Demo: Opportunistic Deployment Support for Wireless Sensor Networks

While Wireless Sensor Networks are versatile tools to monitor the environment in scenarios usually not accessible via wired infrastructure, deployments of such networks are challenging even for experts, particularly in remote areas. In this work, we present a smartphone based system that supports such deployments by keeping track of exact sensor locations and providing unique debugging tools, that can work handsand eyes-free. Through opportunistic communication, we are able to support collaborative data gathering making the deployment and network maintenance process faster and easier, also for non-experts, even in environments without mobile network coverage. As location and configuration data is immediately available electronically, domain experts, such as geoengineers, can have their evaluation and assessment systems boot-strapped automatically, leading to faster feedback, already during the initial deployment.