IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web

  • Phillip B. Gibbons ,
  • Brad Karp ,
  • Yan Ke ,
  • ,
  • Srinivasan Seshan

IEEE Pervasive Computing | , Vol 2: pp. 22-33

Today’s common computing hardware—Internet connected desktop PCs and inexpensive, commodity off-the-shelf sensors such as Webcams—is an ideal platform for a worldwide sensor web. IrisNet provides a software infrastructure for this platform that lets users query globally distributed collections of high-bit-rate sensors powerfully and efficiently.