SANY Sensors Anywhere - IST FP6 Integrated Project

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010

Denis Havlik — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:00:00 +0200

Start: 2010-05-02 09:00

End: 2010-05-07 09:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+2

Event summary:

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):

Business Models: how can we achieve the sustainability of the "electronic skin" infrastructure?
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?

ORCHESTRA and SANY in DEWS

Martin Scholl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:48:43 +0100

Start: 2010-01-18 11:00

End: 2010-01-20 18:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Event summary:

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.

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agenda_dews_workshop.pdf (agenda_dews_workshop.pdf)	19.38 KB
01_01_Orchestra_revisited.pdf (01_01_Orchestra_revisited.pdf)	856.77 KB
01_02_a_Orchestra_RM_OA.pdf (01_02_a_Orchestra_RM_OA.pdf)	1.19 MB
01_02_b_Orchestra_Compliance.pdf (01_02_b_Orchestra_Compliance.pdf)	219.12 KB
01_03_SANY_introduction.pdf (01_03_SANY_introduction.pdf)	1.24 MB
01_04_SensorSA_by_TU.pdf (01_04_SensorSA_by_TU.pdf)	964.08 KB
01_05_Access_Control.pdf (01_05_Access_Control.pdf)	703.13 KB
02_01_a_SANY_DSS_Platform.pdf (02_01_a_SANY_DSS_Platform.pdf)	820.34 KB
02_01_b_Fusion_IT-INNOV.pdf (02_01_b_Fusion_IT-INNOV.pdf)	798.82 KB
02_01_c_Catalogue_Service.pdf (02_01_c_Catalogue_Service.pdf)	741.73 KB
02_01_d_Inspire_Harvesting.pdf (02_01_d_Inspire_Harvesting.pdf)	409.91 KB
02_01_e_SP5_Demo.pdf (02_01_e_SP5_Demo.pdf)	734.54 KB
02_01_f_Aspects_of_SP6_Pilot.pdf (02_01_f_Aspects_of_SP6_Pilot.pdf)	844.66 KB
02_01_g_SP4_presentation.pdf (02_01_g_SP4_presentation.pdf)	978.95 KB
02_02_a_SANY_OGC_activities.pdf (02_02_a_SANY_OGC_activities.pdf)	463.2 KB
02_02_b_SANY_ORCHESTRA_extensions.pdf (02_02_b_SANY_ORCHESTRA_extensions.pdf)	502.06 KB
02_03_a_SANY_results.pdf (02_03_a_SANY_results.pdf)	407.22 KB
02_04_a_CHARON_Basics.pdf (02_04_a_CHARON_Basics.pdf)	1.25 MB
02_05_a_https_WSS.pdf (02_05_a_https_WSS.pdf)	569.67 KB
02_05_b_OpenID.pdf (02_05_b_OpenID.pdf)	756.05 KB
02_05_c_Shibboleth.pdf (02_05_c_Shibboleth.pdf)	598.97 KB
03_01_ORCHESTRA_platform_mapping.pdf (03_01_ORCHESTRA_platform_mapping.pdf)	807.22 KB
03_02_CHARON_Standards_Identity_Model.pdf (03_02_CHARON_Standards_Identity_Model.pdf)	743.29 KB
03_03_CHARON_Protect_Service.pdf (03_03_CHARON_Protect_Service.pdf)	372.82 KB

More SANY related news (December 2009)

Denis Havlik — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:59:56 +0100

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

SANY technology offers easy access to environmental data (CORDIS News 10.12.2009)

Denis Havlik — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:34:41 +0100

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

Marine Pollution Risk Management Workshop

Zoe Roberts — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:27:30 +0100

Start: 2009-12-02 12:00

End: 2009-12-02 17:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT

Event summary:

Shellfisheries operate in coastal and estuarine waters subject to fluctuating water quality, and operators must manage their harvesting to optimise supplies of compliant shellfish to customers.

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

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SANY Marine Pollution Workshop 2 Dec 09.pdf (SANY EDSnet Flyer 2 Dec 09 v1.pdf)	176.08 KB

Open shop for environmental data (ICT Results, Science Daily, 16.11.2009)

Denis Havlik — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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

‘Sensors Anywhere’ makes it easy for anyone to access eco data (Greenbang, 16.11.2009)

Denis Havlik — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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

SANY concrete results

Denis Havlik — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:35 +0100

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)

Generic Time Viewer

Denis Havlik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:34:23 +0100

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.

