Device-Independent Middleware for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks
José Cecílio, João Pedro Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado · 2011
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are deployed to sense, monitor and act on the environment. Deployments in scenarios such as industrial sense and react environments require a set of functionality, and for both ease and reconfiguration capabilities it is important to offer an appropriate framework. We propose a framework for interaction with real-world devices by abstracting proprietary protocols, allowing the interaction between client applications and heterogeneous sensor network platforms and protocols. The framework allows the (re)configuration of alarms, actions or closed-loop techniques, offering flexibility and the possibility to modify for providing performance control guarantees. It allows users to configure and apply various operations, including complex closed-loop techniques that monitor and act over any actuator in the WSN, independently of the underlying WSN infrastructure. The framework is being deployed in a real scenario in the context of European FP7 GINSENG project (wireless networks with performance control guarantees).