Wireless Sensor Network Software Design Rules

In the last decade wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved as a promising ap- proach for smart investigation of our planet, providing solutions for environment and wild animal monitoring, security system development, human health telemonitoring and other domains. Lack of unified standards and methodologies leads to limited sensor network solution interoperability and portability. The goal of this work is to propose wireless sensor network software development design rules that serve as a unified methodology for operating system and application develop- ment. The design rules are based on 40 existing WSN deployment extensive analysis and common trend inference. Improvements for existing WSN deployments and operating systems are iden- tified. The evaluation shows the proposed design rules as an important tool for WSN software development at different stages, from planning to testing and change request analysis.