Sensor Systems and Software. Second International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2010, Miami, FL, USA, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_6,
        author={Herv\^{e} Paulino and Jo\"{a}o Santos},
        title={A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={Sensor Systems and Software. Second International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2010, Miami, FL, USA, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={S-CUBE},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Wireless sensor networks Web services Middleware},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_6}
    }
    
  • Hervé Paulino
    João Santos
    Year: 2012
    A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks
    S-CUBE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_6
Hervé Paulino1,*, João Santos1
  • 1: FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa
*Contact email: herve@di.fct.unl.pt

Abstract

This paper introduces , a generic middleware framework that allows for the Web access and management of sensor networks by virtualizing their functionalities as services, in a way that is programming language and sensor network development platform independent. We present the architectural model and provide a concrete Javabased implementation that exposes the framework as two Web services, cleanly separating regular user operations from administration operations. This prototype implementation has been validated with the development of two applications, and evaluated against the initial functional and non-functional requirements, namely modularity, performance and scalability. We have also performed two integration exercises targeting Callas [17] and SWE [3] networks.