Authors:
Jianzhao Huang
;
Nicholas M. Boers
;
Eleni Stroulia
;
Pawel Gburzynski
and
Ioanis Nikolaidis
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Canada
Keyword(s):
Wireless sensor networks, Geographic information systems, Forums, Visualization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Datawarehouses
;
Internet Technology
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Web Geographical Information Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Services and Web Engineering
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe SensorGIS, an integrated architecture for WSN applications. SensorGIS provides an integrated service-oriented architecture for collecting, archiving, analyzing, and visualizing sensor network data in a geographic information system (GIS). By using an extendible GIS framework as one of its user views, SensorGIS can contextually communicate the collected data, its trends, and distinct values of interest. In addition, it is designed in the service-oriented style and hence is extendible in terms of the analyses and visualizations. Finally, it integrates an online collaborative forum that enables annotation of the collected data with the users’ observations and interpretations.