Integrating and Processing Events from Heterogeneous Data Sources

Environmental monitoring studies present many challenges . A huge amount of data are provided in different formats from differ ent sources (e.g. sensor networks and databases). This paper presents a frame work we have developed to overcome some of these problems, based on combi ning aspects of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architectures and Event Proce ssing mechanisms. First, we treat integration using ESB and then use event proc essing to transform, filter and detect event patterns, where all data arriving at a given point are treated uniformly as event streams. A case study concerning data streams of meteorological stations is provided to show the feasibilit y of this solution.