My first Field Testing experience

Today I went for my first field test with my senior who is doing is Phd. I tested stuff sitting in lab but to go out and sweat it out is a totally crazy experience.

We were testing a multi-hop protocol using Xbee on the nodes for communication. The specified range for Xbee is about 1 Km but we don’t have that much open space. So we kept the nodes at some hidden places to have some obstruction and so to test the multihop capability.

Node having Xbee

One node acted as a receiver and was connected to the laptop and was constantly giving out the received values on the ts.erminal. The intermediate node was a router which router traffic to the receiver. The transmitter node broadcasted “hello” and flooded the network. More explanation about the setup in given in the video below.

There is one more video which I will upload soon. The first field test experience was awesome and I hope I can enjoy some more of these in coming month.