PotatoNet - Outdoor Testbed to evaluate WSNs exposed to real environmental conditions

Seasons

News

• 16.02.2016: Evaluation of IdealVolting with 16 nodes! Measurement of the energy efficiency by using the PotatoScopes is planned
• 09.12.2015: Relaunch of the PotatoNet for the winter season. Nine additional nodes were added to the network. Also a webcam was installed, which takes a picture every 15 minutes.
• 11.09.2015: Removal of PotatoNet due to harvesting. Relaunch of PotatoNet at the edge of the potato field. All nodes are online again.
• 25.08.2015: Relaunch of the PotatoNet without any problems. Evaluation of IdealVolting is online again. Also, we got a couple of important hardware components delivered, so expect Potatotnet to grow (and evolve) soon.
• 21.08.2015: Temporary removal of the Potatonet due to the upcoming harvest. Restart of evaluations is planned for the 26.08.2015.
• 17.07.2015: Start of the evaluation to analyze the reliability of undervolted WSNs using IdealVolting
• 09.07.2015: Setup of the measurement equippment to evaluate the drought stress of potato crops.
• 04.07.2015: Something (oder somebody) cut the Uplink cable. The damage has already been repaired.
• 29.06.2015: The first evaluation of undervolting-capable wireless sensor node under real environmental conditions! This evaluation will show the inmpact of temperatures on the reliability and energy efficiency of the WSN
• 20.06.2015: Visit PotatoNet at TU-Night 2015 on Saturday evening, June 27th. You can find us at the "Alan Turing Allee" (directly behind Informatikzentrum, Mühlenpfordtstr. 23).
• 30.05.2015: It is science! First real epxerimental payload running. We are analysing the deployment's topology under different conditions.
• 29.05.2015: Installed VDSL link in Dehtlingen. Hoping for a more stable uplink!
• 22.05.2015: Deployment in Dethlingen! Only 3G uplink for now.

Pictures

Some interesting pictures from construction, deployment and operation of Potatonet can be found in our gallery.

Open Source Downloads

We we will provide links to custom hard- and software we designed for PotatoNet here.

• 3G Failover script
• INGA v1.6.1 undervolting capable Wireless Sensor Node
• WRTnode OpenWRT-Image with SPI and I2C support

