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Applications of Sensor Network Data Management

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Applications of Sensor Networks, Applications of Sensor Databases, Applications of Sensor Network Databases

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Sensor networks allow for micro-monitoring of different phenomena of interest in arbitrary physical environments. With this unique capability, sensor networks can capture the events in the real world as they happen in the form of high-resolution spatiotemporal data of various modalities, and provide the opportunity for real-time querying and analysis of the data for immediate response and control. Such functionality is desirable in many classic applications while enabling numerous other novel applications. From the data management perspective, there is a consensus among database researchers that management and analysis of the massive, dynamic, distributed and uncertain data in sensor network applications is going to be one of the new grand challenges for the database community:

Sensor information processing will raise many of the most interesting database...

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Farnoush Banaei-Kashani & Cyrus Shahabi

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  1. Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
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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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Banaei-Kashani, F., Shahabi, C. (2009). Applications of Sensor Network Data Management. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_21

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