Sensor Area Networks (SANs)

[nedb]

I approve of the idea of data wrapped in markup, like the html/xml San-a-grams this system would use, but I like it mostly because it represents a "form" that is human readable, and we could find existing server-side software to extract the data and put it in a 'base.

If the html/xml goes against the conservatively-sized data plan, it will hog the allowance in a hurry. I guess we'd prefer terse messages, probably just a formatted stream where position 1-3 is sensor #1 data value, position 4-6 is sensor #2 data value, etc...

You computer science guys will know how to take advantage of algorithms to compress the data and shrink it. Computer science gals will want to shrink it and pink it.