The facility is currently installed over an area of 1440 m², with a total of 48 distributed measurement stations. Each measurement station supports up to four IoT platforms: as of March 2020, the popular TelosB mote and the Nordic Semiconductors nRF52840 are installed. D-Cube also allows to generate harsh RF conditions using JamLab-NG, and is hence well-suited for testing the performance of mesh networking and multi-hop communication solutions in the presence of radio interference.
D-Cube is a full-fledged distributed benchmarking facility that provides a consistent way to evaluate the performance of low-power wireless IoT systems. Hosted at the Institute of Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology, D-Cube fully supports the automated testing of the reliability, timeliness, and energy consumption of low-power wireless communication protocols in a variety of settings. The primary audience of D-Cube are academic researchers and industry practitioners creating low-power wireless networking solutions that would like to quantitatively assess and compare their performance with that of other systems addressing the same class of applications. D-Cube also offers a database of other solutions from academic and industrial partners who have made use of the facility in the context of the EWSN Dependability Competition series.