PROVIZ: An integrated visualization and programming framework for WSNs

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly gaining popularity in various critical domains like health care, critical infrastructure, and climate monitoring, where application builders have diversified development needs. Independent of the functionalities provided by the WSN applications, many of the developers use visualization, simulation, and programming tools. However, these tools are designed as separate stand-alone applications, which force developers to use multiple tools. This situation often poses confusion and hampers an efficient development experience. To avoid the complexity of using multiple tools, we have designed a new extensible, multi-platform, scalable, and open-source framework called PROVIZ, which is an integrated visualization and programming framework. In this paper, we explain the various features of PROVIZ's visualization and programming framework and discuss how PROVIZ can be used as a visual debugging tool to aid in providing a software fix.