IEE0210 Networks of Smart Things

Previously: Sensor Networks

Alar Kuusik, PhD in IT
ALAR.KUUSIK@TTU.EE

* Senior researcher @Thomas Johann Seebeck dept. of electronics

* R&D project manager @ELIKO Competence Centre

Mob: 5020210 Skype: alar.kuusik

Lecture: Wednesday 12.00-13.30 U02-309

Consultation: Wednesday 12.00-13.30 U02-212

Lecturers CV

2004 .... ELIKO (www.eliko.ee)

2003-2004 Postdoc in Tokyo wireless comm and mobile robotics

2001 PhD Compact Smart Home Systems: Design and Verification

of Cost Effective Hardware Solutions

1999-2003 HW design engineer at Artec Design

1995- .... Tallinn Univ of Tech

Industrial electronics, TTU hardware background

Industrial trainings, university fellowships: in California 1999,97,

Munich 1997, Stockholm 1994-95

IEEE member 10+ years

Ca 50 research papers (see www.etis.ee, search by name), 3 patents

Can supervise diploma works.

Do you know what means?

Bluetooth

Bluetooth Smart

Smart dust

Arduino One

Echelon Neuron chip

Cortex M0

RFID

NFC

Some projects to mention (RFID)

Some projects to mention (RFID)

Some projects to mention (RFID)

Some projects to mention (NFC)

Some projects to mention (Telecare)

Some projects to mention (Telecare)

Similar activities to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijArKE8vKU

Some projects to mention

(Positioning)

Robot navigation:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lba0zois6uc6xgv/WP_201
40812_15_28_11_Pro.mp4

SmartELI Streetlight
Control

system

SmartELI Street lighting soft- and

hardware:
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IPv6 (6LoWPAN) RF communication

(IoT compliant)
Tender partner for Estonian LED
street lighting proposal (10000 LED
lamps to be installed by Q2 2015)

Course topic
Anda teoreetilised ja praktilised alused juhtmega ja juhtmeta sensorvrkudest, nende printsiipidest, probleemidest ja lahendustest.
Theoretical and practical basic knowledge of wired and wireless sensor
networks, their principles, problems and solutions.
General principles of fixed and mobiles wired and wireless sensor
networks (protocols, standards, regulations, ad-hoc RF networks, RFIDtags in systems). Smart sensors in networks. Coding and interpretation of
measurement results. Powering solutions. Time synchronisation. Secure
communications.

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Big picture

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IEE0210 Networks of Smart Things

Lab works U02-204

Alina Gavrijaseva
alina.gavrijaseva@ttu.ee

Thursday 12.00-13.30
Two groups, starting from 18.09.2014

Two groups, every second week

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Literature

Wikipedia
Whitepapers of Zigbee, Zwave, IPSO alliances, KNX,
Lonworks

Texas Instruments, Analog Devices websites

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Formal procedures
All teaching materials(+e-mailings+ tests +):

http://ilias.elin.ttu.ee
1) Register Yourself for ILIAS
2) Join the Course
IEE0210 Networks of Smart Things (2014)
Password (to join)=IEE02102014
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One student presentation to be

prepared

Comparison on sensor network PHYs (Bluetooth, ANT,

)

Comparison of protocols (Zigbee vs RF4CE, )

Analysis of a real product (home automation solution)

Analysis of new chipsets

Security analysis

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Group work

One team work (in two groups):

Developing (on paper) a sensor system for a
task (SHM mobile antenna monitoring, health
monitoring of patient, ....)

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Labs: EZ430-RF2500 Based (Texas Instruments)

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-RF2500
Alternative: Chronos watch, RFID

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Topic I Smart thing network

applications

Applications for sensor networks:

Smart homes

Outdoor sensor networking

Industrial control

Car networks

Social sensor networking

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Topic II Smart Thing device and

network topologies

Source: ny1.com, mica

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Topic II - WSN

Existing wireless sensor networking (WSN)

standards:

Frequency ranges, allowed transmission power

Basic figures communication ranges, speeds, battery
lifetime

Existing standards: simple remote controls and

Simplicity, Zigbee, ANT+, Bluetooth (LE), EnOcean
Physical communication layers

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Topic III Wireless networking

standards in ST use

Zigbee, Bluetooth, BLE, ANT, Wireless Mbus, etc.

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Topic IV Wireless networking

modulation and encoding

Radio signal modulations used in local ST networks

AM, FSK, PSK

Wideband radios (802.15.4a)

Throughput, signal/noise ratio

WiFi based WSNs (for cars V-to-V IEEE802.11s)

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Topic V - RFID

Applications
Active and passive RFID
standards
Backscatter communication
RFID middleware,
synchronization

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Topic VI - Energy efficiency and energy

harvesting

Synchronization

Time slotting

High speed networking

Energy harvesting

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Topic VII IP sensor networking

Motivation for IP based lightweight networking

6LoWPAN

IETF standards

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Topic VIII Security in ST networks

Attacks in smart thing networks

Lightweight encryption theory and standards

Key exchange algorithms

Privacy in PAN/LAN

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Topic X Wired ST networks

Twisted pair communication

Powerline communication

Fiber

Strandards

Smart home: Echelon, KNX

Industrial control: GPIB, Profibus

Cars and industry: CANbus

Source: wsnblog.com

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Topic XI Semantics in ST networks

Interoperability issues

Taxonomies and ontologies

SensorML, SUMO, etc standards

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Talk is NOT about :

A. Sensors (a separate course)
B. Sensor signal processing (a separate course)

C. Positioning (a separate course)

D. Real-time embedded systems

(a separate course)
Not much about

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All questions, comments , ideas are welcome..

Yours,..

Alar
ALAR.KUUSIK@TTU.EE

Phone 5020210
Consultation: Thursday 15.30-16.30 II-212
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