Sensorpedia Milestone: Over 3,000 sensors now registered! 1 Comment
I’m happy to announce that we’ve hit a special milestone for Sensorpedia. We now have over 3,000 individual sensors and data sources interfaced with the framework! (3,298 as of Thursday morning July 30th to be exact.) A big thanks to our beta testers and summer interns for all their contributions.
Sensorpedia now contains a wide variety of sensor information. The following tag cloud gives you an idea of what types of data you can find. Much of the data is weather related, coming from International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather stations and buoys. We also have a number of traffic cameras from around the Southeast, including a concentration of cameras in Charleston, SC (thus it’s prominence in the tag cloud). Other important sensor types monitor seismic activity, energy efficiency, and water levels. Then there are the more obscure sensors like those used for monitoring of bacteria level at beaches. The greatest concentration of sensors is still in the United States, but several sensor systems are also included from Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world!
See our Sensorpedia Flickr Group for screenshots of what 3,000 sensors looks like in the Sensorpedia web application.
What sensor data will we be adding next? Maybe it’s yours! If you have sensor data that you’d like to incorporate into the Sensorpedia beta, please contact us.