Integrated wireless sensor network (WSN) and massively parallel processing database management system (MPP DBMS)

An architecture, methods and apparatus are provided for managing sensor data. Sensor networks comprised of a plurality of sensors are managed by obtaining measurement data and context data from the plurality of sensors; storing the obtained measurement data and context data using a Massively Parallel Processing Database Management System (MPP DBMS); and managing the sensor network from outside of the sensor network using the MPP DBMS. Context-aware adaptation of sensors is based on context regarding a state of the sensor network and context regarding a state of one or more applications. The sensor nodes are optionally clustered based on semantic similarities among sensor readings from different sensor nodes and a distance among the sensor nodes. A subset of the sensor nodes is optionally selected to be active based on a residual energy of the sensor nodes and a relevance of the sensor nodes to an application. Data prediction models are generated and employed for data sensing and analytics.