Nanyang Technological University

Singapore Technologies Dynamics Pte Ltd

Hock Beng Lim

Daiqin Yang

Mudasser Iqbal

Talha Obaid

Teng Jie Ng

According to an embodiment, a sensor device is provided comprising a sensor; a transceiver; a processor configured to run an application; and a virtualization layer which comprises an application programming interface encapsulating application layer features of the sensor device and which is configured to provide to the application, via at least one service access point, a service to communicate with another sensor device by means of the transceiver, a service to control the sensor and a service to discover a sensor device network, have the sensor device leave a sensor device network and/or have the sensor device join a sensor device network.

Network sensor device

An apparatus for interconnecting multiple computer networks, each computer network using a different protocol suite and comprising multiple nodes, the apparatus being a node of each computer network, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver configured to receive data from any node of any one of the multiple computer networks, the received data being for transmission to a node of a different one of the multiple computer networks; and a processor configured to identify the node of the different one of the multiple computer networks based on the received data, to determine a protocol suite of the different one of the multiple computer networks using the memory, to process the received data so that the received data appears to have been transmitted according to the determined protocol suite, and to cause the transceiver to transmit the processed received data to the node of the different one of the multiple computer networks.

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Hock Beng Lim