The Open Geospatial Consortium approved the OGC sensor model language (SensorML) 2.0 encoding standard, which delivers the standard encoding that can describe sensors, actuators and processors.
SensorML will be incorporated in the OGC sensor Web enablement (SWE) suite of standards that are used in satellite mission planning, monitoring, alerting, intelligent cities and in buildings.
SWE standards form foundational standards and are based on open and universally accepted standards for the Internet and Web, and for spatial location. They enable optimum communications between sensors, actuators and processors with respect to their locations in addition to being a key enabler for the Internet of Things.
SensorML 2.0 is an upgraded version of v1.0.1. and it includes features that provide support for using external schemas to describe sensor properties in addition to supporting dynamic factors like position, location, orientation, velocity and acceleration. It also provides compact descriptions of deployed devices and processes.
Other features include direct access to real-time values and data streams, and optimum support for multiplexed data streaming including streams with disparate message types and online documentation.
The SensorML 2.0 provides other benefits also along with OGC city geography markup language (CityGML) encoding standard and the candidate OGC standard IndoorGM.
The OGC Sensor Web for IoT (SWIOT) standards working group (SWG) will deliver observations captured by IoT devices to applications more easily via data aggregation portals.
In 2013, the ICA-OSGeo Open Source (News - Alert) Geospatial Laboratory was established at Zurich, Switzerland. The laboratory is participating in the ICA commission on open-source geospatial technologies as an associate member in Open Geospatial Consortium and through the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation.
A new chair of Geoinformation Engineering has been set up, which aims at analyzing, representing, modelling and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information technologies.
Edited by Rachel Ramsey