Abstract: In a wireless sensor network, sensors collect data about natural phenomena and transmit them to a server in real-time. Many studies have been conducted focusing on the processing of continuous queries in an approximate form. However, this approach is difficult to apply to environmental applications which require the correct data to be stored. In this paper, we propose a weather monitoring system for handling and storing the sensor data stream in real-time in order to support continuous spatial and/or temporal queries. In our system, we exploit two time-based insertion methods to store the sensor data stream and reduce the number of managed tuples, without losing any of the raw data which are useful for queries, by using the sensors’ temporal attributes. In addition, we offer a method for reducing the cost of the join operations used in processing spatiotemporal queries by filtering out a list of irrelevant sensors from query range before making a join operation. In the results of the performance evaluation, the number of tuples obtained from the data stream is reduced by about 30% in comparison to a naïve approach, thereby decreasing the query execution time.
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Ha, S.W.; Lee, Y.K.; Vu, T.H.N.; Jung, Y.J.; Ryu, K.H. An Environmental Monitoring System for Managing Spatiotemporal Sensor Data over Sensor Networks. Sensors 2012, 12, 3997-4015.
Ha SW, Lee YK, Vu THN, Jung YJ, Ryu KH. An Environmental Monitoring System for Managing Spatiotemporal Sensor Data over Sensor Networks. Sensors. 2012; 12(4):3997-4015.
Ha, Su Wook; Lee, Yang Koo; Vu, Thi Hong Nhan; Jung, Young Jin; Ryu, Keun Ho. 2012. "An Environmental Monitoring System for Managing Spatiotemporal Sensor Data over Sensor Networks." Sensors 12, no. 4: 3997-4015.