SANY Sensors Anywhere

Description: ORCHESTRA IP is an Integrated Project partly funded by the European Commission’s 6th framework program, under the priority 2.3.2.9 "Improving Risk Management".

ORCHESTRA has designed and implemented the specifications for a service oriented spatial data infrastructure for improved interoperability among risk management authorities in Europe, which will enable the handling of more effective disaster risk reduction strategies and emergency management operations. The ORCHESTRA Architecture is open and based on standards. Its specifications are contained in a document called the Reference Model–ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA) which is open and free of charge, and can be downloaded from ORCHESTRA web site

ORCHESTRA Impacts

In addition to delivering technical results such as the RM-OA, and prototype services and applications, ORCHESTRA IP aims to bring together and consolidate the risk management community. This has been done by integrating the results and recommendations of previous and current European and National projects and initiatives, thus harmonising the technical underpinning of Risk Management.

ORCHESTRA established a cooperation network with nearly twenty on-going projects and initiatives, including projects not funded by the EC and projects outside Europe and provided valuable input to the INSPIRE (through its Drafting Teams) and GMES initiatives.

More information on ORCHESTRA IP

http://www.eu-orchestra.org

SANY and ORCHESTRA

Risk management and environmental monitoring share a number of high level requirements, most notably the requirement for long-lived generic infrastructure that can be easily adopted to new needs and also to new technologies. In addition, there is a large overlap between these two domains, which means that many of the generic services developed by ORCHESTRA can be easily re-used in environmental monitoring. Consequently, SANY IP decided to re-use the the ORCHESTRA framework for specifying service oriented architecture (RM-OA) and a number of ORCHESTRA services, such as ORCHESTRA catalogue and "Map & diagram" service.