The goal of this project is to provide a meaningful demo into how a high-level protocol could easily be coded and used in a WiFi mesh IoT environment.
In summary this is an IoT decentralized approach to a network of high-powered devices (Raspberry PIs in this case) bringing anonymity to the IoT world. It makes use of the B.A.T.M.A.N. project in creating the mesh using a kernel module operating on layer 2, more details here. The application is essentially a demo protocol which uses the created mesh for message passing.
The project has two main branches: master for compiling under generic Linux environment and raspberry-pi for compiling under Raspbian environment using the WiringPI library.
Since the setup switches the WiFi mode to ad-hoc a separated/unused WiFi interface should be used.
boost
wiringPI
batman-adv
pthread
openssl
git clone https://github.com/dumitrupaul/cluster-controller.git
cd cluster-controller
makeThe WiFi mesh interface and password needs to be changed along with the country code and ip range in startup-script.sh.
The active configuration resides in DeviceManager.xml in which the devices and their interactions could be described. This is an important step since only one device can be the currentDevice and all devices should be present on every node configuration file.
After everything has been configured the startup script and demo can be started:
./startup-script.sh
./ClusterControllerTo use the GPIO functionalities you need to run the executable in auto mode: ./ClusterController auto=true, otherwise it will use the CLI for input.
The certificates and private keys found on this project are just examples, please generate and use your own.
Contribution and feedback is encouraged and always welcome.