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PotatoNet - Outdoor Testbed to evaluate WSNs exposed to real environmental conditions

Seasons

Season 2017 | Season 2016 | Season 2015

News

19.07.2016: Cooperation with the SICS - Measurement of Channel Diversity in Outdoor Environments
03.06.2016: The PotatoNet was extended by PotatoMesh, a solar based testbed
26.05.2016: Presentation of the IdealVolting longterm evaluation at DCoSS 2016
25.05.2016: The central box was extended by a webcam - Timelaps Video Season 2016
13.05.2016: Season 2! The PotatoNet follows the potatoes and moves to another field

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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, June 2021 (Kulau:AdHoc-Networks-2021, DOI, BibTeX)
Björn Ulrich Gernert: On the Usability of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Farming Applications, Dissertation, January 2021 (dbbs_mods_00069271, DOI, BibTeX)
Lars Wolf: Erweitertes Zusammenwirken in der Landwirtschaft - zur Diskussion, in Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz, Haux, Reinhold and Gahl, Klaus and Jipp, Meike and Kruse, Rudolf and Richter, Otto, Wiesbaden, pages 89-96, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2021 (Wolf2021, DOI, BibTeX)
Jan Schlichter, Björn Gernert and Lars C. Wolf: Evaluating the Suitability of LoRa for Potato Storage Monitoring, in Proceedings of the 18th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN19, pages 5-8, September 2019 (Schlichter:FGSN2019, BibTeX)
Björn Gernert, Jan Schlichter and Lars Wolf: PotatoScanner - A Mobile Delay Tolerant Wireless Sensor Node for Smart Farming Applications, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2019, Santorini Island, Greece, May 2019 (gernert:DCOSS2019, DOI, BibTeX)
Robert Hartung: On the Challenges in Energy-Constrained Outdoor Wireless Sensor Networks: Trade off between Efficiency and Robustness, Doctoral Collquium, Shenzhen, China, November 2018 (hartung:sensys18:dc, BibTeX, Slides)
Björn Gernert, Fabian Schwartau, Sebastian Raabe, Joerg Schoebel, Karsten Schubert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars C Wolf: Evaluation of Suitable Radio Frequencies for Data Transmission in Potato Warehouses, in 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Chengdu, China, October 2018 (gernert:MASS2018, DOI, BibTeX)
Björn Gernert and Lars Wolf: Demo: An Interactive Demonstration of the PotatoScanner, a Mobile DTWSN Node, in Proceedings of the 17th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN18, Braunschweig, Germany, pages 73-74, September 2018 (gernert:FGSN18, BibTeX)
Jana Huchtkötter, Andreas Reinhardt and Ulf Kulau: PulseHV: Opportunistic Data Transmissions over High Voltage Pulses for Smart Farming Applications, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCoSS 2018, New York, USA, June 2018 (Kulau:DCOSS2018, BibTeX, Runner-up for best paper)
Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau and Lars Wolf: Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks: Robust but Efficient, in Proc. IDEA League Doctoral School on Transiently Powered Computing, Delft, The Netherlands, IDEA League (TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University, ETH Zurich, Chalmers University, Politecnico di Milano), November 2017 (hartung:tpc2017, BibTeX)
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)
Stephan Rottmann, Alexander Willecke, Jan Käberich, Georg von Zengen and Lars Wolf: miniDTN: A DTN Stack for 5EUR-WiFi-Nodes, in Proceedings of the 16th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze, FGSN17, Hamburg, Germany, September 2017 (rottmann:FGSN17, BibTeX, Slides)
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)
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)
Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau, Björn Gernert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars Wolf: On the Experiences with Testbeds and Applications in Precision Farming, in Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, FAILSAFE'17, Delft, The Netherlands, pages 54-61, ACM, 2017 (Hartung:Sensys:2017:FAILSAFE, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
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)
S. Rottmann, R. Hartung, J. Käberich and L. Wolf: Amphisbaena: A Two-Platform DTN Node, in 2016 IEEE 13th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pages 246-254, October 2016 (Rottmann:MASS:2016, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
Stephan Rottmann, Björn Gernert and Lars C Wolf: Demonstration of the Wireless Two-Platform DTN Node Amphisbaena, in The 13th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2016) (MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, October 2016 (Rottmann:MASS:2016:demo, BibTeX, Poster)
Georg von Zengen, Robert Hartung, Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching and Lars Wolf: Low Cost Temperature Controlled Testbed for WSNs, Augsburg, Germany, September 2016 (FGSN:2016, BibTeX)
Björn Gernert, Stephan Rottmann and Lars C Wolf: Poster: PotatoMesh - A Solar Powered WSN Testbed, Paderborn, Germany, July 2016 (gernert:MobiHoc:2016:poster, BibTeX)
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)

Project members at IBR

Name	EMail	Phone	Room
Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	kulau[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Stephan Rottmann	rottmann[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Dr. Björn Gernert	gernert[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Robert Hartung	hartung[[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
Implementing and Evaluating AWuR on Amphisbaena	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Björn Gernert, Stephan Rottmann	finished ~2017
Development of a wireless humidity sensor for food storage facilities, ...	Master Thesis, Project Thesis	Dr. Björn Gernert	finished ~2017
LoRa meets DTN - Development and evaluation of a delay tolerant LoRa based sensor network for food storehouses, ...	Master Thesis	Dr. Björn Gernert	finished ~2018
Advance Precision Farming by delay tolerant gathering of sendor data, ...	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Björn Gernert	finished ~2016
Online modeling on wireless sensor nodes under energy and memory considerations, ...	Master Thesis	Robert Hartung	finished ~2018
Integration eines dynamischen Energiemodells zur Simulation der Energieaufnahme drahtloser Sensornetze unter realen Umgebungsbedingungen	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2015
Verteilte Energiemessung in drahtlosen Sensornetzen im Außeneinsatz	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2015
Entwicklung eines Micro-Source-Energy-Harvesters für Sensorknoten	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2016
Datenerhebung von IEEE 802.15.4 Radios unter verschiedenen Temperatureinflüssen	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau, Robert Hartung	finished ~2016
Energieeffiziente Messstation für verteilte Trockenstressmessungen an Kartoffelpflanzen	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2015
An adaptive prediction approach for low power WSN	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2017
Abhärtung von Programmen in fehleranfälligen WSNs	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau, Arthur Martens	finished ~2015
Energieeffizienzanalyse des RPL-Protokolls im Falle transienter Knotenausfälle	Project Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau, Arthur Martens	finished ~2015
Zielfunktion zur effizienten und robusten Wegewahl in WSNs	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished ~2016
Energy Harvesting für Sensorknoten unter Nutzung der Bodentemperatur	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau	finished

If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Ulf Kulau.

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