CoMaDa: An adaptive framework with graphical support for Configuration, Management, and Data handling tasks for wireless sensor networks

Nowadays, users request comfortable frameworks and development environments independent of the applications. Those solutions should offer as many support as possible, should be user friendly, and allow manipulation and visualization of different things at the same time. Those requirements become very important in the area of wireless sensor networks due to different vendors, wide range of application field, and the high amount of collected data. Currently existing solutions cover only a limited range of service and are usually fixed on hardware, operating system or application. In order to offer the user the wide range of flexibility the CoMaDa framework was developed, which is presented in this paper and combines all above mentioned user requirements by working with virtual representation of real wireless sensor networks and support in real time. CoMaDa offers the user support for configuration of components, network management functionalities, and data visualization at the same time. CoMaDa is build in a flexible way, which allows the user to integrate new features (e.g. personal code, hardware support, visualization option) with less input and, therefore, adapt the existing CoMaDa to every setup as requested.