Section: New Software and Platforms

FIT IoT-LAB (Platform)

Participant : Thomas Watteyne.

Note well: IoT-lab is NOT strictly speaking a project of Inria-EVA. It is a large project which runs from 2011 to 2021 and which involves the following other partners Inria (Lille, Sophia-Antipolis, Grenoble), INSA, UPMC, Institut Télécom Paris, Institut Télécom Evry, LSIIT Strasbourg. This section highlight Inria-EVA activity and contribution to the IoT-lab testbed in 2015.

• The Paris-Rocquencourt deployment has been stable throughout 2015.

• Thomas Watteyne and the OpenWSN community have been using the platform (all sites, not just Rocquencourt) extensively throughout 2015. Highlights include:

  • Nicola Accettura (then postdoc at UC Berkeley) created scripts to automate running OpenWSN on the IoT-lab, under the co-supervision of Thomas Watteyne and Prof. Kris Pister. Source code is available at https://github.com/openwsn-berkeley/openwsn-on-iotlab .

  • This work was presented during the OpenWSN hackathon held in conjunction with the IETF93 standardization meeting in Prague in July 2015.

  • Prof. Diego Dujovne from Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) visited Thomas Watteyne in July 2015 to work on the Mercator project (https://github.com/openwsn-berkeley/mercator ) to collect Dense Wireless Connectivity Datasets for the IoT on the IoT-lab.

• The Inria-EVA team supported the IoT-lab admin team to remove malfunctioning batteries from the Inria-Rocquencourt deployment in December 2015.

• Thomas Watteyne integrated the IoT-lab admin team in December 2015. Together, they are working on a smaller test deployment with the Inria-EVA premises at Inria-Paris, on which development will be done to:

  • Allow commercial hardware to be plugged into the IoT-lab gateways.

  • Allow multiple motes to be plugged into the same IoT-lab gateway.

  • Use the IoT-lab for deploying and verifying the correct functioning of the OpenWSN implementation on all supported hardware board.

  • Use the IoT-lab for deploying and verifying the correct functioning of the OpenWSN implementation at small/medium/large scale.

• The activities above are lead by Tengfei Chang from the Inria-EVA team, under the supervision of Thomas Watteyne, and in close collaboration with the IoT-lab core team.