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Strasbourg

The Strasbourg site is located at the ICube laboratory from the Strasbourg University.

server strasbourg.iot-lab.info
boards ESP32 LoPy4 30 ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1 5 IoT-LAB A8-M3 14 IoT-LAB M3 64 OpenMoteB 40 Qorvo DWM1001 20 Zigduino 112

Topology

The Strasbourg testbed offers two types of environment in order to test large scale IoT MAC layers and routing protocols:

  • Experiment Room: a semi-controlled environment inside a dedicated room with limited radio interferences
  • Smart Building: a realistic environment inside a large building close to real deployment

Hardware history

  • 2026:
    • Add 5 ESP32 C6C1 nodes (Cortecs - University of Strasbourg)
  • 2025:
    • Add 20 Qorvo DWM1001 nodes (Cortecs - University of Strasbourg)
  • 2020:
    • Add 30 ESP32 Lopy4 (Equipex FIT)
    • Add 40 OpenMoteB (Equipex FIT)
    • add 112 Zigduino (Equipex FIT)
    • dismantling of the 256 wsn430 nodes
    • dismantling of the 10 M3 mobiles nodes
  • 2014:
    • add 14 A8 nodes (Equipex FIT)
    • add 64 M3 nodes (Equipex FIT)
    • add 10 M3 nodes mobiles with turtlebot2 (Equipex FIT)
  • 2008: add 256 wsn430 nodes (ANR SensLAB)

Experiment Room deployment

This environment is the original Strasbourg IoT-LAB deployment.

  • Semi-controled environment: a dedicated room of 200m2
  • Limited radio interferences: an isolated room inside the basement of the building
  • Limited physical obstacles: all nodes are in the same open space
  • Dense grid: all nodes are 1 meter apart spaced with regular 3D grid topology
  • Contains:
    • M3, A8 and Zigduino nodes interoperable with IEEE 802.15.4 radio technology
Strasbourg IoT-LAB Room

Smart Building deployment

This environment is named iBat for intelligent Batiment. Started in 2016, iBat is an extension of the original Strasbourg IoT-LAB deployment in order to add the following topology characteristics:

  • Realistic environment: inside the offices and corridors of ICube laboratory
  • Real radio interferences: human activity (Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth)
  • Real physical obstacles: offices and corridors walls
  • Large grid: all nodes are 10 meters apart spaced
  • Real deployment: use cases smart building or IIoT
  • Real sensors data: temperature, humidity, light, sound and presence
  • Contains:
    • Zigduino nodes interoperable with IEEE 802.15.4 and LoRaWAN radio technology
Strasbourg iBat