Jini Smart Sensor Application In Mobile Interactive Data Acquisition System (MIDAS)

MIDAS is an application framework developed at College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science for interactive remote data acquisition and visualization. The objective is to provide dynamic reconfiguration of the sensing process. The current MIDAS application framework utilizes the code mobility and portability of Java 2 platform. The Jini technology for networking devices increases the system evolvability, scalability, network reliability, ease of use and maintenance. The MIDAS system architecture is illustrated with Unified Modeling Language (UML). To test the effectiveness of MIDAS/Jini framework two applications have been built. The first application allows users to control a Davis atmospheric sensor wired to a computer network. The second application uses a Palm Pilot V to emulate a sensor program that can run within a K Java Virtual Machine (KVM). ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to acknowledge and thank COAS EOS lab at Oregon State University for their financial and computing facility support of this project. My earnest thanks are extended to my major professor Dr. Timothy Budd, who provided direction and valuable insights through all phases of this project. Professor Toshimi Minoura generously spent time discussing various programming problems with me. I would like to thank Dr. Mark Abbott, who initiated this project and skillfully managed the overall process. Also I would like to thank the assistance of Curt Vandetta at COAS for his computer system administrative expertise. Finally, my deepest love to my dear husband John Jiang, who is always there to help. My gratitude extends far beyond the acknowledgement.