Smart sensors for interoperable smart ocean environment

Smart Ocean Environments are currently considered a key factor to connect the physical world with the information world. A Smart Ocean Environment can be defined as the combination of a physical environment, a collection of marine instruments gathering heterogeneous data from the environment, an infrastructure for data management and a connectivity solution to convey data from instruments to the Smart Space [1]. Also the collected information is stored in the Smart Space and available in the Web in an interoperable format. Standards such as IEEE-1451 [2] and OGC Sensor Web Enablement (OGC SWE) [3] are used to provide instrument descriptions, capabilities, properties, and data structures produced by the instruments. This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of PUCK protocol [4] and Zeroconf protocol [5] in Smart Ethernet embedded systems. These protocols enable observing systems to manage very diverse instruments as well as to acquire, process, and interpret their data in a uniform and automated manner.