An Integrated Graphical Development Environment for the Implementation of WSN

Currently wireless sensor networks (WSN) have become one of the most innovative and promising technologies. This kind of networks has been successfully applied in a large number of applications of great importance for the society, such as: environmental monitoring, military applications, traffic control, patient monitors and healthcare devices, etc. One of the most important matters in the development of a WSN is the embedded software that runs in the network nodes. This software implements the protocols and services and carries out the data gathering process. In this paper we propose a new methodology for the development of this embedded software based on a graphical interface that facilitates a rapid and easy prototyping of different applications. Using this programming environment it is not necessary to have a previous knowledge of any programming language, since the final code is automatically generated using an integrated development environment based on LabVIEW.