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Sensor networks have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities for a wide variety of real world applications. Distributed applications require to collect information from a lot of different sensor systems, retrieved data are usually heterogeneous from many points of view and they need to be integrated to share a common objective. In this paper we present the SeNsIM framework, a scalable software architecture for the integration of heterogeneous sensor systems. SeNsIM enables the deployment of applications based on multiple sensor systems by providing a standard way to manage, query, and interact with sensors. We propose the architectural and data model of the SeNsIM framework and provide a method to describe sensor systems using XML as modeling language in order to facilitate sharing of structured data across them.
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Casola, V., Gaglione, A., Mazzeo, A. (2009). A Reference Architecture for Sensor Networks Integration and Management. In: Trigoni, N., Markham, A., Nawaz, S. (eds) GeoSensor Networks. GSN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02903-5_16
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