## 4 Opportunities Provided by SSNs  
A SSN provides a lot of opportunities to the WSN, it provides a new research area that will become a reality, like the internet when its infrastructure has enough support from sensor network providers in the commercial environment. This section will focus on displaying opportunities that are provided by implementing SSNs, which could be, as follows:1. Infrastructure Sharing: virtualization technology provides a great donation for WSNs by allowing for its infrastructure to be shared between multiple concurrent applications and cause its conversion from an application/service specific system to a general purpose physical resources to multiple concurrent (shared) application system in its new look as a SSN. Many benefits are obtained behind this opportunity, like reducing WSN redundancy, as there is no need to build a dedicated WSN each time required to host an application, hardware technical details are abstracted from application developers and users, which increases the security and reduces developments overheads.
2. Infrastructure Marketing: one of the greatest benefits of SSNs is the separation between the infrastructure and the offered service using virtualization, which allows for providers to sell the infrastructure to a third party without interrupting the hosted services, and thus opening large business opportunities.
3. Infrastructure Diversity: as a result of infrastructure separation from the service based on virtualization, the infrastructure provider becomes able to co-operate with third parties, and offers multiple isolated services over a cost reduced infrastructure.
4. Flexible and Scalable Infrastructure: SSNs have the flexibility to add and remove a VSN according to the hosted application requirements, and it also has the ability to generate the co-operation between heterogeneous sensor networks to provide infrastructure scalability.
5. Opened Vendor Platform: SSNs is a heterogeneous based system, thus it gives all hardware vendors the same opportunity to work under its umbrella.
6. Foundation Stone for multiple emerging Technologies: SSNs is a basic infrastructure for many emerging technologies, like IoT, which allows for objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructures, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy, and economic benefit. It is also a basic stone in the emerging technology, called Cloud of Sensors (CoS), at which the related physical sensors are grouped together to form a virtual sensor, and then these virtual sensors are grouped together to form a global sensor cloud. This cloud can be used by different concurrent applications; visualization and remote management platforms that leverage to provide excellent data scalability; and, user programmable analysis.
7. Define New Business Models: that define the roles of SSNs, such as infrastructure providers and service providers. Information Sharing: Data collected by sensors can be shared among hosted applications, which give lower energy consumption and overcome redundant data transmission.