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  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,987 Views
15 Pages

A Sensor Web-Enabled Infrastructure for Precision Farming

  • Jakob Geipel,
  • Markus Jackenkroll,
  • Martin Weis and
  • Wilhelm Claupein

The use of sensor technologies is standard practice in the domain of precision farming. The variety of vendor-specific sensor systems, control units and processing software has led to increasing efforts in establishing interoperable sensor networks a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,457 Views
19 Pages

Comprehensive surface soil moisture (SM) monitoring is a vital task in precision agriculture applications. SM monitoring includes remote sensing imagery monitoring and in situ sensor-based observational monitoring. Cloud computing can increase comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
14,608 Views
17 Pages

An Integrated GIS-Expert System Framework for Live Hazard Monitoring and Detection

  • James D. McCarthy,
  • Phil A. Graniero and
  • Steven M. Rozic

8 February 2008

In the context of hazard monitoring, using sensor web technology to monitor anddetect hazardous conditions in near-real-time can result in large amounts of spatial data thatcan be used to drive analysis at an instrumented site. These data can be used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,810 Views
29 Pages

Geospatial IoT—The Need for Event-Driven Architectures in Contemporary Spatial Data Infrastructures

  • Matthes Rieke,
  • Lorenzo Bigagli,
  • Stefan Herle,
  • Simon Jirka,
  • Alexander Kotsev,
  • Thomas Liebig,
  • Christian Malewski,
  • Thomas Paschke and
  • Christoph Stasch

The nature of contemporary spatial data infrastructures lies in the provision of geospatial information in an on-demand fashion. Although recent applications identified the need to react to real-time information in a time-critical way, research effor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,695 Views
34 Pages

SITRUS: Semantic Infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Kalil A. Bispo,
  • Nelson S. Rosa and
  • Paulo R. F. Cunha

29 October 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are made up of nodes with limited resources, such as processing, bandwidth, memory and, most importantly, energy. For this reason, it is essential that WSNs always work to reduce the power consumption as much as possib...

  • Review
  • Open Access
404 Citations
33,471 Views
48 Pages

New Generation Sensor Web Enablement

  • Arne Bröring,
  • Johannes Echterhoff,
  • Simon Jirka,
  • Ingo Simonis,
  • Thomas Everding,
  • Christoph Stasch,
  • Steve Liang and
  • Rob Lemmens

1 March 2011

Many sensor networks have been deployed to monitor Earth’s environment, and more will follow in the future. Environmental sensors have improved continuously by becoming smaller, cheaper, and more intelligent. Due to the large number of sensor manufac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,207 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2017

For the past decade, a team of University of Calgary researchers has operated a large “sensor Web” to collect, analyze, and share scientific data from remote measurement instruments across northern Canada. This sensor Web receives real-time data stre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
16,057 Views
38 Pages

Semantically-Enabled Sensor Plug & Play for the Sensor Web

  • Arne Bröring,
  • Patrick Maué,
  • Krzysztof Janowicz,
  • Daniel Nüst and
  • Christian Malewski

2 August 2011

Environmental sensors have continuously improved by becoming smaller, cheaper, and more intelligent over the past years. As consequence of these technological advancements, sensors are increasingly deployed to monitor our environment. The large varie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,023 Views
22 Pages

Rapid advancements in Earth-observing sensor systems have led to the generation of large amounts of remote sensing data that can be used for the dynamic monitoring and analysis of hydrological disasters. The management and analysis of these data coul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,573 Views
25 Pages

Prototyping a Web-of-Energy Architecture for Smart Integration of Sensor Networks in Smart Grids Domain

  • Víctor Caballero,
  • David Vernet,
  • Agustín Zaballos and
  • Guiomar Corral

30 January 2018

Sensor networks and the Internet of Things have driven the evolution of traditional electric power distribution networks towards a new paradigm referred to as Smart Grid. However, the different elements that compose the Information and Communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,268 Views
8 Pages

Fieldservers and Sensor Service Grid as Real-time Monitoring Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks

  • Kiyoshi Honda,
  • Aadit Shrestha,
  • Apichon Witayangkurn,
  • Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun and
  • Hiroshi Shimamura

31 March 2009

The fieldserver is an Internet based observation robot that can provide an outdoor solution for monitoring environmental parameters in real-time. The data from its sensors can be collected to a central server infrastructure and published on the Inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,177 Views
24 Pages

Sharing Human-Generated Observations by Integrating HMI and the Semantic Sensor Web

  • Álvaro Sigüenza,
  • David Díaz-Pardo,
  • Jesús Bernat,
  • Vasile Vancea,
  • José Luis Blanco,
  • David Conejero and
  • Luis Hernández Gómez

11 May 2012

Current “Internet of Things” concepts point to a future where connected objects gather meaningful information about their environment and share it with other objects and people. In particular, objects embedding Human Machine Interaction (HMI), such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,211 Views
17 Pages

