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

分布式传感器网络在环境、土木结构、道路、动物栖息地等的大规模监测中的应用正吸引着越来越多的兴趣。随着大规模传感器网络部署数量的迅速增加，全球传感器网络（WSW）的愿景正在成为现实。类似于万维网（WWW），它本质上是一个“万维网计算机”，传感器网络可以被认为是一个“万维网传感器”或“网络基础设施”，仪器和监测物理世界的时间和空间尺度，目前是不可能的。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.