Demo: SPES-2 – A Sensing Platform for Maintenance-Free Residential Monitoring
Xenofon Fafoutis, Atis Elsts, Antonis Vafeas, George Oikonomou, Robert J. Piechocki · Bristol Research (University of Bristol) · 2017
SPES-2 is a sensing board for room-level monitoring in a home environment. It constitutes a vital modality of the SPHERE architecture: a multi-modal sensing platform for healthcare in a residential environment. SPES-2 uses an optimised implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4-2015 TSCH (Time-Slotted Channel Hopping) standard to operate efficiently and reliably in unknown environments for more than one year without battery replacement, providing continuous information about the ambient characteristics of the room (such as temperature, humidity and light levels), as well as presence information captured through a motion sensor.