title: Federating Sensor Networks

abstract: Sensor networks are typically purpose-built, designed to sup-
port a single running application. As the demand for applications that
can harness the capabilities of a sensor-rich environment increases, and
the availability of sensing infrastructure put in place to monitor various
quantities soars, there are clear benefits in a model where infrastructure
can be shared amongst multiple applications. This model however intro-
duces many challenges, mainly related to the management of the commu-
nication of the same application running on different network nodes, and
the isolation of applications within the network. This potentially
results in new security challenges, but we tackle this by design, and
integrate solutions with each sensor application.
In this talk, I will describe the Fresnel project's
technology that addresses these challenges.