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Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks

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GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2007)

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A Wide-Area Sensor Network (WASN) is a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks and data repositories spread over a wide geographic area. The diversity of sensor types and the regional differences over which WASNs operate result in semantic interoperability mismatches among sensor data, and a difficulty in agreeing on methods for sensor data access and exchange. We assume that sensors and their associated data have an explicit spatio-temporal basis (or tagging) in their representation. In this paper, we describe a spatio-temporal loosely-coupled federated database model for the WASN data storage problem - that of unifying query and data representation given a heterogeneous WASN - and propose a conceptual schema to ease the problem of integration of sensor data representations. This is a continuing and critical challenge as sensor networks become more ubiquitous and data interoperation becomes increasing vital for a variety of applications (such as homeland security, transportation, environmental monitoring, etc.). We employ a top-down ontology-driven software development methodology. We use the SNAP/SPAN ontology as a sample framework for the conceptual schema. We compare our methodology of conceptual schema development with a bottom-up entity-oriented schema construction and discuss the differences in the two approaches. A unique contribution is the discussion of deployment experiences to evaluate proposed approaches in the context of a concrete WASN testbed.

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    Mallikarjun Shankar, Alexandre Sorokine, Budhendra Bhaduri & David Resseguie

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union ST SE 4192S Minneapolis, MN 55414,  

    Shashi Shekhar & Jin Soung Yoo

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Shankar, M., Sorokine, A., Bhaduri, B., Resseguie, D., Shekhar, S., Yoo, J.S. (2007). Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks. In: Fonseca, F., Rodríguez, M.A., Levashkin, S. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_11

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