The First International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-cube 2009) was held during 78 September in Pisa, Italy. This new international conference was dedicated to addressing the research challenges facing system dev- opment and software support for systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that have the potential to impact society in many ways. Currently, wireless sensor networks introduce innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire det- tion, agriculture, healthcare, and traffic monitoring. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by the definition of frameworks and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network-based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware. As a con- quence, WSNs require novel programming paradigms and technologies. Moreover, the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, will allow the development of innovative applications that meet high-performance goals. Hence, WSNs require contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, data management, system security and applications. The conference places emphasis on layers well above the traditional MAC and routing and transport layer protocols.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference, S-CUBE 2009, held in Pisa, Italy, in september 2009.

The 16 contributions published in this volume were carefully selected from 45 submitted works in a rigorous peer-reviewed process. In addition to this 3 distinguished researchers were asked to contribute 3 invited papers.

The papers examine research challenges facing system development and software support for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Currently, wireless sensor networks introduce innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire detection, agriculture, healthcare, and traffic monitoring. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by the definition of frameworks and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware. As a consequence, WSNs require novel programming paradigms and technologies. Moreover the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, will allow the development of innovative applications that meet high performance goals. Hence, WSNs require contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, data management, system security and applications.

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Applying Complex Event Processing and Extending Sensor Web Enablement to a Health Care Sensor Network Architecture.- Turn-Based Gesture Interaction in Mobile Devices.- A Large-Scale Wireless Network Approach for Intelligent and Automated Meter Reading of Residential Electricity.- Weak Process Models for Attack Detection in a Clustered Sensor Network Using Mobile Agents.- Key Establishment Using Group Information for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Forward and Backward Secure Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks for PCS/SCADA.- Analysis of Channel Access Delay of Slotted CSMA/CA in a WSN.- Accurate Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Slotted CSMA/CA over a Real-Time Wireless Sensor Network.- Physical Characterization of Acoustic Communication Channel Properties in Underwater Mobile Sensor Networks.- A Code Generator for Distributing Sensor Data Models.- Integer-Based Optimisations for Resource-Constrained Sensor Platforms.- ProSe: A Programming Tool for Rapid Prototyping of Sensor Networks.- Energy-Aware Dynamic Route Management for THAWS.- All Roads Lead to Rome: Data Highways for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks.- Sensor Data Fusion for Activity Monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living Environments.- Trade-off Analysis of a MAC Protocol for Wireless e-Emergency Systems.- An Underwater Robotic Network for Monitoring Nuclear Waste Storage Pools.- Evaluation of the Impact of the Topology and Hidden Nodes in the Performance of a ZigBee Network.- Coordinated Sleeping for Beaconless 802.15.4-Based Multihop Networks.