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Versatile and effective, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) witness a continuous expansion of their application domains. Yet, their use is still hindered by issues such as reliability, lifetime, overall cost, design effort and multidisciplinary engineering knowledge, which often prove to be daunting for application domain experts. Several WSN design models, tools and techniques were proposed to solve these contrasting objectives, but no single comprehensive approach has emerged. With these criteria in mind we review several of the most representative ones, then we focus on two of the most effective hardware/software codesign flows. Both offer high-level design entry interfaces based on StateCharts. One allows manual module composition in a full application, and automates its mapping on a user-defined architecture for fast high-level design space exploration. The other flow automates module composition starting from the application specification and by reusing library modules. It can generate the hardware specification and the software to program and configure the WSN nodes. For these we show the typical use for the development of some representative applications, to evaluate their effectiveness.

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Abbreviations

6LoWPAN:

IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Network

ADC:

Analog-to-Digital Converter

ADM:

Abstract Design Module

API:

Application Programming Interface

ASCII:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BOM:

Bill of Materials

CAN:

Controller Area Network

CRC:

Cyclic Redundancy Check

DMA:

Direct Memory Access

DSML:

Domain-Specific Modeling Language

EEPROM:

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EMF:

Eclipse Modeling-Framework

FSM:

Finite-State Machine

GPIO:

General-Purpose Input/Output-pin

GPRS:

General Packet Radio Service

GPT:

General-Purpose Timer

HAL:

Hardware Abstraction Layer

I2C:

Inter-Integrated Circuit

ICU:

Input Capture Unit

ID:

Identifier

I/O:

Input/Output

IoT:

Internet of Things

IP:

Intellectual Property

ISR:

Interrupt Service Routine

MAC:

Media Access Control

MBD:

Model-Based Design

MMC/SD:

Multimedia/Secure Digital Card

NVIC:

Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller

OS:

Operating System

PWM:

Pulse-Width Modulation

QoS:

Quality of Service

RAM:

Random-Access Memory

RC:

Resistor-Capacitor

RFID:

Radio-Frequency Identification

RF:

Radio Frequency

RTC:

Real-Time Clock

RTOS:

Real-Time Operating System

SDC:

Secure Digital Card

SPI:

Serial Peripheral Interface

TCP/IP:

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TWI:

Two Wire Interface

UART:

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UML:

Unified Modeling Language

USART:

Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

USB:

Universal Serial Bus

WSDL:

Web Service Definition Language

WSN:

Wireless Sensor Network

XMI:

XML Metadata Interchange

XML:

Extensible Markup Language

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    Mihai Teodor Lazarescu & Luciano Lavagno

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    Jürgen Teich

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Lazarescu, M.T., Lavagno, L. (2017). Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Ha, S., Teich, J. (eds) Handbook of Hardware/Software Codesign. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7267-9_38

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