A Mapping Approach for Marine Observatory Relying on Enterprise Architecture

UnderWater Sensor Networks (UW-SNs) performs collaborative monitoring tasks over an underwater determined area. These tasks could be underwater or deep sea observatories. Acoustic sensors (Hydrophones) are responsible to acquire the data underwater then transfer it to components/devices. Marine Observatory (MO) is the scenario of data exchanged between the different components/devices of the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASNs). Hence, the MO infrastructure could be based on an (UW-ASNs). This observation should take into consideration the environmental constraints since it may require specific tools, materials and devices (marines cables, specific servers and routers, etc.). The logical and physical components that are used in these observatories supply interchange procedures between the various devices of the environment (Smart Sensors, Data Fusion Servers). These components provide new services due to the long period running of the network. In this paper, we present our extended Meta-Model that is used to generate a new design tool (ArchiMO). Thus, we propose a mapping approach between the layers of the enterprise architecture standard. This approach throws instantly domain-specific concepts and constraints in layers on run-time design activity according to a satisfaction of a certain criteria/constraints. We illustrate our proposal with an underwater object localization example from the MO domain. Additionally, we generate the corresponding simulation code for a standard network simulator using our self-developed domain-specific model compiler. Our approach helps to manage the complexity, and to reduce the time of the entire development life cycle of an MO information system. It supplies in the MO context, a way to share the different viewpoints of the designers.