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A spreadsheet approach to programming and managing sensor networks

  • Alec Woo*
  • , Siddharth Seth
  • , Tim Olson
  • , Liu Jie
  • , Zhao Feng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Arched Rock Corp.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Microsoft USA

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Abstract

We present a spreadsheet approach to simplifying the process of managing, programming, and interacting with sensor networks and visualizing, archiving and retrieving sensor data. An Excel spreadsheet prototype has been built to demonstrate the idea. This environment provides Excel users, who are already familiar with spreadsheet applications, a convenient and powerful tool for programming and data analysis. We discuss the architecture of this prototype and our experience in implementing the tool. We show two different classes of sensor-net applications built using this platform. We also present performance data on the scalarbility of the tool with respect to data rate and number of data streams.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN '06
Pages424-431
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventFifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN '06 - Nashville, TN, United States
Duration: 19 Apr 200621 Apr 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN '06
Volume2006

Conference

ConferenceFifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN '06
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville, TN
Period19/04/0621/04/06

Keywords

  • Data streams
  • Excel
  • Networked sensors
  • SQL server

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