List of wireless sensor nodes
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The following table lists out the prototype and commercial motes/sensor nodes available.
Sensor Node Name | Microcontroller | Tranceiver | Program+Data Memory | External Memory | Programming | Remarks |
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BEAN | MSP430F169 | CC1000 (300-1000 MHz) with 78.6 kbit/s | 4 Mbit | YATOS Support | ||
BTnode | Atmel ATmega 128L (8 MHz @ 8 MIPS) | Chipcon CC1000 (433-915 MHz) and Bluetooth (2.4 GHz) | 64+180 K RAM | 128K FLASH ROM, 4K EEPROM | C and nesC Programming | BTnut and TinyOS support |
COTS | ATMEL Microcontroller 916 MHz | |||||
Dot | ATMEGA163 | 1K RAM | 8-16K Flash | weC | ||
EPIC Mote | Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller | 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver | 10k RAM | 48k Flash | TinyOS | |
Eyes | MSP430F149 | TR1001 | 8 Mbit | PeerOS Support | ||
EyesIFX v1 | MSP430F149 | TDA5250 (868 MHz) FSK | 8 Mbit | TinyOS Support | ||
EyesIFX v2 | MSP430F1611 | TDA5250 (868 MHz) FSK | 8 Mbit | TinyOS Support | ||
FlatMesh FM1 | 16MHz | 802.15.4-compliant | 660 sensor readings | Over-air control | Commercial system, for digital sensors | |
FlatMesh FM2 | 16MHz | 802.15.4-compliant | 660 sensor readings | Over-air control | Commercial system, built-in tilt sensor | |
GWnode | PIC18LF8722 | BiM (173 MHz) FSK | 64k RAM | 128k flash | C | Custom OS |
IMote | ARM core 12 MHz | Bluetooth with the range of 30 m | 64K SRAM | 512K Flash | TinyOS Support | |
IMote 1.0 | ARM 7TDMI 12-48 MHz | Bluetooth with the range of 30 m | 64K SRAM | 512K Flash | TinyOS Support | |
IMote 2.0 | Marvel PXA271 ARM 11-400 MHz | TI CC2420 802.15.4/ZigBee compliant radio | 32MB SRAM | 32MB Flash | Microsoft .NET Micro, Linux, TinyOS Support | |
Iris | ATmega1281 | Atmel AT86RF230 802.15.4/ZigBee compliant radio | 8K RAM | 128K Flash | nesC | TinyOS, MoteWorks Support |
KMote | TI MSP430 microcontroller | 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver | 10k RAM | 48k Flash | TinyOS and SOS Support | |
Mica | Atmel ATMEGA103 4 MHz 8-bit CPU | RFM TR1000 radio 50 kbit/s | 128+4K RAM | 512K Flash | nesC Programming | TinyOS Support |
Mica2 | ATMEGA 128L | Chipcon 868/916 MHz | 4K RAM | 128K Flash | TinyOS, SOS and MantisOS Support | |
Mica2Dot | ATMEGA 128 | 4K RAM | 128K Flash | |||
MicaZ | ATMEGA 128 | TI CC2420 802.15.4/ZigBee compliant radio | 4K RAM | 128K Flash | nesC | TinyOS, SOS, MantisOS and Nano-RK Support |
Mulle | Renesas M16C | Bluetooth 2.0 | 31K RAM | 384K+4K Flash, 2 MB EEPROM | C programming | TCP/IP and Bluetooth Profiles: LAP, DUN, PAN and SPP Support |
Nymph | ATMEGA128L | CC1000 | 64 kB EEPROM | MantisOS Support | ||
Rene | ATMEL8535 | 916 MHz radio with bandwidth of 10 kbit/s | 512 bytes RAM | 8K Flash | TinyOS Support | |
SenseNode | MSP430F1611 | Chipcon CC2420 | 10K RAM | 48K Flash | C and NesC programming |
GenOS and TinyOS Support |
SunSPOT | ARM 920T | 802.15.4 | 512K RAM | 4 MB Flash | Java | Squawk J2ME Virtual Machine |
Telos | Motorola HCS08 | 4K RAM | ||||
TelosB | Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller | 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver | 10k RAM | 48k Flash | Contiki, TinyOS, SOS and MantisOS Support | |
Tinynode | Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller | Semtech SX1211 | 8K RAM | 512K Flash | C Programming | TinyOS |
T-Mote Sky | Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller | 250 kbit/s 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver | 10k RAM | 48k Flash | Contiki, TinyOS, SOS and MantisOS Support | |
weC | Atmel AVR AT90S2313 | RFM TR1000 RF | ||||
XYZ | ML67 series ARM/THUMB microcontroller | CC2420 Zigbee compliant radio from Chipcon | 32K RAM | 256K Flash | C Programming | SOS Operating System Support |
FireFly | Atmel ATmega 1281 | Chipcon CC2420 | 8K RAM | 128K FLASH ROM, 4K EEPROM | C Programming | Nano-RK RTOS Support |
List of Gateway Sensor Nodes
Microcontroller | Tranceiver | Interface (USB/Serial/Wifi/Ethernet) | Program Memory | External Memory | |
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Stargate | IntelPXA255 | 802.11 | Serial connection to WSN | 64 MB SDRAM | 32 MB Flash |
FlatMesh FMG-S | 16 MHz | 802.15.4-compliant | Serial connection to FlatMesh FM1, FM2 | 660 sensor readings |
Topics in Wireless Sensor Networks | ||||||
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Software | Hardware | Conferences/Journals | Standards | |||
Operating Systems | Programming Languages | Middleware | Simulators | |||
TinyOS, BTnut, SOS, Contiki, Nano-RK, Reflex | nesC, C | TinyDB | TOSSIM,NS-2, Avrora | see list of sensor nodes | Sensys, IPSN, EWSN,SECON, INSS | ZigBee |