From SDL Modeling to WSN Simulation for IoT Solutions

Both the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are technologies characterized by integrating heterogeneous devices with low processing and storage capabilities and power consumption efficiency. The increasing number of operating systems and hardware platforms available for IoT applications suggests the need of developing a simple and agile approach which allows that specifications can be easily converted into executable code for simulation and implementation thus easing validation and verification of requirements. This involves the design, development, testing, and deployment phases. This paper proposes an integration scheme through which IoT solutions based on WSN can be designed using Specification and Description Language (SDL), and then translated directly into code for IoT-oriented operating systems like Contiki. The main goals are to quickly adjust the designs, and execute tests on different hardware-software configurations, thus reducing errors along the life cycle.