SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale

Xenofon Fafoutis; Atis Elsts; George Oikonomou; Robert Piechocki

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00247-3_27

SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale

Xenofon Fafoutis^*, Atis Elsts, George Oikonomou, Robert Piechocki

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University of Bristol

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Internet of Things (IoT) technology has the potential to revolutionise several domains of everyday life, including the healthcare sector. In order to reach its full potential, IoT technology needs to be evaluated in the real world, beyond controlled environments, such as laboratories and test-beds. SPHERE is an experimental sensing platform for healthcare in a residential environment. Unlike other similar smart home health systems, SPHERE is deployed in a large number of properties of volunteers. Based on our experiences and lessons learned from SPHERE’s large-scale deployments, this paper focuses on the challenge of effectively managing the sensor installation overhead, aiming at supporting our deployment technicians with achieving a satisfactory deployment throughput. In this context, this paper presents the SPHERE Deployment Manager: an open-source tool that facilitates the deployment of bespoke IoT networks by technicians that are not experts in IoT technology. We believe that the SPHERE Deployment Manager is a tool that can accelerate future IoT research deployments of similar nature and scale.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless
Editors	Nicolas Montavont, Georgios Z. Papadopoulos
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	1 Jan 2018
Pages	307-318
ISBN (Print)	9783030002466
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00247-3_27
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Event	17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless - St. Malo, France Duration: 5 Sept 2018 → 7 Sept 2018 Conference number: 17

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Conference	17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless
Number	17
Country/Territory	France
City	St. Malo
Period	05/09/2018 → 07/09/2018

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11104 LNCS
ISSN	0302-9743

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Deployment tools
Internet of Things
Sensor deployments

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Fafoutis, Xenofon ; Elsts, Atis ; Oikonomou, George et al. / SPHERE deployment manager : A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale. Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless. editor / Nicolas Montavont ; Georgios Z. Papadopoulos. Springer, 2018. pp. 307-318 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11104 LNCS).

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Fafoutis, X, Elsts, A, Oikonomou, G & Piechocki, R 2018, SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale. in N Montavont & GZ Papadopoulos (eds), Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11104 LNCS, pp. 307-318, 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, St. Malo, France, 05/09/2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00247-3_27

SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale. / Fafoutis, Xenofon; Elsts, Atis; Oikonomou, George et al.
Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless. ed. / Nicolas Montavont; Georgios Z. Papadopoulos. Springer, 2018. p. 307-318 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11104 LNCS).

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Fafoutis X, Elsts A, Oikonomou G, Piechocki R. SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale. In Montavont N, Papadopoulos GZ, editors, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless. Springer. 2018. p. 307-318. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11104 LNCS). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-00247-3_27

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