This survey aims for the IoT community and has the objective to capture requirements on IoT and WSN experimentation. The outcomes will be useful in establishing an expectation benchmark that can be used for validation of the current SmartSantander testbed, motivate requirements for extension of the testbed in the next development cycle and help shaping the first call for experiments. This survey consists of 13 questions and takes approximately 10 minutes.

Q1: What experience with IoT experimentation do you have?


  1. Personal experience with IoT experimentation:

I have not done any experimentation on an IoT or Wireless Sensor Network testbed
I have done simulation studies or analytical evaluation
I have previous experience with experimental IoT research on an IoT or WSN testbed
I have extensive practical experimentation experience on more than 1 IoT testbed

  1. If you have previous IoT experimentation experience, what testbeds have you utilized?

Short-lived experimental deployments (for the duration of an experiment)
Permanently installed IoT testbed at own premises
IoT testbed provided by a 3rd party / collaborator
Please specify which one if public testbed(Press check box) :


Q2: Properties of the testbeds that you have experience with


  1. For Deployment environment:

Indoor
Outdoor
Both
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Scale:

less than 20 nodes
20-50 nodes
50-100 nodes
100-250 nodes
250-500 nodes
500+

  1. For Testbed management frameworks:

Motelab
Kansei / Kansei-GENI
Twist
WISEBED
Other (Please specify which one-Press check box):


Q3: What category describes best the nature of IoT experiments that you wish to undertake?


  1. For IoT protocol research:

MAC protocols
Self-x (organisation, configuration,..)
Routing protocols
Distributed in-network processing
IoT interaction protocols
Cross-layer optimised protocols
Quality of information/actuation
Search and discovery
Mobility
Security protocols
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Other Future Internet Research:

Service cloud integration
IoT traffic modelling
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Context and Situation Awareness:

Sensing and feature extraction
Complex event processing
Distributed stream processing
Context and activity recognition algorithms
Behaviour modelling
Proactive systems and recognition of user intent
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For IoT services and applications what application domains:

Supply-chain management
Transport and mobility
Environment
Governance
Public safety
Urban planning and design
Health care
Social inclusion
Water management
Agriculture
Entertainment
Home and building automation
Weather and climate research
Structural monitoring
Participation sensing
Retail
Industrial/Manufacturing
Automotive
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Socio-Economics of IoT:

User acceptance studies
Social impact of IoT technology
Business modelling and evaluation
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Web of things:

IoT interaction protocols
Data description formats
Data interoperability
Real world search
Privacy and trust
Object virtualisation
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Other (Please specify):


Q4: Required hardware for experimentation


  1. Please specify the type of the underlying testbed hardware that you require for experimentation:

Wireless sensor nodes / Motes
Identification technologies (RFID, 2/3D barcode...)
Embedded gateway devices
Mobile phone based sensing and gateway platforms
Sensors
Actuators
Application Servers
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


Q4a: Wireless sensor node related questions


  1. Wireless radio technology for IoT node communication that you require/plan to use:

802.15.4 in 2.4 GHz ISM band
Wifi
GPRS
WCDMA
LTE
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. Operating systems: Please list the OS for sensor node that you require/ are familiar with:

TinyOS
Contitki
Java VMs
Free-RTOS
None
iSense
Others(Please specify-Press check box):


  1. HW platform: Please list the types of sensor nodes that you require/ are familiar with:

TelosB, TmoteSky
Sunspots
Sentilla
Mica2
MicaZ
Libellium
iSense
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


Q4b: Identification technologies


  1. What identification technologies do you require for your field trial?

None
Linear Bar codes
2D/3D Bar codes
RFID – LF
RFID – UHF
RFID – VHF
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


Q4c: GW devices


  1. What gateway devices to use to connect your IoT nodes to the Internet/ backend?

Laptops
Smartphones
ARM based embedded gateway devices such as stargate, gumstick or plug computers
Other proprietary GWs(Please specify-Press check box):


  1. In case of Smart Phones what operating system do they utilise?:

Android
Apple IOS
Symbian
Windows mobile
Palm OS
MeeGo
Linux
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. In case of other embedded GW devices, what operating system do they utilise?

Android
Apple IOS
Symbian
Windows mobile
Palm OS
MeeGo
Linux
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


Q5: Real world information and sensing modalities


  1. How critical is the correct calibration of the sensors

Not required
Would be good to have calibrated sensors
Required to have correctly calibrated sensors

  1. To what entities and features do the sensing modalities relate to? Please specify both entities and features in more detail (e.g. entity – building , feature – occupancy level)?

