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The winter tests was carried out during week 9 (23-26 February 2009) in Jokkmokk and Gällivare.
Host for the test week was Ms Susanne Spik and Ms Karin Kuoljok, Tannak AB in Jokkmokk.
One aim of the winter test was to test the DTN network and the applications for:
Another aim was to test equipment in winter conditions and equipment to be carried by the reindeer in hash environment in realistic conditions.
Planning of the Test Bed in Lapland winter conditions is a difficult issue because of extremely harsh conditions that influence both the hardware used in the tests and the volunteers. First winter tests were planned in order to point out and confirm the necessary measures for taking care of people and equipment as part of Test Bed in arctic winter conditions.
Test in Sweden 2009 was divided into team where:
Team Tannak-UPM: tested devices for power for the reindeer application and for communication between different reindeer as well as between reindeer and the network.
Team NORUT: Carried out test of PDA application in harsh environment including Auto Discovery tests.
Team FOLLY: Test of equipment to reassure that equipment used delivers data correctly and test of usage of reindeer skin as to protect devices in harsh environment.
Team LTU: The main goal of this winter test was to try out a new DTN set up with a new gateway and node set up.
The results from the winter tests in Sweden 2009 will be available in a report soon.
For first winter test in Slovenia development of complete meteorological node and mobile node both based on embedded computer suitable for harsh winter environment was the main goal. These two types of nodes will be crucial component of larger topologies for climate watch network foreseen for further tests.
Winter tests 2009 in Slovenia was carried out by the Slovenian partner MEIS.
