Dynamically Reconfigurable Energy Aware Modular Software (DREAMS) Architecture for WSNs in Industrial Environments

Kouche, Ahmad El; Al-Awami, Louai; Hassanein, Hossam S.

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.07.035

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“…Monitor and react to changes to update the behavior of applications to their "energy usage profile". [22] A Dynamically Reconfigurable Energy Aware Modular Software (DREAMS) architecture.…”

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Context-aware energy-efficient applications for cyber-physical systems

2019

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Software systems have a strong impact on the energy consumption of the hardware they use. This is especially important for cyber-physical systems where power consumption strongly influences the battery life. For this reason, software developers should be more aware of the energy consumed by their systems. Moreover, software systems should be developed to adapt their behavior to minimize the energy consumed during their execution. This can be done by monitoring the usage context of the system and having runtime support to react to those changes that impact the energy footprint negatively. Although both the hardware and the software parts of cyber-physical systems can be adapted to reduce its energy consumption, this paper focuses on software adaptation. Concretely, the paper illustrates how to address the problem of developing context-aware energy-efficient applications using a Green Eco-Assistant that makes use of advanced software engineering methods, such as Dynamic Software Product Lines and Separation of Concerns. The main steps of our approach are illustrated by applying them to a cyber-physical system case study.

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“…Monitor and react to changes to update the behavior of applications to their "energy usage profile". [22] A Dynamically Reconfigurable Energy Aware Modular Software (DREAMS) architecture.…”

Section: Output Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

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“…To enable dynamic reconfiguration of the WSAN node's HW structure, the platforms presented in [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] are assembled out of the functional modules, number of which ranges between two in [24] and seven in [21]). The different modules featuring specific functionalities (e.g., temperature sensing, energy harvesting or additional memory) are attached to the core module that hosts the main processor and, optionally, a radio and a primary power source.…”

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Design and Implementation of The Plug&Play Enabled Flexible Modular Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network Platform

Mikhaylov

Petäjäjärvi

2017

Asian Journal of Control

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In this paper we address the problem of increasing the flexibility of the contemporary wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) in regard to the design of the nodes. For this we propose the concept of a Plug&Play enabled modular WSAN node platform. According to our concept, the new WSAN nodes with desired functionalities can be built by stacking together the different hardware modules encapsulating power sources, processing units, wired and wireless transceivers, sensors and actuators, or even sets of these. Once a node is built, it automatically discovers and identifies all the connected hardware modules, obtains required software and tunes its own operation taking into account the node's structure, available resources and active applications. In this paper we first present the concept and then report the developed hardware and software architectures and the most critical mechanisms enabling implementation. Also we discuss the practical implementations and report the evaluation results for the prototyped solution. Our results show that the developed platform is much more feature and resource rich than the existing ones, which is achieved at a cost of increased consumption and size. We believe that the unique features of the proposed platform have the potential to drastically change the procedure of WSAN development, especially when it comes to experimenting and developing dynamic WSANs with a heterogeneous structure. In this respect the hardware identification and reconfiguration capabilities conceived in the platform can be utilized in full and may drastically increase the performance of WSANs, if combined with novel control and optimization schemes yet to be developed.

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“…Sprouts has a modular middleware architecture called DREAMS [2], which allows the developer to compose applications using loosely coupled software modules. The operating system of Sprouts utilizes a simple task scheduler supported by the Zigbee application layer.…”

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Configuring a UHF antenna for sensor nodes in harsh environments

Kouche

Hassanein

Alma'aitah

2014

2014 27th Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC)

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer distinctive sensing solutions in numerous application domains which comprise harsh operating environments. Sensing in such environments expose sensing nodes to several performance degradation factors which obstruct sensing and/or data reporting. Sprouts WSN platform, developed by TRL, overcomes the challenging factors of harsh environments. In this paper we introduce the patch antenna design of Sprouts platform. Sprouts antenna is designed, simulated, and tested to fulfill extended communication range while adhering to fit within "coin sized" dimensions. In addition, the antenna is adaptable to resonant frequency shifts which result from protective encapsulation material.

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Dynamically Reconfigurable Energy Aware Modular Software (DREAMS) Architecture for WSNs in Industrial Environments

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Context-aware energy-efficient applications for cyber-physical systems

Context-aware energy-efficient applications for cyber-physical systems

Design and Implementation of The Plug&Play Enabled Flexible Modular Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network Platform

Configuring a UHF antenna for sensor nodes in harsh environments

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