Description of the Ionian University’s Campus Wireless Network Testbed Infrastructure

The upcoming era of the Internet of Things comes with a plethora of applications in various areas, as well as challenges that can be better addressed in small and controlled environments. This motivates the development of a low-cost wire-less network testbed that consists of Arduino devices and XBee modules that handle the communication among them. Moreover, each device is equipped with humidity, ultraviolet radiation, and structural ambient vibrations sensors. The particular testbed is installed in the premises of the Ionian University (Corfu, Greece). The location of nodes plays a crucial role in the network’s topology and is highly considered at the development stage. This paper describes the Ionian University’s Campus Wireless Network Testbed Infrastructure and discusses the impact of humidity and ultraviolet radiation on the network’s topology by performing several experiments.