A Review for Semantic Sensor Web Research and Applications

To realize sharing and reuse of sensor data and improve interoperability, semantic sensor web (SSW) is proposed to add semantic inf ormation to existing sensor networks by utilizing domain, spatial and temporal anthologies and other related semantic technology. This paper presents state of the art of SSW from various aspects from the basic concepts, characters of SSW and the core technologies of SSW to the representative real world applications. Besides, it presents the challenges and the possible future research areas in SSW.