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What is Sensor Web

Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on Developments and Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks: From Principle to Practice
The combination of sensor networks and a service oriented architecture, so that sensors are viewed as resources which can be controlled and accessed over the World Wide Web.
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Sensor Web: Integration of Sensor Networks with Web and Cyber Infrastructure
Tomasz Kobialka (University of Melbourne, Australia), Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Peng Deng (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Marimuthu Palaniswami (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-701-5.ch020
Abstract
As sensor network deployments grow and mature there emerge a common set of operations and transformations. These can be grouped into a conceptual framework called Sensor Web. Sensor Web combines cyber infrastructure with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and sensor networks to provide access to heterogeneous sensor resources in a deployment independent manner. In this chapter we present the Open Sensor Web Architecture (OSWA), a platform independent middleware for developing sensor applications. OSWA is built upon a uniform set of operations and standard data representations as defined in the Sensor Web Enablement Method (SWE) by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). OSWA uses open source and grid technologies to meet the challenging needs of collecting and analyzing observational data and making it accessible for aggregation, archiving and decision making.
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