Research Article

An Open and Modular Hardware Node for Wireless Sensor and Body Area Networks

Table 1

Commercial nodes.

Node Name Micro Transceiver Remarks Maker

COOKIES [20] ADUC841, MSP430 ETRX2 TELEGESIS, and ZigBit 868/915 Platform with hardware reconfigurability (Spartan 3FPGA based or Actel Igloo) Centro de Electronica Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

BTnode [21] Atmel ATmega 128L (8 MHz @ 8 MIPS) Chipcon CC1000 (433–915 MHz) and Bluetooth (2.4 GHz) BTnut and TinyOS support Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich

EPIC mote [22] TI MSP430 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver TinyOS University of California at Berkeley

Eyes [23] MSP430F149 TR1001 PeerOS Support TU Berlin, Germany

FlatMesh FM1 [24] 16 MHz 802.15.4 compliant Commercial system, for digital sensors. Second generation with built-in tilt sensor Senceive Ltd., London, UK

IMote [25] ARM core 12 MHz Bluetooth with the range of 30 m TinyOS Support Intel Research, USA

IMote 2.0 [25] Marvell PXA271 ARM 11–400 MHz TI CC2420 802.15.4/
ZigBee compliant radio
Microsoft.NET Micro, Linux, and TinyOS Support Intel Research, USA

T-Mote Sky [26] TI MSP430 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver Contiki, TinyOS, SOS, and MantisOS Support Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L., Madrid, Spain

Waspmote [27] Atmel ATmega 1281 ZigBee/802.15.4/DigiMesh/RF,
2.4 GHz/868/900 MHz
GPRS, Bluetooth, and GPS modules, sensor boards Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas S.L., Zaragoza, Spain

INDriya [28] Atmel ATmega 128L IEEE802.15.4 compliant XBee radios Comprehensive sensor mote with ambient light, temperature, accelerometer, JPEG camera, PIR, sound sensor, TinyOS, TinyOS compliant, and IPv6 network supportive stacks for internetworking Indrion Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, India

Iris Mote [29] ATmega 1281 Atmel AT86RF230 802.15.4/
ZigBee compliant radio
Mote Runner, TinyOS, and MoteWorks Support MEMSIC Inc., Andover, MA, USA

Mica2 [30] ATMEGA 128L Chipcon 868/916 MHz TinyOS, SOS, and MantisOS Support University of California at Berkeley, USA

MicaZ [30] ATMEGA 128 TI CC2420 802.15.4/
ZigBee compliant radio
TinyOS, SOS, MantisOS, and Nano-RK Support University of California at Berkeley, USA

Mulle [31] Renesas M16C Atmel AT86RF230 802.15.4/Bluetooth 2.0 Contiki, TinyOS, lwIP: TCP/IP and Bluetooth Profiles: LAP, DUN, PAN, and SPP Support Eishtec AB, Sweden

PowWow [32] MSP430F1612 TI CC2420 802.15.4/
ZigBee compliant radio
Open source; open hardware; and research platform INRIA CAIRN, Université de Rennes

Preon32 [33] ARM Cortex M3 Atmel AT86RF231 (2.4 GHz) Virtual machine, Contiki and 6LoWPan supported Virtenio GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Shimmer [34] MSP430F1611 802.15.4 Shimmer SR7 (TI CC2420) TinyOS Support. Built-In 3-Axis Accel., Tilt/Vib Sensor. Full range of expansion modules Shimmer Sensing, Dublin, Ireland

TelosB [26] TI MSP430 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver Contiki, TinyOS, SOS, and MantisOS Support Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L., Madrid, Spain