SANY objectives
There are five major objectives for the SANY projects, listed hereafter:
To specify a standard architecture for all kinds of fixed and moving sensor networks that allows seamless “plug and measure” type of environmental risk sensor networks, and sharing of data and messages between sensors networks (“virtual networks”).
This architecture must be generic, so that any existing and future sensor-like data source can be accessed in a standard-compliant way. In particular, the standard must be applicable to all kinds of in-situ sensors, existing sensor networks, emerging ad-hoc sensor networks, virtual sensors, roving sensors and airborne sensors, and ensure interoperability between ground sensors and in-orbit sensors.
To assure that a reference implementation of the architecture exists and can be used. That is, a reference implementation of a minimal operational infrastructure sufficient to build complete SANY compliant sensor networks must be inherited, extended, or otherwise built from scratch. In this way, SANY will contribute to the implementation of the GMES objectives by providing building blocks for the GMES infrastructure in 2008.
To develop advanced data fusion and decision support, making use of the new architecture and providing added value to end users.
To assure the new architecture is generic enough and provides added value for the end users. This goal will be reached by validating the SANY RTD work in several demonstrative use cases within application / validation sub projects.
To assure that the outcome of SANY is accepted by relevant end users and international organisations and contributes to a future standard applicable to GMES. In this context, both standardisation efforts and dissemination of the results is seen as crucial in order to, firstly, make them used widely and, secondly, provide the EC regulatory bodies with recommendations useful for GMES.
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