EMMON: A System Architecture for Large-Scale, Dense and Real-Time WSNs

In spite of the significant amount of scientific workin Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), there is a clear lack ofeffective, feasible and usable WSN system architectures thataddress both functional and non-functional requirements in anintegrated fashion. This poster abstract outlines the EMMONsystem architecture for large-scale, dense, real-time embeddedmonitoring. EMMON relies on a hierarchical network architecturetogether with integrated middleware and command&controlmechanisms. It has been designed to use standard commercially–available technologies, while maintaining as much flexibilityas possible to meet specific applications’ requirements. TheEMMON WSN architecture has been validated through extensivesimulation and experimental evaluation, including through a300+ node test-bed, the largest WSN test-bed in Europe to date. Invited Poster: EMMON: A System Architecture for Large-Scale, Dense and Real-Time WSNs Stefano Tennina∗¶, Melanie Bouroche†, Pedro Braga‡, Mario Alves∗, Ricardo Gomes∗, Manuel Santos‡, Farrukh Mirza†, Anurag Garg†, Vinny Cahill†, Gabriella Carrozza§ and Vincenzo Ciriello§ ∗CISTER Research Center, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Porto, Portugal †Distributed Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ‡Critical Software, Porto, Portugal §SESM scarl, Giugliano in Campania, Naples, Italy ¶Corresponding author email: sota@isep.ipp.pt Abstract—In spite of the significant amount of scientific workIn spite of the significant amount of scientific work in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), there is a clear lack of effective, feasible and usable WSN system architectures that address both functional and non-functional requirements in an integrated fashion. This poster abstract outlines the EMMON system architecture for large-scale, dense, real-time embedded monitoring. EMMON relies on a hierarchical network architecture together with integrated middleware and command&control mechanisms. It has been designed to use standard commercially– available technologies, while maintaining as much flexibility as possible to meet specific applications’ requirements. The EMMON WSN architecture has been validated through extensive simulation and experimental evaluation, including through a 300+ node test-bed, the largest WSN test-bed in Europe to date.