First Conference Paper: Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Networks

Hey everyone,

I’m excited to share that our latest conference paper has been presented! 🎉 This time, we’ve explored the use of event-driven models in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Our approach aims to enhance how applications interact with WSNs by providing real-time notifications whenever significant events occur in the monitored environment (Lucas-Martínez et al., 2014).

Key Highlights

Event-Driven Model: We propose a model where WSNs can notify applications in real-time about important events, improving responsiveness and efficiency.
Data Collection: Our system ensures that data is collected and delivered to sinks or gateways effectively, making it easier for applications to retrieve and use this information.
Environmental Monitoring: This approach is particularly useful for environmental monitoring, where timely data can be crucial for decision-making.

Authors: Zhaoyu Zhai, José-Fernán Martínez Ortega, Néstor Lucas Martínez, and Jesús Rodríguez-Molina.

Visual References

Virtualization model scenario

References

2014

ECSA-1
Virtualization of Event Sources in Wireless Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things

Néstor Lucas-Martínez, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega, and Vicente Hernández-Díaz

In Proceedings of International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, Jun 2014

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Sensor networks, and more specifically wireless sensor networks (WSN), are generally used to collect information from the environment. The gathered data are mainly delivered to sinks or gateways that become the endpoints where applications can retrieve and use such data. But applications would also expect from a WSN an event-driven operational model, so that they can be notified whenever occur some specific environmental changes instead of analyzing continuously the data provided periodically.In either operational model, wireless sensor networks represent a collection of objects interconnected, in a similar way that is outlined by the Internet of Things vision. In following years sensors will become more capable and resourceful. But in the meantime, they lie into the definition of constrained devices. In addition, to fulfill the vision of the Internet of Things, they must have a virtual representation that allows indirect access to their resources, a model that should also include the virtualization of event sources in a WSN.Thus, in this paper we propose a model for a virtual representation of event sources in a WSN. The event sources are modeled as internet resources that are accessible by any internet application, following an Internet of Things approach. The model has been tested in a real implementation where a wireless sensor network has been deployed in an open neighborhood environment. Different event sources have been identified in the proposed scenario, and they have been represented following the proposed model.
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