Introduction

IoT-LAB documentation brings detailed information about the testbed, its usage and its tools to make the most of this experimentation platform and give you the best user experience.

Quickstart

The testbed enables access to hundreds of boards for experimenting, deployed across different sites. This deployment makes IoT-LAB:

• multi-platform, in that it offers various different experimentation boards;
• multi-radio, in that boards don’t all have the same radio chips, and some have more than one;
• multi-topology, in that the physical deployments are all different (in grids, in several corridors, dense, scattered, over several levels, etc.);
• multi-OS, in that the different boards have one or more embedded OS support.

The main server serves the open API that allows all interactions. Of course, an easy access is provided through a web portal and command line interface (CLI) tools.

In addition, the testbed offers an hosted environment on SSH frontends (one per IoT-LAB site), featuring:

• pre-installed command line interface (CLI) tools,
• cross-compiler toolchains for target architectures,
• access to devices serial link, debuger and radio sniffer.
• and experiments results,

Several workspaces are available to facilitate the setup of the development environment for users and the interaction with the testbed.

Run an experiment

Upload your firmware(s). Select the nodes that you want to use, regarding their characteristics and/or their physical topology. Associate them with a firmware, and optionally configure some monitoring or sniffing. Submit your experimentation. The scheduler will run it at the right time.

Learn

The documentation here will bring you a lot of information regarding the features and possibilities of the testbed. But we also added more practical examples. Visit the Learn page.