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Sensorpedia highlighted in Sensors Magazine article 1 Comment

2:26 pm on May 12, 2010

I’m happy to announce that an article about Sensorpedia has been published by Sensors Magazine. I’d like to thank my co-author Scott Fairgrieve of Northrop Grumman for his input and development of a translation tool to simplify the registration of standards-based sensor systems that use the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard. Watch for a guest blog post by Scott describing his effort in the near future.

Here is a link to the Sensors Magazine Article:

Unifying Isolated Sensor Systems Using Web 2.0 and Open Standards

“Taking a page from social networking sites that offer users the ability to share and manipulate data in novel ways, Sensorpedia allows users to find, share, and use sensor data online.”

I’m thankful for the questions and requests for more information I’ve received since the article was published earlier this week. If you haven’t already done so, please check out the Sensorpedia sneak peek. I know the blog and Twitter feed have been fairly quiet over the last few months. That doesn’t mean there’s been nothing going on with Sensorpedia. In fact, we’ve been very busy. As part of the private beta effort, we’ve been collecting feedback on how to improve the Sensorpedia API and web application. In addition to the beta testing, we’ve also been applying the Sensorpedia concepts and software to other related domains as part of our ongoing work here at ORNL. We’ll be writing more about these individual efforts in the near future. But the key point for now is that we’ve been incorporating the valuable feedback and are preparing to migrate Sensorpedia to an updated API. It’s still Atom-based, but is much more powerful and flexible. The updated API will fully support the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and additional querying capabilities. I’m very excited about where we are and the changes we’ve been making. I’ve already used an alpha version of the new services internally on several projects with lots of success.

Because of the particular interest I’ve received regarding technical details on the framework and the new API (thanks @freaklabs, @rafik, @SiliconFarmer and others!), I will plan to post a draft version of the updated API documentation before even completing the development work to incorporate it into the beta web application. When I do, I’ll post links on the blog and @Sensorpedia Twitter account. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the changes and the direction we’re taking with Sensorpedia in general.