[Tinyos-devel] Release of low power 802.11b/g Sensor Board (Imote2)

[Marcelo Pias]

Dear All

We've just announced the release of an "open source" low power  
wireless sensor board for the Imote2 platform. This board works under  
Linux at the moment.

And we're currently looking for volunteers to add support for it in  
TinyOS. We put some technical information here:

http://imote2-linux.wiki.sourceforge.net/UCAM-WSB100

So drop me a line if you're interested in helping us! Please see our  
announcement email below.

Many thanks

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Dr. Marcelo Pias
Cambridge University
Computer Laboratory
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mp431
SESAME (www.sesame.ucl.ac.uk)
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Marcelo Pias <marcelo.pias at cl.cam.ac.uk>
> Date: 15 October 2008 13:08:53 BDT
> To: intel-mote2-community at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Release of low power 802.11b/g Sensor Board
>
> Dear All
>
> We'd like to announce the release of the UCAM-WSB100 - a low power  
> wireless
> sensor daughter board for the imote2 platform, designed to  
> facilitate high
> data-rate wireless sensor applications.
>
> The UCAM-WSB100 was developed to support the experimental work of  
> SESAME - an
> UK-funded project (EP/D076943), that investigates the use of sensor  
> systems
> (in particular on-body wireless sensors) with off-line and real- 
> time processing
> and feedback in enhancing the performance of elite athletes.
>
> == Overview of UCAM-WSB100
>
> * Compatible with the Imote2 processor board
> * Low Power 802.11 b/g based on Marvell 88W8686 chipset
> * Supports ad-hoc and infrastructure modes
> * Access to power control of the radio system
> * 12 analog channels (12-bits resolution)
> * Physical dimensions: 48mm x 36mm
> * Linux driver support via libertas drivers in mainline kernel
>
> Further details on the UCAM-WSB100 can be found here:
>
> http://imote2-linux.wiki.sourceforge.net/UCAM-WSB100
>
> == Open source hardware - Help sought
>
> As part of our effort to develop open source hardware for use in  
> conjunction
> with xbow's imote2, we will make the details of the hardware  
> reference design
> (schematics, board layout diagrams) available to the WSN community  
> (license to
> be confirmed but it's likely to be GPL). Users will be able to  
> easily tailor the
> system to their particular application. We currently seek  
> volunteers to help us
> improve our hardware reference design and add support for this  
> board in other
> operating systems (e.g. TinyOS and .Net).
>
> At the moment we're requesting expressions of interest to estimate  
> a number of
> potential users, so we can look at options for producing a first  
> batch of
> boards (to be made available at manufacturing cost).
>
> If you're interested to get some boards for your project/ 
> application, drop a
> line to marcelo.pias at cl.cam.ac.uk
>
> Marcelo Pias
> Jonathan Cameron
>
> University of Cambridge
> Computer Laboratory and Dept of Engineering
>