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We live in an exciting time for lovers of lego-like sensing devices and remote operation. The availability, interoperability, and price of off-the-shelf sensors and wireless sensor nodes have increased dramatically over the last years. Today, anyone with a reasonable expertise in C++ and a love for lego-like technology can buy an Arduino and some sensors, go to the Internet to learn how to build and configure them, and put them to work in some simple application. Wireless sensing has also been popularized in those platforms and systems. More professional applications in commercial and industrial settings deploy a possibly very large number of wired and/or wireless sensors and actuators, integrate them into some information system or at least data collection computation device, configure everything to work together by extensive programming and testing, and, finally, deploy the system for operation over the years …