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Inexpensive Node for General Applications
INGA is an Open Source Wireless Sensor Node for many different applications. INGA was developed at IBR as Inexpensive Node for General Applications and became part of many projects.
Areas of Application
Technical Details
For further details we recommend to look at the WiKi.
Getting Started
Please refer to the Getting Started-Section in the WiKi.
Download
The current hardware-release of INGA is 1.4. All relevant files (schematics, etc.) can be checked out of the SVN:
http://svn.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/project-cm-2012-inga/public/
Contiki support for INGA can be checked out of our GIT repository:
git://git.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/project-cm-2012-inga-contiki.git
All downloads can be found in the Download-Section in the WiKi.
Literature
 | An overview of INGA's specifications and general information on a flyer. (PDF, A4, double-sided, 501 kB) (printable version with higher resolution, 2.8 MB) | |
| A short overview of INGA's specifications on a small flyer. (PDF, 1/3 A4, double-sided, 475 kB) (printable version with higher resolution, 1.7 MB) |  |
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, 2021 (Kulau:AdHoc-Networks-2021, DOI, BibTeX, accepted for publication)
- 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)
- 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)
- Dominik Schürmann, Felix Büsching, Sebastian Willenborg and Lars C Wolf: RAIM: Redundant Array of Independent Motes, in International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys), Göttingen, Germany, pages 1-8, March 2017 (schuermann:RAIM:2017, DOI, 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)
- Nico Jaehne-Raden, Ulf Kulau, Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Hubertus Meyer zu Schwabedissen and Michael Marschollek: INBED: INEXPENSIVE NODE FOR BED-EXIT DETECTION: A WEARABLE FALL PREVENTION SYSTEM, in Innovation in Aging, Vol. 1, No. suppl_1, pages 1016, 2017 (jaehneraden:kulau:iagg2017, DOI, BibTeX)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ulf Kulau, Stephan Friedrichs and Lars Wolf: Demo: Voltage Scheduling of Peripheral Components on Wireless Sensor Nodes, in Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2015, Porto, Portugal, pages 33-36, February 2015 (Kulau:EWSN2015, BibTeX, Slides, Poster)
- Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: The Rebirth of One-Time Pads - Secure Data Transmission from BAN to Sink -, in Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, Vol. 2, No. 1, pages 63-71, February 2015 (buesching:iot:otp:2014, DOI, BibTeX)
- Felix Büsching, Keno Garlichs, Johannes van Balen, Yannic Schröder, Kai Homeier, Wolf-Bastian Pöttner Ulf Kulau, Stephan Rottmann, Sebastian Schildt, Georg von Zengen and Lars Wolf: Quadrotor-based DT-WSNs for Disaster Recovery, in Proceedings of the 13th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN14, Potsdam, Germany, September 2014 (buesching:FGSN14, BibTeX)
- Reinhold Haux, Andreas Hein, Gerald Kolb, Harald Künemund, Marco Eichelberg, Jens-E. Appell, H.-Jürgen Appelrath, Christian Bartsch, Jürgen M. Bauer, Marcus Becker, Petra Bente, Jörg Bitzer, Susanne Boll, Felix Büsching, Lena Dasenbrock, Riana Deparade, Dominic Depner, Katharina Elbers, Uwe Fachinger, Juliane Felber, Florian Feldwieser, Anne Forberg, Matthias Gietzelt, Stefan Goetze, Mehmet Gövercin, Axel Helmer, Tobias Herzke, Tobias Hesselmann, Wilko Heuten, Rainer Huber, Manfred Hülsken-Giesler, Gerold Jacobs, Elke Kalbe, Arno Kerling, Timo Klingeberg, Yvonne Költzsch, Christopher Lammel-Polchau, Wolfram Ludwig, Michael Marschollek, Birger Martens, Markus Meis, Eike Michael Meyer, Jochen Meyer, Hubertus Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Niko Moritz, Heiko Müller, Wolfgang Nebel, Franz J. Neyer, Petra-Karin Okken, Julia Rahe, Hartmut Remmers, Lars Rölker-Denker, Meinhard Schilling, Birte Schöpke, Jens Schröder, Gisela C. Schulze, Mareike Schulze, Sina Siltmann, Bianying Song, Jens Spehr, Enno-Edzard Steen, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Nele-Marie Tanschus, Uwe Tegtbur, Andreas Thiel, Wilfried Thoben, Peter van Hengel, Stefan Wabnik, Sandra Wegel, Olaf Wilken, Simon Winkelbach, Thorben Wist, Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Lars Wolf and Melanie Zokoll-van der Laan: Information and communication technologies for promoting and sustaining quality of life, health and self-sufficiency in ageing societies - outcomes of the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL), in Informatics for Health and Social Care, Vol. 39, No. 3-4, pages 166-187, 2014 (buesching:IHSC:2014a, DOI, BibTeX, PMID: 25148556)
- Marco Eichelberg, Felix Büsching, Enno-Edzard Steen, Axel Helmer, Andreas Thiel, Andreas Hein and Lars Wolf: A technical platform for environments for ageing - lessons learned from three field studies, in Informatics for Health and Social Care, Vol. 39, No. 3-4, pages 272-293, 2014 (buesching:IHSC:2014b, DOI, BibTeX, PMID: 25148562)
