iSense Wireless Sensor Network Hardware

The iSense modular hardware and software platform for wireless networks is intended for both industry and research applications.

In order to ﬁt a wide variety of application demands the iSense hardware platform is made up of a number of modules that can be combined in various ways. Like this, functionality can be easily rearranged, and new features can be added by appending new modules.

The hardware is arranged around a core module with an IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio, a 32-bit RISC controller running at 16MHz, 96kbytes of memory, a highly accurate clock and a switchable power regulator. In addition, different energy modules, a gateway module for interfacing with computers and an IO-module are available. A solar energy module and a GPS module are under development.

The hardware is supplemented with a modular operating and networking ﬁrmware that is based on object oriented programming. A comprehensive development environment is available free of charge.