(cited from Wikipedia) The Sensor Web is a type of
sensor network or
geographic information system (GIS) that is especially well
suited for
environmental monitoring and control. In
1997,
Kevin Delin of
NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the term to describe a
specific type of
sensor network: an amorphous network of spatially
distributed
sensor platforms (pods) that wirelessly communicate
with each other. This amorphous architecture is unique since it
is both synchronous and
router-free, making it distinct from the more typical
TCP/IP-like network schemes. The architecture allows every
pod to know what is going on with every other pod throughout the
Sensor Web at each measurement cycle.
Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning
(GEOG 104) (A General Education [GE] Course) Spring 2018
