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.

Every day numerous sensors on earth and in space observe the condition of land, atmosphere and oceans for multiple purposes ranging from weather forecasting to monitoring of nuclear incidents. Important political decisions, such as how to adapt better to climate change, depend ultimately on scientific insights gained from these observations. But at present there is no simple way to access and use that data.

“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

Major SANY results are summarized in an easy to read form in the "SANY an open service architecture for sensor networks" book, which can be downloaded from the Downloads section of this web site. The materials included in this Section of sany-ip.eu are mostly based on the book material, re-arranged and edited to fit the limitations of the web site, and in some cases extended with multimedia materials. The SANY integrated project focused on interoperability of in-situ sensors and sensor networks. SANY Sensor Service Architecture provides a quick and cost-efficient way to reuse of data and services from currently incompatible sensor- and data- sources. Major results of the SANY IP include:

• Sensor Service Architecture (SensorSA) specification
• Prototype implementation of the generic SensorSA services
• A framework for integration of fusion- and modelling- engines into SensorSA networks
• A web based platform for decision support applications based on ESA SSE
• Three prototype applications illustrating the use of SANY in air quality, marine risks and geo hazards domains.
• Collection of educational materials for decision makers and technicians interested in developing their own SensorSA compliant networks (SANY cookbook)

The Generic Time Viewer (GTV) is a generic desktop application and a toolbox for building specialized applications capable of presenting a common and combined view on time series data stemming from different sources, such as sensors, simulation models or data fusion outputs.

The GTV is implemented in Java on a richt client platform. It is an expert tool for the daily work of decision makers mainly in environmental authorities. The GTV is used as the basis for the ‘Data inspection client’ in Air Quality Monitoring (SP4) Pilot, and the design strongly reflects the requirements inherent to the air quality monitoring domain. Nevertheless, the GTV can be easily adopted to the needs of other environmental domains. The main design goals of GTV were:

• to develop an expert tool capable of accessing and visualization of all data used within the SANY project;
  
• to assure the GTV provides efficient and reliable support for domain
  experts inspecting large amounts of data.

• to assure the GTV is easily extendible in order to answer the future user
  requests for additional functionality

The main GTV components are a set of connectors to remote systems and a set of viewer windows, which can be combined and configured in a flexible way. Both, connectors and viewers can be easily added at runtime without the need to recompile or reconfigure the application.

AIT decided to continue the TS-Toolbox development after the project end, and publish most of the components and several example applications under terms of the GPL. Please follow this link for more information.

The Time Series Toolbox (TS Toolbox) is a set of software components and application programming interfaces that simplify the task of building applications that record, process, store and publish time series of observations.

In SANY the TS Toolbox components are used in the following applications: the Cascading SOS Service, the SensorSA Data Acquisition System, Generic Time Viewer, and in the Universal Data Pump – a simple application that provides a convenient way for transporting data from one application, service or file for which a TS-Toolbox data connector exists to another.

The TS Toolbox contains software components for the following functional areas:

• Data connector components implementing access to data using various protocols and data formats
  
• Core components interfacing with the connector components and providing specific additional functionalities like data processing or caching
  
• Frontend components implementing interface functionality (user interfaces or software interfaces)

The functionalities implemented by TS Toolbox components provide application developers with higher-level 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. At a time of publishing this information, the TS-Toolbox included following components: