Title
The adaptive environment: delivering the vision of in situ real-time environmental monitoring
Abstract
Widespread use of sensors provides difficult challenges for the management of sensing technologies and their robust operation. Such challenges involve the demands of system longevity, autonomous operation, large-scale and operationally difficult deployments, and unpredictable and lossy environments. This paper examines the various challenges that exist in the development of the adaptive environment, a sensing "membrane" that is situated within the environment and that ideally will operate autonomously for long periods. The paradigm of widespread sensing described in this paper will yield data of an unprecedented volume and heterogeneity. Topologies of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will increasingly be used to dynamically monitor our environment. The challenge is to achieve effective decision-making within such WSNs commensurate with the computational constraints within which such devices operate. This paper examines steps toward delivering in situ real-time environmental monitoring. We propose a new generation of ubiquitous sensing technology that involves autonomic WSNs (AWSNs) that will provide the intelligent machinery necessary to enable the next generation of material surfaces, sensors, and sensor networks for autonomic and opportunistic adaptation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1147/JRD.2009.5429015
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Keywords
Field
DocType
adaptive environment,autonomic wsns,situ real-time environmental monitoring,difficult challenge,autonomous operation,lossy environment,new generation,sensor network,robust operation,next generation,operationally difficult deployment,environmental monitoring,real time
Situated,Computer science,Real-time computing,Network topology,Ubiquitous sensing,Wireless sensor network,Environmental monitoring
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
3
0018-8646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
24
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
G. M. P. O'Hare137032.35
Diamond Dermot215425.80
K. T. Lau300.68
J. P. Hayes43592501.80
C. Muldoon5715.44
M.J. O’Grady620919.33
R. Tynan700.34
G. Rancourt800.68
H. R. Kolar9213.38
R. J. McCarthy1000.34