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A sensor cloud connects different types of sensor networks in a large geographical area.
A sensor cloud that connects different types of sensor networks spreading in a large geographical area and is accessible by multiple users at the same time, will be used to address the critical information collection, analysis, and processing in disaster management applications. This figure depicts the proposed sensor cloud architecture integrated with a big data management framework. The sensor cloud collects multi-dimensional data from the sensors which are embedded in the environment, available in mobile devices, and generated by social media. The collected data are spatiotemporally indexed in such a fashion that they provide a scalable and robust big data indexing framework for efficient insertion, updating and analysis. The system optimizes network bandwidth and enables faster analysis of past data/events as well as dissemination of timely and correct information to people responsible for decision making.
Credit: Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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