Section: New Software and Platforms

Platforms

SolSystem

In collaboration with University College London and IBM, we have designed a cloud-based low-power network management solution called SolSystem. It serves as a “control tower” for the networks we deploy, allowing us to manage both the network and data produced by those networks. It is architected following the micro-service principle, and we are in the process of switching all of our deployments to that interface. Fig. 1 gives an example of the visualization the SolSystem web interface gives us.

OpenMote B

In collaboration with OpenMote (http://www.openmote.com/), we have designed the OpenMote B platform. This board contains both a CC2538 IEEE802.15.4 radio, and an AT86RF215 IEEE802.15.4g radio, offering communication on both 2.4 GHz and sub-GHz frequency bands, 4 modulations schemes, and data rates from 50 kbps to 800 kbps. The first prototypes (shown in Fig. 2) started being tested in December 2017.