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Database Languages for Sensor Networks

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Acquisitional query languages; TinySQL

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Sensor networks – collections of small, inexpensive battery-powered, wirelessly networked devices equipped with sensors (microphones, temperature sensors, etc.) – offer the potential to monitor the world with unprecedented fidelity. Deploying software for these networks, however, is difficult, as they are complex, distributed, and failure prone. To address these complexities, several sensor network database systems, including TinyDB [7], Cougar [12], and SwissQM [8] have been proposed. These systems provide a high level SQL-like query language that allows users to specify what data they would like to capture from the network and how they would like that data processed without worrying about low-level details such power management, network formation, and time synchronization. This entry discusses the main features of these languages, and their relationship to SQL and other database languages.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Samuel Madden

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Madden, S. (2009). Database Languages for Sensor Networks. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_122

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