SPINE at Work

This chapter provides a quick yet effective reference for body sensor network (BSN) programmers interested in developing their applications using the Signal Processing In‐Node Environment (SPINE) framework. It gives the necessary information for setting up the SPINE environment so to start programming as well as insights on how the framework itself can be customized and extended. The SPINE framework has two main components: sensor node side and server side. The core framework is now organized into three main parts, namely the communication, the sensing, and the processing parts. The SPINE framework provides, on the server side, simple Java APIs to develop applications on the coordinator. Therefore, the main strength of the SPINE framework allows users to be ready to develop applications in sensor networks without bothering with node‐side programming. The chapter further concentrates on the TinyOS port of SPINE2.