Contki and Cooja Installation in Ubuntu

        Contki is a Wireless Sensor Device  OS  is  to build  small  nodes  in Wireless Sensor Network. It is  very easy to port on any embedded resource constrained devices. If you are  working on Internet of Things  like application , this OS  is very  much  suitable  for build a Sensor node  application  on it.How  to  install contki OS  and its simulator  in Ubuntu Machine to  develop  Sensor Application  is  given below. ?.. try  it..

1.Install  the  following  packages  through  the apt  command

  sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-msp430 gcc-msp430  msp430-libc binutils-avr gcc-avr gdb-avr avr-libc  avrdude openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre ant libncurses5-dev  doxygen git 

2.Clone  the development  packages  of  the contiki.

 

        git clone git://github.com/contiki-os/contiki.git contiki

3.Got  to  contiki directory  and  run make  command  and  run output  file. 

cd contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world 
make TARGET=native
./hello-world.native

4. How  to run contiki OS on micaz  mote.? Usually  micaz  mote  with  Tiny OS, but here  we  can possible to  port  the  contiki  OS  in  micaz  mote.

 make TARGET=micaz savetarget

 make hello-world.upload

 make TARGET=micaz hello-world.upload PORT=/dev/ttyUSB0

4.Running Network  Simulator  Cooja.

     Start  Cooja  ,  Its  a network simulator  for  testing  the  sensor network and  its  running  parameter.  Its  very  suitable  for build a  small  sensor  network  simulator.

cd   contki/toola/cooja

ant  run

 If  you  got  any error  while  run  the  ant  command  juts  update  the  git  clone by using  the  following   command.

git submodule update --init

5.Cooja  Network  Simulator  Window  Appears.

Cooja Open  Window

Create a Simulation

New  Simulation Window

Choose  Mote

Select  a  mote  from the  list

Compile  the  mote

Select  the  no  of motes one

One  mote  is  added  to  window

Again  Select 20  node on elliptical  topology

20  nodes are  added  to window

Start the simulation

Show its  range  and  connection  paradigm

Simulation Pattern

Simulation of  mote  ant  random    with  100  motes

Cooja Wireless  Sensor  network simulator help  to  know the sensor  motes  operator  and  its Radio  channel  allocation  and  power trace.  But  it  have  some  limitation while  implementing  large  no  of  sensor  network.