Development of Wireless Sensor Network for Environment Monitoring and Its Implementation Using SSAIL Technology

  • Shathya Duobiene,
  • Karolis Ratautas,
  • Romualdas Trusovas,
  • Paulius Ragulis,
  • Gediminas Šlekas,
  • Rimantas Simniškis and
  • Gediminas Račiukaitis

18 July 2022

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology and its applications are turning real-world things into smart objects, integrating everything under a common infrastructure to manage performance through a software application and offering upgrades with integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,412 Views
32 Pages

A Sustainable Method for Publishing Interoperable Open Data on the Web

  • Raf Buyle,
  • Brecht Van de Vyvere,
  • Julián Rojas Meléndez,
  • Dwight Van Lancker,
  • Eveline Vlassenroot,
  • Mathias Van Compernolle,
  • Stefan Lefever,
  • Pieter Colpaert,
  • Peter Mechant and
  • Erik Mannens

19 August 2021

Smart cities need (sensor) data for better decision-making. However, while there are vast amounts of data available about and from cities, an intermediary is needed that connects and interprets (sensor) data on a Web-scale. Today, governments in Euro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,656 Views
21 Pages

28 September 2016

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), resources and applications based on it have emerged on a large scale. However, most efforts are “silo” solutions where devices and applications are tightly coupled. Infrastructures are needed to c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,780 Views
26 Pages

The Sensor Web is a growing phenomenon where an increasing number of sensors are collecting data in the physical world, to be made available over the Internet. To help realize the Sensor Web, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed open st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,005 Views
28 Pages

13 December 2010

Geo-sensor networks have traditionally been built up in closed monolithic systems, thus limiting trans-domain usage of real-time measurements. This paper presents the technical infrastructure of a standardised embedded sensing device, which has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,865 Views
36 Pages

15 August 2013

Electric power supply companies increasingly rely on enterprise IT systems to provide them with a comprehensive view of the state of the distribution network. Within a utility-wide network, enterprise IT systems collect data from various metering dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,675 Views
15 Pages

Nowadays, the existence of metadata is one of the most important aspects of effective discovery of geospatial data published in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). However, due to lack of efficient mechanisms integrated in the data workflow, to assi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,653 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2010

A prototype Geographic Information System (GIS) framework has been developed to map, manage, and monitor sensors with respect to other geographic features, including land base and in-plant features. The GIS framework supports geographic placement and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,310 Views
23 Pages

31 August 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an infrastructure that interconnects uniquely-identifiable devices using the Internet. By interconnecting everyday appliances, various monitoring, and physical mashup applications can be constructed to improve human’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,959 Views
22 Pages

13 February 2025

As maritime transportation and human activities at sea continue to grow, ensuring the safety of offshore infrastructure has become an increasingly pressing research focus. However, traditional high-precision sensor systems often involve prohibitive c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,118 Views
23 Pages

Machine Learning Applications in Optical Fiber Sensing: A Research Agenda

  • Erick Reyes-Vera,
  • Alejandro Valencia-Arias,
  • Vanessa García-Pineda,
  • Edward Florencio Aurora-Vigo,
  • Halyn Alvarez Vásquez and
  • Gustavo Sánchez

29 March 2024

The constant monitoring and control of various health, infrastructure, and natural factors have led to the design and development of technological devices in a wide range of fields. This has resulted in the creation of different types of sensors that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
9,969 Views
24 Pages

Citizen Sensors for SHM: Towards a Crowdsourcing Platform

  • Ekin Ozer,
  • Maria Q. Feng and
  • Dongming Feng

19 June 2015

This paper presents an innovative structural health monitoring (SHM) platform in terms of how it integrates smartphone sensors, the web, and crowdsourcing. The ubiquity of smartphones has provided an opportunity to create low-cost sensor networks for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
21,251 Views
34 Pages

19 August 2011

Cities are complex systems composed of numerous interacting components that evolve over multiple spatio-temporal scales. Consequently, no single data source is sufficient to satisfy the information needs required to map, monitor, model, and ultimatel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,815 Views
25 Pages

Prototyping a Software Defined Utility

  • Ramon Martín de Pozuelo,
  • Agustín Zaballos,
  • Joan Navarro and
  • Guiomar Corral

16 June 2017

The smart grid can be seen as a hybrid system composed by many systems. From a large scale point of view, it combines the electric power system itself and a heterogeneous information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. Additionally, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,722 Views
11 Pages

Infrastructure BIM Platform for Lifecycle Management

  • Keunyoung Jang,
  • Jong-Woo Kim,
  • Ki-Beom Ju and
  • Yun-Kyu An

3 November 2021

Recently, the application of the BIM technique to infrastructure lifecycle management has increased rapidly to improve the efficiency of infrastructure management systems. Research on the lifecycle management of infrastructure, from planning and desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,495 Views
22 Pages

