Introduction
Designing hardware for wireless sensor network (WSN) systems is a time consuming process. Quite often new systems are designed from scratch and there is lack of support for the design, prototyping and debugging beyond the CAD tools. Therefore, many WSN systems are based on available platforms such as MicaZ, TelosB, EPIC [1] [7] [4]. Although these platforms offer a degree of flexibility, the hardware setup is limited to the predesigned sensor or extension modules. However, many WSN applications have specific requirements regarding the sensing types and fidelity while are very sensitive to the current draw by these sensors and waste by the unused components. Therefore, we propose a WSN hardware prototyping test bench EdiMote developed with the flexibility of prototyping, performance monitoring and hardware and software debug assistance in mind (Figure 1).
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Ruskuls, R., Selavo, L. (2010). EdiMote: A Flexible Sensor Node Prototyping and Profiling Tool. In: Marron, P.J., Voigt, T., Corke, P., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. REALWSN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6511. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17520-6_24
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