FlockLab 2 release

[Jan Beutel]

Hello all,

Today we announce the public release of the FlockLab 2 testbed. This is a refinement and extension of the original FlockLab testbed concept with new features: more accurate power profiling based on the RocketLogger, GPS-based time synchonization and most importantly native SWD debugging based on the Segger JLink OB for ARM target devices. Second, we have switched target platforms to now support DPP CC430, DPP2 LoRa, nRF52840 and for backwards compatibility the ever popular Tmote Sky. A list of all currently supported sensor nodes and FlockLab 2 testbed locations is available in our wiki [1].

Currently, we only have a small amount of observers deployed compared to the old FlockLab 1 but we are working to extend the testbed with more observers in the near future. However, due to production delays and restricted access to our campus we are currently limited in what we can do. You can find the latest updates regarding FlockLab 2 on our news page [2]. Also, we will continuously update our wiki page with new information about FlockLab 2.

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback and of course if you discover any bugs. Also we are very open to collaboration if you want to help building features for the FlockLab 2 testbed. -> floc...@tik.ee.ethz.ch

As before, the testbed is available at https://flocklab.ethz.ch.

Best regards,

The FlockLab Team

[1] https://gitlab.ethz.ch/tec/public/flocklab/flocklab/-/wikis/Man/Targets

[2] https://gitlab.ethz.ch/tec/public/flocklab/flocklab/-/wikis/News