A Collaborative Model for Wireless Sensor Networks Applied to Museums' Environmental Monitoring

  • Authors:
  • Lina M. Brito;Laura M. Rodríguez Peralta

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering (LabUse), Centro de Ciências Matemáticas (CCM) Mathematics and Engineering Department (DME), University of Madeira (UMa), Funchal, Made ...;Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering (LabUse), Centro de Ciências Matemáticas (CCM) Mathematics and Engineering Department (DME), University of Madeira (UMa), Funchal, Made ...

  • Venue:
  • CDVE '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The major functions of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) cannot be accomplished without collaboration among sensor nodes. However, most of the work found in literature only focuses on a specific type of collaboration, associated with the accomplishment of a certain task, such as: sensing, signal processing, computing, routing, etc. In this paper, we present a graph-based model of collaborative work for WSNs. This model is called Wireless Sensor Networks Supported Cooperative Work (WSNSCW) and was created for the specific case of WSNs. We also present the formalization of some of the entities of the model and of its properties. This is a generic model that is being used as a basis for the development of a 3D web-based awareness tool for WSNs. In this paper, the model is applied to the specific case of a WSN created in a museum for artwork conservation.