Multi-agent Support for Multiple Concurrent Applications and Dynamic Data-Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

WSNs have gained increasing attention for monitoring various variables of interest for wide variety of applications ranging from tracking environmental conditions to medical and structural monitoring. There are many WSN hardware platforms with a wide range of on-board resources. There also exist many software solutions for programming and re-programming WSNs. Most of the existing software solutions are either tightly coupled to their associated hardware, or very application-specific. Such diversity introduces many challenges for application developers. In this paper we propose a novel middleware solution, which runs on Java (SE and ME) programming platforms for easy task distribution and data gathering integrated in a modulated architecture that supports the serving of multiple concurrent applications, dynamic reprogramming, good scalability, and multiple operational paradigms.