Design Guidelines for Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks with Enterprise Systems
Laurent Gomez, Annett Laube, Alessandro Sorniotti · 2008
Deploying a large number of small wireless sensors that can gather, process, and deliver information about physical en-vironment to external systems opens many novel applica-tion domains. Today Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are highly interesting for different application domains such as military or healthcare [3]. Despite this interest, the integra-tion of WSNs with business applications still raises techni-cal challenges. WSN and context-aware middlewares aim at addressing this issue. Nevertheless, these middleware frame-works mainly focus on application development and deploy-ment rather than on business application requirements. In this paper, we discuss the necessity of an Enterprise Integra-tion Component (EIC) that addresses business application requirements. Combining top-down approach of context-aware middleware and bottom-up approach of WSN middle-ware, we propose the design of a SOA based architecture. The latter addresses the heterogeneity of WSNs and offers a standardized, secure and trusted way to access sensor data.