Publications

• Ulf Kulau, Silas Müller, Sebastian Schildt, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Investigation & Mitigation of the Energy Efficiency Impact of Node Resets in RPL, in Ad Hoc Networks, June 2021 (Kulau:AdHoc-Networks-2021, DOI, BibTeX)
• Björn Ulrich Gernert: On the Usability of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Farming Applications, Dissertation, January 2021 (dbbs_mods_00069271, DOI, BibTeX)
• Lars Wolf: Erweitertes Zusammenwirken in der Landwirtschaft - zur Diskussion, in Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz, Haux, Reinhold and Gahl, Klaus and Jipp, Meike and Kruse, Rudolf and Richter, Otto, Wiesbaden, pages 89-96, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2021 (Wolf2021, DOI, BibTeX)
• Jan Schlichter, Björn Gernert and Lars C. Wolf: Evaluating the Suitability of LoRa for Potato Storage Monitoring, in Proceedings of the 18th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN19, pages 5-8, September 2019 (Schlichter:FGSN2019, BibTeX)
• Björn Gernert, Jan Schlichter and Lars Wolf: PotatoScanner - A Mobile Delay Tolerant Wireless Sensor Node for Smart Farming Applications, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2019, Santorini Island, Greece, May 2019 (gernert:DCOSS2019, DOI, BibTeX)
• Robert Hartung: On the Challenges in Energy-Constrained Outdoor Wireless Sensor Networks: Trade off between Efficiency and Robustness, Doctoral Collquium, Shenzhen, China, November 2018 (hartung:sensys18:dc, BibTeX, Slides)
• Björn Gernert, Fabian Schwartau, Sebastian Raabe, Joerg Schoebel, Karsten Schubert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars C Wolf: Evaluation of Suitable Radio Frequencies for Data Transmission in Potato Warehouses, in 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Chengdu, China, October 2018 (gernert:MASS2018, DOI, BibTeX)
• Björn Gernert and Lars Wolf: Demo: An Interactive Demonstration of the PotatoScanner, a Mobile DTWSN Node, in Proceedings of the 17th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN18, Braunschweig, Germany, pages 73-74, September 2018 (gernert:FGSN18, BibTeX)
• Jana Huchtkötter, Andreas Reinhardt and Ulf Kulau: PulseHV: Opportunistic Data Transmissions over High Voltage Pulses for Smart Farming Applications, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCoSS 2018, New York, USA, June 2018 (Kulau:DCOSS2018, BibTeX, Runner-up for best paper)
• Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau and Lars Wolf: Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks: Robust but Efficient, in Proc. IDEA League Doctoral School on Transiently Powered Computing, Delft, The Netherlands, IDEA League (TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University, ETH Zurich, Chalmers University, Politecnico di Milano), November 2017 (hartung:tpc2017, BibTeX)
• Ulf Kulau, Daniel Bräckelmann, Felix Büsching, Sebastian Schildt and Lars Wolf: REAPer - Adaptive Micro-Source Energy-Harvester for Wireless Sensor Nodes, in Twelfth IEEE Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications 2017 (IEEE SenseApp 2017), Singapore, October 2017 (kulau:SenseApp:2017, BibTeX, Slides, Runner-up for best paper)
• Stephan Rottmann, Alexander Willecke, Jan Käberich, Georg von Zengen and Lars Wolf: miniDTN: A DTN Stack for 5EUR-WiFi-Nodes, in Proceedings of the 16th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN17, Hamburg, Germany, September 2017 (rottmann:FGSN17, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Silas Müller, Sebastian Schildt, Arthur Martens, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Energy Efficiency Impact of Transient Node Failures when using RPL, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2017, Macau, China, June 2017 (Kulau:WOWMOM2017, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Stephan Rottmann and Lars Wolf: Demo: Brzzz - A Simplistic but Highly Useful Secondary Channel for WSNs, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2017, Uppsala, Sweden, February 2017 (Kulau:EWSN2017, BibTeX, Slides, Poster, Best Demo Award)
• Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau, Björn Gernert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars Wolf: On the Experiences with Testbeds and Applications in Precision Farming, in Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, FAILSAFE'17, Delft, The Netherlands, pages 54-61, ACM, 2017 (Hartung:Sensys:2017:FAILSAFE, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Johannes van Balen, Sebastian Schildt, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Dynamic Sample Rate Adaptation for Long-Term IoT Sensing Applications, in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2016 (WF-IoT), Reston, USA, December 2016 (kulau:wf-iot:2016, BibTeX, Slides)
• S. Rottmann, R. Hartung, J. Käberich and L. Wolf: Amphisbaena: A Two-Platform DTN Node, in 2016 IEEE 13th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pages 246-254, October 2016 (Rottmann:MASS:2016, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
• Stephan Rottmann, Björn Gernert and Lars C Wolf: Demonstration of the Wireless Two-Platform DTN Node Amphisbaena, in The 13th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2016) (MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, October 2016 (Rottmann:MASS:2016:demo, BibTeX, Poster)
• Georg von Zengen, Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Low Cost Temperature Controlled Testbed for WSNs, Augsburg, Germany, September 2016 (FGSN:2016, BibTeX)
• Björn Gernert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars C Wolf: Poster: PotatoMesh - A Solar Powered WSN Testbed, Paderborn, Germany, July 2016 (gernert:MobiHoc:2016:poster, BibTeX)
• R. Hartung, U. Kulau and L. Wolf: Distributed Energy Measurement in WSNs for Outdoor Applications, in 2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), pages 1-9, June 2016 (Hartung:Secon:2016, DOI, BibTeX)
• R. Hartung, U. Kulau and L. Wolf: Demo: PotatoScope - Scalable and Dependable Distributed Energy Measurement for WSNs, in 2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), pages 1-3, June 2016 (Hartung:Secon:2016:Demo, DOI, BibTeX)
• Ulf Kulau, Stephan Rottmann, Sebastian Schildt, Johannes van Balen and Lars C Wolf: Undervolting in Real World WSN Applications: A Long-Term Study, in The 12th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 2016 (IEEE DCoSS 2016), Washington D.C., USA, May 2016 (kulau:dcoss:2016, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: IdealVolting - Reliable Undervolting on Wireless Sensor Nodes, in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), New York, NY, USA, ACM, January 2016 (kulau:TOSN:2016, BibTeX)
• Ulf Kulau, Tobias Breuer and Lars C Wolf: A Clustering-Based Characteristic Model for Unreliable Sensor Network Data, in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2015 (WF-IoT), Milan, Italy, December 2015 (kulau:wf-iot:2015, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Sebastian Schildt, Stephan Rottmann and Lars Wolf: Paint it Black - Increase WSN Energy Efficiency with the Right Housing, in The 6th Workshop on Real World Wireless Sensor Networks, RealWSN15, Seoul, South Korea, November 2015 (kulau:RealWSN, BibTeX, Slides)
• Ulf Kulau, Sebastian Schildt, Stephan Rottmann, Björn Gernert and Lars Wolf: Demo: PotatoNet - Robust Outdoor Testbed for WSNs: Experiment Like on Your Desk. Outside., in Proceedings of the 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks, CHANTS '15, Paris, France, pages 59 - 60, ACM, September 2015 (Kulau:chantsDEMO2015, BibTeX)
• Ulf Kulau, Sebastian Schildt, Stephan Rottmann, Björn Gernert and Lars Wolf: PotatoNet - Outdoor WSN Testbed for Smart Farming Applications, in Proceedings of the 14th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN15, Erlangen, Germany, September 2015 (kulau:FGSN15, BibTeX, Slides)

Project members at IBR

Theses

If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau.