Performance Evaluation of a Full IPv6-based Internet of Things Wireless Sensor Network

In this paper we present an IPv6 Internet of Things Wireless Sensor Network whose complete architecture has been designed and developed by our research group. Every node of this Internet of Things solution is configured with its own global IPv6 address so making possible direct connections and queries to each node. A number of these nodes have been deployed with success in the Scrovegni Chapel heritage site (Padua, Italy) to monitor and control the lighting of the Giotto's frescoes. To analyze the performances of such IoT network we have previously developed an analog Wireless Sensor Network composed of the same type of nodes and deployed in a different indoor environment. We have used this network to measure the packet loss, round trip time and goodput over the IEEE 802.15.4 channel for 6LoWPAN packets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first operating Italian IPv6 global access Wireless Sensor Network.