title: Five Challenges for the Semantic Sensor Web creator: Corcho, Oscar creator: García-Castro, Raúl subject: Computer Science description: The combination of sensor networks with the Web, web services and database technologies, was named some years ago as the Sensor Web or the Sensor Internet. Most efforts in this area focused on the provision of platforms that could be used to build sensor-based applications more efficiently, considering some of the most important challenges in sensor-based data management and sensor network configuration. The introduction of semantics into these platforms provides the opportunity of going a step forward into the understanding, management and use of sensor-based data sources, and this is a topic being explored by ongoing initiatives. In this paper we go through some of the most relevant challenges of the current Sensor Web, and describe some ongoing work and open opportunities for the introduction of semantics in this context. publisher: Facultad de Informática (UPM) rights: (c) Editor/Autor date: 2010-12 type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article type: Article source: Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, ISSN 1570-0844, 2010-12, Vol. 1, No. 1-2 type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: eng relation: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/f52644v462h28kx4/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3233/SW-2010-0005 identifier: https://oa.upm.es/5635/