- Stephan Sigg, Shuy Shi, Felix Büsching, Yusheng Ji and Lars Wolf: Leveraging RF-channel fluctuation for activity recognition, in The 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2013), Vienna, Austria, December 2013 (Sigg:MoMM2013, BibTeX, Slides)
- Felix Büsching, Henning Post, Matthias Gietzelt and Lars Wolf: Fall Detection on the Road, in 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (IEEE Healthcom 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, October 2013 (Buesching:Healthcom2013:FallDetectionOnTheRoad, BibTeX, Slides)
- Felix Büsching, Maximiliano Bottazzi, Wolf-Bastian Pöttner and Lars Wolf: DT-WBAN: Disruption Tolerant Wireless Body Area Networks in Healthcare Applications, in the International Workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services (eHPWAS'13), Lyon, France, October 2013 (Buesching:eHPWAS2013:DT-WBAN, BibTeX, Slides, Best Paper Award)
- Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, Daniel Willmann, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: All Eyes on Code: Using Call Graphs for WSN Software Optimization, in Eight IEEE Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications 2013 (IEEE SenseApp 2013), Sydney, Australia, October 2013 (Poettner:SenseApp:2013, BibTeX, Slides)
- Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching and Lars C Wolf: A Node's Life: Increasing WSN Lifetime by Dynamic Voltage Scaling, in The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 2013 (IEEE DCoSS 2013), Cambridge, USA, May 2013 (Kula1305:Nodes, BibTeX, Slides)
- Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching, Wolf-Bastian Pöttner and Lars C Wolf: Demo: A Node's Life - Increasing WSN Lifetime by Dynamic Voltage Scaling, in The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 2013 (IEEE DCoSS 2013), Cambridge, USA, May 2013 (Kula1405:Nodes, BibTeX, Poster)
- Felix Büsching, Andreas Figur, Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf: Poster: Utilizing Hardware AES Encryption for WSNs, in Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2013, Ghent, Belgium, pages 33-36, February 2013 (Buesching:EWSN2013, BibTeX, Slides, Poster)
- Felix Büsching, Ulf Kulau and Lars Wolf: Architecture and Evaluation of INGA - An Inexpensive Node for General Applications, in Sensors, 2012 IEEE, Taipei, Taiwan, pages 842-845, IEEE, October 2012 (Buesching:Sensors:2012, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
- Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, Felix Büsching, Georg von Zengen and Lars Wolf: Data Elevators: Applying the Bundle Protocol in Delay Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks, in The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2012), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 2012 (Poettner:MASS2012, BibTeX, Slides)
- Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Chancen f?r den Einsatz von unterbrechungstoleranten Kommunikationsprotokollen in drahtlosen k?rpernahen Netzwerken im medizinischen Umfeld, in Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft f?r Informatik e.V. (INFORMATIK 2012), Braunschweig, Germany, K?llen Druck + Verlag GmbH, September 2012 (Buesching:Informatik:2012, BibTeX, Slides)
- F. Büsching, W. Pöttner, D. Brökelmann, G. von Zengen, R. Hartung, K. Hinz and L. Wolf: A demonstrator of the GINSENG-approach to performance and closed loop control in WSNs, in Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2012 Ninth International Conference on, pages 1 -2, June 2012 (Buesching:INSS:2012, DOI, BibTeX, Best Demo Award)
- Felix Büsching, Ulf Kulau, Matthias Gietzelt and Lars Wolf: Comparison and validation of capacitive accelerometers for health care applications, in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 106, No. 2, pages 79 - 88, 2012 (buesching:CMPB:2011, DOI, BibTeX)
- Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching, Wolf-Bastian Pöttner and Lars Wolf: INGA - Architektur eines universell einsetzbaren Sensorknotens, in Proceedings of the 10th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN11, Paderborn, Germany, September 2011 (buesching:FGSN11, BibTeX, Slides)
- Felix Büsching, Ulf Kulau and Lars Wolf: Demo: INGA - An Inexpensive Node for General Applications, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys '11, Seattle, WA, USA, ACM, 2011 (buesching:Sensys11, BibTeX, Poster)
Project members at IBR
| Name | Phone | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | buesching[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de | +49-531-3913289 | 111 |
| Dr. Ulf Kulau | kulau[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de | ||
| Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | poettner[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de | ||
| Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf | wolf[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de | +49-531-3913288 | 138 |
Theses
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development of ECG and GSR for INGA | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Ulf Kulau, Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | |
| Integration von Beschleunigungssensoren in ein Body-Area-Network | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Matthias Gietzelt | finished |
