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Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Networks Open New Horizons For the Internet of Things
Credit: EUREKA
Researchers working on the Eureka ITEA software Cluster ESNA project have developed a flexible framework for wireless sensor-network applications by enhancing communications between different types of smart devices. As home networking becomes more common, linking smart devices will be increasingly important, and by using the ubiquity of the Internet, control and interactivity of these devices can be extended in the Internet of things.
The ESNA project aims to develop a multifunctional basic software platform that supports flexible application needs. The ESNA architecture supports off-the-shelf sensors and describes which types of nodes are ideal for different application domains.
"We discussed wireless sensor-network applications at an ITEA brokerage event in Barcelona in 2005," says the Swedish Institute of Computer Science's Olle Olsson. "We worked on a standards-compliant generic platform based on the emerging [IPv6] Internet standard, developing the world's smallest implementation of IPV6 in terms of lines of code."
The project led to a software-controlled technology enabling devices to operate as long as possible on one set of batteries.
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