NORS- Nokia Remote Sensing Platform

About

NORS (NOkia Remote Sensing) is a platform for mobile-centric wireless sensing,
according to the Remote Sensing Architecture (N-RSA), as defined in the
specifications below.

N-RSA is an event-based architecture that allows for collecting and aggregating
sensor data obtains locally at mobile device gateways. The underlying event
subscription model of the N-RSA enables to transfer only relevant data. With this,
the existing intelligence in the mobile devices is exploited to reduce data traffic
and distribute system logic. See more in the specification material below.

Packages

The NORS package consists of two parts:

• The back end server application component implements the desired
  functionality for the vertical application. For that, it accesses the middleware
  (API provided by this package) component in order to implement the required remote
  data gathering functionality within the vertical application. The package includes
  an example for such vertical application component under the GPL license. Other
  proprietary applications can be written on top of the middleware without using the
  given application component.
• The middleware component implements the N-RSA functionality according to the
  N-RSA specifications. It is licensed under LGPL and linked to the vertical
  application component. The package consists of a library for the back end server,
  which linked to the proprietary code (or the GPL licensed example server) and a
  Java mobile phone software, implementing the middleware on mobile devices. The Java
  code is implemented compliant with MIDP2.0 specifications.

Please see the appropriate license.txt files in the package for the exact license
terms of the different parts

The minimum hardware requirements

• 500 MB hard disk space
• 256 MB system RAM
• 800 MHz Pentium III CPU

The minimum software requirements

For each package we specify the version with which the NORS platform was tested,
but other versions, especially newer might also work fine

• J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4. http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads/index.html
• J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2. http://java.sun.com/j2me/download.html

• Eclipse SDK 3.1.2. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• EclipseME 1.2.3. http://eclipseme.org/docs/installation.html

The packages contain project files for compiling the package under Microsoft
Visual C++ 6.0 or higher and Dev-C++ version 4.9.9.1 (only for “without
Sierra” part of the package) or higher. We selected Dev-C++ as a secondary
compiling platform since it is a free of charge compiler package available from http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html

Documentation

• NORS Platform (PPT)
• N-RSA Middleware and Demo Server
  (PPT)
• Nokia Remote Sensing Platform
  Middleware and demo Application Server: Features and User Interface
• Installation Guide for the Nokia
  Remote Sensing Platform
• Documentation for NORS Symbian
  Server

Specifications

• Abstraction Model in the N-RSA
  System Architecture
• N-RSA High-Level System
  Architecture
• N-RSA High-Level System Architecture:
  Functionality & Interface Description
• N-RSA Communication Protocols &
  Remote Interface Application Programmer Interfaces

Current Release

Version 1.0

Current release - see documentation

Changes from Previous

This is the first version.

License

• The demo back end server application software is lisenced under the GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
• The back end server middleware and the Intermediary Gateway middleware software
  is lisenced under the LGPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

Downloads

• NORS_server_v1.0.zip
• NORS_middleware_v1.0.zip

Related Links

NORS Sourceforge project http://sourceforge.net/projects/nors