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A Sensor Observation Service Extension for Internet of Things

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This work contributes towards extending OGC Sensor Observation Service to become ready for Internet of Things, i.e. can be employed by devices with limited capabilities or opportunistic internet connection. We present an extension based on progressive data transmission, which by-design facilitates selective data harvesting and disruption-tolerant communication. The extension economizes resources, while respects the SOS specification requirement that the client should have no a-priori knowledge of the server capabilities. Empirical experiments in two case studies demonstrate that the extension adds little overhead and may lead to significant performance improvements in certain cases, as for irregular timeseries. Also, the proposed extension is not invasive and backwards compatible with legacy clients.

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This work was partially supported by Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, grant 11SYN-6-411 (ALPINE), and the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme grant 613817 (MODEXTREME). Authors are grateful to the four anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and the participants of the InterOSS-IoT Workshop (Stuttgart, Nov. 7th, 2016) for their comments.

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Samourkasidis, A., Athanasiadis, I.N. (2017). A Sensor Observation Service Extension for Internet of Things. In: Podnar Žarko, I., Broering, A., Soursos, S., Serrano, M. (eds) Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. InterOSS-IoT 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10218. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56877-5_4

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