Semantic mediation on the Sensor Web

This work enables an automated integration of sensors and services on the Sensor Web. The Sensor Web is defined as an infrastructure which enables the interoperable usage of sensor resources by providing services for (1) discovery, (2) access, (3) tasking, as well as (4) eventing & alerting [2]. The notion of the Sensor Web has been largely influenced by the developments of OGC´s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative [3], however, there are also other implementations complying to the Sensor Web idea, such as Sensorpedia [4], SensorMap with its underlying SenseWeb infrastructure [5], SensorBase [6], or Cosm² (formerly known as Pachube).