Moving Sensor Data Onto The Internet With SensorML

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Moving Sensor Data Onto The Internet With SensorML

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @08:12PM from the we-know-how-you're-feeling dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to this Sensors article, a new XML encoding scheme may make it possible for you to remotely discover, access, and use real-time data obtained directly from Web-resident sensors, instruments, and imaging devices. By describing sensors using SensorML, anyone can put sensors or sensor data online for others to find and use. And because it's XML-based, it means all this data will easily be searchable. "For example, searching for particular kinds of sensors and data in a particular geographic region, with data collected within a particular time window, will be easy. This has significance for science, environmental monitoring, transportation management, public safety, disaster management, utilities operations, industrial controls, facilities management, and many other activities." In this column, you'll find a summary of the Sensors' story which contains more technical details about the technology. And if you're really interested, please visit the SensorML homepage."

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Cute post, except smell sensors DO exist. by jerryasher · 2003-04-30 21:03 · Score: 4, Informative

Google on smell sensors faq

Smell with a digital sensor

cyrano sciences

How Smell Sensors Work

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Re:SensorML by rmolehusband · 2003-04-30 21:09 · Score: 3, Informative

Also, the functional programming language which made my university existence sheer hell, Standard ML already exists as is widely (within long beardy circles at least) known as SML.

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Reginald Molehusband. Edinburgh, Scotland
Re:trust by Bertrum · 2003-04-30 21:24 · Score: 2, Informative

And so you would use the data you get accordingly. The problems you foresee already exist for any kind of data gathering. Unless you do it yourself, you don't know how accurate it is (and even then you can delude yourself).
Re:An application by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-30 21:52 · Score: 2, Informative

that should be:

<I>
<have fallen="true"/>
<can>
<get up="false"/>
</can>
</I>
Re:SensorML by Vengie · 2003-04-30 22:14 · Score: 2, Informative

Actually, they didn't shorten it to SML because that is Standard ML.

SML/NJ *cringe*

Disclaimer: I took a compilers course with Zhong Shao, who together with Appel of Princeton, made ML into a useable language. CURSE THEM BOTH.

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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
Re:Since when... by khuber · 2003-05-01 00:21 · Score: 2, Informative

Since never. What about discovery? The article is full of XML hyperbole. The connection they didn't explain is that _if_ this stuff is tied into the SensorWeb, you could have those capabilities.
This article should have really been about SensorWeb since SensorML is just an implementation detail.
-Kevin
Re:Feasibility of small implementations? by khuber · 2003-05-01 00:35 · Score: 2, Informative

Unless your embedded devices run web servers it probably doesn't make sense. You would just have another computer reading raw data from the embedded devices and then publishing that as SensorML instead.
-Kevin