A Pattern-Based Framework for Developing Wireless Monitoring Applications

Development of application-specific wireless monitoring systems can benefit from concept reuse and design patterns can form the enabling medium for such reuse. This chapter presents a set of five fundamental node-level patterns that resolve common problems when programming low-power embedded wireless sensing devices. Although the design patterns proposed are not subjected to a quantitative evaluation, a qualitative evaluation is performed through examining examples of these patterns in existing published deployments and systems. This analysis demonstrates that key deployment lessons are codified in each pattern.The pattern set forms a framework that is aimed at ensuring simple and robust deployed systems.