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A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks

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Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE 2010)

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This paper introduces SenSer, a generic middleware framework that allows for the Web access and management of sensor networks by virtualizing their functionalities as services, in a way that is programming language and sensor network development platform independent. We present the SenSer architectural model and provide a concrete Javabased implementation that exposes the framework as two Web services, cleanly separating regular user operations from administration operations. This prototype implementation has been validated with the development 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.

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  1. CITI / Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-518, Caparica, Portugal

    Hervé Paulino & João Ruivo Santos

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  1. School of Computing and Information Engineering, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, BT52 1SA,, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Paulino, H., Santos, J.R. (2011). A Middleware Framework for the Web Integration of Sensor Networks. In: Par, G., Morrow, P. (eds) Sensor Systems and Software. S-CUBE 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_6

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