Sensor grid

It is an enabling technology for building large-scale infrastructures, integrating heterogeneous sensor, data and computational resources deployed over a wide area, to undertake complicated surveillance tasks such as environmental monitoring.

[1][2] Briefly whereas the design of a sensor network addresses the logical and physical connectivity of the sensors, the focus of constructing a sensor grid is on the issues relating to the data management, computation management, information management and knowledge discovery management associated with the sensors and the data they generate, and how they can be addressed within an open computing environment.

Second, the sensors can be efficiently shared by different users and applications under flexible usage scenarios.

Finally, a sensor grid provides seamless access to a wide variety of resources in a pervasive manner.

Thus, sensor grids are well suited for adaptive and pervasive computing applications.