A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks
Hervé Paulino, João Paulo Clarindo dos Santos · 2012
Summary. This paper introduces SenSer, a generic middleware frame-work that allows for the Web access and management of sensor networks by virtualizing their functionalities as services, in a way that is program-ming language and sensor network development platform independent. We present the SenSer architectural model and provide a concrete Java-based implementation that exposes the framework as two Web services, cleanly separating regular user operations from administration opera-tions. This prototype implementation has been validated with the devel-opment of two applications, and evaluated against the initial functional and non-functional requirements, namely modularity, performance and scalability. We have also performed two integration exercises targeting Callas [17] and SWE [3] networks.