WISDOM: a Visual Development Framework for Multi-platform Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Through a new computing paradigm, the wireless sensor networks revolutionize the environment monitoring, enabling applications in a wide range of knowledge areas. However; the process of creating these applications for these networks is still not simple, depending on the target operating system and hardware. In order to fill this gap, we developed a new programming model and a framework able to generate the application source code for a user-chosen computing platform, based on a modular specification. This novel approach is easy to program and allows the generated code to be efficient, as efficiency is a paramount requirement due to severe restrictions on WSN. Two case studies are described demonstrating the potential of the framework to help software developers. 0-7803-9402-X/05/$20.00 © 2005 IEEE VOLUME 2 1

Rapid Application Development for Wireless Sensor Networks

“…In (Vieira et al2005), the authors describe a visual development framework for multiplatform wireless sensor networks, which is capable of generating application code for TinyOS and Yet Another Tiny Operating System (Yatos) (Almeida et al 2003). This tool supports only code generation of the developed model for the WISDOM (Vieira et al 2005) framework and it does not support functional verification of the designed model. Here also the model development is biased to TinyOS and Yatos, since these two target platforms share the same component based programming style.…”