Normandias: An Introduction
Normandias is a service oriented, ambient aware, and object centered framework specifying a formal interface for constructing a wireless sensor network application. It permits sensor network developers to build “plug and play” applications based on certain specifications thus eliminating the need for an in-depth knowledge of TinyOS or NesC when developing applications. Its plugin based structure guarantees that the latest advances in communication, processing, or collaborative algorithms can be easily incorporated with very little or no change to an application. In the simplest terms, my contribution to sensor networks is the identification of critical services which must be offered in some form across certain classes of sensor applications (environmental monitoring, event detection, and tracking systems) and the abstraction of these services into cohesive interfaces whose sum offers the flexibility and efficiency of node centric programming approaches without its complexity.
