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AmICA – A Flexible, Compact, Easy-to-Program and Low-Power WSN Platform

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Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (MobiQuitous 2010)

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In this paper, we present AmICA: a flexible, compact, easy-to-program, and low-power WSN platform. Developed from scratch and including a node, a basic communication protocol, and a debugging toolkit, it assists in a user-friendly rapid application development. Our analysis shows that AmICA nodes are 67% smaller than BTnodes, have five times more sensors than Mica2Dot and consume 72% less energy than the state-of-the-art TelosB mote in sleep mode.

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  1. Microelectronic Systems Design Research Group, Uni. of Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Sebastian Wille & Norbert Wehn

  2. Distributed Computer Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Ivan Martinovic

  3. Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Eng., Uni. of Stuttgart, Germany

    Simon Kunz & Peter Göhner

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  1. LAARS, CNRS, Département de Mathématique et Informatique, ENSICA, 1 Place Emile Blouin, Toulouse, 31056, France

    Patrick Sénac

  2. NICTA, Australian Technology Park, 1430, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

    Max Ott

  3. NICTA, 13 Garden Street, 1430, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

    Aruna Seneviratne

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Wille, S., Wehn, N., Martinovic, I., Kunz, S., Göhner, P. (2012). AmICA – A Flexible, Compact, Easy-to-Program and Low-Power WSN Platform. In: Sénac, P., Ott, M., Seneviratne, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_45

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