Persons(Press check box):

Other living beings(Press check box):

Places(Press check box):

Buildings(Press check box):

Objects(Press check box):


  1. How critical is the availability of specific sensing modalities for your experimentation?

I need exactly these sensing modalities at a particular entity/environment
I need exactly these sensing modalities but do not care too much about the environment in which they are recorded
I need some sensing modalities, but do not really care which ones they are
My experiments do not require sensing

  1. If you have specified the need for sensing hardware what are the sensing modalities that are required?

Temperature
Light
Humidity
Pressure
Noise level
Audio streaming
Still images
Video streaming
Inertial sensors-Accelerators
Inertial sensors-Gyros
Magnetometers
Presence, e.g. PIR
Chemical sensors (Please specify-Press check box):

Physiological sensors (Please specify-Press check box):

Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. What data description format do you use for your experiments for observation and measurements:

OGC compliant format (O&M standard)
CSIRO ontology
SENSEI O&M
MMI ontology
WiseML
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. If you use identification technologies, what do you use it for in your experiments?

Identification of persons
Identifications of objects or products
Referencing web content
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. If you use identification technologies, what identifier format do you use?

EPC
UID
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


Q6: Please specify what type of actuation you may require for your experiments


  1. For Message notifications:

e-Mail
SMS
MMS
Popup on public displays
Other (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. For Load switching (Power on/off):

Please specify what type of equipment you want to control(Press check box):


  1. For Servo-motors:


  1. For Other (Please specify) :


Q7: Scale


  1. How many IoT nodes do you require at most for your experimentation?

1-10
10-25
25-50
50-100
100-200
200-500
More than 500 (Please specify-Press check box):


Q8: Experiment timing and duration


  1. How long is a typical duration of your envisioned experiment(s)?

Less than 1h
1-5h
5-10h
10-24h
Up to 1 week
Up to 1 month
More than 1 month (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. Can your experiment run at any time of the day?

Yes
No (Please provide details-Press check box):


Q9: Collection of performance indicators during experimentation


  1. What is the highest frequency that you would require the statistics to be collected during experimentation?

More than 10 times / sec (> 10 Hz)
Once every second
Once every 10 seconds
Once a minute
Once every 10 mins
Once every hour
Less frequent than once every hour

  1. Please indicate what metrics of interest determines the highest frequency:

Please provide details here(Press check box):


  1. What statistics and performance indicators are you interested in collecting/observing during experimentation?

Node related performance statistics
Link related performance statistics
Data/actuation quality
Generated traffic
Service performance data
Information about the users of the service (satisfaction)
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


Q10: Topology and environment


  1. IoT node to gateway node/ sink ratio

1:2
1:5
1:10
1:20
1:50
1:100
lower

  1. Average IoT node distance:

< 1 m
1-5 m
5-10m
10-20m
20-30m
More than 30m

  1. Deployment environment required for experiment:

Indoor
Outdoor

  1. What types of topologies to you require for your IoT node deployment?

No particular
Single hop
Multi-hop:Line topology
Multi-hop:Regular grid(please specify dimension-Press check box):

Multi-hop:Irregular grid(please specify dimension-Press check box):

Multi-hop:Other(please specify-Press check box):


Q11: Mobility


  1. What types of mobility does your experimentation require?

Repeatable robot controlled mobility
Random real world mobility (e.g. opportunistically exploiting humans as carriers)
Periodic real world mobility on predefined paths (e.g. attached to trains or busses)
Repeatable real world mobility

  1. Which nodes of the testbed should be mobile for your experiments?

None
IoT nodes
Gateway nodes

Q12: Collection of end user feedback


  1. What type of feedback you need to collect?

Real life behaviour while using IoT service
Questionnaires and surveys
Others (Please specify-Press check box):


  1. Do you need to collect feedback from the end users (i.e. people using IoT service)?

Yes
No

Q13: Relevance of different testbed features


  1. On a scale from 0….5, how important would you rate the availability of the following testbed features for your experimentation?

0: irrelevant12345: highly important
Actuation
User involvement and impact
Repeatability and Replayability
Mobility
Heterogeneity
Scale
Availability of specific sensors



Thank you very much!



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