Making sense of standards: An evaluation and harmonisation of standards in the Sensor Web

2016-11-07

Sensor data plays a significant role in our life. Sensors are devices that can sense our environment. This sensor data is part of the Sensor Web and needs a vast data infrastructure design, because many organisations are involved, the abundance of different sensors and because of the big volume of data and near-real time data. The extent to which sensor data can be used depends on a variety of factors, among them the observations of the sensor, the data about the sensor itself and interoperability between sensor systems. Standards will lead the way to a well-functioning interoperable Sensor Web, meaning all the systems can communicate with and understand each other. Therefore, the sensor standards need to be discoverable, interoperable and usable in their own domain. Currently this is not yet the case. There is not sufficient information available about the gaps and overlaps in the Sensor Web and there are a lot of different standards and therefore the systems are not capable of communicating to each other. Currently the standards are made and maintained by different organizations. There is one cluster of standards assembled by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), called Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), which forms the spine of the Sensor Web, but there are also other non-OGC standards that are useful for the Sensor Web, such as the IEEE standards and W3C's Semantic Sensor Network. A use case demonstrates both the usefulness and the gaps and overlaps of the standards in the Sensor Web, because it sketches a real-life situation in which standards can bring interoperability. The Smart Emission project in Nijmegen is a suitable candidate to assist in answering questions regarding sensor standards. In Nijmegen there is a citizen request for air quality data. The Smart Emission Project was initiated to respond to this request. The project is a collaboration between different organizations to to keep the city liveable by incorporating citizen participation in the Sensor Web. Sen
Architecture and The Built Environment
OTB
Geomatics

smart cities; sensor standards; Sensor Observation Service; SensorThings API; Semantic Sensor Network; SensorML; Observations and Measurements; standardisation; harmonisation; data modeling; Open Systems Interconnection model; master thesis; Text

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(c) 2016 Kastelijns, M.

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