A Geospatial Sensor Web Architecture for the Internet of Things

本提案的重点是为物联网（IoT）设计和开发地理空间传感器web架构。1991年，马克·威瑟（Mark Weiser）描述了计算机的未来：“最深奥的技术是那些会消失的技术。他们把自己编织到日常生活的结构中，直到与日常生活无法区分。”许多技术已经无缝地融入我们的日常生活，因此变得不可见。因特网和万维网（WWW）就是两个很好的例子。我们很少考虑没有他们我们的生活会是什么样子。今天，其他新技术，就像10年前的万维网一样，开始融入我们的日常生活，并最终带来革命性的后果。物联网就是这样一种技术。数十亿到数万亿个小型传感器和执行器将嵌入到现实世界的物体中，并与互联网相连，形成物联网，它有可能改变世界，就像互联网和万维网一样。物联网是一种新的范式，指的是唯一可识别的对象及其在互联网中的虚拟表示。物联网的基本概念是日常物品可以感知环境，可以相互通信和合作，并且它们的功能可以通过互联网或Web被多个应用程序访问。通过赋予物体感知周围环境和相互交互的能力，物联网正在为各种应用领域释放令人兴奋的可能性，例如运输和物流，医疗保健，智能环境，个人和社会应用。然而，现有的地理空间传感器网络系统主要围绕复杂的传感器系统和传统的数据库进行设计。本研究的目的是设计、实现和评估一个传感器网络平台，该平台解决了物联网设备的异构、资源受限和分散性质，以及来自物联网设备的大量数据流的快速和连续到达特征。这项拟议的研究将产生重大影响，因为它代表了实现上述物联网愿景的使能技术，并有可能在未来被数十亿物联网设备使用。

The focus of this proposal is to design and develop a geospatial sensor web architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT). In 1991, Mark Weiser described a vision of the future of computing: "The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Many technologies have been seamlessly integrated into our daily lives and have thus become invisible. The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are two great examples. We give little thought to what our lives would be like without them. Today other new technologies, just like the WWW 10 years ago, are beginning to integrate themselves into our daily lives, ultimately with revolutionary consequences. The IoT is one such technology. Billions to trillions of small sensors and actuators will be embedded in real-world objects and connected to the Internet to form the IoT, and it has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet and WWW did. The IoT is a new paradigm referring to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in the Internet. The basic concept of the IoT is that everyday objects can sense the environment, can communicate and cooperate with each other, and their capabilities can be accessed by multiple applications via the Internet or the Web. By giving objects the ability to sense their surroundings and to interact with each other, the IoT is unleashing exciting possibilities for a variety of application domains, such as transportation and logistics, healthcare, smart environments, personal and social applications. However, the existing geospatial sensor web systems are designed to center on complex sensor systems and traditional databases. The objective of this research is to design, implement, and evaluate a sensor web platform that addresses the heterogeneous, resource-constrained, and decentralized nature of the IoT devices and the fast and continuous arrival characteristics of the enormous amount of data streams from IoT devices. This proposed research will have a significant impact because it represents the enabling technologies in order to fulfill the above IoT vision and has the potential to be used by billions of IoT devices in the future.