Demo Abstract: Z-Monitor: A Monitoring Software for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks

Monitoring of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a fundamental task to track the network behavior and measure its performance in real-world deployments. Commercially-available products for monitoring and testing IEEE 802.15.4-compliant Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs) are mainly too expensive, and typically require special sniffing hardware. In this Demo paper, we present Z-Monitor, a monitoring and a protocol analyzer solution to control and debug IEEE 802.15.4-compliant LoWPANs. Z-Monitor represents a free and extensible solution for monitoring Zigbee, 6LowPAN and RPL protocols, does not require special sniffing hardware, and provides comparable services to proprietary and commercial products.