Towards a Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure with Sensor Virtualization

Recent advancements in cloud and sensor technologies have created opportunities for introducing Sensor-Cloud as a convenient framework for developing applications in various fields. It has already been possible to integrate sensor technology with cloud environment and services have been developed to access the sensors via Internet. Here, the sensors can communicate with remote resources and transmit the sensed data. This paper presents a scheme to create Sensor-Cloud infrastructure with virtualization of sensors. We introduce an architectural overview along with new concepts about resource abstraction at the sensor level. We also discuss about providing uninterrupted services by a collection of sensors that can be used as shared resources for online provisioning to the consumers.

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