Demo: MARWIS - a Management Architecture for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper we present a demonstration of a novel management architecture for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) called MARWIS. The architecture supports common management tasks such as monitoring, (re)configuration, and updating program code in a WSN. It considers specific characteristics of sensor nodes. To handle large heterogeneous WSNs MARWIS divides it into smaller sensor sub-networks, which contain sensor nodes of the same type. A wireless mesh network (WMN) operates as a backbone and builds the communication gateway between these sensor sub-networks. The mesh nodes perform also the management tasks. The user controls the management tasks using a web-based graphical user interface.