Title :
Flexible Hardware/Software Platform for Tracking Applications
Author :
Ansari, Junaid ; Sánchez, José ; Petrova, Marina ; Riihijärvi, Janne ; Raivio, Ossi ; Rerkrai, Krisakorn ; Jardak, Christine ; Oldewurtel, Frank ; Wellens, Matthias ; Wu, Lili ; Mähönen, Petri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Wireless Networks, RWTH Aachen Univ.
Abstract :
This paper describes the design, implementation and performance evaluation of a wireless sensor network based scalable outdoor vehicular tracking system. The system is highly flexible and configurable both from software and hardware architecture point of views and enables it to adapt to a wide range of vehicle tracking applications. We also present some intermediate results and the rationale behind our design approach. The system was tested for a network of 100 nodes and is scalable to a few thousand node setup. We believe that the vehicle localization and tracking results from our large scale deployment of sensor nodes and system design experience are useful to the community
Keywords :
telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; flexible hardware/software platform; outdoor vehicular tracking system; vehicle localization; wireless sensor network; Application software; Computer architecture; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Magnetometers; Sensor systems; Target tracking; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th
Conference_Location :
Dublin
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0266-2
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2007.14
