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Wireless sensor networks can be very useful in applications that require the detection of crucial events, in physical environments subjected to critical conditions, and the propagation of data reporting their realization to a control center. In this paper we propose jWebDust, a generic and modular application environment for developing and managing applications that are based on wireless sensor networks. Our software architecture provides a range of services that allow to create customized applications with minimum implementation effort that are easy to administrate. We move beyond the ”networking-centric” view of sensor network research and focus on how the end user (administrator, control center supervisor, etc.) will visualize and interact with the system.
We here present its open architecture, the most important design decisions, and discuss its distinct features and functionalities. jWebDust allows heterogeneous components to interoperate (real world sensor networks will rarely be homogeneous) and allows the integrated management and control of multiple such networks by also defining web-based mechanisms to visualize the network state, the results of queries, and a means to inject queries in the network. The architecture also illustrates how existing protocols for various services can interoperate in a bigger framework – such as the tree construction, query routing, etc.
This work has been partially supported by the IST / FET Programme of the European Union under contract numbers IST-2004-001907 (DELIS) and the Programme PYTHAGORAS under the European Social Fund (ESF) and Operational Program for Educational and Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II).
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Chatzigiannakis, I., Mylonas, G., Nikoletseas, S. (2005). jWebDust : A Java-Based Generic Application Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Prasanna, V.K., Iyengar, S.S., Spirakis, P.G., Welsh, M. (eds) Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems. DCOSS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3560. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11502593_29
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