Shared sensor grid and method for sharing sensor grid

A network comprising:

• at least one central signaling backbone;
• a plurality of distributed sensor nodes connected to the at least one central signaling backbone, each of the plurality of distributed sensor nodes comprising one or more sensors configured to gather sensor measurement values and to route gathered sensor measurement values over the at least one central signaling backbone;
• a plurality of network devices connected to the at least one central signaling backbone and configured to send a sensor control signal;
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• a grid controller connected to the at least one central signaling backbone and configured to control access to the plurality of distributed sensor nodes by the plurality of network devices, receive the sensor control signal from the plurality of network devices, identify which sensor node to send the sensor control signal to by compiling the sensor control signals into one or more grid-internal control signals based on a control access classification of the plurality of network devices, and send the one or more grid-internal control signals to the plurality of distributed sensor nodes, the one or more grid-internal control signals triggering a receiving sensor node to send selected sensor measurement values over the at least one central signaling backbone to the sending network devices based on a content of the one or more grid-internal control signals, wherein a topology of the network and a distribution of the plurality of distributed sensor nodes is unknown to the grid controller.