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Geospatial Standards, the OGC and Geospatial Standards, the OGC and Pervasive ComputingPervasive Computing

Carl Reed, PhD

CTO

Open Geospatial Consortium

November 11, 2009

Helping the World to CommunicateGeographically

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The OpenGIS® Vision

Achieve the full societal, economic and scientific benefits of integrating location

resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide

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PortalUPortalUGerman Environmental Information PortalGerman Environmental Information Portal

SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program



The OGC Mission

• To serve as a global forum for the development, development, promotion and harmonization of open and promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards …freely available geospatial standards …


Urban Model of Berlin based on OGC CityGMLUrban Model of Berlin based on OGC CityGMLSource: Source: www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de



The Growth of the OGCThe Growth of the OGC

• Over 385+ members worldwide – 38 countries & 6 continents• Broad participation in other standards organizations

– ISO TC 211, IETF, OASIS, IEEE, CEN 287, buildingSMART, OGF

• Twenty eight approved, publicly and freely available standards

• Numerous candidate standards in progress

– Key areas of interoperability focus are web services, location services, Geo Digital Rights Management, mass market, and Sensor Webs/networks

• The OGC Reference Model defines interoperability framework

• Rapidly growing list of implementations




OGC Standards and profiles

• Range from light weight, simple encodings and protocols, such as GeoRSS (www.georss.org) to support for complex modeling applications (Web Processing Service)

• Are Vendor Neutral

• Are application neutral

• Are content neutral

• Grounded in an abstract model



• It was interesting to note that electricity demand varies greatly in response to price depending on geography, customer density, and customer type.

– David Carrier, Ph.D.– University of Notre Dame



OGC Standards and Energy modeling

• Building energy modeling– http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS197909+05-May-

2009+BW20090505

• Electricity Production by Solar Plants – http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/350

• Solar plant placement– http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIP2ERs#energy

• And others



OGC Simple Features - Ubiquitous services: Standard database access

• Provides a well-defined and common way for applications to store and access geospatial feature data in relational or object-relational databases

• Implemented in all major commercial database software

• Implemented in all Open Source database software

• Used by thousands of applications and millions of users.



Ubiquitous services: Mobile apps using WMS using WMS

• Android:– http://androidgps.blogspot.com/2008/09/simple-wms

-client-for-android.html

• iPhone– http://mapserver.mendelu.cz/eng/node/92

• Windows Mobile– http://www.miramon.uab.es/mm_mobil/ – http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/GPS/J2ME-OGC-WMS-Client-

40587.shtml – http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/products/gps_sim.html



Ubiquitous Services: OGC Location Services

• Defines access to the Core Services (Geocoding, routing, etc) and Abstract Data Types (ADT) that comprise the GeoMobility Server, an open location services framework.

• Broadly implemented, such as recent major deployment by T-Mobile using Telcontar technology.



Ubiquitous services: Integrated Home SensorSystem

• Taiwan: Zuii, the Home Messenger - All OGC SWE Based– Implements SensorML, SOS, SPS

Dongle

Temperature/Humidity Sensor

Alarm

MotionSensor

Glass BreakSensor

SmokeAlarm

GasAlarm



Open architecture for Smart and Interoperable networks in Risk management based on Insitu Sensors

• OSIRIS is a Sixth Framework Programme Integrated Project of the European Commission, aligned with GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). OSIRIS provides a Service Oriented Architecture based on standards, especially relying on and improving the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE). This architecture provides functionality ranging from in situ earth ‐observation to user applications.



OSIRIS Application Objectives

• Within OSIRIS four key areas of major environmental risk are investigated:– forest fires: early detection of forest fires and efficient handling of the

crisis situation if a fire occurs– industrial risks: more reliable fire detection by combining various sensor

types and thus especially reducing the number of false alarms– unexpected fresh water pollution: sensor networks for detecting natural

arsenic concentration as well as accidental hydrocarbon pollutions– air pollution in urban areas: using mobile as well as fixed sensors linked

to simulation models for assessing the air quality

• http://tws01.terranovaws.it/osiris/doc/Invitation_OSIRIS_Workshop.pdf

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