Abstract
The need for constant monitoring of environmental conditions has produced an increase in the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN). The drive towards smart cities has produced the need for smart sensors to be able to monitor what is happening in our cities. This, combined with the decrease in hardware component prices and the increase in the popularity of open hardware, has favored the deployment of sensor networks based on open hardware. The new trends in Internet Protocol (IP) communication between sensor nodes allow sensor access via the Internet, turning them into smart objects (Internet of Things and Web of Things). Currently, WSNs provide data in different formats. There is a lack of communication protocol standardization, which turns into interoperability issues when connecting different sensor networks or even when connecting different sensor nodes within the same network. This work presents a sensorized platform proposal that adheres to the principles of the Internet of Things and the Web of Things. Wireless sensor nodes were built using open hardware solutions, and communications rely on the HTTP/IP Internet protocols. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) SensorThings API candidate standard was used as a neutral format to avoid interoperability issues. An environmental WSN developed following the proposed architecture was built as a proof of concept. Details on how to build each node and a study regarding energy concerns are presented.
Highlights
Nowadays, one of the challenges of our society is to know what is happening around us at every moment and how this affects our daily lives
We present our work, which consists of a sensorized platform that can be used to study different kinds of phenomena for multiple uses, like environmental, smart cities, health, and so forth
We first present the new concepts that the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSN) have added in the last few years and which have evolved into the current state of WSNs
Summary
One of the challenges of our society is to know what is happening around us at every moment and how this affects our daily lives. The low cost of the technology that forms the sensors has facilitated the proliferation of WSNs in many scenarios, such as environmental monitoring, agriculture, health or smart cities. The term WoT describes the evolution of the IoT [6] and the integration of web standards [7] into this concept Within this context, we present our work, which consists of a sensorized platform that can be used to study different kinds of phenomena for multiple uses, like environmental, smart cities, health, and so forth. We present our work, which consists of a sensorized platform that can be used to study different kinds of phenomena for multiple uses, like environmental, smart cities, health, and so forth This platform has been named Sense Our Environment(SEnviroare the italics necessary?.
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