A WoT Platform for Supporting Full-Cycle IoT Solutions from Edge to Cloud Infrastructures: A Practical Case

  • Rafael Pastor-Vargas,
  • Llanos Tobarra,
  • Antonio Robles-Gómez,
  • Sergio Martin,
  • Roberto Hernández and
  • Jesús Cano

5 July 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) learning involves the acquisition of transversal skills ranging from the development based on IoT devices and sensors (edge computing) to the connection of the devices themselves to management environments that allow the stor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,851 Views
37 Pages

The SSTeP-KiZ System—Secure Real-Time Communication Based on Open Web Standards for Multimodal Sensor-Assisted Tele-Psychotherapy

  • Jonas Primbs,
  • Winfried Ilg,
  • Annika Thierfelder,
  • Björn Severitt,
  • Carolin Sarah Hohnecker,
  • Annika Kristin Alt,
  • Anja Pascher,
  • Ursula Wörz,
  • Heinrich Lautenbacher and
  • Michael Menth
  • + 3 authors

7 December 2022

In this manuscript, we describe the soft- and hardware architecture as well as the implementation of a modern Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) system for sensor-assisted telepsychotherapy. It enables telepsychotherapy sessions in which the patient e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,087 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2015

The worldwide Sensor Web comprises observation data from diverse sources. Each data provider may process and assess datasets differently before making them available online. This information is often invisible to end users. Therefore, publishing obse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,580 Views
15 Pages

Structural health monitoring of highway bridges is a vital but currently challenging aspect of infrastructure engineering due to the number of sensors required, power requirements, and harsh environmental conditions. The purpose of this study is to d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,804 Views
22 Pages

A Bleeding Edge Web Application for Early Detection of Cyanobacterial Blooms

  • Jesús Chacón,
  • Giordy A. Andrade,
  • Jose L. Risco-Martín and
  • Segundo Esteban

29 February 2024

Harmful Algal and Cyanobacterial Bloom (HACB) threaten aquatic ecosystems, human health, and the economy. Many factors influence these dynamic events, which are often difficult to detect until the late stages of growth. The inclusion of an Early Warn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,987 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2025

This study presents a real-time monitoring system integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digital twin technology to enhance maintenance efficiency and safety in urban infrastructure. Unlike conventional periodic inspections, which miss d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,933 Views
28 Pages

Middleware for Plug and Play Integration of Heterogeneous Sensor Resources into the Sensor Web

  • Enoc Martínez,
  • Daniel M. Toma,
  • Simon Jirka and
  • Joaquín Del Río

15 December 2017

The study of global phenomena requires the combination of a considerable amount of data coming from different sources, acquired by different observation platforms and managed by institutions working in different scientific fields. Merging this data t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,403 Views
21 Pages

Inkjet Printed Fully-Passive Body-Worn Wireless Sensors for Smart and Connected Community (SCC)

  • Bashir I. Morshed,
  • Brook Harmon,
  • Md Sabbir Zaman,
  • Md Juber Rahman,
  • Sharmin Afroz and
  • Mamunur Rahman

Future Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) will utilize distributed sensors and embedded computing to seamlessly generate meaningful data that can assist individuals, communities, and society with interlocking physical, social, behavioral, economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,159 Views
22 Pages

A Web-Based Application for Smart City Data Analysis and Visualization

  • Panagiotis Karampakakis,
  • Despoina Ioakeimidou,
  • Periklis Chatzimisios and
  • Konstantinos A. Tsintotas

Smart cities are urban areas that use contemporary technology to improve citizens’ overall quality of life. These modern digital civil hubs aim to manage environmental conditions, traffic flow, and infrastructure through interconnected and data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,595 Views
23 Pages

Web-of-Objects (WoO)-Based Context Aware Emergency Fire Management Systems for the Internet of Things

  • Zia Ush Shamszaman,
  • Safina Showkat Ara,
  • Ilyoung Chong and
  • Youn Kwae Jeong

13 February 2014

Recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Web of Things (WoT) accompany a smart life where real world objects, including sensing devices, are interconnected with each other. The Web representation of smart objects empowers innovativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,245 Views
12 Pages

Web3DGIS-Based System for Reservoir Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning

  • Huang Huang,
  • Jianhua Ni,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Tianlu Qian,
  • Dingtao Shen and
  • Jiechen Wang

4 February 2016

Landslides are the most frequent type of natural disaster, and they bring about large-scale damage and are a threat to human lives and infrastructure; therefore, the ability to conduct real-time monitoring and early warning is important. In this stud...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,083 Views
16 Pages

24 January 2022

Online monitoring of wastewater quality parameters is vital for an efficient and stable operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). Several WWTPs rely on daily/weekly analysis of water samples rather than online automated wet-analyzers due to th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,150 Views
18 Pages

