Title :
EcoSpire: An Application Development Kit for an Ultra-Compact Wireless Sensing System
Author :
Chen, Chien-Ying ; Chen, Yu-Ting ; Tu, Yi-Hsuan ; Yang, Shun-Yao ; Chou, Pai H.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
EcoSpire is a hardware and software platform for wireless sensing applications. The hardware kit consists of two types of self-contained, expandable sensor nodes, as well as, a multipurpose base station and programmer, a cascadable charger, and sensor modules. The software kit consists of an integrated development environment (IDE) for application programming and RF debugging utilities on the host computer, plus a lightweight operating system with support for data logging and remote firmware reprogramming. Together, this package facilitates application development of ultra-compact, wearable wireless sensing systems.
Keywords :
data loggers; firmware; wireless sensor networks; EcoSpire; RF debugging utilities; cascadable charger; data logging; hardware kit; integrated development environment; lightweight operating system; multipurpose base station; remote firmware reprogramming; sensor modules; software platform; ultracompact wireless sensing system; wearable wireless sensing systems; Embedded systems; integrated development environment; platform-based design; runtime support; wireless sensor networks;
Journal_Title :
Embedded Systems Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LES.2009.2037984
