Visualization of Wireless Sensor Network by a Java Framework for Security in Defense Surveillance

Abstract

Every academic research requires sufficient availability of resources in order to carry out further work. The scope of work done in visualization for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires testing its algorithms for large scale deployment. For this, deploying real WSN test bed provides accurate test results but large scale deployment is not feasible. The earlier framework named Net Topo is efficient for simulation and visualization for WSN, but the architecture is dedicated to crossbow sensor nodes forming network, which are very expensive and is hindrance for academic research. Keeping this in mind, this paper sheds light on different Java based framework of visualization for WSN, in which we have included a challenging application area of WSN viz. Security in defence surveillance wherein the designing of this visualization software tool is implemented using economical designed motes. This application tracks the vehicular movement in hostile areas under military surveillance by comparing and showing data from connected network which is set at defined threshold and thus, alerts if any intrusion happens in the implemented area through displayed Graphical User Interface (GUI).