A SERVICE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Zhen Yu Song, Luciano Lavagno, Riccardo Tomasi, Maurizio A. Spirito

2012

Abstract

Thanks to advances in the area of embedded low-power microprocessors and short-range wireless communication, pervasive technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are easing the collection and integration of real-world data into ICT systems. However, developing and testing application logic for heterogeneous WSN devices remains a challenging and cumbersome task. In order to make prototyping of WSN solutions faster and less error-prone, in this paper we propose a set of development tools for WSNs based on object-oriented and service-driven models. Within these tools, applications are modelled as sets of interconnected blocks, each providing or using a number of services defined at design time. Externally, each block is a self-contained black-box exposing a set of service interfaces and tunable attributes; internally, an event-driven state-chart model represents its logical behaviour. All blocks are automatically created as skeleton templates by the tools, and then can be graphically developed and debugged in different hierarchical depths through widely used Mathworks c tools. Moreover, the developed functional blocks can be automatically converted to platform-specific binaries to ease deployment on actual devices (e.g. on TinyOS-based platforms) and large scale simulation (e.g. in MiXiM) enriched with HIL (Hardware In the Loop) capabilities.

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Yu Song Z., Lavagno L., Tomasi R. and A. Spirito M. (2012). A SERVICE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 87-95. DOI: 10.5220/0003818100870095


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@conference{peccs12,
author={Zhen Yu Song and Luciano Lavagno and Riccardo Tomasi and Maurizio A. Spirito},
title={A SERVICE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={87-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003818100870095},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - A SERVICE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Yu Song Z.
AU - Lavagno L.
AU - Tomasi R.
AU - A. Spirito M.
PY - 2012
SP - 87
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0003818100870095