Title :
Middleware/API and data fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Beheshti, Babak D. ; Michel, Howard E.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Technol., New York Inst. of Technol., Old Westbury, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper reviews the state of the art of two important aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), namely: 1. Models or Implementations of middleware and/or Application Programmers Interfaces (APIs) to abstract the inner workings of heterogeneous WSNs, and 2. Methods and techniques in reducing pervasive data generated by thousands or tens of thousands of sensor nodes within a WSN in order to reduce transmission load of individual sensor nodes and thereby, the energy consumption of the overall WSN. These two aspects of WSN are inter-related in that together they contribute to a unifying model of vastly heterogeneous WSNs composed of many sensor nodes. A unifying model for WSN will serve as a reference model based on which application specific WSNs can be designed using a universal API for ease of programming, and using a library of data fusion capabilities built into the API of the reference model.
Keywords :
middleware; sensor fusion; software libraries; wireless sensor networks; application programmers interfaces; data fusion; energy consumption; heterogeneous WSN; individual sensor nodes; middleware; pervasive data reduction; transmission load reduction; universal API; wireless sensor networks; Data models; Libraries; Middleware; Operating systems; Protocols; Temperature measurement; Wireless sensor networks; API; data aggregarion; data fusion; middleware; wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2011 IEEE Long Island
Conference_Location :
Farmingdale, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9878-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9877-2
DOI :
10.1109/LISAT.2011.5784224
