Sensor information representation for the internet of things

Abstract

Internet of Things integrates wireless sensor networks into the Internet, and paves the way to help people live seamlessly in both physical and cyber worlds. In a synergizing Internet of Things application, various types of sensors will communicate and exchange information for achieving user tasks across heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. This application needs an information representation for uniformly developing and managing sensor data. The information representation thus accelerates data integration and increases Internet of Things application interoperability. In this paper, we present an overview on existing technical solutions for representing sensor information. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.