Auto-configuration mechanism for sensor node integrated into Wireless Intelligent Service Highway

With the development of wireless network, more and more cities have deployed or have planned to deploy wireless city network based on WLAN technology. Since low-cost WiFi-enabled sensor nodes had been launched, much more value-added service based on sensors can be created in the wireless city network. Wireless Intelligent Service Highway is proposed to break the border of independent fixed access network with the new open access service model to embrace wireless access services and enormous sensor services. In this paper, we present the WISH solution and introduce Sensor Management Module (SMM) in Access Node (AN) of fixed network which acts as convergence point between fixed and wireless sensor technologies. The auto-configuration mechanism for sensor nodes is proposed to help SMM to manage the resource of sensor nodes and distribute the tasks to available sensor node.