Towards a framework for engineering software development of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks

Software development of sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is mostly done in an ad-hoc manner. There is no standard development framework available yet that formalizes and engineers the source code development of sensor nodes resulting in a long development process for WSN applications and source code that might be hard to manage. This paper establishes a framework that can be utilized to systematically automate sensor node code construction. It also sheds some light on a proposed system that facilitates developing nodes using our proposed framework and the best practices in the software engineering field. The main objective of this work is to standardize the development of wireless nodes for WSN to overcome the lackness of systematic development in that field.