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SANY Newsletter 5: Three months to ICT 2008

Denis Havlik — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:43:09 +0200

Dear reader,

Three months from now, the "who is who" of European ICT researchers and policy makers shall meet in Lyon and discuss the research agenda for the next decade. SANY partners proposed a discussion on sustainability of the European environmental information space.

This newsletter includes:

About ICT 2008
Technology and economy of European environmental information space
V1 sany demonstrations (pre-announcement)
About SANY newsletter

About ICT 2008

The biennial ICT Event (formerly called the "IST Event") is the most important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level. The Event brings together researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies. The ICT Event:

Presents Europe's future priorities for research funding in the ICT area
Examines crucial issues of public policy for stimulating innovation through ICT development and uptake
Creates opportunities to establish research and business partnerships and simply keep up to date in what is happening in various ICT research fields.

The ICT Event is organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society and Media and is usually hosted by the current Presidency of the European Union. This year, the ICT event will take place from 25 to 27 November in Lyon, France.

LINK: ICT 2008 home page

Technology and economy of European environmental information space

Apart from being the key European ICT event in 2008, ICT 2008 offers the unique chance to discuss the European research agenda for the next decade. One topic that we would like to discuss on ICT 2008 is the long-term technical and economic perspective of the emerging "European environmental information space".

With this in mind, SANY IP partners proposed a networking session called "Technology and economy of European environmental information space". Although officially initiated by the SANY IP, this networking session is open for everyone interested in technological and economic sustainability of the emerging European environmental information systems. The proposed discussion topics include:

which "killer applications" require shared European environmental information space?
what is the acceptable price level of information and services for these applications?
How to survive and flourish in an open information space? (Sustainable business models)
what can we build upon today (architecture, re-usable services, specifications, standards)?
which major technical issues remain to be solved?
which role will emerging sensor technology (moving sensors, ad hoc networks, smart sensors... etc) play in this context?

Please follow the link below to support our networking proposal and share your thoughts on this interesting topic with the rest of the ICT community.

LINK: ICT 2008 networking session proposal

V1 demonstrations (pre-announcement)

The second (v1) development cycle of the SANY IP is nearing its end. It's show time again!

This autumn, SANY partners from SP4, SP5 and SP6 ("validation sub projects") shall present the results of the v1 SANY development cycle in three separate public demonstrations dedicated to "air quality", "marine risks" and "urban geo hazards".

Detailed information on these events shall be announced in next SANY newsletter.

About SANY newsletter

Sensors Anywhere Integrated Project (SANY IP) is an FP6 Integrated Project (contract number 0033564) co-funded by the Information Society and Media DG of the European Commission within the RTD activities of the Thematic Priority Information Society Technologies.

SANY newsletter is the main external communication medium of the SANY project. Its aim is to inform the decision makers, fellow researches, producers and users of environmental information systems and all other people interested in the subject of environmental monitoring on the progress of the project and on events organized by the SANY consortium.

SANY newsletters are archived on the SANY web-page:

LINK: SANY Newsletter archive
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SANY Newsletter 4: SANY at OGC TC meeting and “Interoperability day” in Potsdam.

Denis Havlik — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Dear reader,

This week you can find us at Open Geospatial Technical Committee meeting and “Technical Interoperability day” in Potsdam/Germany.
This newsletter includes:

What is OGC TC?
SANY and OSIRIS at OGC TC meeting in Potsdam
SP5 demonstration and training event in Sopot
About SANY newsletter

What is OGC TC?

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 364 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

The OGC membership process is operationally organized into groups and subgroups, each group having a specified role and level of responsibility. There are three major groups, called Committees: The Technical, the Planning and the Strategic Management Advisory Committees.

The Technical Committee is responsible for all aspects of the formal consensus OGC specification process and provides an open forum for professional discussion of issues and items related to the consensus development and/or evaluation and approval of OpenGIS specifications.

SANY and OSIRIS at OGC TC meeting in Potsdam (2-6 June 2008)

SANY has strong interest in OGC standardization, and actively participates in several OGC working groups. This OGC TC meeting is of particular interest for SANY, as is allows technical discussion on v1 of the SANY architecture and services. SANY contributions to OGC TC meeting in Potsdam include:

”Major concepts for an OGC abstract service model” by Thomas Usländer, IITB (02/06/2008, Architecture DWG Services SG)
"Access Control for Sensor Services" by Sascha Schlobinski, EIG (03/06/2008, Security DWG)
”Sensor networks Interoperability” by Denis Havlik, ARC (03/06/2008, “Interoperability day”)
”Fusion and Decision Support” by Patrick Jacques, SPB (03/06/2008, “Interoperability day”)
”SANY Semantic Catalogue” by Desiree Hilbring, IITB (03/06/2008, “Interoperability day”)
”Data Acquisition with SWE” by Michai Bartha, ARC (03/06/2008, “Interoperability day”)
Introduction to SWE by Ingo Simonis, OGCE (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
”SWE Architecture IPR” by Ingo Simonis, OGCE (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
“SOS cascading” vision & current implementation status by Thomas Bleier, ARC; (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
“Plug and measure with SWE” by Michai Bartha, ARC (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
”SPS issues” by Ingo Simonis, OGCE (04/06/2008, SPS DWG)

In addition, OGC TC events offer a great opportunity for technical discussion with our "sister" project, the OSIRIS IP. With this in mind, the two consortia decided to discuss following topics: security of sensor networks; dynamic networks, and sensor discovery. Related OSIRIS presentations on OGC TC meeting in Potsdam include:

"Enhancements of the SOS specification for Improving the Support of Mobile Sensors" (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
"Securing the Access to SOS instances" (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)
"Sensor Discovery" with OSIRIS Sensor Observable Registry (04/06/2008, SWE DWG)

LINK: June '08 OGC Technical Committee Meeting agenda
LINK: June '08 OGC Technical Interoperability day agenda

SP5 demonstration and training event (June 11 2008, Sopot/Pl)

SANY demonstration events primarily target the decision makers and operators of environmental monitoring networks. In order to assure an ongoing dialogue with potential users of SANY results, separate events for SP4 (air quality), SP5 (marine risk) and SP6 (geo hazards) are foreseen at the end of each development cycle.

The second public demonstration of SANY results shall be organised by BMT in Sopot/Poland, with aim to show results of the SANY “baseline implementation” in the context of marine risks sub-project (SP5). The intention of this meeting is to show how SANY software can be used to forecast bathing water quality and discuss the direction of the SANY project with all interested parties.

In addition, BMT shall organise a hands-on training for potential users of the bathing water quality forecast application.

Note: The event will be held in Polish. Participation is free of charge, within a limit of available places (first come - first served). Please follow the link below for more details.

LINK: SP5 Workshop announcement and invitation

LINK: SP4 demonstration event materials (in German)

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