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A Standalone WebAssembly Development Environment for the Internet of Things

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In Industry 4.0, there is a growing demand to perform high-performance and latency-sensitive computations at the edge. Increasingly, machine data is not only collected but also processed and translated into actionable decisions influencing production parameters in real-time. However, heterogeneous hardware in the Internet of Things prevents the adoption of consistent development and deployment structures as known from service containers. WebAssembly is a recent hardware-agnostic bytecode format that is capable of running not only in the browser, but also on microcontrollers and in cloud environments. In this article, we argue that this web technology can have a real impact by leveraging tools and programming languages that web engineers are familiar with. As a first step, we present a proof-of-concept integrated development and deployment environment to execute WebAssembly modules on microcontrollers. Its key feature is a built-in web server that provides a self-contained browser-based IDE to directly develop, compile and flash AssemblyScript code to a device. In this sense, the Web of Things will unfold a streamlined development and deployment context for the agile and low-latency operationalization of adjustable data streaming and action-oriented process adaptations for industrial devices.

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Notes

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    cf. https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm.

  2. 2.

    cf. https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3.

  3. 3.

    cf. https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer.

  4. 4.

    cf. https://www.assemblyscript.org/.

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Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC-2023 Internet of Production - 390621612.

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  1. Chair of Process and Data Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    István Koren

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  3. Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Inria Saclay-Île-de-France, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

    Ioana Manolescu

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Koren, I. (2021). A Standalone WebAssembly Development Environment for the Internet of Things. In: Brambilla, M., Chbeir, R., Frasincar, F., Manolescu, I. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12706. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74296-6_27

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