TandemStack - A Flexible and Customizable Sensor Node Platform for Low Power Applications

Oliver Stecklina, Dieter Genschow, Christian Goltz

2012

Abstract

Wireless sensor nodes are becoming more and more considered for a wide variety of application scenarios. But by going into real world scenarios requirements becomes more complex and must be covered more accurate. Furthermore, these requirements must be met by a development process that is driven by the factors of cost and time. Reusing components is a promising way to make such a development process more efficient. We present a flexible and customizable sensor node platform which follows the objective to assemble as few functional units as possible on a single Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The PCBs are connected by a standardized board-to-board connector, which makes a free ordering and mixture of different modules possible. We will show that by using a standardized Mote Component Interconnect (MCI) an extension as well as an adaption of a sensor node to new scenarios becomes feasible by adding or replacing single platform components. The presented sensor node platform allows a fast and inexpensive development process as is necessary for current and upcoming real word applications.

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Stecklina O., Genschow D. and Goltz C. (2012). TandemStack - A Flexible and Customizable Sensor Node Platform for Low Power Applications . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-8565-01-3, pages 65-72. DOI: 10.5220/0003833200650072


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@conference{sensornets12,
author={Oliver Stecklina and Dieter Genschow and Christian Goltz},
title={TandemStack - A Flexible and Customizable Sensor Node Platform for Low Power Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2012},
pages={65-72},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003833200650072},
isbn={978-989-8565-01-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - TandemStack - A Flexible and Customizable Sensor Node Platform for Low Power Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-01-3
AU - Stecklina O.
AU - Genschow D.
AU - Goltz C.
PY - 2012
SP - 65
EP - 72
DO - 10.5220/0003833200650072