Title: Visualising Wireless Sensor Networks with NetViewer

Authors: Longhui Ma; Lei Wang; Lei Shu; Jing Zhao; Suran Li

Addresses: School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116022, China ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116022, China ' Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering, Osaka University, Japan ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116022, China ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116022, China

Abstract: Visualisation tools make it easier for users to observe the status of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). So far, developers of WSNs have created various visualisation tools under different project/research backgrounds. These tools, however, are limited in certain application scenarios, since the underlying packet formats are hard coded into the programs. For this purpose, we present NetViewer, a universal visualisation tool for all the applications, and we provide many useful data services to fulfil different needs of various fields.

Keywords: visualisation; WSNs; wireless sensor networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.047255

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.10 No.1, pp.1 - 11

Received: 15 Apr 2010
Accepted: 05 Oct 2010
Published online: 15 Jun 2012 *

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