Air Programming on Sunspot with use of Wireless Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provides us an effective means to monitor physical environments. The computing nodes in a WSN are resource constrained devices whose resources need to be used sparingly. The main requirement of a WSN is to operate unattended in remote locations for extended periods of time. Physical conditions, environmental conditions, upgrades, user preferences, and errors within the code can all contribute to the need to modify currently running applications. Therefore, reprogramming of sensor nodes is required. One of the important terminologies that are associated with WSN network is that of OVER THE AIR PROGRAMMING. This concept has been utilized so far as for Imote2 sensors that has been relatively utilized for the processing of the Deluge port (DP). They have so far been able to successfully reboot each application. But this rebooting is still not reliable and secure as there are certain security features that are affected in the processing. I will provide a more reliable, robust and secure system that would have enriched functionalities of that of OTA programming on SUNSPOT. Some important features of the SUN SPOT that I will be utilizing in this practical approach is that it supports isolated application models such as sensor networks, it allows running multiple applications in one. It does not create overhead on the entire system node as it provides lower level asynchronous for proper message delivery. It also supports migration from one device to another. This paper focuses on developing a multi-hop routing protocol for communication among Sun SPOT sensor nodes and a user front-end (i.e. visualizer) to visualise the collected values from all the nodes. To test the routing protocol before deploying it to sensor nodes, a simulation using J-Sim is created.