Abstract
Over the last few years, we have witnessed a growing interest in cyber physical systems (CPSs) that rely on a strong synergy between computational and physical components. CPSs are expected to have a tremendous impact on many critical sectors (such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and aerospace) of the economy. CPSs have the ability to transform the way human-to-human, human-to-object, and object-to-object interactions take place in the physical and virtual worlds. The increasing pervasiveness of wireless sensor networking (WSN) technologies in many applications makes them an important component of emerging CPS designs. We present some of the most important design requirements of CPS architectures. We discuss key sensor network characteristics that can be leveraged in CPS designs. In addition, we also review a few well-known CPS application domains that depend on WSNs in their design architectures and implementations. Finally, we present some of the challenges that still need to be addressed to enable seamless integration of WSN with CPS designs.
Highlights
Recent advances in wireless communications, networking, and embedded system technologies have led to a growing interest in developing Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) for various purposes
A typical CPS application is to connect appliances embedded with sensor nodes to some real-time decision making system
Reliability and predictability are two important requirements in CPS designs [1,2,3]. This is because the quality of service (QoS) of CPS applications, such as emergency real-time system and healthcare, highly depends on these two factors
Summary
Recent advances in wireless communications, networking, and embedded system technologies have led to a growing interest in developing Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) for various purposes. A typical CPS application is to connect appliances embedded with sensor nodes (which are responsible for information collection from the physical world as the source of CPS inputs) to some real-time decision making system (which represents the virtual world). Each appliance in a CPS application must have the capability to access the Internet Based on this capability, the real-time decision making system which is part of the CPS could successfully receive available CPS inputs from appliances and makes decisions to control the physical world. For all the aforementioned applications, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is an integral component of CPS designs. It is our hope that the results of this work will help designers and researchers of CPSs to improve the reliability and predictability of such systems using sensor networking technologies.
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