SANY Sensors Anywhere

The Sensor Service Architecture (SensorSA) is the fundamental architectural framework of the SANY project for the design of sensor-based environmental applications and their supporting service infrastructure.

The SensorSA belongs to the family of service-oriented architectures (SOA) with additional support of event processing and a particular focus on the access, management and processing of information provided by sensors and sensor networks. As such, it contains sensor-specific services. However, in order to provide a higher-level interface to environmental risk management applications that is functionally and semantically richer, it abstracts from the peculiarities of sensors and encompasses generic information processing functionality. Thus, there is a gradual transition to the functionality of a generic service infrastructure.

The foundation for the SensorSA is the SOA approach specified by the European Integrated Project ORCHESTRA in its Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA) as well as the OGC Sensor Web Enablement architecture. Based upon these architectural frameworks, the SensorSA enables the set-up of open geospatial service platforms for a multitude of thematic applications in different domains.

The objective of the SensorSA is to motivate and specify the basic design decisions derived from user requirements and generic architectural principles. Its focus is on a platform neutral specification, i.e. it provides the basic concepts and their interrelationships (conceptual models) and abstract specifications.

Full SensorSA specifications can be downloaded from the Downloads section of the sany-ip site.