Journal of Communications, Vol 6, No 5 (2011), 393-399, Aug 2011
doi:10.4304/jcm.6.5.393-399

A Pattern for Web-based WSN Monitoring (Invited Paper)

Anthony Marcus, Mihaela Cardei, Ionut Cardei, Eduardo Fernandez, Fulvio Frati, Ernesto Damiani

Abstract


This paper describes a pattern for the architecture of web-based wireless sensor network monitoring. Sensor nodes are used to measure characteristics of the physical environment and sensed data is stored on the Internet using web-based technologies. Users can access data remotely as long as they have Internet connectivity. Many wireless sensor network applications developed today use smartphones as a gateway between the sensor network or the user, and the Internet. This allows the sensor network and/or the users to be mobile. Implementation of a web-based wireless sensor network architecture, that uses smartphones, provides a scalable solution with applicability in many areas such as healthcare, environmental monitoring, border security, structural health monitoring, and many more.


Keywords


wireless sensor networks; web-based architecture; architectural pattern; remote monitoring; mobile users

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