Language and middleware support for dynamism in wireless sensor and actuator network applications

Abstract

Nowadays, advances in wireless sensing and actuation technology allow for reasonable amounts of application logic to be embedded inside wireless sensor networks. Such applications are more autonomous, but also significantly more complex to program and manage. First, in-network adaptations need to be supported due to the long-lived nature of the network. Second, the intrinsic dynamism of the network challenges how applications interact with each other. Third, as applications become more complex, coordinating their interactions becomes more difficult. This paper explores how the integration of an event-based component middleware, a policy-based management system, and a domain-specific coordination language gives rise to comprehensive support for developing and managing this new breed of applications.

A seamless integration, semantic middleware for cyber-physical systems

“…This results in losing flexibility for the entire system. In [7], Matthys et al describe the integration of an eventbased component middleware (LooCI), a policy-based management system (PMA) and a domain-specific coordination language (CrimeSPOT) as basis for running wireless sensor and actuator network applications. However, the authors do not discuss the type of actuators their approach handles and merely mention adjusting the heating as an example but do not handle manipulations of objects in the physical world explicitly.…”