Time Series Toolbox

Denis Havlik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:59:46 +0100

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:

SensorSA Catalogue Service

Denis Havlik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:17:39 +0100

Catalogue services play an important role for the discovery of resources. Conventional catalogues usually contain meta-information about available data and service resources. A typical user query to a conventional catalogue could include ‘give me all services supporting standard interface x’ or ‘give me all datasets in a specific region, where the responsible party is y’.

A catalogue used for the discovery of sensor related meta-information needs to address additional requirements. Typical queries for such a catalogue differ from the conventional ones. Some examples may be: ‘give me all 'temperature' observations in Austria of May 2009’ or ‘give me all entries supporting a specific sensor type’. Looking at these queries it is clear that additional search criteria and specific meta-information are needed, which reflect the needs from the sensor domain.

SANY addressed these challenges in developing a meta-information schema for the catalogue which follows the Observation and Measurement Model (O&M) from the OGC (Cox). This model is used by Sensor Observation Services, which provide the meta-information necessary to answer the queries above. Besides conventional catalogue resource types (data and service) SANY defined the following new meta-information resource types according to the O&M Model for the catalogue:

The ‘Feature of Interest’ representing the observation target
The ‘Observed Property’ describing the phenomenon to be observed (e.g. temperature)
The ‘Procedure’ representing a specific sensor, sensor system(s) or algorithm(s) used by a system.

Geo Hazards Pilot Demonstration

Denis Havlik — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:14:09 +0100

SANY Geo-hazard application validates the usability of ad-hoc sensor networks, SensorSA/SWE services and SANY Decision Support infrastructure in the context of urban geo hazards. The final goal of this application is improved risk management in areas affected by construction works. The SP6 pilot has been developed and tested at metro building sites in Barcelona, Budapest and Toulon. The video embedded at this page illustrates the main features of the final SP6 application demonstration in Barcelona (November 2009).

Most of the services used and implemented for SP6 Pilot may be transposable and used in other contexts (landslides, structural health monitoring, etc). The use of SANY Sensor Service Architecture enables:

A common and interoperable access to third party in-situ, EO data, and wireless smart sensors data for a more comprehensive and global information;
A compliance of information between different systems using well-define resources identifiers, as well as a standard description of sensors and sensor systems;
The provision of alerts when alarms conditions are met, and a customised notification of such alerts by the user for a better awareness on a possible hazard and support preventative measures;
The remote configuration and management of wireless smart sensor networks;
The Fusion of distributed in-situ measurements of geophysical parameters with other relevant data (e.g. EO data, topographic data, …) in order to generate more accurate information;
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SANY Newsletter 13: SensorSA and Fusion Architecture submitted to OGC as discussion papers

Denis Havlik — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:49:52 +0100

Dear reader,

Following the request issued by members of the OGC SWE working groups, SANY team decided to submit two public SANY deliverables as OGC Discussion Papers:

D2.3.4 "Sensor Service Architecture V3" has already been submitted, as discussion paper No. 09-132r1
SANY "D3.3.2.3 Fusion and Modelling Architectural Design V2" has been slightly updated to reflect latest findings and will be submitted in a couple of days.

Both documents are available for immediate download at SANY web site.

OGC Discussion Papers are documents that present technology issues being considered in the Working Groups of the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee.

LINK: SANY public deliverables
LINK: OGC Discussion Papers

SensorWeb-Based Prototype for Air Quality Reporting Systems (ERCIM News, October 2009)

Denis Havlik — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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

SANY Newsletter 12: SANY book

Denis Havlik — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:11 +0200

Dear reader,

SANY consortium is pleased to announce the publication of the SANY book on "Open Service Architecture for Sensor Networks".

The "SANY book", which will be officially presented at the final SANY event on November 19^-th 2009 in Linz/Austria, provides high level information to SANY, SensorSA and Sensor Web Enablement for decision makers and technical managers. This book also provides an entry point to SANY and SensorSA for technical readers interested in environmental monitoring and risk management.