Seamless test environment for distributed embedded wireless networks

The rising adaption of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 is expected to boost the demands of spatially distributed embedded wireless networks. For an efficient design flow of reliable wireless communication protocol implementations, it is essential to have a testing environment, which is continuous, simple and automated at various levels in the development life cycle. This paper presents an overview of seamless test environment for embedded wireless networks at the authors' institute, ivESK, which supports testing and verifying similar code branches on various platforms and abstraction levels, such as simulation, virtualized testbeds, emulated testbeds and field testbeds.