Developing Safe and Dependable Sensornets

Sensornets are being widely proposed as a solution technology in a wide number of applications, e.g. health care. As part of this work some key challenges for the safety and sensornet communities are established in part by developing parts of a safety case for a fire detection system in a skyscraper. We then demonstrate how some of these issues can be resolved by modifying earlier work on Run Time Assurance of applications to satisfy some key safety and dependability requirements in the context of a sensornet used as part of a fire fighting system.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: EUROMICRO
• Authors: Iain Bate, Yafeng Wu, John A. Stankovic
• Keywords: Dependability Requirements, EUROMICRO 2011, Sensornet, Software Engineering, Solution Technology