Integrating Wireless Sensor Networks with Cloud Computing

TLDR: A novel framework is proposed to integrate the Cloud Computing model with WSN and it is suggested that traditional High Performance Computing approaches may be replaced or find a place in data manipulation prior to the data being moved into the Cloud.

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been a focus for research for several years. WSN enables novel and attractive solutions for information gathering across the spectrum of endeavour including transportation, business, health-care, industrial automation, and environmental monitoring. Despite these advances, the exponentially increasing data extracted from WSN is not getting adequate use due to the lack of expertise, time and money with which the data might be better explored and stored for future use. The next generation of WSN will benefit when sensor data is added to blogs, virtual communities, and social network applications. This transformation of data derived from sensor networks into a valuable resource for information hungry applications will benefit from techniques being developed for the emerging Cloud Computing technologies. Traditional High Performance Computing approaches may be replaced or find a place in data manipulation prior to the data being moved into the Cloud. In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to integrate the Cloud Computing model with WSN. Deployed WSN will be connected to the proposed infrastructure. Users request will be served via three service layers (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) either from the archive, archive is made by collecting data periodically from WSN to Data Centres (DC), or by generating live query to corresponding sensor network.