Brief

With the Z1 low-power wireless module, Zolertia launches the first public release of its WSN mote, its flagship product.

The Z1 module is a general purpose development platform for wireless sensor networks (WSN) designed for researchers, developers, enthusiasts and hobbyists. It is a platform compatible with the successful Tmote™-family motes with several enhancements that offers roughly a 2x performance in several aspects.

Description

Equipped with two on board digital sensors (accelerometer and temperature), it comes with everything a developer needs to start building smart networks from scratch. You can connect your applications directly to the Internet of Things (IoT) with IPv6.

The Z1 module was devised keeping in mind:

- Backwards compatibility with motes based on MSP430+CC2420 as well as support for some of the most currently employed open source O.S.’s/stacks by the WSN community, like TinyOS (current) or Contiki (soon).

- Maximum flexibility and expandability while improving low power consumption with most versatile and low power sensors and uC.

Plug & Play

- Out of the box support for Phidgets™

- MicroUSB for power & communications

- Embedded or external antenna

- Expansion connector for GPIO’s, digital buses, interrupts and Analog I/O’s.

Related products

- Phidgets & Ziglets™, plugins and sensors for the Z1

- Z1 Discovery Kit and Professional Kit

- Accesories

Interested?

Check our online shop or contact us at info@zolertia.com

Z1 remote live showroom (under construction ....)

Z1 remote live showroom displays the temperature in  Celsius degrees and acceleration values ( X, Y and Z axes) obtained by Z1 mote located at the headquarters of Zolertia. Each point is the arithmetic mean of the measurements made over a period of five minutes (n = 300 and n = 3000 for temperature and acceleration). Data are sent simultaneously to Zolertia server in XML format and Pachube server in Python-EEML format. Zolertia data are ploted using the Google Chart API as shown in the script below.

var temperature; var accelerationX ; var accelerationY ; var accelerationZ ; var dt ; var rows = 0; var chart; var data; var chartA; var dataA; var xmlhttp; var xmlDoc; var x; function IniVars() { xmlhttp = null; xmlDoc= null; x= null; temperature=new Array(); accelerationX = new Array(); accelerationY = new Array(); accelerationZ = new Array(); dt = new Array(); } //Import Data from a remote server if necessary function ImportData() { if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari phphttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); } else {// code for IE6, IE5 phphttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } //***************GET ALL VALUES FROM XML DOCUMENT phphttp.open("POST","xxxxxx.php",false); //GET OR POST .... phphttp.send(null); } //****Load imported data function LoadData() { IniVars(); if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); } else {// code for IE6, IE5 xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } //***************GET ALL VALUES FROM XML DOCUMENT xmlhttp.open("POST","xxx.xml",false); xmlhttp.send(); xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("data"); for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) { dt[i]=x[i].getElementsByTagName("date_time")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; temperature[i]=x[i].getElementsByTagName("temperature")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; accelerationX[i]=x[i].getElementsByTagName("accelerationXaxis")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; accelerationY[i]=x[i].getElementsByTagName("accelerationYaxis")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; accelerationZ[i]=x[i].getElementsByTagName("accelerationZaxis")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; } rows = temperature.length; } function RefreshData() { //ImportData(); LoadData(); refreshChart(); refreshChartAcc(); } //***************************************************** //**************** PLOT TEMPERATURE VALUES function drawChart() //**** temperature google chart instance { data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn('string','data time'); data.addColumn('number', 'Temperature'); data.addRows(rows); chart = new google.visualization.AreaChart(document.getElementById('chart_temp')); fillChart(); } function fillChart() { var i=0; var w = 400; if (w < 5*rows) w = 5*rows; for (i=0;i<=rows-1;i++) { var hora = dt[i].toString(); data.setValue(i,0,hora.toString()); data.setValue(i,1, parseFloat(temperature[i].toString())); } chart.draw(data, {width: w, height: 240, title: 'Temperature (Celsius)', legend:'none', colors:['#FF0000','#004411'], vAxis:{title: 'Temperature', titleColor:'#FF0000'} }); } function refreshChart() { if (data.getNumberOfRows()>0) { data.removeRows(0,data.getNumberOfRows()); } data.addRows(rows); fillChart(); } //***************************************************** //**************** PLOT ACCELERATION VALUES function drawChartAcc() //**** acceleration google chart instance { dataA = new google.visualization.DataTable(); dataA.addColumn('string','data time'); dataA.addColumn('number', 'X axis acceleration'); dataA.addColumn('number', 'Y axis acceleration'); dataA.addColumn('number', 'Z axis acceleration'); dataA.addRows(rows); chartA = new google.visualization.AreaChart(document.getElementById('chart_acc')); fillAccelerationChart(); } function fillAccelerationChart() { var i=0; var w = 400; if (w < 5*rows) w = 5*rows; for (i=0;i<=rows-1;i++) { var hora = dt[i].toString(); dataA.setValue(i,0,hora.toString()); dataA.setValue(i,1, parseFloat(accelerationX[i].toString())); dataA.setValue(i,2, parseFloat(accelerationY[i].toString())); dataA.setValue(i,3, parseFloat(accelerationZ[i].toString())); } chartA.draw(dataA, {width: w, height: 240, title: 'X, Y and Z axis Acceleration', legend:'none', vAxis:{title: 'Acceleration', titleColor:'#FF0000'} }); } function refreshChartAcc() { if (dataA.getNumberOfRows()>0) { dataA.removeRows(0,dataA.getNumberOfRows()); } dataA.addRows(rows); fillAccelerationChart(); } function createDocument() { document.write("<div id='chart_temp' style='overflow-x: scroll;'> </div><br />"); document.write("<div id='chart_acc' style='overflow-x: scroll;'> </div><br />"); } //*************ini data chart //ImportData(); LoadData(); google.load("visualization", "1", {packages:["corechart"]}); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChartAcc); createDocument(); var t = setInterval ( "RefreshData()", 300000 ); //timer: actualize data chart