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Fisher, Roy
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Ledwaba, Lehlogonolo P.I.
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Hancke, Gerhard P.
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Kruger, Carel Phillip
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2015-09-08T07:28:33Z |
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2015-09-08T07:28:33Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The concept of the Internet of Things is rapidly becoming a reality, with
many applications being deployed within industrial and consumer sectors. At the ‘thing’
level—devices and inter-device network communication—the core technical building blocks
are generally the same as those found in wireless sensor network implementations. For
the Internet of Things to continue growing, we need more plentiful resources for building
intelligent devices and sensor networks. Unfortunately, current commercial devices, e.g.,
sensor nodes and network gateways, tend to be expensive and proprietary, which presents
a barrier to entry and arguably slows down further development. There are, however,
an increasing number of open embedded platforms available and also a wide selection
of off-the-shelf components that can quickly and easily be built into device and network
gateway solutions. The question is whether these solutions measure up to built-for-purpose
devices. In the paper, we provide a comparison of existing built-for-purpose devices against
open source devices. For comparison, we have also designed and rapidly prototyped a sensor
node based on off-the-shelf components. We show that these devices compare favorably to
built-for-purpose devices in terms of performance, power and cost. Using open platforms
and off-the-shelf components would allow more developers to build intelligent devices and sensor networks, which could result in a better overall development ecosystem, lower barriers
to entry and rapid growth in the number of IoT applications. |
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am2015 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The work described in the paper was partially supported by a grant from City University of Hong Kong
(Project No. 7200375). This work is based on the research supported in part by the National Research
Foundation of South Africa (Grant Reference TP1207183332) and our industry partners, Telkom, |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Fisher. R, Ledwaba, L, Hancke, G & Kruger, C 2015, 'Open hardware : a role to play in wireless sensor networks?', Sensors, vol. 15, pp. 6818-6844. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1424-8220 |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.3390/s150306818 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49727 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
MDPI Publishing |
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dc.rights |
© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. |
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dc.subject |
Internet of things (IoT) |
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dc.subject |
Industrial networks |
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dc.subject |
Machine to machine |
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Smart grid |
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Wireless sensor network (WSN) |
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dc.title |
Open hardware : a role to play in wireless sensor networks? |
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dc.type |
Article |
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