Ubiquitous monitoring solution for Wireless Sensor Networks with push notifications and end-to-end connectivity

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) belongs to a new trend in technology in which tiny and resource constrained devices are wirelessly interconnected and are able to interact with the surrounding environment by collecting data such as temperature and humidity. Recently, due to the huge growth in the use of mobile devices with Internet connection, smart phones are becoming the center of future ubiquitous wireless networks. Interconnecting WSNs with smart phones and the Internet is a big challenge and new architectures are required due to the heterogeneity of these devices. Taking into account that people are using smart phones with Internet connection, there is a good opportunity to propose a new architecture for wireless sensors monitoring using push notifications and smart phones. Then, this paper proposes a ubiquitous approach for WSN monitoring based on a REST Web Service, a relational database, and an Android mobile application. Real-time data sensed by WSNs are sent directly to a smart phone