Sense-Able GIS: a P2P-based interoperable spatial sensor web architecture

分布式传感器网络在环境、民用建筑、道路、动物栖息地等大规模监测方面的应用引起了越来越多的兴趣。随着大规模传感器网络部署数量的迅速增加，世界范围内传感器网络(WSW)的愿景正在成为现实。与基本上充当“万维网计算机”的万维网(WWW)类似，传感器网可被视为“万维网传感器”或“网络基础设施”，它在时间和空间尺度上测量和监测物理世界，这是目前不可能的。WSW将产生大量无价的数据，使科学家能够观察到以前无法观察到的现象。

Distributed sensor networks are attracting more and more interest in applications for large-scale monitoring of the environment, civil structures, roadways, animal habitats, etc. With the rapidly increasing number of large-scale sensor network deployments, the vision of a World-Wide Sensor Web (WSW) is becoming a reality. Similar to the World-Wide Web (WWW), which acts essentially as a "World-Wide Computer", the Sensor Web can be considered as a "World-Wide Sensor" or a "cyberinfrastructure" that instruments and monitors the physical world at temporal and spatial scales that are currently impossible. The WSW will generate tremendous volumes of priceless data, enabling scientists to observe previously unobservable phenomena.