Waspmote is an open source wireless sensor platform designed for low power consumption to allow sensor nodes to be autonomous and battery powered for 1 to 5 years. It was created by Cooking Hacks in 2009 to address limitations of Arduino for use in wireless sensor networks, including an inability to implement sleep modes. Waspmote has a modular design and uses an Arduino-compatible programming environment. An example application is a smart irrigation project in Barcelona that uses Waspmote nodes with soil moisture sensors to remotely control irrigation valves based on sensor data sent via ZigBee or other protocols to a gateway and cloud for visualization and control.

1. Presentation No: 1
Title: Waspmote
Subject: System and Network Administration
By: Rahat Mishwani
BSCS-8th
2014-2018

2. What is waspmote?

3. What is waspmote?
 Waspmote is an open source wireless sensor platform
specially focused on the implementation of low
consumption modes to allow the sensor nodes ("motes") to
be completely autonomous and battery powered, offering a
variable lifetime between 1 and 5 years depending on the
duty cycle and the radio used.
 Waspmote Platform sends any SENSOR data using any
COMMUNICATION protocol to any INFORMATION SYSTEM
 Let's know more about how Waspmote was born.

4. Waspmote History.
 It all started 8 years ago since Cooking Hacks - Libelium open hardware division- designed
the famous "Arduino XBee Shield" in collaboration with the Arduino Team and gave it to
community as the first open hardware shield for Arduino (2007).
 Main idea was to create wireless sensor networks with Arduino + XBee (already 8 years
ago!). However, Arduino couldn't fit the Libelium's corporate customers requirements due to
two main reasons.
 On the one hand it is the consumption:
 the 5V-3.3V regulator can not be turned off and thus it is not possible to implement a sleep mode.
 As a result, a constant consumption of 50mA discharges any battery load within a few days or
even hours.
 On the other hand the platform needed to be radio certified as the nodes are meant to be
deployed in real scenarios like cities, factories, houses, etc.
 For this reason we needed a platform ready for the three main certification requirements: CE
(Europe), FCC (US) and IC (Canada).

5. Waspmote History (cont….).
 In order to meet the above requirements we decided to create a new device specially
designed to work with low consumption modes and with a completely modular
philosophy and that is how Waspmote was born.
 In the creation of Waspmote as well as the Libelium team composed by David
Gascón, Marcos Yarza, and Alberto Bielsa, took part David Cuartielles (in his role of
freelance researcher) in order to ensure compatibility with the Arduino programming
environment (IDE), allowing Arduino Community use Waspmote in the same way.
 Waspmote was officially released in 2009, and two years later there was a
growing Community of Developers using it as a standard platform for the Internet of
Things.
 Besides its outstanding technical features, they like
its horizontal, modular and Open Source approach.

6. Waspmote: Network Node

7. Waspmote: Network Node

8. Waspmote: Network Node

9. Waspmote: Network Node

10. Waspmote: Network Node

12. Applications of waspmote…..
 Barcelona park Smart Irrigation System project with Waspmote
Agriculture Sensors KitApril 25, 2017
Barcelona deployed a smart irrigation
system based in Waspmote Sensor
Platform in Poblenou Park Centre.

13. Barcelona park Smart Irrigation System.
 The deployment is based on sensors technology and consists in allowing remote control of
the irrigation system to facilitate the management of the water network. This new irrigation
management system allows an automatic control of the electronic valves that close or open
the water flow.
 The project is compound by soil moisture probes located underground together with
Waspmote Sensor Platform. They are put inside waterproof boxes that ensure highly
durability. Besides, these devices are powered by a long-life battery with one year
autonomy.
 Data gathered by Waspmote Sensor Platform can be sent to a gateway or directly to the
cloud. It can be done through several communication protocols, such us GPRS, 3G, 4G,
LoRaWAN, LoRa, Sigfox, 868 MHz, 900MHz, ZigBee, 802.15.4, WiFi, RFID, NFC and Bluetooth
4.0. In this project, data is sent through ZigBee to a Meshlium Gateway, provided
by Libelium, and from there to the cloud using 3G.
 The information collected can be visualized in a platform which concentrates and allows
knowing the state in each zone and it can be controlled with computers, tablets and also
smartphones.

14. Waspmote Technical guide.
 If you are interested to read more about Waspmote.
 How to assemble
 Waspmote Plug & Sense!
 Features
 Specifications
 Parts included
 Identification
 Sensor probes
And much more!!!!!
Please read the Technical Guide and waspmote datasheet.

15. THANKS…..
University of Malakand | r2mpak@gmail.com