The FASyS (Absolutely Safe and Healthy Factory) project, aligned with the European Factories of the Future (FoF) concept, has
been set-up to develop a new factory model aimed at minimizing the risks to the worker's health and safety, and guarantee their
welfare and comfort in machining, handling and assembly factories. To this aim, ICT (Information and Communication
Technologies) and wireless communication technologies in particular may represent very valuable tools to implement distributed
and mobile sensing applications capable to continuously sense the working environment and the workers' health and safety
conditions. The effective deployment of such applications in critical environments, like the industrial one, require the availability
of a platform capable to monitor the operation and performance of the heterogeneous wireless networks that will connect the mobile
sensors to remote control centers. This paper presents the platform implemented for this purpose in the context of the FASyS project.
In addition to monitoring the status of heterogeneous wireless networks, the implemented platform provides the capability to
reconfigure remotely the communication settings of wireless nodes based on possible malfunctioning or QoS degradation
notifications. These functionalities will help guaranteeing the reliable and robust wireless communications required in industrial
environments to implement innovative labor risk prevention applications exploiting ICT technologie