Presently the components of OpenVisualizer operate within a single process. However, in a realistic sensor networking implementation, we do not wish to deploy a PC as an LBR! This page documents an experiment to segment presents the first steps toward segmenting the components of OpenVisualizer across processes and machines, using an architecture as shown in the diagram below.
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As a first step toward this goal, we plan to separate the GUI to run on a PC, and an LBR to run on an inexpensive, low-power, embedded Linux device.
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Messaging
Presently we implement EventBus messaging with PyDispatch, which provides communication between threads in a single process. However, we must split the GUI from the LBR when the LBR is headless, like an embedded Linux device. In addition to host-to-host communication, we also may wish to segment the components in the LBR into separate processes, for example to reimplement serial communication in C.
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