM conference on 6 December 2015 in San Diego. The very well attended half-day tutorial was a great success (download the flyer: openwsn_tutorial_flyer).
The tutorial was organized as a hands-on journey across the Industrial IoT. The first hour was dedicated to an accelerated crash-course on the protocol stack for the Industrial IoT, highlighting standard protocols such as IEEE802.15.4e TSCH, 6LoWPAN, RPL and CoAP. Each attendee was then handed an OpenMote and a virtual
machine image containing the complete OpenWSN environment. Attendees started by running an emulated network using OpenSim, the OpenWSN emulator. All attendees then collaborated in building a working OpenMote-based OpenWSN network in the tutorial room.
The event ended by a competition, in which attendees were challenges to publish a particular type of packet to the root of the OpenWSN network. This required to add a new application on top of OpenWSN, recompile, and redeploy the firmware image onto the OpenMote. Congrats to Marcin Piotr Pawlowski and Glenn Daneels for winning the Challenge and bringing home an OpenMote bronze kit!
About OpenWSN: (http://www.openwsn.org/)
OpenWSN is an open-source implementation of 6TiSCH technology, including standards such as IEEE802.15.4e Timeslotted Channel Hopping (TSCH), 6LoWPAN, RPL and CoAP. The OpenWSN protocol stack runs on 11 off-the-shelf platforms, including the popular OpenMote, and comes with a simulation platform. The OpenWSN project was started at UC Berkeley and is now co-lead by Inria-EVA and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
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About OpenMote: (http://www.openmote.com/)
OpenMote is a startup company born in Berkeley (from the OpenWSN project) and located in Barcelona, aiming to develop open hardware platforms to support the IETF 6TiSCH technology. OpenMote develops cutting edge, low power wireless prototyping boards and tools and it is centered in facilitating the adoption of industrial wireless protocols.
About Inria-EVA: (https://team.inria.fr/eva/)
Inria-EVA is a leading research team in low-power wireless communications. The team pushes the limits of low-power wireless mesh networking by applying them to critical applications such as industrial control loops, with harsh reliability, scalability, security and energy constraints. Grounded in real-world use cases and experimentation, EVA co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH standardization working group and co-leads Berkeley’s OpenWSN project. The team is associated with Prof. Glaser’s (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Kerkez (U. Michigan) through the REALMS associate research team, with Prof. Krishnamachari (USC) through the DIVERSITY associate research team, and with OpenMote through a long-standing Memorandum of Understanding.
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