Visions and Challenges for Sensor Network Collaboration in the Cloud
Simon Oechsner, Boris Bellalta, Desislava Dimitrova, Tobias Hoßfeld · 2014
The rapid growth in sensor network coverage, aided by the use of smartphones as capable sensing devices, leads to an enormous amount of gathered data from a multitude of different sources. However, generally data from one specific sensor network is only used by a very limited set of users and applications. This wastes a potentially greater usefulness for other, related data sinks that could use this additional input to improve their performance or services. In this paper, we outline visions and challenges for a widespread application of sensor network collaboration in the sense of sharing and exchanging information. We also describe a basic cloud-based architecture enabling this collaboration by providing the required support to store, manage and combine the gathered data. In particular, we include collaboration between sensor networks themselves to optimize performance, a facet that was up to now neglected in literature.