Meta-Design Support for Safe and Secure Networked Embedded Systems

This paper presents principles of meta-design support for end-user development of safe and secure embedded system networking. The presented approach offers a reusable framework for Internet-based embedded system applications. The framework provides a development environment kernel that can be adapted for various safety/security critical embedded system application domains. It stems from the IEEE 1451.1 smart transducer interface standard that provides an object-based networking model mediating efficient and unified access to distributed components through both wired and wireless networks. The paper discusses this framework not only from the viewpoint of framework builders, but also end-user developers. In this context, it demonstrates how to use that approach for a safety and security-critical application with Internet and ZigBee.