CRICKET
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The MCS410CA, Cricket Mote [1], is a location aware mote that contains all the same hardware specifications as the MICA2 mote. The device uses a combination of RF and Ultrasound technologies to establish a differential time of arrival (TDOA) thereby producing linear range estimations. The Cricket Mote is a joint venture between Crossbow and MIT.
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Hardware Specifications
| Sensing: |
Ultrasound Transmitter and Receiver with a range of 10.5m |
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| I/O: |
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| Radios: |
433 Mhz Transceiver (CC1000)
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| CPU: |
Atmega 128L Microcontroller
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| Storage: |
Applications
The Cricket is used for indoor localization, providing information such as position coordinates, space identifiers and orientation to applications running on portable media such as laptops, handhelds (PCs or Mobile phones) and sensor nodes.
Power
The Cricket is equipped with a battery pack but may be powered via the external power connector also.
- Battery pack requires two standard AA batteries.
- External power supply must provide 3-6 volts regulated at 300-1000mA
Software
The new version of Cricket (v2) is programmed via TinyOS. Additional software to be used with the Mote may be found here.
Additional Information
- Cricket - Crossbow
- Cricket Mote Datasheet
- Cricket Mote Platform - WILLOW Technologies
- The Cricket Indoor Location System
- Cricket v2 User Manual
Papers
- Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, Hari Balakrishnan, Erik Demaine, Seth Teller, Mobile-Assisted Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 2005.
- Adam Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Michel Goraczko, Nissanka Priyantha,Tracking Moving Devices with the Cricket Location System, Proc. 2nd USENIX/ACM MOBISYS Conf., Boston, MA, June 2004.
- Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, The Cricket Indoor Location System, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2005.
- Kevin John Wang, An Ultrasonic Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004.
References
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