May 2009

Conference Paper

Sensorpedia: Information Sharing Across Autonomous Sensor Systems

By:
Gorman, Bryan L; Resseguie, David R; Tomkins-Tinch, Christopher H
Page Number:
448-454
Book Title:
Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
Publication Date:
May 27, 2009
Publisher Location:
iEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
Conference Name:
The 2009 International Symposium on CollaborativeTechnologies and Systems (CTS 2009)
Conference Location:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Conference Sponsor:
ACM, IEEE, and IFIP

Abstract

The concept of adapting social media technologies is introduced as a means of achieving information sharing across autonomous sensor systems. Historical examples of interoperability as an underlying principle in loosely-coupled systems is compared and contrasted with corresponding tightly-coupled, integrated systems. Examples of ad hoc information sharing solutions based on Web 2.0 social networks, mashups, blogs, wikis, and data tags are presented and discussed. The underlying technologies of these solutions are isolated and defined, and Sensorpedia is presented as a formalized application for implementing sensor information sharing across large-scale enterprises with incompatible autonomous sensor systems.