Monitoring Continuous Phenomena

The monitoring of continuous phenomena like temperature, soil moisture or air pollutants is becoming more common due to the availability of cheaper and better sensor infrastructure. Better methods for processing, storing and provisioning the data produced by such observations are still evolving. The fundamental features among them are interpolation, real-time provisioning, critical states definitions (e.g. exceeded threshold of the daily mean) and field data type management. The book gives an overview of monitoring and proposes several solutions for problems that occur in this context--