A Distributed Framework for Remote Monitoring of Hurricane Wind Pressures and Wind Speeds using Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper presents a generalized software architecture used in a real sensor network application to provide the necessary communications infrastructure between remote sensor units and centralized server. The architecture utilizes existing wireless networking standards (IEEE 802.11 and HSDPA) and relies heavily on built in capabilities of Microsoft .NET development framework. Through layered and object oriented design the architecture achieves high degree of modularity, reliability and code maintainability. Although developed for specific application scenario, the architecture may be easily adopted for wide variety wireless sensor network application scenarios.