Flexible Hardware/Software Platform for Tracking Applications

Author

Ansari, Junaid ; Sánchez, José ; Petrova, Marina ; Riihijärvi, Janne ; Raivio, Ossi ; Rerkrai, Krisakorn ; Jardak, Christine ; Oldewurtel, Frank ; Wellens, Matthias ; Wu, Lili ; Mähönen, Petri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Wireless Networks, RWTH Aachen Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

22-25 April 2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper describes the design, implementation and performance evaluation of a wireless sensor network based scalable outdoor vehicular tracking system. The system is highly flexible and configurable both from software and hardware architecture point of views and enables it to adapt to a wide range of vehicle tracking applications. We also present some intermediate results and the rationale behind our design approach. The system was tested for a network of 100 nodes and is scalable to a few thousand node setup. We believe that the vehicle localization and tracking results from our large scale deployment of sensor nodes and system design experience are useful to the community

Keywords

telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; flexible hardware/software platform; outdoor vehicular tracking system; vehicle localization; wireless sensor network; Application software; Computer architecture; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Magnetometers; Sensor systems; Target tracking; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th

Conference_Location

Dublin

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2007.14

Filename

4212442