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Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks

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The software components in WSNs include sensor operating systems and middleware as shown in Fig. 5.1. The purpose of these is to ease the application development by providing network access and allowing support for heterogeneous platforms with hardware abstraction.

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    Jukka Suhonen, Ville Kaseva, Timo D. Hämäläinen & Marko Hännikäinen

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Suhonen, J., Kohvakka, M., Kaseva, V., Hämäläinen, T.D., Hännikäinen, M. (2012). Software and Middleware Services. In: Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2173-3_5

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