A framework for integrating WSNs and external environments

Abstract:

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer a diversity of applications in most of the fields, including healthcare, environmental monitoring, military and smart homes. However, most of the important applications ofWSNs cannot operate in complete isolation and therefore it is necessary to have an infrastructure for integrating WSNs with external environments (e.g., IP networks and virtual worlds). In this paper, we survey the current approaches on interconnecting WSNs with the IP networks and analyze their advantages as well as their limitations. Based on the analysis, we propose a new approach for interoperability between WSNs and external environments. Our proposed framework takes the advantages of current approaches as well as it takes into account the idea of service-orientation and application-independence. Our aim is to create a generic framework that is able to adapt with the multitude of applications running on sensor nodes and exposes WSNs as a set of web services to external environments. This paper also presents an implemented use-case for integrating WSNs with Second Life virtual world. © 2010 IFAC.

Año de publicación:

2010

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scopus