Authors:
Thanh-Dien Tran
1
;
David Nunes
1
;
Carlos Herrera
2
and
Jorge Sá Silva
1
Affiliations:
1
University of Coimbra, Portugal
;
2
Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Ecuador, Ecuador
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Networks, Integration, Interoperability, Adaptability, STDL.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Ad Hoc Networks
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Internet of Things
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Programming and Middleware
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless Information Networks
Abstract:
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are considered the bridge to connect physical and digital worlds and thus an important element of the Future Internet. Consequently, integrating WSNs with external applications is an undeniable requirement. A gateway-based solution in which the sensed data and functions of WSNs are exposed as web services is a common approach. The problem of current integration solutions for WSNs is their adaptability, i.e., the ability to reuse gateways and proxies in a multitude of sensor networks with different types of applications and data frames. In this paper, we present our proposal for this problem by proposing a framework that uses a language for describing the traffic in sensor networks named Sensor Traffic Description Language (STDL). In order to reuse the framework on a new sensor network, it is only necessary to describe the network's frame structures using STDL.