In January 2009, ERCIM News published a short article on SANY ad-hoc sensor testbed and Fusion SOS:
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) has realized a testbed for sensors and services in order to trial the architecture and specifications. At the sensor network level, the ad hoc wireless ZigBee network is complemented by simulated sensor nodes, which measure properties such as temperature, humidity, illuminance and acceleration. The testbed is designed for experiments in a wide range of scenarios and scales, such as mobile sensors traversing several networks. The simulation is implemented as an application in LabVIEW (National Instruments), which has the additional task of configuring the ZigBee nodes. New sensor nodes (either real or simulated) are recognized automatically and registered in one of three OGC Sensor Observation Servers (SOS). The sensor values are then inserted into an SOS as they arise by measurement or simulation. The available network resources (observed features, sensors, services) are registered in a catalogue server along with metadata to support resource discovery by client applications. Clients can find, for example, information sources for a given region and observable phenomenon of interest.
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LINK: Read the whole article at ERCIM News site
