Using state machines for a model driven development of web service-based sensor network applications

Abstract

In the Internet of Things, all kinds of devices will extend the Internet to the physical world. In that vision, even extremely resource constrained sensor nodes can be triggered by as well as trigger business processes and are not limited to sense-and-send anymore. Despite the large potential, due to the time consuming, inflexible, and error prone development of sensor network applications, sensor networks are rarely integrated into today's enterprise IT. In this paper, we present an approach using state machines for a Model Driven Development of Web Service-based sensor network applications. We show how Web Services can be realized on sensor nodes and present a domain-specific language called State Machine for Resource Constrained Devices (SM4RCD) to orchestrate these services.