MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING SOFTWARE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION PERTAINING TO A SENSOR IN A NETWORK
First Claim
1. A management framework for use in a system comprising a sensor controlling means for controlling at least one sensor, said management framework comprising means to generate and transmit management instructions to said sensor controlling means, and means to receive and parse information formatted according to a sensorML format, wherein said information comprises software identification information.
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Abstract
The invention concerns using sensorML to facilitate the installation of software for interaction with sensors, preferably within a home network with a service gateway (100). According to the invention, a management framework (130) is provided to manage a sensor controlling means, adapted to transmit management instructions to said sensor controlling means, and to receive information in sensorML format, wherein the information comprises software identification information. According to another aspect of the invention, a method is provided for retrieving software identification information pertaining to a sensor in a network, comprising accessing a sensorML document (400), and extracting software identification information from it.
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15 Claims
- 1. A management framework for use in a system comprising a sensor controlling means for controlling at least one sensor, said management framework comprising means to generate and transmit management instructions to said sensor controlling means, and means to receive and parse information formatted according to a sensorML format, wherein said information comprises software identification information.
- 9. A method for identifying software for interacting with a sensor in a network, said method comprising using a sensorML document containing software identification information pertaining to a number of sensor types, said sensor belonging to a sensor type among said number of sensor types.
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