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Introduction to Sensor Networks
Introduction to Micaz Sensor Board
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MicazXpl
Project Report
http://micazxpl.googlecode.com
Ankit Singh
Philipp Orekhov
Rishu Seth
Mohammad Tarique
Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main - University of Applied Sciences
15 February 2011
Ankit Singh Philipp Orekhov Rishu Seth Mohammad Tarique MicazXpl Project Report http://micazxpl.googlecode.com

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Table of Contents I
1 Introduction to Sensor Networks
Overview
Fields of Application
Home Applications
Environment Applications
Military Applications
Type of Sensors
Factors Inuencing Sensor Network Design
2 Introduction to Micaz Sensor Board
Software components
Hardware components
3 Project Approach
Tutorials
Research Papers

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Table of Contents II
Documentations
Developments of Applications
4 Project Proposals
Data
Transmission
Methods
Improving the Availability
5 Conclusion
6 Bibliography

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Introduction
A wireless sensor network is a collection of nodes organized
into a cooperative network.
Each node consists of processing capability (one or more
microcontrollers, CPUs or DSP chips)
Contain multiple types of memory (program, data and ash
memories),
have a RF transceiver (usually with a single omnidirectional
antenna),
have a power source (e.g., batteries and solar cells), and
accommodate various sensors and actuators.

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Home Applications
Home automation: smart sensor nodes and actuators can be
buried in appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, micro-wave
ovens, refrigerators, and VCRs. They are connected to
external networks.
Smart environment: Furniture and appliances (and servers)
learn to provide the needed service.
Smart kindergarten: to provide parents and teachers with the
abilities to comprehensively investigate students' learning
processes; to collect, manage, and fuse the information of the
sensors
And Many more applications

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Environment Applications
Forest re detection: Strategically, randomly, and densely
deployed sensor nodes can relay the exact origin of the re.
Biocomplexity mapping of the environment: integrating
information across temporal and spatial scales.
Flood detection: rainfall, water level and weather sensors
supply information to the centralized database system.
Precision Agriculture: the pesticides level in the drinking
water, soil erosion, and air pollution.

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Military Applications
Monitoring friendly forces, equipment and ammunition.
Battleeld surveillance
Reconnaissance of opposing forces and terrain
Targeting
Battle damage assessment
Nuclear, biological and chemical attack detection and
reconnaissance

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Sensors
Dierent types of sensors: seismic, low sampling rate
magnetic, thermal, visual, infrared, acoustic and radar.
Monitors: temperature, humidity, vehicular movement,
lightning condition, pressure, soil makeup, noise levels.

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Overview
Type of Sensors
Factors
Fault tolerance;
scalability;
production costs;
operating environment;
sensor network topology;
hardware constraints;
transmission media; and
power consumption.

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Software components
Hardware components
Software components I
TinyOS
it is open source.
portable.
designed for low-power wireless devices.
supports scheduling.
component library includes network protocols, distributed
services, sensor drivers, and data acquisition tools.
Linux: We used because it is much compatible with TinyOS
environment.
Programming Environment
Network Embedded System C (nesC): is a component-based,
event-driven programming language used to build applications
for the TinyOS platform.

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Software components II
Java: Allows portable message structure handling and used for
GUI.
Shell scripting: Frontend tool and for writing tools for working
smoothly with TinyOS environment.

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Hardware components I
Crossbow oers a variety of sensor and data acquisition boards
for the MICAz Mote.
Some features are given below
Size 2.25 x 1.25 square inches
Same size as the Mica Board
2 Layer Board (Top and Bottom)
top in a stack of daughter cards
We used MTS300 Sensor Daughter card board.
We sensed Light, temperature, acoustic and sounder sensor.
MICAz Mote:
I/O: 51 pin connector for connection to a sensor board
Supports Analog inputs, Digital I/O, I2C, SPI and UART 3
Diagnostic LEDs

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Hardware components II
Radios: TI CC2420
CPU: Atmega 128L Microcontroller up to 16 MIPS
Storage: 128K Flash, 4K SRAM, 4K EEPROM
Base Stations: Any MICAz Mote can function as a base
station when it is connected to a standard PC interface or
gateway board. The MIB510 or MIB520 provides a serial/USB
interface for both programming and data communications.

