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Protocol Awareness: A Step Towards Smarter Sensors

Authors:
Hoel Iris
Francois Pacull

Keywords: Coordination Middleware; Smart Sensor; Transaction; Power Consumption.

Abstract:
Low power consumption and reliability are two important properties in the wireless sensor network area. The approach presented here to improve these aspects is to use a rule-based middleware enforcing a coordination protocol on top of the communication protocols imposed by the different wireless sensor networks. In addition, we move the callee side of this protocol from the gateway to the sensors/actuators in order to make them able to directly respond to this protocol. The high-level coordination protocol brings on the one hand the control from the application side the activities (sleep/awake) of the sensors and on the other hand the transactional processing of operations involving a group of sensors / actuators. This has a positive impact on the consumption and on the reliability.

Pages: 148 to 153

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-208-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012