A User Friendly Toolkit for Building Robust Environmental Sensor Networks

  • Authors:

  • John-Paul Arp;Bradford G. Nickerson

  • Affiliations:

  • University of New Brunswick;University of New Brunswick

  • Venue:
  • CNSR '07 Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Wireless sensor network research is growing rapidly, but building and deploying real-world wireless sensor network applications still requires the assistance of technology experts. We present a user friendly toolkit that simplifies the process of building robust and extensible wireless sensor networks, with our first target application being long-term environmental sensor networks. This project includes a programing language called the Sensor Web Language (SWL), an Eclipse-based graphical user interface for writing SWL programs, and a compiler for generating a complete stack of deployable sensor network code. Currently we target Mica2 andMica2dotmotes,MDA300 sensor boards, Linuxbased servers for base stations, Java clients, and gateways using embedded Linux and cellular network modems.