Overview

The Huxon language is a programming language designed to simplify the development of IoT algorithms and applications. Rather than being a standalone programming language, Huxon language is embedded in C++. This means that you can use Huxon directives inside C++ to define a representation of a Huxon algorithm.

The main elements of a Huxon algorithm are:

  • Sources: generate data at a given rate, inside the Huxon language sources are provided by sensors

  • Channels: combine data from one or more input elements, the rate at which the output data is generated and its type depend on the channel logic

  • Processing Nodes: read data from a channel, modify it using custom C++ logic and generate a new output

All the elements inside a Huxon algorithm run in parallel and execute their functionality as soon as new data is available. By combining multiple elements it is possible to define a data processing pipeline that runs continuously and produce data in real time, obtained from many sensors displaced in (possibly) distant locations.

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Algorithms written using the Huxon language can be uploaded to Huxon and used for creating virtual sensors. A virtual sensor is simply a Huxon algorithm in which each declared sensor is assigned by the user to a corresponding physical sensor of an infrastructure.

The virtual sensors created from a Huxon algorithm can then be deployed on a physical infrastructure with Huxon. During the deployment, Huxon takes care of partitioning and mapping the elements of the algorithm on the physical nodes of the infrastructure, hence automatically creating a distributed implementation of the specified Huxon algorithm.

To get started using the Huxon language, we suggest to:

  1. access the Prerequisites and setup section to download the necessary tools

  2. go through the Tutorial section for a guided introduction to the Huxon language