METHOD OF SHARING MOBILE SENSOR, APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING INTEGRITY, AND MOBILE SENSOR SHARING SYSTEM

• US 20120135757A1
• Filed: 11/21/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Chung Ho
• Application Number:
  US13/301,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20120135757A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Provided are a method of sharing mobile sensors, an apparatus for verifying integrity, and a mobile sensor sharing system. The method of sharing mobile sensors includes setting an area-based lattice in a sensor information space including at least one mobile sensor and generating representative virtual sensors representing respective divided lattice spaces, collecting sensor data for each lattice spaces through the representative virtual sensors respectively, and performing primary integrity verification of sensor data newly collected from the sensor information space by checking consistency with peripheral sensor data of a predetermined spatial interpolation area stored in an integrated sensor database.

Claims

1. A method of sharing mobile sensors, comprising:

setting an area-based lattice in a sensor information space including at least one mobile sensor, and generating representative virtual sensors representing respective divided lattice spaces;

collecting sensor data for each lattice spaces through the representative virtual sensors; and

performing primary integrity verification of sensor data newly collected from the sensor information space by checking consistency with peripheral sensor data of a predetermined spatial interpolation area stored in an integrated sensor database.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when it is determined as a result of the primary integrity verification that the sensor data has no reliability, requesting and receiving sensor data directly from representative virtual sensors in the predetermined spatial interpolation area, and performing secondary integrity verification of the new sensor data on the basis of the received peripheral sensor data.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when the peripheral sensor data of the spatial interpolation area is insufficient to perform the primary integrity verification, expanding the original spatial interpolation area to reset a spatial interpolation area, and iteratively performing the primary integrity verification.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the reset spatial interpolation area has a radius double that of the original spatial interpolation area.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing the new sensor data whose reliability has been verified through the primary integrity verification or through the secondary integrity verification in the integrated sensor database.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising discarding the new sensor data whose reliability has not been verified through the primary integrity verification and the secondary integrity verification.

7. An apparatus for verifying integrity, comprising:

a sensor manager configured to collect at least one piece of sensor data from a sensor information space divided by an area-based lattice through representative virtual sensors representing respective divided lattice spaces;

an integrated sensor database configured to store at least one piece of sensor data whose reliability has been verified; and

an integrity verifier configured to perform primary integrity verification of sensor data newly collected from the sensor information space by checking consistency with peripheral sensor data of a predetermined spatial interpolation area stored in the integrated sensor database.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a peripheral sensor verifier configured to request and receive sensor data directly from representative virtual sensors in the predetermined spatial interpolation area and perform secondary integrity verification of the new sensor data on the basis of the received peripheral sensor data when it is determined as a result of the primary integrity verification that the sensor data has no reliability.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the integrity verifier expands the original spatial interpolation area to reset a spatial interpolation area, and iteratively performs the primary integrity verification when the peripheral sensor data of the original spatial interpolation area is insufficient to perform integrity verification.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the reset spatial interpolation area has a radius double that of the original spatial interpolation area.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the integrity verifier or the peripheral sensor verifier stores the new sensor data whose reliability has been verified in the integrated sensor database.

12. A mobile sensor sharing system collecting sensor data from a sensor information space including at least one sensor data provider and providing sensor information to a sensor information user, the sensor sharing system comprising:

an integrated sensor database configured to store the sensor data obtained from the at least one sensor data provider; and

an integrity verifier configured to collect at least one piece of sensor data from sensor information spaces divided by an area-based lattice through representative virtual sensors representing respective divided lattice space, and perform primary integrity verification of sensor data newly collected from the sensor information space by checking consistency with peripheral sensor data of a predetermined spatial interpolation area stored in the integrated sensor database.

13. The mobile sensor sharing system of claim 12, further comprising:

a user manager configured to manage information about at least one user searching for or querying sensor information; and

a sensor manager configured to receive the sensor data input from the sensor data provider and store the sensor data in the integrated sensor database.

14. The mobile sensor sharing system of claim 12, wherein the sensor data provider includes at least one mobile sensor.

15. The mobile sensor sharing system of claim 12, wherein the sensor data includes at least one piece of real-time sensor data and meta-information about the sensor data.