Sensing web: to globally share sensory data avoiding privacy invasion

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the Sensing Web project, launched in 2007 in Japan. The project's aim is to open the data obtained by the sensors existing in our daily living environment for various purposes. Since the data obtained by observing the real world directly with sensors include real-world information different from the Web, a new worldwide social information infrastructure - Sensing Web - is realized. In this article, we discuss the research issues for arising in connection with the Sensing Web.