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Sensor-Internet Share and Search--Enabling Collaboration of Citizen Scientists

Sasank Reddy, Gong Chen, Brian Fulkerson, Sung Jin Kim, Unkyu Park, Nathan Yau, Junghoo Cho, and John Heidemann Mark Hansen
USC/Information Sciences Institute

Abstract

Over the last decade, embedded sensing systems have been successfully deployed in a range of application areas, from education and science to military and industry. These systems are becoming more robust, capable, and widely adopted. Yet today, most sensor networks function in isolated patches, each with different mechanisms to deliver data to their users, and often have no formal methods to share data with others. As sensornets become more numerous and their data more valuable, it becomes increasingly important to have common means to share data over the Internet. In addition to simplifying use of a single sensornet, we seek to enable sharing of data across multiple systems, and ultimately slogging (sensornet logging), where a single user may discover, process, and republish data from thousands of independently operated sensors. To meet these goals we propose an architecture to interconnect, share, and search sensor data. This paper describes the building blocks of this architecture: sensor stores, search engines, and publishers, joined by a common sensor data streaming protocol. We then detail the research challenges that must be addressed to meet our goal of enabling sensor access to users from scientists, data analysts, to citizen scientists.

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Reference

Reddy07a: Sasank Reddy, Gong Chen, Brian Fulkerson, Sung Jin Kim, Unkyu Park, Nathan Yau, Junghoo Cho, and John Heidemann Mark Hansen. Sensor-Internet Share and Search--Enabling Collaboration of Citizen Scientists. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web, pp. 11-16. Cambridge, Mass., USA, ACM. April, 2007. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Reddy07a.html>.

@inproceedings{Reddy07a,
	author = "Sasank Reddy and Gong Chen and Brian Fulkerson and Sung Jin Kim and Unkyu Park and Nathan Yau and Junghoo Cho and Mark Hansen, John Heidemann",
	title = "Sensor-Internet Share and Search---Enabling Collaboration
                         of Citizen Scientists",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the  ACM Workshop on Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web",
	year = "2007",
	publisher = "{ACM}",
	address = "Cambridge, Mass., USA",
	month = "April",
	pages = "11--16",
	keywords = "sensor internet sharing, SISS",
	url = "http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Reddy07a.html",
	pdfurl = "http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Reddy07a.pdf",
}

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