Section: New Software and Platforms

MPIGate

Participants : Mandar Harshe, Ye-Qiong Song [contact] .

MPIGate stands for Multi Protocol Interface GATEway for Tele-care, Environment Monitoring and Control. It was initiated by TRIO Team of LORIA and Inria Nancy Grand-est, in October 2009 as a follow-up of wireless sensor network (WSN) projects in ambient assisted living, smart home, logistic and industry domains. Since 2012, its evolution is continuously ensured by members of MADYNES Team. It is a set of software aiming at facilitating the development of both home automation and ambient assisted living applications thanks to the abstraction of heterogeneous sensor data and the facility of access to read and write functions over the devices plugged to the networks (wired and wirelessly). The key features of MPIGate include the drivers for different networks protocols (Bluetooth, WiFi, IEEE802.15.4/Zigbee, KNX, EnOcean) and a ROS-based middleware layer offering modularity and quality of service. This year, its evolution has mainly been carried out within SATELOR project and IPL PAL project. It can be used by people working on home automation and ambient assisted living applications. Further information can be found at http://mpigate.loria.fr .