Smart Sensor Metamodel for deep sea observatory

Deep sea observatories, based on sensor networks, provide new features to the ocean survey like a continuous observation of the ocean. The sensors used in these observatories provide environment data and also insure new functionalities or services due to the permanent running of this network. The nominal behavior of each sensor must be extended to feet with this concept of deep sea observatory. So in this paper, we present our smart sensor metamodeling approach for deep sea-observatory. This work aims at specifying a Domain Specific Language (DSL) dedicated to smart sensor networks in a goal to model the behavior of the sensor and to produce automatically the software which is embedded in the network infrastructure. This DSL includes three modeling levels of smart sensor: static properties, interface and behavior. The sensor interface provides to observers and scientific researchers a set of services dedicated to ocean measures that the sensor can do, based on internal or external event detections. The sensor behavior permits observers to know how the sensor behaves.