Research challenges in wireless networks of biomedical sensors
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Health monitoring of civil infrastructures using wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Tiny web services: design and implementation of interoperable and evolvable sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Citizen Sensing, Social Signals, and Enriching Human Experience
IEEE Internet Computing
A distributed geospatial infrastructure for Sensor Web
Computers & Geosciences
The home needs an operating system (and an app store)
Hotnets-IX Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Microcontrollers to the Cloud
Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Microcontrollers to the Cloud
CoAP: An Application Protocol for Billions of Tiny Internet Nodes
IEEE Internet Computing
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Monitoring the environment is critical for scientists to understand the environmental dynamics. However, the traditional monitoring systems such as sensor networks are usually labor-intensive and complicated to deploy. As the concept of citizen sensing has been proposed to include volunteers into the environmental monitoring systems, a key to realize the citizen sensing vision is to empower citizens with the low-cost and easy-to-use sensing devices. In this paper, we focus on two technologies that have the potential to realize the citizen sensing vision: the Internet of Things (IoT) and the world-wide sensor web. In order to address the issues from the decentralized and heterogeneous nature of IoT devices and sensors, we propose the TinySOS service, a tiny web server hosting a light-weight profile of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Observation Service (SOS). By hosting open standard sensor web services on the IoT devices, not only the devices become self-describable, self-contained, and interoperable, but also the collected observations are accessible via the Internet as soon as they are measured. In this case, the sensor web can provide real-time sensor data streams in a much higher spatial and temporal resolution, which consequently allows scientists to observe phenomena that were previously unobservable.