An Agent-Based System for Sensor Cloud Management
Yu-Cheng Chou, Bo-Shiun Huang, Bo-Jia Peng · InTech eBooks · 2012
An embedded sensor network is a network of embedded computers deployed in the physical world that interacts with the environment. Each embedded computer, commonly referred to as a sensor node, is a physically small and relatively inexpensive computer that has one or more sensors. These sensor nodes are often networked, allowing them to communicate and cooperate with each other to monitor the environment[1]. In recent years, embedded sensor networks have been gaining increasing attention, both from the academia and industry, because of their potential to be a novel and practical solution across multiple areas such as industrial automation, asset management, environmental monitoring, transportation business, and healthcare. Typically, an embedded sensor network is controlled by its own applications that can access the sensor nodes within the network. On the other hand, the sensor nodes cannot be easily accessed by applications outside of the network. Moreover, even within the same network, different applications might encounter a race condition when they are trying to access a sensor node simultaneously. Existing research works of embedded sensor networks focus on data processing[2], routing[3, 4], power management[5], clock synchronization[6-8], localization[9, 10], operating system[11, 12], and programming[13, 14]. However, not much research has been done with a focus on the management of sensor nodes.