SANY Sensors Anywhere

Call Number:

FP5-2005-IST-5

URL:

http://sany-ip.eu/publications/2420

Keywords:

FP6, IST, Sensor Services, Architecture

Abstract:

This document specifies the Sensor Service Architecture (SensorSA) of the European Integrated Project FP6-033564 Sensors Anywhere (SANY). In its present Version 1 it corresponds to the SANY deliverable D2.3.2.

The SensorSA belongs to the family of service-oriented architectures (SOA) but has a particular focus on the access, the management and the processing of information provided by sensors and sensor networks. As such, it contains sensor-specific services, however, in order to provide a higher-level, functionally and semantically richer interface to environmental risk management applications it also has to abstract from the peculiarities of sensors and to encompass generic information processing functionality. Thus, there is a sliding passage to the functionality of a generic service infrastructure. The SensorSA foresees mechanisms to generate events and distribute them as notifications to interested consumers. This enables spontaneous distribution of information about changing configurations in underlying sensor networks, e.g. the dynamic addition or removal of sensor devices, which is a pre-requisite for the support of the "plug-and-measure" type of operation. Furthermore, the SensorSA relates the basic concepts of a resource-oriented architectures (ROA) such as resources and their representations to the SOA concepts in order to gain flexibility in discovery tasks and the mapping to underlying mainstream Web service environments.

The foundation for the conceptual architectural work for SANY has been taken from the OGC Best Practices Document 07-097 which corresponds to the Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA) as specified by the European Integrated Project FP6-511678 ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management). The RM-OA provides a platform-neutral abstract specification of a geospatial service-oriented architecture that responds to the requirements of environmental risk management applications. It comprises generic architecture services and information models based on and extending existing specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The objective of the SensorSA is to motivate and specify the basic design decisions derived from user requirements and generic architectural principles. It is structured according to the viewpoints of the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) as defined in ISO/IEC 10746-1:1998 (E). The RM-ODP viewpoints are interpreted in the context of an SOA in analogy to the interpretation of the RM-ODP in the RM-OA. The SensorSA provides the basic concepts, their interrelationships (conceptual models) and abstract specifications of implementation models, services and interfaces. By abstract it is meant that the specification is independent of the specifics of a particular service platform.

Notes:

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This document obsoletes the SANY D2.3.1 "Specification of the Sensor Service Architecture V0" deliverable