Title: An intelligent agent system for managing heterogeneous sensors in dispersed and disparate wireless sensor network

Authors: Yong Jin Lee; Jarrod Trevathan; Ian Atkinson; Wayne Read

Addresses: eResearch Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, 4810, Australia ' School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, 4111, Australia ' eResearch Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, 4810, Australia ' School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, 4810, Australia

Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) employ middleware solutions to coordinate their sensors and provide web services for managing data. Adding/configuring a new or existing sensor requires modification to the middleware and web service. To integrate hundreds of sensors with different capabilities, a system needs to support all the encodings, models and services for registering, tasking and querying sensors. We present an intelligent agent, which provides automatic semantic-based registration/configuration in a large-scale sensor observation system. The agent can react to any changes internally/externally made (i.e., adding a new sensor or sending a task request to sensors/support systems). The agent makes a 'smart' decision on which system function to use by integrating a semantic representation of sensor network data including middleware and web service specifications and applying logical rules to the knowledge-base. The agent's operation is demonstrated using two real-world systems represented in RDF using a domain ontology that extends the W3C SSN-XG ontology.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; internet of things; environmental monitoring; semantic web.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2018.093134

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2018 Vol.27 No.3, pp.149 - 162

Accepted: 09 Nov 2017
Published online: 10 Jul 2018 *

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