Accessing And Processing Sensing Data

Scientific models are increasingly dependent on processing large volumes of streamed sensing data from a wide range of sensors, from ground based to satellite embarked infrareds. The proliferation, variety and ubiquity of those devices have added new dimensions to the problem of data handling in computational models. This raises several issues, one of which - providing means to access and process these data - is tackled by this paper. Our solution involves the design and implementation of a framework for sensor data management, which relies on a specific component technology - Digital Content Component (DCC). DCCs homogeneously encapsulate individual sensors, sensor networks and sensor data archival files. They also implement facilities for controlling data production, integration and publication. As a result, developers need not concern themselves with sensor particularities, dealing instead with uniform interfaces to access data, regardless of the nature of the data providers. © 2008 IEEE.353360Aberer, K., Hauswirth, M., Salehi, A., A Middleware for Fast and Flexible Sensor Network Deployment (2006) Proceedings of the 32nd VLDB Conference (Demo Session)Barr, R., Bicket, J.C., Dantas, D.S., Du, B., Kim, T.W.D., Zhou, B., Sirer, E.G., On the need for system-level support for ad hoc and sensor networks (2002) ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 36 (2), pp. 1-5Fileto, R., Liu, L., Pu, C., Assad, E.D., Medeiros, C.B., POESIA: An Ontological Workflow Approach for Composing Web Services in Agriculture (2003) The VLDB Journal, 12 (4), pp. 352-367Gibbons, P.B., Karp, B., Ke, Y., Nath, S., Seshan, S., IrisNet: An Architecture for a World-Wide Sensor Web (2003) IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2 (4)Hadim, S., Mohamed, N., Middleware Challenges and Approaches for Wireless Sensor Networks (2006) IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 7 (3)Shneidman, J., Pietzuch, P., Ledlie, J., Roussopoulos, M., Seltzer, M., Welsh, M., Hourglass: An Infrastructure for Connecting Sensor Networks and Applications (2004), Technical report, Harvard University, TR-21-04Aberer, K., Hauswirth, M., Salehi, A., The Global Sensor Networks middleware for efficient and flexible deployment and interconnection of sensor networks (2006), Technical report, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, LSIR-REPORT-2006-006Levis, P., Culler, D., Maté: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks (2002) Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X), pp. 85-95Levis, P., Madden, S., Polastre, J., Szewczyk, R., Whitehouse, K., Woo, A., Gay, D., Culler, D., (2004) Ambient Intelligence, chapter TinyOS: An Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks, , Springer VerlagLiu, T., Martonosi, M., Impala: A Middleware System for Managing Autonomic, Parallel Sensor Systems (2003) Proc. ACM SIGPLAN Symp. Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 03)Madden, S.R., Franklin, M.J., Hellerstein, J.M., TinyDB: An Acquisitional Query Processing System for Sensor Networks (2005) ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 30 (1), pp. 122-173Park, S., Feddema, J., Egbert, S., Hydroclimatological parameters and their relationship with land surface temperatures (LST) and NDVI anomalies (2002) Proc. 2002 ASPRS-ACSM Annual ConferenceRaskin, R., Pan, M., Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) (2003) Proc. of the Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific DataSantanchè, A., Medeiros, C.B., A Component Model and an Infrastructure for the Fluid Web (2007) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 19 (2), pp. 324-341Santanchè, A., Medeiros, C.B., Pastorello Jr., G.Z., User-centered Multimedia Building Blocks (2007) Multimedia Systems Journal, 12 (4), pp. 403-421Sgroi, M., Wolisz, A., Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, A., Rabaey, J.M., (2005) Ambient Intelligence, chapter A service-based universal application interface for ad hoc wireless sensor and actuator networks, , SpringerYao, Y., Gehrke, J., The Cougar Approach to In-Network Query Processing in Sensor Networks (2002) SIGMOD Record, 31 (3