Dependable Infrastructures and Data Managers for Sensor Networks

This paper provides some directions for developing infrastructures and data managers for dependable sensor networks. By dependable systems we mean systems that adapt to the environment and are secure, fault tolerant and process data in real-time as needed. We start with a discussion of the need for dependable sensor information management and then provide an overview of dependable infrastructures and data managers for such networks. We also discuss some security issues for sensor information management. Finally some directions for further research are given.