SensorGIS - An Integrated Architecture for Information Systems based on Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we describe SensorGIS, an integrated architecture for WSN applications. SensorGIS provides an integrated service-oriented architecture for collecting, archiving, analyzing, and visualizing sensor network data in a geographic information system (GIS). By using an extendible GIS framework as one of its user views, SensorGIS can contextually communicate the collected data, its trends, and distinct values of interest. In addition, it is designed in the service-oriented style and hence is extendible in terms of the analyses and visualizations. Finally, it integrates an online collaborative forum that enables annotation of the collected data with the users' observations and interpretations.