ISO/IEC 29182系列的目的是 -提供指导以促进传感器网络的设计和开发， -改善传感器网络的互操作性，以及 -使传感器网络组件即插即用，使得向现有传感器网络添加/从现有传感器网络移除传感器节点变得相当容易。 ISO/IEC 29182-4根据传感器网络参考架构（SNRA）提出了支持传感器网络应用和服务的实体的模型。

The purpose of the ISO/IEC 29182 series is to
- provide guidance to facilitate the design and development of sensor networks,
- improve interoperability of sensor networks, and
- make sensor network components plug-and-play, so that it becomes fairly easy to add/remove sensor nodes to/from an existing sensor network.
ISO/IEC 29182-4 presents models for the entities that enable sensor network applications and services according to the Sensor Network Reference Architecture (SNRA).