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Learned from TinyOS Tutorials I
we rst installed the TinyOs system and introduced with
motes and learnt how to use those motes. Also we learnt how
we pushed TinyOs application on motes
in second step we learnt how we can write TinyOs applications
using nesC languages and usages of interfaces,commands and
events.
The Tutorial Mote-Mote Radio Communication introduced
us to radio communication in TinyOS. We got familiar with:
Packet
Send
Receive
PacketAcknowledgements
RadioTimeStamping

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Learned from TinyOS Tutorials II
Then we moved to Mote Pc communication tutorial. We
learnt here:
How to communicate with a mote from a computer.
We used RJ 45 cable i.e TCP/IP network for connecting
programming board to computer (in our case Laptop).
In sensing tutorial we learnt two things
Sense Application: It periodically takes sensor readings and
displays the values on the LEDs.
Oscilloscope: It periodically broadcast their sensor readings to
a base station board to computer (in our case Laptop).

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Summaries of Research Papers I
Adhoc Routing architecture -
We described general Ad-Hoc routing architecture.
Our proposal − A new Ad-Hoc architecture with data
reliability and integrity using Sliding window protocol.
Generalised topology of WSN − Analysis of various kind of
topologies for WSN.
Star
Bus
Mesh
Hybrid
Ring
CTP-Collection Tree Protocol −
It is basic structure of data transmission protocol in WSN.

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Summaries of Research Papers II
Demerits − It is only useful for low trac data.
RSSI-Received signal strength indicator − Used to measure
distance between sensor nodes.
Advantages − Indoor and Outdoor usage
Data and communication and sensor usage on same hardware.
Disadvantages − Multiple propogation
Fading eect
Energy Eciency Topologies − We researched various
topologies and approaches
Online battery monitoring
Patterned topologies
Location based topology(R M and LMST)

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Content of the Report
Initial proposal for the implementation a realiable data
acquisition system
TinyOS installation guide for Beginners (A quick cheatsheet to
get started)
Research paper based on several Research papers. :D
A compilation of interesting ndings :))

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MicazXpl Version 0.1 I
Message Structure
typedef nx_struct data {
nx_uint16_t moteid; // ID OF THE SENSING MOTE
nx_uint16_t timestamp; // timestamp to distinguish
// between older data
// 3 types of sensor readings
nx_uint16_t light[NREADINGS];
nx_uint16_t sound[NREADINGS];
nx_uint16_t temp[NREADINGS];
} data_t;
// message content + crc sum of the content

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MicazXpl Version 0.1 II
typedef nx_struct msg_crc {
data_t msg_data;
nx_uint16_t crc;
} msg_crc_t;
// message to be encrypted + encrypted crc sum
typedef nx_struct enc_msg_crc {
msg_crc_t msg;
nx_uint16_t final_crc;
nx_uint8_t counter; // hop (incremented
// at each successive mote)
} enc_msg_crc_t;

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MicazXpl Version 0.1 III
Encryption
void crypt(void *buf, uint8_t lenBuf, uint16_t key);
void crypt(void *buf, uint8_t lenBuf, void *key,
uint8_t lenKey)
Forward-to-previous Routing:
mote id 3 with sensor → mote id 2 → mote id 1 → mote id 0
or base station
CRC Calculation
async command uint16_t crc16(void *buf, uint8_t len);

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Live Sensor Result I
The sample of live recorded data with encrypted and decrypted
payload data is given below:
Encrypted Payload Data
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE ED FF 12 FF 12 FF 12 FF 12
FF 12 FC ED FC ED FC ED DD F0 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE EC FC ED FC ED FC ED FC
ED FC ED FC ED FC EC FC EF B4 45 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE EF FC FF FC F5 FC F6 FC F3
FC F1 FC FA FC F9 FC FF 88 22 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE EE FC CA FC C6 FC C3 FC C2
FC FC DD FC C6 FC CB 2F BF 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE E9 FC F2 FC CE FC C2 FC DA

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Live Sensor Result II
FC D6 FC D0 FC D3 FC D0 61 44 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE E8 FC DE FC C3 FC C7 FC C2
FC D7 FC AF FC AB FC AA 86 B4 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE FE EF FE EB FC AB FC A9 FC AF FC D3
FC D5 FC D9 FC DF FC DC D3 EA 1D BF 00
Decrypted Payload Data
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 00 01 F5 01 F5 01 F5 01 F6
01 F6 01 F6 01 F6 01 F6 0F A7 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 02 02 11 02 1A 02 1C 02 16
02 11 02 0D 02 1B 02 25 DD 15 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 06 02 40 02 3B 02 36 02 33
02 31 02 3D 02 43 02 45 BD 4F 1D BF 00

