The SID Creator: A Visual Approach for Integrating Sensors with the Sensor Web

Bröring, Arne; Bache, Felix; Bartoschek, Thomas; Elzakker, C.P.J.M. van

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19789-5_8

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“…A sensor is defined by its observed property qualified by measurement capabilities and inherits from a system concept that itself has capabilities such as operational range, survival range or deployment. The Sensor Interface Descriptor approach (Brö ring et al 2010(Brö ring et al , 2011b, which is based on SensorML, goes beyond the metadata description of the sensor instance, and includes the description of the sensor communication interface, which is similar to IEEE 1451 (Lee 2000), and can also be …”

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StarFL – a modularised metadata language for sensor descriptions

Malewski

Simonis²,

Terhorst

et al. 2012

International Journal of Digital Earth

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An ever-increasing number of sensor resources are being exposed via the World Wide Web to become part of the Digital Earth. Discovery, selection and use of these sensors and their observations require a robust sensor information model, but the consistent description of sensor metadata is a complex and difficult task. Currently, the only available robust model is SensorML, which is intentionally designed in a very generic way. Due to this genericness, interoperability can hardly be achieved without the definition of application profiles that further constrain the use and expressiveness of the root language. So far, such SensorML profiles have only been developed up to a limited extent. This work describes a new approach for defining sensor metadata, the Starfish Fungus Language (StarFL) model. This language follows a more restrictive approach and incorporates concepts from the recently published Semantic Sensor Network Ontology to overcome the key issues users are experiencing with SensorML. StarFL defines a restricted vocabulary and model for sensor metadata to achieve a high level of interoperability and a straightforward reusability of sensor descriptions.

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

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StarFL – a modularised metadata language for sensor descriptions

Malewski

Simonis²,

Terhorst

et al. 2012

International Journal of Digital Earth

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“…In future, SIDs can for example be provided by a sensor manufacturer or third party projects. If none can be found, an SID can be semi-automatically created using the SID Creator (Bröring et al 2011c). This shows that the key advantage of the developed approach is its grounding in standards and the openly defined specifications which makes compliant components reusable and shareable.…”

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“…For this reason, the visual SID Creator (Bröring et al 2011c) enables a semi-automatic generation of SID instances. Following the wizard user interface pattern, the user of the SID Creator can define the sensor protocol, metadata, commands and processing steps in a step-by-step approach.…”

Section: Publication Of Meteorological Sensor Datamentioning

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Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment

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Bröring

McInerney

et al. 2013

Environmental Modelling & Software

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To improve environmental monitoring, the availability of great coverage of spatiotemporal data in an interoperable way is crucial for its integration into environmental models, for example, to compute fire danger models. To produce up-to-date and accurate results those models need the availability of data with high temporal and spatial resolution. Thus, it is promising to consider the increasing number of in-situ sensors providing observations of our environment in real-time. Today, interoperable access to such spatio-temporal data is achieved by Geospatial Information Infrastructures (GIIs). From a technical point of view GIIs provide this data through standards-based Web service interfaces. While those Web service interfaces already enable the interoperable discovery and retrieval of sensor observations, the functionality to publish sensor observations is still an arduous task. Hence, in this paper, we present an approach to improve the registration of sensors and the publication of their observations via standards-based Web service interfaces. We evaluate our approach by extending a standards-based GII and by applying the developed approach to the example of integrating in-situ weather observations into the European Forest Fire Information System for assessing fire danger in Spain.

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“…Consequently, the design and manual creation of SID instances is not straightforward. Hence, a visual SID creator has been developed (Bröring, Bache, Bartoschek & van Elzakker, 2011). This graphical tool (see figure 10) supports users in describing the sensor interface and generate SID instances for their geosensors.…”

Section: Sensor Interface Descriptors-ageneric Driver Mechanism For Gmentioning

confidence: 99%