Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and State of the Art

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting great interest in a number of application do-mains concerned with monitoring and control of physical phenomena, as they enable dense and untethered deployments at low cost and with unprecedented exibility. However, application development is still one of the main hurdles to a wide adoption of WSN technology. In current real-world WSN deployments, programming is typically carried out very close to the operating system, therefore requiring the programmer to focus on low-level system issues. This not only distracts the programmer from the application logic, but also requires a technical background rarely found among application domain experts.