SANY Sensors Anywhere

URL:

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2010/abstracts/59.doc

Keywords:

SANY, INSPIRE, Clean Air for Europe, INSPIRE, OGC SWE, SOS. Formula 3

Abstract:

As a preparatory step for the definition of data specifications for the INSPIRE Annex themes, JRC has contracted various prototyping projects in regard to environmental reporting in order to define best practices. Among these, four parallel projects are currently testing possible technical solutions for open standards-based INSPIRE compliant prototype for air quality reporting in accordance with the CAFE directive (Clean Air For Europe) in Austria, Poland, Slovakia and the United Kingdom.

To date, INSPIRE has been driven by the Spatial Data Infrastructure community, relying on OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) services for data provision. Based on an analysis of the requirements of the CAFE directive, the Austrian development team came to the conclusion that these requirements would be far better served by a Sensor Web Enabled (SWE) approach than the more traditional WFS services defined to date for INSPIRE. As we had been working on prototyping access to Austrian Air Quality data within the SANY IP, we decided to implement the INSPIRE CAFE prototype utilizing results of the SANY project.

Based on our experiences in the development of a Sensor Web Enabled prototype for CAFE Reporting under the INSPIRE Directive, we have come to the conclusion that SWE is uniquely suited for this task. All reporting concepts could be clearly mapped to parts of the existing SWE data models. In addition, the tools developed within SANY provide valuable extensions to the base SWE architecture, with the combination of Cascading SOS and Formula 3 providing a powerful transformation node for time series data while the metadata extraction tools and semantic catalogue allowing for automatic extraction of up to date metadata and user friendly ontology supported discovery. We strongly recommend the further exploration of SWE technology for the more data rich INSPIRE themes.

Notes:

CAFE with SANY presentation: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2010/presentations/59_pdf_presentation.pdf

URL:

http://www.amazon.de/Sensor-Level-Plug-Measure-Sensors/dp/3639255747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1277105038&sr=8-1

Keywords:

Plug and Measure, IEEE 1451, OGC, SensorML, AnySen, air quality

Abstract:

This book addresses an important issue for scalability of measurement networks and user friendliness for network operators: Plug and Measure. Concepts of IEEE 1451 as well as OGC Sensor Web Enablement (in particular SensorML) will be analyzed. Special attention is given to interfacing and integrating sensors, which do not conform to any standard Plug and Play protocol, which is the vast majority as of today. Based on these ideas, prototypical software for Sensor Level Plug and Measure (AnySen) will be introduced. AnySen was developed at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), funded by the European FP6 Project SANY and Austrian measurement network operators.

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URL:

http://www.enviromatics.net/charon/

Keywords:

SANY, Security, OASIS, SAML, XACML, GeoXACML, Service Access Control, tutorial, CHARON

Abstract:

The purpose of this documents is to give a short overview on security in sensor networks from different user perspectives and to provide a hands on tutorial on how to use the CHARON Service Access Control (SAC) Framework. CHARON which is a general, open source and free framework for non-intrusive access control in service networks has been developed as contribution to the SANY Sensor Anywhere - IST FP6 Integrated Project.

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Cookbook Part C

Call Number:

FP5-2005-IST-5

URL:

http://sany-ip.eu/publications/3571

Keywords:

SANY; Sensors Anywhere; results; recommendations

Abstract:

The "Publishable Final Activity Report" is part of the "final reporting" deliverables required by FP6 reporting rules. In SANY, most of the materials required for this deliverable have already been provided in Y1, Y2 and Y3 activity reports, as well as in the SANY public deliverables.

In particular, the "SANY - an Open Service Architecture for Sensor Networks" book provides the high-level introduction of SANY goals, architecture, services and validation applications for decision makers and technical managers.

Notes:

Section 1 contains the "executive summary" which explains the structure and contents of the document.
Section 2 presents the SANY team, project objective, scope, and development approach
Section 3 summarizes the work performed in the first, second and third reporting periods.
Section 4 gives an overview of the "publishable results" of the SANY IP; these include the most important documents, software and hardware items resulting from this project.
Section 5 summarises the SANY findings and gives recommendations for post-SANY exploitation and future R&D activities.

URL:

http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/9265/the-future-sensor-web/

Keywords:

SANY, results, Sensors Anywhere, Sensor Service Architecture, SensorSA; SANY services; SANY applications; Sensor Web Enablement

Abstract:

This presentation summarizes the results of the SANY project, and provides an overview of the exploitation and further research opportunities.

