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    DZ50: Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Mote Platform for Low Data Rate Applications
    (CERIST, 2014-07-07) Ouadjaout, Abdelraouf; Lasla, Noureddine; Bagaa, Miloud; Doudou, Messaoud; Zizoua, Cherif; Kafi, Mohamed Amine; Derhab, Abdelouahid; Djenouri, Djamel; Badache, Nadjib
    A low cost and energy efficient wireless sensor mote platform for low data rate monitoring applications is presented. The new platform, named DZ50, is based on the ATmega328P micro-controller and the RFM12b transceiver, which consume very low energy in low-power mode. Considerable energy saving can be achieved by reducing the power consumption during inactive (sleep) mode, notably in low data rate applications featured by long inactive periods. Without loss of generality, spot monitoring in a Smart Parking System (SPS) and soil moisture in a Precision Irrigation System (PIS) are selected as typical representative of low data rate applications. The performance of the new platform is investigated for typical scenarios of the selected applications and compared with that of MicaZ and TelosB. Energy measurement has been carried out for different network operation states and settings, where the results reveal that the proposed platform allows to multiply the battery lifetime up to 7 times compared to MicaZ and TelosB motes in 10s sampling period scenarios.
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    A survey on Wireless Sensor Networks for Urban Traffic Monitoring: Applications and Architectures
    (CERIST, 2012) Kafi, Mohamed Amine; Badache, Nadjib; Challal, Yacine; Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid; Djenouri, Djamel
    Vehicular traffic is increasing around the world, especially in urban areas. This increase results in a huge traffic congestion, which has dramatic consequences on economy, human health, and environment. Traditional methods used for traffic management, surveillance and control become inefficient in terms of performance, cost, maintenance, and support, with the increased traffic. Wireless sensor networking (WSN) is an emergent technology with an effective potential to overcome these difficulties, which will have a great added value to intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This technology enables a new broad range of smart city applications around urban sensing. This includes a variety of applications such as traffic safety, traffic congestion control, road state monitoring, vehicular safety warning services, and parking lots management. In this survey, a review on traffic management projects and solutions is provided. The architectural and engineering challenges are discussed, and some future trends are highlighted.
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    A study of Wireless Sensor Network Architectures and Projects for Traffic Light Monitoring
    (CERIST, 2012) Kafi, Mohamed Amine; Badache, Nadjib; Challal, Yacine; Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid; Djenouri, Djamel
    Vehicular traffic is increasing around the world, especially in urban areas. This increase results in a huge traffic congestion, which has dramatic consequences on economy, human health, and environment. Traditional methods used for traffic management, surveillance and control become inefficient in terms of performance, cost, maintenance, and support, with the increased traffic. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an emergent technology with an effective potential to overcome these difficulties, and will have a great added value to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) overall. In this survey, we review traffic light projects and solutions. We discuss their architectural and engineering challenges, and shed some light on the future trends as well.