6PANview: A network monitoring system for the “Internet of Things”

We present network monitoring architecture and the implementation of 6PANview, a network monitoring system which we developed to oversee the health of a 6LoWPAN based WSN from the Internet. At the core, 6PANview uses well known standard Internet monitoring and diagnostic tools such as ping, traceroute, SNMP. We implemented a memory efficient and power conscious snmp agent on the TinyOS platform and defined an enterprise MIB for WSN monitoring. 6PANview provides transparent snmp proxy model which incorporates snmp OID compression techniques. Other 6PANview features include, alert threshold definitions, reverse traceroute, time series online plots, and so on. 6PANview provides JAVA/WEB based administration console for configuring, displaying various monitoring statistics, and troubleshooting. The 6PANview prototype has been tested in a 6LoWPAN/RPL WSN lab setup. As per our knowledge 6PANview is one among the first open standards based network health monitoring systems for 6LoWPAN/RPL based WSNs.