Workshop 2014 IoT-LAB Tutorial

0.a Platform Overview 

The platform can be accessed through the web portal or using provided command-line tools. In addition, the platform offers a hosted environment on SSH front-ends, featuring pre-installed CLI Tools, target architectures cross-compiler toolchains, experiments results, and access to devices serial ports.

Source code and technical documentation is available on github.com/iot-lab.

0.b Accounts, SSH keys, CLI-Tools 

• Log into the Webportal
• Configure Your SSH Access in Webportal
• Modify your password in Webportal (Edit my Profile)
• Install the CLI Tools on your computer (Optionnal)

1. First Experiment  

• Create a New Experiment with the Web Portal and M3 nodes
• Get and compile the M3 firmware code at github.com/iot-lab: tutorial code

2. Monitoring Devices 

• Monitor Consumption on a M3 Node During Experiment
• Monitor Radio on a M3 node

3. Contiki’s uIPv6 stack & Tools 

• Basic Contiki uIP Stack & Tools (from your PC) or (from ssh-frontend)

4. Using A8 nodes

• Submit an experiment on A8 nodes and flash their M3 node
• Open A8 software support

5. RIOT OS

• Setup a Build Environment
• Tutorial slides

6. Demos and Open Questions 

• Mobile node
• RPL and IPv6 Sniffing
• Humans and robot tracking