Available Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things testbed facilities: dataset

Abstract

The availability of data is an important aspect of any research as it determines the likelihood of the study's commencement, completion, and success. The Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks technologies have been attracting a huge amount of researchers for more than two decades, without having a consolidated or unified source, identifying and describing available Internet of Things and Wireless sensor network testbed facilities. In this paper, a dataset including 41 distinct testbed facilities is described. These testbed facilities are classified according to their key features such as Device Under Test (DUT) type, mobility, access level, facility count, connection/interaction interfaces along with other criteria. The systematic review process resulting in the gathered data set consisted of three filtering phases applied to relevant articles published between the years 2011 and 2021 as obtained from the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases.

Testbed Facilities for IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systematic Review

“…The flow of our review work consists of two primary stages, namely, data acquisition and data analysis. The used data set is available publicly and is described by Judvaitis et al [4]. In the following section, we provide a brief overview of the data acquisition and analysis.…”

“…The dataset used in this systematic review is published using Zenodo platform: Available Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things testbed facilities: dataset [68] and described in data article by Judvaitis et al [4].…”

“…The IoT paradigm connects the three elements of actuators, sensors, and environment intelligently, for the sake of improving the efficiency and real-time capabilities of certain processes [4]. The IoT is currently involved in quite many modern applications such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, Building Management Systems and smart homes, agriculture, industrial automation, healthcare, consumer services, and many other fields [5].…”

“…In order to allow a broad spectrum of applications to be deployed besides avoiding design rigidity, WSN testbeds are the optimal solution for prototyping IoT applications. In most cases, WSN testbeds better represent the real application conditions compared with simulation tools [4]. For the sake of attaining the main goal of performing diverse experiments, the WSN testbed design needs to balance between the controllability of laboratory environments and the closeness to real-world conditions.…”

“…The rest of the article is structured as follows: Section 2 describes surveys on the domain of testbeds, Section 3 briefly describes the used methodology to gather, codify and analyze the dataset, with the broader description provided by the published data set article by Judvaitis et al [4], Section 4 presents the analyzed data concerning the presented research question together with author inference, Section 5 discusses existing challenges and possible future work in the testbed facility domains, and the conclusions are presented in Section 6.…”