MARWIS: A Management Platform for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

run different applications for different tasks, such as event detection, localization, tracking, or monitoring. Different types of sensor node are therefore required, and to handle heterogeneous WSNs with a large number of these different sensor nodes, a comprehensive management architecture is also necessary. We present MARWIS, a Management Architecture for heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks, which supports common management tasks such as visualization, monitoring, (re)configuration, updating and reprogramming. It takes into account the specific characteristics of WSNs and the restricted physical resources of the sensor nodes. These include battery life, computing power, memory, network bandwidth and link quality.