METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SENS0R-ENABLED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

摘要

The teachings herein disclose methods and apparatus that provide software components (objects) as building blocks for rapidly developing sensor-enabled software applications. In at least one embodiment, a component-based software toolset provides data source components for obtaining sensor data, data series components for automatically collecting sensor data incoming from data source components, data field components for controlling that collection, and data destination components for automatically receiving data from the data series components. By providing methods and properties within these and other components in the toolset, the programmer builds sophisticated, hierarchical data flow processing with little or no manual programming. The toolset may further include group components for merging data from multiple data series components, and for linking different data series components, and the data source/destination component definitions may include network socket-enabled components for LAN, WAN data collection, for example.