(POSTER) From Sensors to Insight: Rapid, Edge-to-Core Application Development for Sensor-Driven Applications
For scientists and developers building sensor-based applications, this methodology reduces development time and expertise barriers by shifting from code-first to intent-first design.
The paper presents a pattern-based, AI-assisted methodology for rapidly developing sensor-driven applications across the edge-to-cloud continuum, demonstrating that AI-assisted pattern reuse compresses multi-stage workflow development to 1-1.5 days per workflow while preserving rigor and portability.
Scientists increasingly rely on sensor-based data; however transforming raw streams into insights across the edge-to-cloud continuum remains difficult due to the breadth of expertise required to coordinate the necessary data and computation flow. This paper introduces a pattern-based, AI-assisted methodology for rapid development of sensor-driven applications. Using Pegasus workflows executing on the FABRIC testbed, we demonstrate a 5-step development loop that shifts workflow construction and deployment from code-first to intent-first design. Starting from an existing Orcasound hydrophone workflow as a reusable template, we generate and refine workflows for air quality, earthquake, and soil moisture monitoring applications. We further show how these workflows extend to edge resources-including BlueField-3 DPUs and Raspberry Pis-through configuration and placement rather than workflow redesign. Our evaluation, from the perspective of a novice Pegasus user, shows that AI-assisted pattern reuse compresses multi-stage workflow development to 1-1.5 days per workflow while preserving the rigor and portability of workflow-based execution.