A Visual Development Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Community always looks into the approaches and procedures to make their day to day life work easier. This concept is same for the software developers as well. With inline to the major improvements in concepts and feature availability of the programming languages, they always prefer to go for the frameworks, which have the capability of hiding the underlining complexity of the language. For an exam- ple there are frameworks available, where the programmers can use it for a more e cient and sophisticated environment for their Java programming. Eclipse is the most common and widely used framework out of those. There is a very high demand, and re ects a massive growth for the Wireless Sensor Network applications and the wireless sensor network industry during the current decade. TinyOS is the operating environment for such applications. NesC is a language, which use heavily for the wireless sensor network applications. Com- paring to the other programming languages, the nesC language is still at a growing stage. Therefore still there is no proper Graphical User Interface for NesC pro- gramming. There are some alternatives, but none of them are in the expected level of the users. Apart from that NesC is di erent from the other languages. Therfore it is not easy to learn the basics based on the prior knowledge programmers gained by pioneering the other languages. This VisualTinyDT is all about providing an initial step for developing a Graphical User Interface for the betterment of the NesC programmers. This facilitates the programmers to just add the necessary components to a graphical view, and then the code for each component view will get automatically generated. Further these components can edit and modify the required out put according the user requirements.