Software infrastructure and applications for the Monterey Ocean Observing System: design and implementation

O’Reilly, Tom; Headley, K.; Herlien, R.; Risi, M.; Davis, D.; Edgington, D.R.; Gomes, Kevin; Meese, T.; Graybeal, John; Chaffey, M.

doi:10.1109/oceans.2004.1406448

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“…Two major instantiated OSML files were SensorControl.xml and SensorInfo.xml, the former of which mainly related to establishing a remote connection while the latter of which included supplement information for undersea equipment. The management of a sensor’s command information mainly utilized component technology [ 22 ], which was programmed to display and manage various types of control commands in a tree structure in the main interface using methods provided by the dynamic link library and .NET class, and corresponding instantiated OSML files.…”

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Development of a Plug-and-Play Monitoring System for Cabled Observatories in the East China Sea

2015

Sensors

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Seafloor observatories enable long term, continuous and multidisciplinary observations, promising major breakthroughs in marine environment research. The effort to remotely control in situ multidisciplinary equipment performing individual and cooperative tasks is both a challenge and a guarantee for the stable operations of functional observatories. With China starting to establish ocean observatory sensor networks, in this study we describe a monitoring system for cabled observatories in the East China Sea (ESOMS) that enables this effort in a plug and play way. An information oriented monitoring architecture for ESOMS was first introduced, derived from a layered control model for ocean observatory sensor network. The architecture contained three components and enabled bidirectional information flow of observation data and commands, based on which architecture components were designed to enable plug-and-play control within related model layers. A control method enabled by general junction box (GJB) and ocean sensor markup language (OSML) was thus proposed as the plug-and-play solution for implementing ESOMS. The GJB-OSML enabled control method (GOE Control Method) mainly actualized two processes, one of which was that the in situ GJB interfaced and represented every attached sensor as a Sensing Endpoint in the cabled observatory network. The other process was that the remote ESOMS utilized the same IP/Port related information modeled by OSML to create/operate a Function Node acted as agent of the in situ sensor. A case study for using ESOMS in the Xiaoqushan Seafloor Observatory was finally presented to prove its performance and applicability. Given this successful engineering trial, the ESOMS design and implementation could be applicable and beneficial for similar efforts in future construction of seafloor observatory network both at home and abroad.

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Development of a Plug-and-Play Monitoring System for Cabled Observatories in the East China Sea

2015

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“…The key to achieving this is interface standardization, i.e., to unify the hardware and software interfaces of ocean instruments in the system. Since there is no common standard for ocean instruments, the current solution is adding a protocol layer to the system architecture of an ocean observatory [5], as shown in Figure 2. Drivers are customized for each instrument type to translate between native instrument protocols and individual observatory protocol with description files [6].…”

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“…However, Java requires considerable computing and communication resources [18]. The PUCK firmware has also been evaluated to combine with IEEE 1451 and OGC-SWE standards [5,6,19,20]. The NeXOS project developed the Smart Electronic Interface for Sensors and Instruments (SEISI) to enable web-based sharing, discovery, exchange, processing, and operation of ocean observations [21].…”

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An Automatic Instrument Integration Scheme for Interoperable Ocean Observatories

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Lyu

Nie

2020

Sensors

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Due to the heterogeneity, high cost, and harsh environment, ocean observatories demand a flexible, robust, and capable scheme to integrate science instruments. To deal with the challenges of automatic instrument integration and machine-to-machine interaction in ocean observatories, a systematic scheme is proposed based on Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf), Programmable Underwater Connector with Knowledge (PUCK), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), and Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocols, as well as a smart interface module to achieve instrument plug-and-play and standard communication among heterogeneous ocean instruments. The scheme specifically considers the resource-constrained ocean observatories and machine-to-machine interoperability, which is of great significance to interoperable ocean observatories. The laboratory tests have verified the feasibility of the proposed scheme.

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“…The MOOS Mooring Controller (MMC) project [1] is focused on building the hardware and electronic infrastructure to support the unique requirements of disconnected, low-bandwidth ocean observing assets. The Software Infrastructure and Applications for MOOS (SIAM) project [2] is building the software infrastructure for handling plug and work instruments to enable automated configuration and control of those same assets. The Shore Side Data System (SSDS) [3] project is building the data management system to track the information coming from the observatory and its instruments and provide user access to those managed data.…”

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From Raw Data to Observing Products with SSDS: Fishes to Wishes

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Graybeal

Proceedings of OCEANS 2005 MTS/IEEE

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The Shore Side Data System (SSDS) (http://ssds.mbari.org) has been collecting real-time oceanographic data from Monterey Bay for over two years. While the system is not yet ready for public distribution, its data may be accessed readily by web browsers, external computer software (via web services), and the HOOVES desktop application.One of SSDS' hallmarks is its ability to accept data from new platforms and instruments, and immediately provide access to that data via public interfaces. With the support of a well-designed data observing infrastructure such as SIAM, advanced features like variable-and instrument-based data access are also instantly available. The system can accept data from any type of instrument and make it available in the original format, or (for described data) as individual data items. Many users in MBARI's science and engineering community have taken advantage of the SSDS interfaces to view and automatically process near-real-time and archival data ingested by the system. With its Java EnterpriseArchitecture-based services, SSDS provides ready access to data and its descriptive metadata-including data provenance and geospatial and temporal metadata.In this paper we use SSDS as an example to consider all parts of the data life cycle in a modern observatory data system. We identify lessons and make recommendations for future observing system developers. We will particularly emphasize topics applicable to the ocean observing communities such as OOI and IOOS.

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Software infrastructure and applications for the Monterey Ocean Observing System: design and implementation

Cited by 8 publications

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Development of a Plug-and-Play Monitoring System for Cabled Observatories in the East China Sea

Development of a Plug-and-Play Monitoring System for Cabled Observatories in the East China Sea

An Automatic Instrument Integration Scheme for Interoperable Ocean Observatories

From Raw Data to Observing Products with SSDS: Fishes to Wishes

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