Lwissy: A Domain Specific Language To Model Wireless Sensor And Actuators Network Systems

Wireless sensor and actuator network systems (WSAN) are built on a broad range of sensor platforms and low level programming languages. Such systems are potentially useful for a myriad of applications, from different domains. Thus, developers need to deal with details of different platforms and programming abstractions of sensor operational systems, and they also need to have specific knowledge on the distinct domains. In this context, we propose LWiSSy, a domain specific language (DSL) to model WSAN systems whose main goals are to allow (i) domain experts to directly contribute in the development of WSANs without having knowledge on low level sensor platforms, and (ii) network experts to program sensor nodes to meet application needs without having specific knowledge on the application domain. We describe how to develop WSAN systems using LWiSSy and analyze the impact of its usage through an experiment.