Model-Driven Development of Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Developing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) applications is not an easy task, since it demands different expertise and knowledge. To address this problem, we propose a model-driven approach to build WSN applications. It promotes the separation of concerns between two levels of requirements involved: (i) domain experts, with no knowledge on WSN platforms, contribute to the development of applications, (ii) network experts, with no knowledge on the application domain, program nodes to meet application requirements. Our approach also promotes the reuse of software artifacts: an application model can be reused on different sensor platforms and a platform model can be reused for different WSN applications.