Authors:
Jesus Rodriguez-Molina
;
José-Fernán Martínez
;
Gregorio Rubio
and
Vicente Hernández
Affiliation:
Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Keyword(s):
Internet of Things, Monitoring, Application, Middleware, Architecture.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Uses
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Environment Monitoring
;
Industrial and Structural Monitoring
;
Internet of Things
;
Programming and Middleware
;
Sensor Networks
;
Smart Buildings and Smart Cities
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
The Internet of Things makes use of a huge disparity of technologies at very different levels that help one to the other to accomplish goals that were previously regarded as unthinkable in terms of ubiquity or scalability. If the Internet of Things is expected to interconnect every day devices or appliances and enable communications between them, a broad range of new services, applications and products can be foreseen. For example, monitoring is a process where sensors have widespread use for measuring environmental parameters (temperature, light, chemical agents, etc.) but obtaining readings at the exact physical point they want to be obtained from, or about the exact wanted parameter can be a clumsy, time-consuming task that is not easily adaptable to new requirements. In order to tackle this challenge, a proposal on a system used to monitor any conceivable environment, which additionally is able to monitor the status of its own components and heal some of the most usual issues of
a Wireless Sensor Network, is presented here in detail, covering all the layers that give it shape in terms of devices, communications or services.
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