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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, 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, --00 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, --00 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	EMail	Phone	Room
Dr. Felix Büsching	buesching[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de	+49-531-3913289	132
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
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Powerline Network for Distributed Systems	Bachelor Thesis, Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	open
Development of ECG and GSR for INGA	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Ulf Kulau, Dr. Felix Büsching	running
Integration von Beschleunigungssensoren in ein Body-Area-Network	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Matthias Gietzelt	finished
Disruption Tolerant Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	finished
HiWi-Job: Pflege des Contiki-Repositories für INGA und weiteres	HiWi Job	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Entwicklung eines universellen drahtlosen Sensorknotens	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Development of a Localization and Alerting Infrastructure for a Clinical and Nursing Environment	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Comparison and evaluation of 9-Degrees-of-Freedom-Sensors for INGA Sensor node	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Nutzung der ANT-Technologie mit INGA	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
INGA Bluetooth Low Energy Interface	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Sebastian Schildt	finished
Anbindung eines Smartphones an den INGA-Sensorknoten zum Versenden von Alarmmeldungen	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Datenreduktion in drahtlosen Sensornetzen	Diploma Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Anbindung des INGA-Sensorknotens an die Cooja-Simulationsumgebung	Other Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished
Level measurement and communication in drainage systems	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Georg von Zengen	finished
Umsetzung und Evaluation von Mechanismen zur Optimierung des Energieverbrauchs in drahtlosen Sensorknoten	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Design, Preparation, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Field Study for Wireless Sensor Nodes	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
High Speed Data Transmission in WSNs	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Inexpensiv Node for Bed-Exit-Detection (I.N.B.E.D.)	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Unterbrechungstolerante Anbindung von Produktionsmaschinen an ein drahtloses Sensornetzwerk	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Gerrit Bogdanski, Sebastian Thiede	finished
Implementierung und Evaluation einer Verschlüsselung mit One-Time-Pads für BAN-Anwendungen mit INGA	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
POV-Bike-Lights	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Dateisysteme für Sensorknoten mit SD-Karten-Unterstützung	Master Thesis	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, Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Synchrone Datenaufzeichnung in Body-Area-Netzwerken	HiWi Job	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Ein verteiltes, sich selbst programmierendes Testbed für drahtlose Sensorknoten	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	finished
USB-Optimizations for INGA	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Einsatz der Wiselib auf INGA-Sensorknoten in heterogenen Sensornetzen	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Alexander Kröller	finished
xINGA: Design and Implementation of a XMega based platform for the INGA sensor node	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished
INGAme: Advanced Interactive Game Controller powered by INGA	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
InPhase	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Stephan Rottmann, Dr. Georg von Zengen	finished
Optimierung von µDTN	Diploma Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	finished
Building an airworthy Quadcopter	Project Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Design, Implementierung und Evaluation eines sicheren verteilten Datenspeichers für drahtlose Sensornetze	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Dominik Schürmann	finished
Dynamische und selbstorganisierte Kanalbelegung und Sendestärkenregelung von Sensornetzen in hoher räumlicher Konzentration	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	finished
Implementierung und Evaluierung eines Bundle-Protokolls für Sensorknoten	Studienarbeit	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	finished
Verschlüsselung in drahtlosen Sensornetzen	Studienarbeit	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Excitation-based in-network processing for Wireless Sensor Networks	Master Thesis	Dr. Felix Büsching	finished
Entwurf und Implementierung eines Systems zur drahtlosen Erfassung der Position von Rennfahrzeugen	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner, 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	Dr. Felix Büsching, Dr. Wolf-Bastian Pöttner	cancelled

If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Dr. Felix Büsching.

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