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The Tragedy of Meta InformationSource:European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 (EGU 2010), European Geosciences Union^, Volume 12, Vienna, Austria (2010)URL:http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/EGU2010-14984.pdfKeywords:sensor web; meta-information; TaTooAbstract:Ten years after the Murrays’ announcement, the sensors are indeed inexpensive and ubiquitous. Nevertheless, the vision of “electronic skin” is still a remote dream. Indeed, an operational world-wide SensorWeb is more than just a sum of its parts: all information has to be available in easily discoverable, retrievable, and understandable form. In reality, only a few observations are readily available on the web, and even fewer provide meta-information required for its discovery, understanding and automatic processing. The “tragedy” of meta information, as already identified by ORCHESTRA, an FP6-Integrated Project, is that the “appropriate” meta information depends on the intended use, which in turn can never be known in advance. For example, the set of meta-information required by a scientist interested in climate change may be very different from the meta-information required for automatic report generation in the context of “Clean Air For Europe” (CAFE) directive. The recently started FP7 “TaToo” project proposes an alternative to a fruitless quest for defining and maintaining an all-encompassing meta-information model. In this talk, we will present TaToo’s approach for distributed generation and maintaining of multiple, semantically linked meta-information sets based on community input, and discuss the challenges, potential benefits and advantages (e.g. long-term sustainability) of a community-driven meta information generation.Notes:-The Time Series ToolboxSource:European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 (EGU 2010), European Geosciences Union, Volume 12, Vienna, Austria (2010)URL:http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/EGU2010-14986.pdfKeywords:SANY, time Series ToolboxAbstract:Many applications commonly used in sensor service networks operate on the same type of data repeatedly over time. This kind of data is most naturally represented in the form of âtime seriesâ. In its simplest form, a time series may consist of a single floating point number (e.g. temperature), that is recorded at regular intervals. More complex forms of time series include time series of complex observations (e.g. aggregations of related measurements, spectra, 2D coverages/images, ...), and time series recorded at irregular intervals. In addition, the time series may contain meta-information describing e.g. the provenance, uncertainty, and reliability of observations. The Time Series Toolbox (TS Toolbox) provides a set of software components and application programming interfaces that simplify recording, storage, processing and publishing of time series. This includes (1) âdata connectorâ components implementing access to data using various protocols and data formats; (2) core components interfacing with the connector components and providing specific additional functionalities like data processing or caching; and (3) front-end components implementing interface functionality (user interfaces or software interfaces). The functionalities implemented by TS Toolbox components provide application developers with higherlevel building blocks than typical general purpose libraries, and allow rapid development of fully fledged applications. The TS Toolbox also includes example applications that can be either used as they are, or as a basis for developing more complex applications. The TS-Toolbox, which was initially developed by the Austrian Institute of Technology in the scope of SANY âSensors Anywhereâ, is written in Java, published under the terms of the GPL, and available for download on the SANY web site.Notes:-European Geosciences Union General Assembly 20102010-05-02 09:00 2010-05-07 09:00 Etc/GMT+2 The EGU General Assembly 2010 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcome you in Vienna! ESSI15/GI11 Web Sensors session"In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies--even our dreams." (Neil Gross: Interview with Terry Murray in Business Week, August 1999) Ten years later, the low-cost miniaturized sensors and wireless sensor nodes are on a way to become truly ubiquitous, but the vision of a fully fledged electronic skin is still a remote dream. The aim of this session is to discuss the factors that have so-far prevented the establishment of the "electronic skin", analyze the recent developments, and propose the agenda for achieving the Murray's vision in a technologically feasible, economically sane and societally acceptable manner. We encourage the submission of both conceptual and application oriented contributions for the following topics (but are not limited to):
Cost & performance: which main cost factors exist; how do they scale (e.g. with network size, number of nodes, time, type and quality of observations), and what can be done to optimize the total cost of ownership? CHARON SAC Framework TutorialSource:SP7 (2010)URL:http://www.enviromatics.net/charon/Keywords:SANY, Security, OASIS, SAML, XACML, GeoXACML, Service Access Control, tutorial, CHARONAbstract:The purpose of this documents is to give a short overview on security in sensor networks from different user perspectives and to provide a hands on tutorial on how to use the CHARON Service Access Control (SAC) Framework. CHARON which is a general, open source and free framework for non-intrusive access control in service networks has been developed as contribution to the SANY Sensor Anywhere - IST FP6 Integrated Project.Notes:Cookbook Part CMarine Risk Application Tutorial
Following tutorial explains how to use the SANY Marine Risk Application Prototype:
By Denis Havlik at 2010-03-24 17:48
SANY, at the end of the daySource:Future Sensor Web and its Applications (2010)URL:http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/9265/the-future-sensor-web/Keywords:SANY, results, Sensors Anywhere, Sensor Service Architecture, SensorSA; SANY services; SANY applications; Sensor Web EnablementAbstract:This presentation summarizes the results of the SANY project, and provides an overview of the exploitation and further research opportunities.Notes:The presentation was prepared for "The Future of Sensor Web and its Applications" workshop, which was organised in Ispra/Italy by Joint Research Center and the European Environmental AgencyORCHESTRA and SANY in DEWS2010-01-18 11:00 2010-01-20 18:00 Etc/GMT+1 On this workshop, Sascha Schlobinski and Martin Scholl performed an ORCHESTRA and SANY training for DEWS members. ORCHESTRA concepts and architecture is communicated and SANY results are discussed. Main goal is how DEWS can benefit from ORCHESTRA and SANY results. More SANY related news (December 2009)At the project end, even more news sites published short stories summarizing the SANY achievements:
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 By Denis Havlik at 2009-12-21 11:59 | SANY in the press
SANY technology offers easy access to environmental data (CORDIS News 10.12.2009)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 SANYEnglish 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 By Denis Havlik at 2009-12-12 11:34 | SANY in the press
Marine Pollution Risk Management Workshop2009-12-02 12:00 2009-12-02 17:30 Etc/GMT
Developments in low-cost sensing technology, coupled with advanced IT and communications, have allowed novel decision support techniques to be deployed. This workshop will present these advances and their practical application to shellfishery management, and explore how these can assist operations within a challenging regulatory environment. Registration: Please follow this link to register |
