End-to-End Toolkit for Developing a Class of WSN Applications on Sun SPOT Nodes

Over the past years of research in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), both the hardware used to construct WSNs and the languages used to describe their functionality have evolved. The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) nodes are the latest offering in the former domain, with a Java virtual machine running on the metal. On the programming side, macroprogramming frameworks such as the Abstract Task Graph (ATaG) have been developed that aim to greatly reduce the burden of the application developer for a wide range of WSN applications. In this paper, the authors present an end-to-end solution for macroprogramming WSN applications on Sun SPOT nodes using ATaG - a data-driven programming paradigm.