The Sensorpedia API Documentation is now viewable for non-BETA testers as well. If you’d like to edit pages or leave comments, you’ll still need to be an official “collaborator”. If you’d like to be added as a collaborator, please let us know and we’ll add you to the list and give you further instructions.

The Sensorpedia development team is happy to announce that a draft version of the Sensorpedia Application Programming Interface (API) documentation is now available for BETA testers! The document describes our use of the Atom Syndication Format as a basis for the Sensorpedia RESTful web services. The API is designed to provide an easy mechanism for interfacing autonomous and incompatible sensor data to existing and future enterprise applications. To utilize the Sensorpedia framework, sensors and sensor systems are registered with Sensorpedia using Sensorpedia’s Atom-based API. Registered sensors may communicate and publish data with either standards-based or proprietary protocols. Applications such as the Sensorpedia web application and other third party software discover and subscribe to sensor data using the Sensorpedia API. Some data providers may choose to use the Sensorpedia API directly to post sensor data updates. Others may use the framework to provide links to existing systems or services that provide users the ability to subscribe directly to the sensor system.

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