EMMON: a WSN system architecture for large scale and dense real-time embedded monitoring

• Autor(a) principal: Tennina, Stefano
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Braga, Pedro, Alves, Mário, Ciriello, Vincenzo, Oliveira, Pedro, Bouroche, Mélanie, Gomes, Ricardo, Mirza, Farrukh, Carrozza, Gabriella, Cahill, Vinny
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3785
• topic: WSN; Large-scale; Real-time

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted growing interest in the last decade as an infrastructure to support a diversity of ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems. However, most research work has focused on protocols or on specific applications. As a result, there remains a clear lack of effective, feasible and usable system architectures that address both functional and non-functional requirements in an integrated fashion. In this paper, we outline the EMMON system architecture for large-scale, dense, real-time embedded monitoring. EMMON provides a hierarchical communication architecture together with integrated middleware and command and control software. It has been designed to use standard commercially-available technologies, while maintaining as much flexibility as possible to meet specific applications requirements. The EMMON architecture has been validated through extensive simulation and experimental evaluation, including a 300+ node test-bed, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest single-site WSN test-bed in Europe to date.