Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • System Overview
  • Quick start
    • Set up a communication terminal
    • Communicate with the Cricket unit
    • Configure a Cricket unit to be a beacon
    • Test distance measurements
  • Installing the Cricket embedded software image
    • With TinyOS
    • Without TinyOS
  • Overview of this manual
  
  
• Command Interface and Troubleshooting
  • Cricket Hardware Details
    • Diagnostic LEDs
    • Test Switch
    • Powering Crickets
  • Serial Port Command Interface
    • cricketd
    • Cricket Command Interface
    • Error Codes
    • Default values
    • Run mode command (MD)
    • Configuration status command (CF)
    • Get serial ID (ID)
    • Get/Put space ID (SP)
    • Get software version (VR)
    • Distance to beacon (DB)
    • Duration (DR)
    • The uncorrected time of flight (TM)
    • Get/Put coordinates command (PC)
    • Get/Put the minimum and maximum beacon interval time (SL)
    • Get/Put the ultrasound maximum time-of-flight (UL)
    • Get/Put the software offset (OF)
    • Get system time (TS)
    • Get/Put temperature sensors (TP)
    • Test switch status (TB)
    • Get/Put display units (UN)
    • Get the beacon listing (LS)
    • Save settings to flash (SV)
    • Load settings from flash (LD)
    • Get/Put Output format (OU)
    • Customize output format (CO)
  • Troubleshooting and Deployment Hints
    • Problem: The listener or the beacon does not respond to any command
    • Problem: The listener does not report any events
    • Problem: The listener returns erroneous distances
    • Problem: The beacon blinks but does not respond to serial commands
    • Problem: The listener associates itself with the ``wrong'' space identifier
  
  
• Sample Application
  • Setup
  • Source Code
  • Beacon Placement
  • Setting Parameters
  • Launching and Running BeaconConfigDemo
    • Launching cricketd
    • Launching BeaconConfigDemo
    • Running BeaconConfigDemo
    • Troubleshooting
  
  
• Developing Cricket Applications in Java
  • Requirements
  • Architecture
  • Compiling Clientlib
  • Clientlib API
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.ServerBroker Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.Callback Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.data.CricketData Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.data.BeaconRecord Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.data.DistanceStat Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.data.Position Class
    • The cricketdaemon.clientlib.data.Sample Class
  • Using Clientlib: An Example
    • Source Code
    • Compiling ClientlibExample
    • Running ClientlibExample
  
  
• Bibliography