Application-Oriented Programming Model for Sensor Networks Embedded in the Human Body

This work presents a new programming model for sensor networks embedded in the human body which is based on the concept of multi-programming application-oriented software. This model was conceived with a Top-Down approach of four layers and its main goal is to allow the healthcare professionals to program and to reconfigure the network locally or by the Internet. In order to evaluate this hypothesis, a benchmarking was executed in order to allow the assessment of the mean time spent in the programming of a multi-functional sensor node used for the measurement and transmission of the electrocardiogram. Keywords—deployment-time programmability, run-time reconfigurability, application-oriented software, transparency, wearable systems, BSN, BAN, Java.