| Disruption Tolerant Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| HiWi-Job: Pflege des Contiki-Repositories für INGA und weiteres | HiWi Job | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Entwicklung eines universellen drahtlosen Sensorknotens | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Development of a Localization and Alerting Infrastructure for a Clinical and Nursing Environment | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Comparison and evaluation of 9-Degrees-of-Freedom-Sensors for INGA Sensor node | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Nutzung der ANT-Technologie mit INGA | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| INGA Bluetooth Low Energy Interface | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Sebastian Schildt | finished |
| Anbindung eines Smartphones an den INGA-Sensorknoten zum Versenden von Alarmmeldungen | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Datenreduktion in drahtlosen Sensornetzen | Diploma Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Anbindung des INGA-Sensorknotens an die Cooja-Simulationsumgebung | Other Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, Dr. Ulf Kulau | finished |
| Level measurement and communication in drainage systems | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Georg von Zengen | finished |
| Umsetzung und Evaluation von Mechanismen zur Optimierung des Energieverbrauchs in drahtlosen Sensorknoten | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Design, Preparation, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Field Study for Wireless Sensor Nodes | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| High Speed Data Transmission in WSNs | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Inexpensiv Node for Bed-Exit-Detection (I.N.B.E.D.) | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Unterbrechungstolerante Anbindung von Produktionsmaschinen an ein drahtloses Sensornetzwerk | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Gerrit Bogdanski, Sebastian Thiede | finished |
| Implementierung und Evaluation einer Verschlüsselung mit One-Time-Pads für BAN-Anwendungen mit INGA | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| POV-Bike-Lights | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Dateisysteme für Sensorknoten mit SD-Karten-Unterstützung | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| Grenzen bei der Erkennung von Aktivitäten des täglichen Lebens aus Daten von SmartMetern | Bachelor Thesis | Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Synchrone Datenaufzeichnung in Body-Area-Netzwerken | HiWi Job | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Ein verteiltes, sich selbst programmierendes Testbed für drahtlose Sensorknoten | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| USB-Optimizations for INGA | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Einsatz der Wiselib auf INGA-Sensorknoten in heterogenen Sensornetzen | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Alexander Kröller | finished |
| xINGA: Design and Implementation of a XMega based platform for the INGA sensor node | Bachelor Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Ulf Kulau | finished |
| INGAme: Advanced Interactive Game Controller powered by INGA | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| InPhase | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Stephan Rottmann, Dr. Georg von Zengen | finished |
| Optimierung von µDTN | Diploma Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| Building an airworthy Quadcopter | Project Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Design, Implementierung und Evaluation eines sicheren verteilten Datenspeichers für drahtlose Sensornetze | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Dominik Schürmann | finished |
| Dynamische und selbstorganisierte Kanalbelegung und Sendestärkenregelung von Sensornetzen in hoher räumlicher Konzentration | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| Implementierung und Evaluierung eines Bundle-Protokolls für Sensorknoten | Studienarbeit | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | finished |
| Verschlüsselung in drahtlosen Sensornetzen | Studienarbeit | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Excitation-based in-network processing for Wireless Sensor Networks | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Entwurf und Implementierung eines Systems zur drahtlosen Erfassung der Position von Rennfahrzeugen | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching | finished |
| Optimierung der Zuverlässigkeit und Energieeffizienz drahtloser Sensornetze durch Data-Clustering | Master Thesis | Dr. Ulf Kulau | finished |
| Scheduling von Peripheriespannung auf drahtlosen Sensorknoten | Project Thesis | Dr. Ulf Kulau, Stephan Friedrichs | finished |
| Statistical approach for the InPhase positioning system | Bachelor Thesis | Yannic Schröder, Dr. Georg von Zengen, Stephan Rottmann | finished |
| Anbindung des INGA-Sensorknotens an die Cooja-Simulationsumgebung | Diploma Thesis | Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner | cancelled |
If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching.