The aim of this venture is to create a low-energy wi-fi mesh network which can localize nodes in
3D dwelling. Wishes of the mesh network:

1. Nodes wants as a intention to route packets amongst themselves. Nodes can agree with to aloof now not require a central hub or central server.
2. Decrease energy. Nodes with restricted energy wants as a intention to participate in the mesh network. Nodes might maybe maybe presumably well be powered using vitality harvesting (e.g. indoor photograph voltaic cells).
3. IPv6 based totally totally. Customary net protocols allow interoperability both with nodes in the mesh and with devices exterior the mesh.
4. Provide 3D net site. Nodes wants as a intention to measure their net site and automatically configure themselves based totally totally on their net site. Verbalize companies and products can agree with to aloof now not require central processing.

Todo

1. Checks.
2. Add NTP to nodes and border router.
3. Energy optimization.
4. Encryption / Security.
5. Swap to NRF52840 and DW3000 which is able to again nick abet energy and shorten the time required for a net site beacon slot (on memoir of the 32 MHz SPI interface).
6. Reside updates of files displayed in the iOS app.
7. Scripting on the nodes and on the border router. The stop aim is for interactions between nodes in the mesh to be programmed in the nodes themselves. The border router wants to enable the particular person to net site and exchange the a amount of interactions between nodes.
8. Notifications
9. Verbalize companies and products. Some ability favor to be implemented to so that interactions and configurations will also be linked to net site. Then, nodes need some formulation to automatically safe and configure themselves based totally totally on net site. One possibility would be for all nodes in the network to store a duplicate of all configurations/interactions. Then, nodes simply favor out the trusty configuration based totally totally on node form and net site.
10. Put in pressure IPv6 Router Adverts as we relate into border-router to safe the dependency on radvd.
11. Personalized url for the border-router dwelling net page.
12. https.
13. QR codes or some diversified printed AR designate.
14. Debug sources of error in the AR app.

Motivation

There are a range of problems with recent-day neat dwelling devices. First, recent-day neat devices in most cases require a central hub which comprises the processing for the interactions between the neat devices. Usually the hub will also require net receive admission to to enable the neat efficiency. As an instance, disclose one has a recent-day neat gentle switch which is programmed to urged a recent-day neat gentle bulb. The switch, when activated, sends a packet to the hub which processes the packet, acknowledges that the sunshine bulb wants to be turned on, and sends a new packet to the sunshine bulb to urged. The scenario with this intention is that the neat devices are successfully bricked if the hub loses energy.

Furthermore, some recent-day neat devices require an net connection for some efficiency. As an instance, disclose the particular person wants to peep and alter the settings on a recent-day neat thermostat from their neat phone. Functionally, both the app on the neat phone and the neat thermostat itself join to the firm’s a ways off server even supposing both the phone and the thermostat are on the particular person’s WIFI network. This implies that the thermostat is in part disabled if the firm shuts down the server or if net connectivity is misplaced.

The brittleness inherent in a central point of failure will also be overcome by using a wi-fi mesh network. A mesh network permits devices to focus on with every diversified with out the need for a central hub. In this device the neat switch can ship a packet as we relate to the neat gentle bulb. Functionality is now not misplaced if the hub loses energy or if the online goes down. In essence, the hub turns into simply a unimaginative portal to the online.

The 2nd scenario is that recent-day neat devices require some receive of pairing draw to be half of the network, which is a degradation of particular person skills. Evaluate:

1. The particular person wants to exchange a unimaginative gentle bulb in the kitchen. The particular person goes to the shop, buys a new gentle bulb and screws it in. The sunshine bulb simply works.

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2. The particular person wants to exchange a neat gentle bulb in the kitchen. The particular person goes to the shop, buys a new gentle bulb and screws it in. The particular person then wants to identify the sunshine bulb to the central hub and program the interactions for the neat bulb. A net site-based totally totally wi-fi mesh network can clear up this scenario. Tidy devices might maybe maybe presumably configure themselves based totally totally on their 3D net site. Save in mind the next:

3. The particular person wants to exchange a net site-based totally totally neat gentle bulb in the kitchen. The particular person goes to the shop, buys a new gentle bulb, and screws it in. The sunshine bulb performs the localization draw and determines that it is located in the kitchen. The sunshine bulb then downloads the connected interactions for a gentle bulb in the kitchen.
   The advantages of this mesh network are many. First, it permits well off interactions. Any neat switch will also be reprogrammed to govern gentle bulbs, retailers, appliances, etc. With existing infrastructure, the particular person would favor to rewire a room in impart to construct in a single other switch. On the opposite hand, with neat switches, the particular person might maybe maybe presumably achieve in a 3-formulation or 4-formulation switch without a extra cost other than the trace of the switch itself and the time required to program the new interplay in the switch.

Introduction

This venture contains the next substances:

1. border-router: Application operating on a Raspberry Pi. The border router acts as a bridge between nodes in the UWB mesh and computers in the particular person’s LAN or WIFI network. The border router also runs a net server so that the particular person can visual show unit and work collectively nodes in the network.
   
2. hypertun: Linux TUN tool which bridges the border-router and mesh-root.
3. mesh-root: Firmware operating on the tool that is hooked up to the border router. There isn’t very any such thing as a theoretical incompatibility between mesh-root and mesh-beacon, but for pattern mesh-root permits the slave SPI interface while mesh-beacon doesn’t. The board is a Decawave MDEK1001 UWB pattern boards. Assert: SPI modified into pale rather then UART because there wasn’t a free UART from the MDEK1001 dev package. I wished to make use of the UART from the dev package to output serial logs to the pattern computer. The SPI slave is amazingly easy and easiest transmits/receives IPv6 packets as an array of bytes (no registers to learn to and write from. If files wants to be requested from the mesh-root, it wants to be performed by intention of IP networking). One blueprint back to the NRF52832 is that the SPI interface is proscribed to transfers of a most of 255 bytes. This implies that packets better than this amount will now not be transmitted/got accurately. I deliberately agree with now not fastened this scenario as I will switch to the NRF52840 one day which doesn’t agree with this limitation.
4. mesh-beacon: Firmware operating on devices deployed in the mesh. This firmware permits nodes to become net site beacons. The board is a Decawave MDEK1001.
5. mesh-nonbeacon: Precisely the identical as mesh-beacon besides that net site beacons are disabled; mesh-nonbeacon will easiest fabricate TDOA.
6. app-ios: App operating on a particular person’s iPhone. The app makes use of Apple’s RealityKit to scan and add the particular person’s dwelling to the border-router. The app also before every little thing calibrates the nodes’ reported net site to their trusty net site in the home. Within the raze, the app overlays nodes’ files in the virtual scene (WIP).

Issues

1. Wi-fi Connectivity describes how nodes focus on.
2. 3D Verbalize describes how nodes cooperate to measure their net site.
3. Mesh Routing describes how packets are routed in the mesh network.
4. Error Coping with

Getting Started

Constructing modified into performed using the Decawave MDEK1001 dev package and a Raspberry Pi. When constructing a new board, first invent and flash the bootloader with CONFIG_BOOT_SIGNATURE_TYPE_ED25519=y (here is automatic when initiating the “Launch bootloader” Flee and Debug activity in vscode). Then, the signed hex firmware will also be flashed to the board (flashing the hex file doesn’t erase the bootloader). The invent tasks and debug tasks in vscode favor care of constructing a terminal’s atmosphere, constructing the firmware, and then signing the firmware (peep invent-and-tag.cmd). As a custom step for signing firmware, I append an MCUBoot TLV header that describes the producer, board, and firmware version. This “manuf,board,fwver” string is generated by fw_version.h. As phase of the signing stage of the invent script, fw_version.cmd extracts the “manuf,board,fwver” string from fw_version.h and passes this string to west tag. For now, the deepest key is the default ED25519 key dispensed by mcuboot.

When initiating up the machine from scratch, I first ssh into the Raspberry Pi and net site up a tun tool and originate radvd (peep Setup radvd for making a tun tool and initiating radvd).

Next, I originate debugging border-router. In a net browser, I navigate to http://raspberrypi.local: 5000/ to test that the online net page is up.

Then, I originate debugging mesh-root and the mesh-beacon. One MDEK1001 has a header soldered to it and sits atop a Raspberry Pi. This MDEK1001 hat has the mesh-root firmware flashed to it and acts as a bridge between the mesh network and the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi communicates with the mesh-root, and the leisure of the network, using hypertun, a tun tool integrated with the border-router tool operating on the Pi, which has an IPv6 subnet assigned to it (peep Setup radvd below).

IPv6 Router Adverts favor to be manually despatched from the Raspberry Pi over hypertun so that the mesh-root can learn the mesh’s IPv6 prefix. The mesh-root and mesh-beacons will randomly ship classified ads to boot so that becoming a member of nodes can learn the network‘s prefix. IPv6 addresses in the mesh are presently assumed to be queer. Presently no Replica Tackle Detection is performed. The nodes’ IPv6 address is assigned as we relate from the NRF52832 DEVICEID register, which is also pale as the link-layer address for IEEE 802.15.4.

