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Waggle is a research project at Argonne National Laboratory to design, develop, and deploy a novel wireless sensor platform to enable a new breed of sensor-driven environmental science and smart city research.

You can explore the following sub categories to be familarized yourself with Waggle and potentially contribute to the future Waggle environment.

Getting started

• Installation
  Check part lists of a Waggle and see how they are connected.

• Assembly
  Assemble hardware parts to get ready to run a Waggle node.

• Install firmware
  Download and install firmware to the Waggle node.

Wagman

• Introduction
  Wagman that manage power systems and sustainability.

• Bootloader
  Burn the Arduino Micro Caterina bootloader on the Wagman.

• Management
  Show how Wagman actually manages Waggle node.

Nodecontroller

• Setup
  Instructions on how to setup nodecontroller and send data to beehive server.

• Waggle service
  Services that provide various functionality for nodecontroller.

• Waggle scripts
  Details of executable scripts.

• Communication
  Communication to beehive server and its protocol.

Payload

• App processor
  App processor that interacts with connected sensors.

• Core sensors
  Instructions of the air/light/chem sensors. Sensor specifications can be found here

• Sensor communication
  Definitions of communication between app processor and core sensors.

• Plugins
  Extend plugins as additional sensors attached to Waggle node.

Beehive server

• Introduction
  Structures and configuration of the server.

• Data storage
  A place where all the data collected from Waggle nodes stored.

• Messaging
  Messaging protocol between Beehive server and Waggle nodes.

Developers

• How to create a waggle image
  Instructions on how to create a Waggle image.

• Nodecontroller configuration
  Step by step configuration of nodecontroller.

• Tools Tools needed to build and extend Waggle system.