SANY Sensors Anywhere

Sensor Web Enablement is a standardisation effort driven by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Through its liaison with ISO TC211, the OGC is closely involved in the development of often legally binding services published by ISO.
To date, OGC has successfully established its Observation and Measurement specification as a new work item in ISO. In the future, other SWE standards will follow. SensorSA inherits following SWE services and data models:

• Sensor Model Language (SensorML) – defines a data model and encoding to describe processes and processing components associated with the measurement and post-measurement transformation of sensor observations.
  
• Observations and Measurements (O&M) – defines a data model and schema for encoding measurements and observations.
  
• Sensor Observation Service (SOS) – defines a service model and interface encoding for the provision of sensor measurements and observations, from simple sensors to complex sensor systems, both physical and virtual.
  
• Sensor Planning Service (SPS) – defines a service model and interface encoding for the execution of sensor tasking and parameterization requests.
  
• Sensor Alert Service (SAS) – defines a service model and interface encoding that enables subscription for and notification of situations of interest based upon continuous evaluation of incoming sensor observation streams.
  
• Web Notification Service (WNS) – defines a service model and interface encoding for distributing incoming information to registered users via various communication protocols. It is often used for supporting asynchronous communication and routing urgent messages to whole groups of users according to their communication preferences.

Consequently, all existing SWE-compliant software components can be used in SensorSA Networks. In SANY, the reference implementations of the OGC SWE services developed by 52 North were used both "as is", and as the basis for own developments (e.g. within Cascading SOS). In addition, SANY partners also developed several prototype SWE services with SOAP and REST bindings.