Building a Low-Cost Digital Garden as a Telecom Lab Exercise

Author

Bletsas, Aggelos ; Vlachaki, A. ; Kampianakis, Eleftherios ; Sklivanitis, George ; Kimionis, John ; Tountas, Konstantinos ; Asteris, Megasthenis ; Markopoulos, Panos

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan.-Mar. 2013

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

57

Abstract

In an interdisciplinary, semester-long class, undergraduate students learn how to build a low-cost, multihop wireless sensor network from first principles for a digital garden. This type of course better prepares electrical engineering graduates for the sensor-rich, pervasive computing era.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; electrical engineering education; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; electrical engineering graduates; low-cost digital garden; multihop wireless sensor network; semester-long class; sensor-rich pervasive computing era; telecom lab exercise; undergraduate students; Digital communication; Education courses; Informatics; Programming; Rersearch and development; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless sensor networks; education and training; low-cost wireless sensor networks; pervasive computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2011.83

Filename

6109376