CaBIUs: Description of the Enhanced Wireless Campus Testbed of the Ionian University

  • Aikaterini Georgia Alvanou,
  • Alexandros Zervopoulos,
  • Asterios Papamichail,
  • Konstantinos Bezas,
  • Spiridon Vergis,
  • Andreana Stylidou,
  • Athanasios Tsipis,
  • Vasileios Komianos,
  • Georgios Tsoumanis and
  • Konstantinos Oikonomou
  • + 1 author

Technological evolution and in particular the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has paved the way for material prosperity and a better standard of living. A critical factor in the effectiveness of emerging IoT applications, which heavily re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,595 Views
16 Pages

Digital Twin and AI Models for Infrastructure Resilience: A Systematic Knowledge Mapping

  • Adedeji Afolabi,
  • Olugbenro Ogunrinde and
  • Abolghassem Zabihollah

14 December 2025

As global infrastructure systems face increasing environmental, social, and operational challenges, enhancing their resilience through digital and intelligent technologies has become a strategic priority. Digital Twin (DT) and Artificial Intelligence...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,158 Views
48 Pages

Integration of AI in Self-Powered IoT Sensor Systems

  • Cosmina-Mihaela Rosca and
  • Adrian Stancu

21 June 2025

The acceleration of digitalization has caused an increase in demand for autonomous devices. In this paper, the technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning (ML), integrated into applications that use self-powered Inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,120 Views
37 Pages

23 October 2025

Today’s rapidly increasing number and performance of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) and sensors allows for an innovative approach in monitoring, mitigating, and responding to natural disasters and risks. At present, there are 100s of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
13,713 Views
15 Pages

19 March 2014

An infrastructure for earth science data is emerging across the globe based on common data models and web services. As we evolve from custom file formats and web sites to standards-based web services and tools, data is becoming easier to distribute,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,510 Views
25 Pages

Smart Node Networks Orchestration: A New E2E Approach for Analysis and Design for Agile 4.0 Implementation

  • Annalisa Bertoli,
  • Andrea Cervo,
  • Carlo Alberto Rosati and
  • Cesare Fantuzzi

26 February 2021

The field of cyber-physical systems is a growing IT research area that addresses the deep integration of computing, communication and process control, possibly with humans in the loop. The goal of such area is to define modelling, controlling and pro...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,133 Views
23 Pages

Exploring the Role of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Smart City Evolution: A Literature-Based Study

  • Nataliia Boichuk,
  • Iwona Pisz,
  • Anna Bruska,
  • Sabina Kauf and
  • Sabina Wyrwich-Płotka

2 August 2025

Smart cities are technologically advanced urban environments where interconnected systems and data-driven technologies enhance public service delivery and quality of life. These cities rely on information and communication technologies, the Internet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,724 Views
18 Pages

Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas Using a Vehicle Sensor Network (VSN) Crowdsensing Paradigm

  • Paolo Diviacco,
  • Massimiliano Iurcev,
  • Rodrigo José Carbajales,
  • Nikolas Potleca,
  • Alberto Viola,
  • Mihai Burca and
  • Alessandro Busato

4 November 2022

We present new advances in monitoring particulate matter (PM) in urban areas within a participatory vehicle sensor network (VSN) that exploits the use of multiple mobile low-cost IoT devices. These devices send geolocated PM measurements to an IT inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,011 Views
20 Pages

There is an increasing impetus for the use of digital city models and sensor network data to understand the current demand for utility resources and inform future infrastructure service planning across a range of spatial scales. Achieving this requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,175 Views
20 Pages

A WoT-Based Method for Creating Digital Sentinel Twins of IoT Devices

  • Ivan Lopez-Arevalo,
  • Jose Luis Gonzalez-Compean,
  • Mariana Hinojosa-Tijerina,
  • Cristhian Martinez-Rendon,
  • Raffaele Montella and
  • Jose L. Martinez-Rodriguez

17 August 2021

The data produced by sensors of IoT devices are becoming keystones for organizations to conduct critical decision-making processes. However, delivering information to these processes in real-time represents two challenges for the organizations: the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,463 Views
35 Pages

FarmSync: Ecosystem for Environmental Monitoring of Barns in Agribusiness

  • Guilherme Pulizzi Costa,
  • Geovane Yuji Aparecido Sakata,
  • Luiz Fernando Pinto de Oliveira,
  • Michel E. D. Chaves,
  • Luis F. C. Duarte,
  • Mariana Matulovic,
  • Ricardo Fonseca Buzo and
  • Flávio J. O. Morais

In the current era of agricultural management practices, known as agricultural 5.0, optimal indoor environments are associated with comfortable temperatures, regulated humidity, and good air quality—essential variables to improve yields. Given...

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