IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Conference Manager system

In this paper, we describe a wireless system infrastructure made for data collection and sharing during educational and business conferences. The system is designed to be flexible and rapidly reprogrammable, while keeping low-power and low-cost as the primary design objectives. The system comprises of three distinct components - embedded nodes with user interface, network coordination and routing unit, as well as the WWW and database subsystem. The hardware and the software were designed to be modular and expandable. Our Wireless Conference Manager - WCM has already been deployed at two high-profile IEEE international conferences. Testing and verification results collected at these events demonstrate its suitability as well as expendability for new requirements and applications