iSSEE: IMS Sensors Search Engine Enabler for Sensors Mash-ups Convergent Application

Integrating the sensing capabilities in Internet Protocol network will open the opportunities to build a wide range of novel multimedia applications. The problem when using sensors (e.g. temperature sensor, camera, audio, humidity, etc...) connected to the network is to know dynamically at any time if they are always connected or not, what type of data they can transmit and where they are geographically located. This paper describes an application enabler: IMS Sensor Search Engine Enabler (iSSEE), which allows IMS applications using sensors and IMS based devices, to get information about the sensor availability, its location and the type of the sensor. Using data collected by sensors and from the web, mash-ups convergent applications use cases are proposed by combining the contents from heterogeneous data.