open-ZB toolset: over 100 000 visits and 6000 downloads!

CISTER is leading worldwide research on IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee technologies, the most widespread technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks. Within this line, CISTER has been developing cutting edge methodologies and tools that are available to the international community, and with an outstanding recognition. The toolset site (http://www.open-zb.net) already witnessed over 100 000 visits (effective visits, not just mouse clicks), with more than 6000 downloads of the toolset from all around the world (including top universities and companies). Notably, there are 4-5 downloads in average per day, almost 4 years after the first release (November 2006).

Since early 2009, the synergies created by CISTER’s open-ZB research team have triggered the creation of the TinyOS 15.4 and ZigBee Working Groups, in which CISTER researchers have been actively involved since their foundation. In this line, CISTER has been working towards "official" implementations of the standard 15.4 and ZigBee protocols, as well as of Quality of Service add-ons (e.g. security, hidden-node avoidance, traffic differentiation, implicit GTS allocation). This work have been mainly performed within the CONET European Network of Excellence, within the COTS4QoS research cluster (for more details, please refer tohttp://www.cooperating-objects.eu/research-clusters/cots4qos/).

More info at the open-ZB site.