SANY Sensors Anywhere

At the project end, even more news sites published short stories summarizing the SANY achievements:

• L'Atelier (Fr): Sany favorise l'exploitation des capteurs environnementaux
  
• F1rst (It): SANYA: una tecnologia per l'accesso ai dati ambientali
  
• Fulp (Es): La tecnología SANY facilita el acceso a datos medioambientales.
  
• The Gov. Monitor (US): European Researchers See Open Market For Environmental Data
  
• Madri+d (Es): La tecnología SANY facilita el acceso a datos medioambientales

On December the 10^-th 2009, the CORDIS News an article on SANY vision and results. The interesting part: this article has been simultaneously published in German, English, Spanish, French, and Polish:

German version: Leichter Zugang zu Umweltdaten mit Technology von SANY

English version: SANY technology offers easy access to environmental data

Spanish version: La tecnología SANY facilita el acceso a datos medioambientales

French version: La technologie SANY offre un accès aisé aux données sur l\'environnement

Italian version: SANYA: una tecnologia per l\'accesso ai dati ambientali

Polish version: Technologia SANY zapewnia łatwy dostęp do danych o środowisku

On November 16^-th 2009, the ICT-results published an article summarizing the SANY vision and results:

A new way to access and reuse environmental data from diverse sources has been devised by European researchers. They foresee a future where environmental data and services are offered on the open market.

“We are investing lots of resources to make measurements for a particular reason, but the information obtained may never be used again,” says Denis Havlik of the Austrian Institute of Technology. “Perhaps people don’t know that certain information exists or they cannot access it; sometimes they can access it but they don't know how to use it, or it is too complicated to get in touch with the data owner.”
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LINK: Read the full article at ICT-results site

Basically the same article has also been published by Science Daily:

LINK: Read the full article at Science Daily web site

On November 19^-th 2009, the Greenbang published an article on SANY vision and results. This article is based on the longer interview with SANY project manager Denis Havlik which was published in ICT results:

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"If you are a small company and you believe, for example, that you can predict episodes of air pollution much better than anybody else, then it’s easy for you to put your service on the market," he said, adding that SANY promises to do more than simply allow small companies to access markets that have traditionally been dominated by big public bodies. “Today, many companies still try to do everything on their own. The new market paradigm envisaged by SANY will allow all involved parties to concentrate on their own strengths, and purchase the missing data and services on an open marketplace.”
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LINK: Read the full article at Greenbang site

On November 13^-th 2009, Directions Magazine published an interview with David Schell explaining the role and organisation of the Open Geospatial Consortium, as well as its relation to e.g. Google and GEOSS. In this interview, David speciffically addresses two OGC working groups: Sensor Web Enablement and Geo Rights Management

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DM: Is anyone using the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards?

DS: Yes, the SWE standards are coming into wide use. NASA is using SWE in operational systems for tasking earth observation satellites. The US military is using SWE with drone aircraft and in naval operations. The European SANY program - Sensors Anywhere - is based on SWE. SANY is part of a major European space initiative called GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). SWE is also part of another European space program, the European Space Agency's Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility project. SWE is important in the German-developed Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, a watershed monitoring program in Germany as well as a Fire Information System in South Africa. It's part of a major program to provide better access to U.S. Hydrologic Data, and it's part of a very exciting international movement toward open standards in the world of ocean observation systems. And, there are many other examples.
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LINK: Read the whole article
LINK: Listen the interview

In October 2009, ERCIM News published a short article on Sensor-Web based prototype for CAFE (Clean Air For Europe) reporting:

Two European research projects, SANY (Sensors Anywhere) and the Austrian INSPIRE CAFE prototype are currently testing the usability of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite for CAFE (Clean Air For Europe) and INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community), by developing a prototype air quality reporting system in accordance with the CAFE directive. Unlike the Web Feature Service, which excels at geographic features, the SWE services and encodings help to model the world from a sensor-centric view, with each observed value being associated with a geographic and temporal position, as well as the unit of measurement, data quality value, and process description.

LINK: Read the whole article at ERCIM News site

In January 2009, the ERCIM News published an article on use of SANY/SensorSA and Sensor Web Enablement in Environmental Risk Management Applications.

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Emerging technology in risk monitoring and management has the potential to speed up the necessary organizational and structural changes. Ad hoc wireless sensor networks and the collective intelligence of the Sensor Web; the plug-and-measure paradigm of IEEE 1451 smart sensors; the Semantic Web; and the OGC Sensor Web Enablement architecture: all these address critical factors of the state-of-the-art technology. However, none of the currently available and emerging technologies offers rapid deployment, easy maintenance, quality assurance and automated data processing along the whole information processing chain from smart sensors and wireless ad hoc sensor networks, over automated data loggers and value-added middleware services, to user applications capable of dynamically integrating all available data sources at run time.
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LINK: Read the full article at the ERCIM News site

In January 2009, ERCIM News published a short article on SANY ad-hoc sensor testbed and Fusion SOS:

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The Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) has realized a testbed for sensors and services in order to trial the architecture and specifications. At the sensor network level, the ad hoc wireless ZigBee network is complemented by simulated sensor nodes, which measure properties such as temperature, humidity, illuminance and acceleration. The testbed is designed for experiments in a wide range of scenarios and scales, such as mobile sensors traversing several networks. The simulation is implemented as an application in LabVIEW (National Instruments), which has the additional task of configuring the ZigBee nodes. New sensor nodes (either real or simulated) are recognized automatically and registered in one of three OGC Sensor Observation Servers (SOS). The sensor values are then inserted into an SOS as they arise by measurement or simulation. The available network resources (observed features, sensors, services) are registered in a catalogue server along with metadata to support resource discovery by client applications. Clients can find, for example, information sources for a given region and observable phenomenon of interest.
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LINK: Read the whole article at ERCIM News site

In December 2007, the Sensors Magazine published an article on new implementations of OGC Sensor Web Enablement standards:

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SANY IP (Figure 3) is co-funded by the Information Society and Media Directorate General of the European Commission. SANY IP intends to contribute to Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES, a major European space initiative), and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GOESS) by developing a standard open architecture and a set of basic services for in situ sensor integration of all kinds of sensors, sensor networks, and other sensor-like services. It aims to improve the interoperability of in situ sensors and sensor networks and to allow quick and cost-efficient reuse of data and services from currently incompatible sources for future environmental risk management applications. Although SANY addresses interoperability in monitoring sensor networks in general, it focuses on air quality, bathing water quality, and urban tunnel excavation monitoring.

The SANY Consortium recognizes the OGC's SWE suite of standards as one of the key technologies that can eventually lead to self-organizing, self-healing, ad-hoc networking of in situ and earth observation sensor networks. Earlier this year, SANY evaluated the capabilities of SWE services with the intention of actively contributing to further development of the SWE standard specifications. As reported at the OGC TC meeting in Ispra (December 2007), the SANY Consortium has described the common architecture used in SANY baseline applications; included architectural requirements inherited from ORCHESTRA, GEOSS, etc.; and published a road map for v1, v2, and v3 versions of the architecture.
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Read the full article at Sensors web site

Austrian journal of water and waste economy (Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft) has published a short introductionary article about SANY IP in its September/October 2006 issue.

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