Evaluación del rendimiento de plataformas 6LoWPAN, aplicado al diseño del monitoreo estructural de puentes.

Abstract

Performance evaluation platform 6LOWPAN, applied to the design of structural monitoring of bridges. It was developed in Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Informatics and Electronics Faculty. It began with the review of internet concept of things and Smart City, likewise the state of the art 6LoWPAN standard to know its main features as architecture, configuration, and security. Together the Contiki-OS and Riot-OS platforms were revised, which are platforms to be evaluated in this investigation. Later simulation sensor network software OMNet++ was performed. There, we could get an idea of the consumption of energy resources that would have the network. Then it proceeded to the configuration and assembly specks involved in the network by the XCTU software and Arduino hardware. Finally specks on specific points of the bridge structure, as the foundation and the midpoint were implemented in order to evaluate the parameters of memory consumption and processing speed. For the assessment of energy consumption every speck, proceeded to dismantle the stage and evaluate this parameter manually using a digital multimeter Proskit. It occurs because they do not have a script, function or library that can perform this type of measurement. The evaluation of these parameters was conducted with two different platforms. First measurements were performed with the Contiki-OS platform and the with the Riot-OS platform, thus obtaining a result of efficiency of 55.55% for Contiki-OS and 88.88% Riot-OS. It was determined that the Riot platform is suitable for these types of investigations, due to their low rates of consumption concerning memory resources, processing and battery. It is recommending students for the implementation of future research where they need to send and receive information in real time, and low resource consumption.