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、动物栖息地等方面的大规模监测应用越来越受到人们的关注。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（WSW）的愿景正在成为现实。与万维网（WWW）类似，万维网本质上是一个“世界范围的计算机”，传感器网可以被认为是一个“世界范围的传感器”或“网络基础设施”，它在时间和空间尺度上测量和监控物理世界，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.