Enabling dynamic sensor discovery in autonomous devices

A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed on a machine cause the machine to perform operations including:

• receive a request for sensor information for sensors along a planned route from a client, wherein the client includes an autonomous device capable of navigating an environment without human input;
• select sensors of a plurality of sensors along the planned route, withholding sensor information for a sensor of the plurality of sensors to which the client is restricted from accessing based on whether the client is authorized to obtain data from the sensor of the plurality of sensors;
• and
• provide sensor information for the selected sensors to the client.

A method, comprising:

• receiving a registration message from each of a plurality sensors, the registration message including respective sensor information;
• creating a respective entry in a database for each of the plurality of sensors, each respective entry in the database includes the respective sensor information of the corresponding sensor of the plurality of sensors;
• and
• responsive to a request for sensor information for sensors along a planned route, querying the database to select sensors of the plurality of sensors based on the request, restricting access to a sensor of the plurality of sensors that has no available channels.