Design and implementation of an open-source Wireless Sensor Network development platform

Wireless Sensor Networks is a growing research field and often researchers use a development platform to implement their experimental ideas and protocols. Wireless sensor network development boards provide interfaces to hardware, radios, real time operating systems, and routing protocols, allowing quick implementation of ideas. However, the selection of WSN development boards available is limited, and sometimes, depending on the popularity of the platform, support and resources are scarce. In this paper, a development platform design is presented, which employs commonly used and widely supported open source hardware and software. The board is also designed to use standard hardware interfaces to make adding additional sensors an easy task.