THAWS: automated wireless sensor network development and deployment

Authors:
Sean Harte;Emanuel M. Popovici;Brendan O'Flynn
Affiliations:
Department of Microelectronic Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland and Microelectronics Applications Integration Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland;Microelectronics Applications Integration Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland;Microelectronics Applications Integration Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Venue:
ICC'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Circuits
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This research focuses on the design and implementation of a tool to speed-up the development and deployment of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. The THAWS (Tyndall Heterogeneous Automated Wireless Sensors) tool can be used to quickly create and configure application-specific sensor networks. THAWS presents the user with a choice of options, in order to characterise the desired functionality of the network. With this information, THAWS generates the necessary code from pre-written templates and well-tested, optimized software modules. This is then automatically compiled to form binary files for each node in the network. Wireless programming of the network completes the task of targeting the wireless network towards a specific sensing application. THAWS is an adaptable tool that works with both homogeneous and heterogeneous networks built from wireless sensor nodes that have been developed in the Tyndall National Institute.