Low-Power Personal Area Network Application Development Platform

In this paper, we describe a wireless system infrastructure made for data collection and re-distribution in applications such as assets tracking. The system was designed to be flexible and rapidly reprogrammable, while keeping low-power and low-cost as the primary design objectives. The system comprises three distinct components - embedded nodes with user interface, network coordination and routing unit, as well as a database and dynamic Web page server. The hardware and the software were designed to be modular and expandable. The complete infrastructure was built and tested in the form of a wireless conference manager. The system 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