Title
iAssist: rapid deployment and maintenance of tiny sensing systems
Abstract
Commercial, coin-sized iButton temperature logger devices are well-suited for densely instrumenting large outdoor areas. An efficient workflow for deploying and maintaining those devices is necessary when striving to deploy and operate several hundreds of data logger devices. Additionally, a sophisticated data management is required for handling the emerging, large amounts of meta and measurement data. Therefore, we developed iAssist, a solution that integrates the handling of iButton data logger devices together with a GPS receiver and a digital camera for gathering accurate location information. iAssist efficiently supports the whole workflow consisting of deploying, relocating and reading tiny sensing systems. iAssist is especially tailored for outdoor operation asking for as little user interaction as possible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1869983.1870043
SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
outdoor operation,measurement data,data logger device,rapid deployment,coin-sized ibutton temperature logger,large amount,instrumenting large outdoor area,ibutton data,efficient workflow,sophisticated data management,logger device,sensor networks,data logger,data management
Data logger,Sensing system,Software deployment,Computer science,Real-time computing,Digital camera,Wireless sensor network,Data management,Workflow,Assisted GPS,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Keller1766.07
Guido Hungerbuehler200.34
Oliver Knecht300.34
Suhel Sheikh400.34
Jan Beutel500.34
Stefanie Gubler600.34
Joel Fiddes700.34
Stephan Gruber800.34