Design of a Web-Based Educational Interface for Wireless sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) become a very popular topic in both academic and industrial areas such as remote monitoring, tele medicine, military surveillance, and smart office applications. These applications can involve many design phases along with expertise knowledge. The researchers or students studying on WSNs must complete these phases to develop a WSN application. In this study, we focus on facilitating one of the application phases of WSNs and wehave designed a web-based visualization interface for educational purpose. By using the designed interface, the users are able to remotely monitor the deployed WSN, too bserve the sensed data coming from the sensor nodes in real-time manner, to createthe various charts from sensed data, to check the performance of the sensor nodes,and to analyze the topological changes of the network without writing any code viaa PDA or a computer connected to internet. The designed web interface simplifies such a tedious and difficult phase; as a result, the users can save time, and can befocus on other difficult WSNs' phases.