Exploiting the Interplay Between Memory and Flash Storage for Sensor Data Management

Although memory is an important constraint in embedded sensor nodes, existing sensor applications and systems are typically designed to work under the memory constraints of a single platform and do not consider the interplay between memory and flash storage. This paper presents the design of a memory-adaptive flash-based sensor system that allows an application to exploit the presence of flash and adapt to different amounts of RAM on the embedded device. The authors describe how such a system can be exploited by sensor data management applications.