In my test network I in actual fact agree with 6 beacons: 1 beacon attached to the Raspberry Pi as the mesh-root, and 5 diversified mesh-beacons. The Raspberry Pi and 4 diversified beacons are attached to a wall and receive beacons 0, 4, 8 (2), 9, 13. One diversified beacon is sitting on a table on the diversified side of the room and acts as beacon 19. I’ve adjusted LATTICE_R to be tiny akin to the immediate distances between my test beacons. Todo: In a trusty network, LATTICE_R wants to be net site to roughly match the radio vary of the nodes. When initiating up the network, I originate the nodes in a explicit impart so that the nodes build themselves the desired beacon index (0, 4, 9, 13, 8 (2)).

Assert: I presently don’t insist a node the build beacon 2 can agree with to aloof in actual fact be positioned. This allowed me to peek a worm: If beacon 8 had been to be half of the network as beacon 8, it would cease updating its net site since it would achieve now not need any prime beacon in its local neighborhood (simply 4 and 8). The distance wouldn’t receive updated and after awhile the node would fall off the network easiest to rejoin moments later. This route of would repeat for ever till a node simply passed off to be positioned the build beacon 2 wants to be. Due to this reality, to repair this scenario, nodes must first try and become the prime beacon in impart to abet updating its net site. Then, as soon as a node is positioned the build the trusty prime beacon wants to be, the diversified nodes would favor a extra appropriate beacon for his or her net site. Hence, for now, beacon 8 reports itself as beacon 2.

I in actual fact agree with just a few debug configurations that are all identical besides that they aim explicit debugger serial numbers. That formulation, I know that “Launch mesh-beacon-1” will program the node located at beacon 4 so long as I create now not switch the node.

Once the beacons are started and agree with joined the mesh, they periodically ship a CoAP packet to the border router with some role updates. This packet is reflected in the border router’s “Devices” or “Stories” net page. Once I peep that every particular person 6 nodes are updating periodically, I originate scanning and calibrating the physcial atmosphere. I load the “Hyperspace” iOS app onto my iPhone and originate the app. The app detects that no AR insist is stored on the border router and asks me to scan my atmosphere. Once performed, the app uploads the RealityKit insist and a 3D OBJ model of the atmosphere to the border router and transitions to the calibration insist. I point the digicam at the bodily net site of the beacons and press “Ray”. This casts a ray in the AR scene to receive the get site targeted by the crosshair and then reveals a list of IP addresses in the mesh network. I favor out the IP address of the node I targeted. The app stores a list of {ip address, reported net site, and bodily net site}. Once I in actual fact agree with extra than 4 sides, or I’ve scanned all nodes in the mesh, I click on performed calibrating. The app then uploads the calibration list to the border router which then performs and stores the calibration in calib.json. The app then attracts holder text positioned at the bodily net site of the nodes in the scene.

That is an clarification of the records pale to calibrate the bodily net site of the nodes.

• ip address: the ip address of the node. Presently there might maybe be not any automatic formulation detect a special identifier or IP address from the nodes. I’ve drawn a map on a allotment of paper to again me be mindful the ip addresses at explicit locations. Todo: QR codes or some diversified printed AR designate?
• reported net site: the get site as measured by the nodes themselves. That is reported to the border router using periodic CoAP packets.
• bodily net site: the get site of the node in the AR scene as measured by the iPhone.

The border router takes the above list of files sides and performs the Kabsch algorithm to align the nodes’ reported net site to the bodily net site. The app then makes use of this calibration to favor a node’s reported net site and rework it to a bodily net site in the AR scene. Assert that the calibration is now not presently despatched to the nodes in the mesh network.

The AR scene and calibration files is stored in the border router. When the iOS app starts up, it tries to safe any existing insist and easiest asks to scan and calibrate if there might maybe be missing insist. Due to this reality, just a few iPhones inspecting the identical AR scene can agree with to aloof already be supported. Furthermore, if I in actual fact agree with to originate and cease the border router usually, I will safe the AR scene files, obj file, and calib.json from the border router and add the records automatically when initiating a new debug session. This prevents me from having to rescan and recalibrate again and again. Function this by at the side of the next lines in hyperspace-border-router.csproj with the AR insist stored in the community in border-router/worldmap/:

Setup

Setup Raspbe