DYNAMIC MOBILE SENSORS NETWORK PLATFORM FOR IDENTIFIER-BASED COMMUNICATION

摘要

This invention specifies a dynamic mobile sensor network platform that can communicate with various types of sensors that have different protocols. The platform comprises the mobile sensors and mobile sensor gateways, in which the networking protocols and application programs can be separately installed, changed and updated. The user can install new applications on an already-deployed sensor network so that it can be used in different networking environments for the new type of services.

主权项

1. A method for mobile sensor network setup comprising steps of:
connecting a plurality of mobile sensors (11) and a plurality of mobile sensor gateways (13) in a plurality of mobile sensor networks (12) that have heterogeneous network protocols; and connecting the mobile sensor networks (12) with access networks (15) that have heterogeneous network protocols, wherein each of the mobile sensors (11) comprises sensing unit and communication unit, wherein the sensing unit accommodates a plurality of sensors to detect physical events and generate sensor data, wherein the communication unit comprises computing, storage and communication components, wherein the communication unit further comprises sensor applications to collect sensor data from the sensing unit and has network functions to transmit the sensor data by using identifier-based communication through at least one of the mobile sensor gateways (13) connected in one of the mobile sensor networks (12) to which the mobile sensor gateway (13) belongs, such that the communication unit can support the heterogeneous network protocols and use one of them to communicate with at least one of the mobile sensor gateways (13), and the mobile sensor gateway (13) can also use heterogeneous network protocols to communicate with the mobile sensors (11) in one of the mobile sensor networks (12) as well as heterogeneous network protocols to communicate with the access networks (15).