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Live Sensor Result III
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 07 02 46 02 41 02 3C 02 37
02 34 02 32 02 31 02 30 81 80 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 08 02 30 02 30 02 2F 02 2F
02 2F 02 2E 02 2E 02 2E 47 E3 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 09 02 2C 02 2A 02 29 02 2E
02 39 02 41 02 44 02 46 73 FC 1D BF 00
00 00 01 00 02 19 00 EE 00 02 00 0A 02 45 02 43 02 41 02 3E
02 3B 02 38 02 3E 02 45 A0 93 1D BF 00

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MicazXpl Version 0.2
Version 0.1 + CTP Routing
Problems
hard to monitor trac paths due to dynamic link estimation.
extra overhead on the message format and size.
real-time operations on the data become more time consuming.
Possible steps to use CTP
link with the CTP, net and some link estimator libraries (in
Makele).
setup the root node to be at the base station.
enable the routing to be performed through the CTP.
manage the message format and size for proper data handling.
ignore or overcome the real-time message operations
slowdowns.

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Data
Transmission
Methods
Data
CRC Checksum:
we want to be sure the integrity of the data is intact.
To achieve that a library function from the TinyOS can be
used.
Timestamp:
we want to avoid duplicate data and be able to control the
ordering.
For that a timer library function from the TinyOS can be used.
Security:
we want to ensure that the data is not easily available to
unauthorized viewers.
For that a fast and simple shared-key XOR based encryption
function is to be used. Additionally or alternatively the radio
chip's built in security mechanisms can be used.

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Data
Transmission
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Data
Sensor Readings:
we want to be able to check for missing data and possibly
outliers in data.
For missing data - a predened value (eg 0xFF) can be used.
For outliers - some simple statistical calculations.
Message Structure:
we want to make sure we can collect and transfer the data
items of our choice, and to incorporate the above mentioned
mechanisms.
For that we specify our own message structure format with:
counter, timestamp, security integrity and the message
content itself.

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Data
Transmission
Methods
Transmission
Multihop and Routing:
we want to have dierent routing mechanisms to be in control
of the data transmission.
The mechanisms we use are: broadcast transmission and
directed message passing.
For directed: we can use a simple 'forward-to-previous-node'
multihop, as well as the more advanced multihop protocols,
like CTP.
Data Loss and Damage:
we want to prevent accidental and malicious data
modications during transmissions.
These requirements can be accomplished by use of control
messages, timeouts and counters, and the security integrity
mechanisms described previously.

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Data
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Transmission
Network Congestion:
we want to avoid network overloads leading to data loss.
By combining the use of on-device storage with intelligent
retransmission, we may have a simple way to achive that goal.
Mote Availability:
we don't want the data transmissions to be lost when some
nodes become unavailable or more nodes become available.
A simple solution that can be used is to require all nodes to
broadcast their IDs as 'alive messages' periodically.

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Methods
Redundancy:
we would like to be able to handle the situations of hardware
and software components from failing or working unexpectedly.
Appying the principles of software, data and hardware
redundancy is a common approach to be taken.
Local Storage:
in case something unintended happens to the data during
transmissions we would like to have a copy of the original.
Utilizing local storage is a simple and ecient solution for this
issue.

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Power Management:
for the battery powered devices motes are it is necessary to
keep the power consumption to the minimum the prolong
unattended availability of the devices.
Switching o unnecessary components and using the available
power management options (eg Sleep state) is a way to
achieve this requirement.
Low Power Listening:
TinyOS provides an option for putting the device's
components to sleep mode until woken by an event, like timer
expiry or a remote message.
Taking advantage of this optional functionality might be very
useful.

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Conclusion
We learned many theoritical and practical aspects of
embedded sensor boards and general eld of sensor networks.
We have learned the specics of micaZ sensor kits and devised
a project to learn and improve upon the basics of this eld.
We have read around number of research topics that cover the
current practical problems in sensor network communities.
We have gathered the practical experience in the production of
scientic and technical documentation. e.g Research
Development scientic papers.
And there should be more open papers and research documents
available freely for the reseachers in this sensor network area.
We need to work more our project MicazXpl Version 0.2.

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Thank You for listening !

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Bibliography
TinyOS Ocial Website http://tinyos.net/
An Overview of Sensor Network Techniques, EECS 600 Advanced Network Research, Spring 2005
Wireless Sensor Networks, John A. Stankovic, Department of Computer Science, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904
The Collection Tree Protocol (CTP), TEP 123

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