Method and apparatus for domain name autoconfiguration in ip-based wireless sensor network

An apparatus for domain name autoconfiguration, the apparatus comprising:

• a sensor node information receiving unit receiving sensor node information including position information for representing an installed position of a sensor node, a type of data to be provided by the sensor node, and an internet address of the sensor node;
• an area information searching unit searching for area information including an administrative address corresponding to the position information of the sensor node;
• a domain name generation unit generating a domain name of the sensor node based on a type of the sensed data and the found area information;
• and
• a domain name registration unit binding the generated domain name with an internet address of the sensor node and registering the bound result in a domain name server.