Notes:

The presentation was prepared for "The Future of Sensor Web and its Applications" workshop, which was organised in Ispra/Italy by Joint Research Center and the European Environmental Agency

URL:

http://sany-ip.eu/public_event/orchestra_and_sany_in_dews

Keywords:

SANY, ORCHESTRA, training

Abstract:

On this workshop, Sascha Schlobinski and Martin Scholl performed an ORCHESTRA and SANY training for DEWS members. The main goal of the workshop was to discuss the lessons learned and possible uses of SANY/ORCHESTRA results in DEWS.

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All presentations can be downloaded from the event page on sany-ip (see link)

URL:

http://sany-ip.eu/publications/3494

Keywords:

SANY, SensorSA, Decision Support Infrastructure, tutorials

Abstract:

The documents attached to this page are "tutorials" explaining the use of the "Decision Support Infrastructure" components. The tutorials are conceived as "online annex" to the SANY cookbook.

Notes:

These documents are targeting Service Providers and System Integrators that are looking for off-the shelf clients for their standard/open services. They contains a list of available clients as well as instructions on how to deploy them on the SANY Decision Support Infrastructure.

The documents also target Decision Makers and System Integrators that need a portal providing access to a set of standard/open services. They contains guidance on how to use the various types of clients deployed by the Service Providers.

URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.017

Keywords:

Cartography; Risk management; Mapping; Web services; Standards; Sensors anywhere; OGC; SANY

Abstract:

The visualization of spatial information in the form of maps is a critical task to facilitate decision making in environmental management. Web Map Services (WMS), Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) and Symbology Encoding (SE) already created an open framework for Web mapping services. However, from the cartographic point of view, the OGC standards have several limitations for producing high quality cartographic representations. Fortunately, these standards can be cartographically enriched to fulfil the complex visualization requirements coming from environmental management. A solution to creating cartographic visualizations based on open standards was developed in the frame of two major European projects, namely ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management) and SANY (Sensors Anywhere). For example, the IST – 6th Framework Integrated Project SANY, focuses on interoperability of in situ sensors and sensor networks. In this context, sensors serve as an extreme illustration for the dynamic nature of spatial information that must be represented in the form of maps. The cartographic extensions for the Symbology Encoding (SE) standards allow expressing cartographic rules with spatial operators and advanced feature filtering for layer masking, flexible point symbolization, and patterns and gradients for all spatial features. Furthermore the critical point of creating thematic maps is also solved with extensions for intuitive choropleth and various diagram types generation.

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Article in Press; available online

Call Number:

FP5-2005-IST-5

URL:

http://sany-ip.eu/publications/3526

Keywords:

SANY, sensor services, architecture, service specifications

Abstract:

This document provides the specifications of sensor services and information models that are used, enhanced or developed by the European Integrated Project FP6-033564 Sensors Anywhere (SANY).

Information models are specified according to the rules and guidelines formulated in the Information Viewpoint of the Sensor Service Architecture (SensorSA) [SANY D2.3.3, 2009]. The service specifications are provided according to the rules and guidelines of the SensorSA Technology Viewpoint. They refine and formalise the corresponding service descriptions of the SensorSA Service Viewpoint.

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Copyright © 2009, SANY Consortium

The SANY Consortium (www.sany-ip.eu) grants third parties the right to use and distribute all or parts of this document, provided that the SANY project and the document are properly referenced.

URL:

http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=36177&version=1

Keywords:

OGC, Engineering Report, Data Fusion, Sensor Fusion, Object Fusion, Decision Fusion

Abstract:

This OGC Engineering Report (ER) provides discussions and recommendations for information fusion, with a focus on geospatial information. In this ER, fusion is discussed in three categories: sensor fusion, object/feature fusion, and decision fusion. Recommendations in this ER will be considered in the planning of future activities including the OWS-7 Testbed.

The OGC Interoperability Program utilizes a multi-step methodology in defining an interoperability initiative. Part one of the methodology is Concept Development which may use an RFI to gain better understanding of the current state of a given technology thrust and discover stakeholder insights about the architecture(s) to be used in subsequent testbeds. Subsequent steps of the methodology include development of recommendations from the concept development study.

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Accepted as "Public Engineering Report" on December 2009 OGC TC meeting in Mountain View.