Infrastructure

The WIN sensors are connected to nodes which communicate via radio with WIN gateway. WIN gateway uses Ethernet interface to communicate with Boomerang 3 server and works as a communication channel between the sensors and Boomerang system. One gateway can handle up to 10 nodes and every node can have multiple sensors.

An example infrastructure may look as shown below:

All data is sent in XML format via a POST at port 80. The server needs to acknowledge the received POST by sending a POSTBack reply confirming the reception. The server can also send other commands to the gateway, such as changing the transmission intervals for the nodes, changing the NTP server, etc. Note that the server can only do this immediately after the gateway has sent its POST to the server, so changing a parameter may take some time before it has been implemented on the gateway/node side.