From Physical to Virtual Wireless Sensor Networks using Cloud Computing

Abstract

In the modern world, billions of physical sensors are used for various dedications: Environment Monitoring, Healthcare, Education, Defense, Manufacturing, Smart Home, Agriculture Precision and others. Nonetheless, they are frequently utilized by their own applications and thereby snubbing the significant possibilities of sharing the resources in order to ensure the availability and performance of physical sensors. This paper assumes that the immense power of the Cloud can only be fully exploited if it is impeccably integrated into our physical lives. The principal merit of this work is a novel architecture where users can share several types of physical sensors easily and consequently many new services can be provided via a virtualized structure that allows allocation of sensor resources to different users and applications under flexible usage scenarios within which users can easily collect, access, process, visualize, archive, share and search large amounts of sensor data from different applications. Moreover, an implementation has been achieved using Arduino-Atmega328 as hardware platform and Eucalyptus/Open Stack with Orchestra-Juju for Private Sensor Cloud. Then this private Cloud has been connected to some famous public clouds such as Amazon EC2, ThingSpeak, SensorCloud and Pachube. The testing was successful at 80%. The recommendation for future work would be to improve the effectiveness of virtual sensors by applying optimization techniques and other methods..