Patent ID: 8041997

Claim:
An apparatus for managing a plurality of wireless sensor networks, the apparatus comprising: a monitoring unit monitoring the plurality of wireless sensor networks; a storage unit storing a plurality of configuring policies, wherein each configuring policy is associated with at least one error diagnosis software; a policy selection unit selecting a configuring policy to be applied to each of the wireless sensor networks based on a characteristic of the corresponding wireless sensor network among the plurality of configuring policies stored in the storage unit; an error diagnosis unit selecting an error diagnosis software stored in the storage unit based on at least one configuring policy stored in the storage unit associated with a wireless sensor network where an error is detected by the monitoring unit among the plurality of wireless sensor networks, and requesting the error-detected wireless sensor network to perform error diagnosis by using the selected error diagnosis software stored in the storage unit; and a recovery inference engine receiving an error diagnosis result from the error-detected wireless sensor network, inferring an error cause from the error diagnosis result, and providing an error recovery method corresponding to the inferred error cause to the error-detected wireless sensor network.