Message Transformation Services for Wireless Sensor Networks (MTS-WSN)

This paper describes the design and implementation of message transformation services for wireless sensor networks. We examine a scheme to integrate heterogeneous sensors at the message level as part of our middleware research. Our framework is implemented on a base station to send and receive message packets from a variety of sensor network platforms and protocols. An advantage of our approach is in the ability to interact with the sensor at the lowest level, allowing for tighter control of integration. Experimentation in this paper provides the details of our framework for integration of the TinyOS platform. Our experimentation shows that our framework can indeed be beneficial to the construction of middleware for wireless sensor networks.