Large scale binary testing and debugging with IoT-Lab?

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Dear RIOT-users,

there was a session about testing with PhiLIP. Someone also showed how simple you can deploy a binary remotely with IoT-LAB. This is fascinating. Especially to connect it later to Murdock. So I basically want to do the same. I already have a problem to find how I can set up my private IoT-Lab instance.

I would like to deploy remotely a cluster of nRF52 boards or STM32F1. There is also a Foren6 integration in IoT-LAB. This sounds also interesting for me.

Can someone point me to the right place? :slight_smile:

best regards Philipp

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If you don’t know already

https://www.iot-lab.info/

There is also an iot-lab-users () mailing list when you sign up. That is probably a bit more accurate though many iot-lab guys are also on the riot-users list.

-Kevin

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It seems that there are now many different IoT testing labs. F-Interop from INRIA, and a few others that I recall hearing about, and now Brian's system. Does someone have a list, and some amount of comparison?

Questions that would abound would include:   1) who can use it?   2) how is it funded?   3) what processors are there, what kind of stimulations are available?   4) can they be used remotely?   5) what embedded OSes are supported, recommended, tolerated?

My interest is in testing RPL extensions, as well as doing real-life BRSKI testing with 6tisch. Brian's efforts seem to be directed at things like SPI/I2C, while F-interop is more about radios.

(If nobody has a list, I could start a page)

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My point is I want to set up a private one. Not publicly available. With an own dedicated web platform. Let’s say: I have a company and I would like to develop some new software for my products. So, I should be able to test them on my devices. Maybe this company has even different type of devices. The documentation didn’t help that much, so far.

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Hi Michael,

Below are some answers regarding the IoT-LAB testbed (I don't know the others):

Questions that would abound would include: 1) who can use it?

Anyone with a professional or academic email. Feel free to register on the website: FIT/IoT-LAB • Very large scale open wireless sensor network testbed

2) how is it funded?

Public funding

3) what processors are there, what kind of stimulations are available?

Have a look at the hardware page [1] and tutorials [2].

4) can they be used remotely?

Yes

5) what embedded OSes are supported, recommended, tolerated?

See [3]

RIOT has the best support I would say :wink:

My interest is in testing RPL extensions, as well as doing real-life BRSKI testing with 6tisch. Brian's efforts seem to be directed at things like SPI/I2C, while F-interop is more about radios.

The IoT-LAB testbed also offers other interesting features: - Globab IPv6 support - 802.15.4 radio sniffing with data in pcap format, so directly usable in Wireshark - Power consumption - Remote debugging with GDB

So at first sight, it seems that IoT-LAB would perfectly fit your interests.

Regards,

Alex

[1] https://www.iot-lab.info/hardware/ [2] https://www.iot-lab.info/tutorials/ [3] https://www.iot-lab.info/operating-systems/