Towards a comprehensive integration and application platform for large-scale sensor networks

Abstract

This paper presents a study that has been performed in order to combine the strength of two emerging technologies: Smart Items and Enterprise Architectures. Smart Items are physical objects with sensing, computing and communication capabilities based on RFID techniques. Enterprise services are generic services that can be tailored to an industry's or a company's specific needs. Examples include accounting, health care, financing, supply chain management, oil and gas, consumer goods, automotive industry and many other domains. However, bringing these two emerging technologies together is not obvious and may become quite cumbersome. There are challenging modeling issues that need to be addressed. In this article, we will present our overall approach to discuss solutions for these challenging questions. We will then demonstrate our concepts along a case study that we have performed on the UC Berkeley sensor boards, (so called motes) for the domain of container security. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.