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Testbeds for AR: OGC perspective

George Percivall Executive Director, Interoperability Program, OGC

3rd International AR Standards Meeting

OGC meeting Hosted and Sponsored by

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

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OGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability

•  Interoperability Program (IP) - global, innovative, hands-on prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market

•  Standards Program – Consensus processes similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA, OMG, etc).

•  Marketing and Communications Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs

•  Compliance Testing Program – Provides mechanism for users, buyers and developers to confirm software follows OGC standard.

Rapid Development

Standards Setting

Market Awareness

Confirm Compliance

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The OGC Interoperability Program

•  A global, collaborative, hands-on engineering, prototyping and testing program started in 1999, designed to rapidly deliver :

– candidate specifications into the Specification Program

– product implementations that use these candidate standards

– demonstrated capability achieved through comprehensive testing, validation and public demonstrations

•  Sponsors and Participants work together.

–  Sponsors provide requirements, use / business cases and funding

–  Participants work with sponsors to define and/or refine OGC interface specifications to solve a given interoperability problem

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OGC Interoperability Program

•  Proven process to rapidly develop, test, validate and demonstrate new standards based on real world use cases identified by OGC members

•  Effective way for members to quickly align industry to advance standards to meet priority needs

•  Efficient and competitive process, regularly yielding a high-level of industry participation and cooperation

•  Repeatable process – over 30 initiatives successfully conducted using proven policies and procedure

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OGC Interoperability Program Return on Investment

•  Participants in OGC testbeds and pilot initiatives contribute more in in-kind contributions (labor, software, infrastructure etc.) than is provided in Sponsor funding.

•  For every one Euro or Dollar in sponsorship funding, the following initiatives have yielded:

–  Web Mapping Testbed I (1999) 4 times –  OGC Web Services 3 Testbed 3 times –  OGC Web Services 4 Testbed 3.5 times –  OGC Web Services 5 Testbed 3.3 times –  OGC Web Services 6 Testbed 3.1 times –  OGC Web Services 7 Testbed 2.5 times

•  Why? Vendors want early influence in specification development, early skill building, visibility, and opportunity for early market deployment of standards.

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Testbed

Pilot OGC Network

Experiment

Specification Program

Specifications Implementations Demonstrations

OGC Interoperability Program Development

Types of Interoperability Program Initiatives

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Develop & Test

Task 4

Selection & Kick-off

Task 3

RFQ/CFP* Development

Task 2

Concept Development

Task 1

Deploy & Persist

Task 5

OGC Testbed Approach

*RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation / Call for Participation

OGC staff manages the entire process with policies and procedures proven to produce results.

Over 50 initiatives have been successfully completed since 1999.

Most OGC standards are advanced through this process.

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OGC Initiaitve Process - Detailed

Requirements

Concept Development

A

Candidate Specifications

Prototype Components

Demonstrations

Industry Architecture

Concept

RFT by Use Cases

Technology & Architectures

Develop RFQ/CFP B

Industry

Proposals

Evaluate, Select, Negotiate, Prepare

For Execution

C

Participant Budget

Operations Concept

Work Breakdown

Schedule

Testbed Architecture

Execute D

Operations Concept

Draft Work Breakdown

Draft Schedule

Draft Testbed Architecture

RFQ/CFP

Exquisite Technologies

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Interoperability Program – Major Benefits To Sponsors

•  Ability to Determine Market Interest -- OGC’s RFQ / RFT process validates the willingness of industry to address specific interoperability issues requiring new standards

•  Rapid prototype development yields workable interface specifications in 4-6 months vice years for traditional standards processes

•  Vendors test, validate and demonstrate interface integrity by implementing candidate specifications in their products (reduces the risk that a proposed standard will not perform as intended)

•  Accelerated process encourages rapid time to market for Standards-based solutions

–  OGC member vendors are typically early adopters of new specifications

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Benefits to Technology Developers (Participants)

•  Opportunity to cooperatively develop open standards

•  Early insight into user requirements for interoperability, and early experience with and influence in developing standards in the context of user business cases

•  Bring new products and services using OpenGIS specifications into the marketplace earlier

•  Reduce development costs / risks and lead time for developing interfaces (community-wide cost sharing)

•  Broaden market reach via products that implement OpenGIS specifications

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OGC Web Services (OWS) Testbeds

The OWS Testbeds have been an effective mechanism for organizations to meet their interoperability needs through development of open geospatial

standards.

Complete Threads/Working Groups Statistics

OWS-1.1 2002 Common Architecture, Web Mapping SWE $M sponsorship components, reports

OWS-1.2 2003 Common Architecture, SWE, Image Handling, Feature Handling

$M sponsorship components, reports

OWS-2 2004 Common Architecture, Info Interop, IH&DS, OpenLS, CITE

$M sponsorship components, reports

OWS-3 2005 Common Architecture, SWE, DSS, DRM, OpenLS

$1.9M sponsorship components, reports

OWS-4 2007 SWE, GPW, DSS, DRM, DSS, GIS/BIM, OpenLS

$1.8M sponsorship 56 components, 36 reports

OWS-5 2008 SWE, GPW, Agile Geo, CITE $1.2M sponsorship 52 components, 24 reports

OWS-6 2009 SWE, GPW, DSS, AIM, CITE $1.8M sponsorship 47 components, 38 reports

OWS-7 2010 SFE, FDF, Aviation $1.6M sponsorship 39 components, 15 reports

OWS-8 2011 (planning now)

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OWS-4 Demonstration Movie http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows4/

•  “Reporting on Advances in Responding to Emergencies”

•  Filming at PANYNJ –  EOC

–  Port Newark

–  Newark Airport

–  Demo Audience

•  Sensors deployed at PANYNJ •  Interoperability animations

•  Reported by Dan Dubno –  Former CBS News

–  Technology Reporter

Dan Dubno

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AR ecosystem prototype testing

•  Multi-vendor testing based on open specifications – Open specs could be existing standards or candidate standards –  Interfaces external and internal to device?

•  Achieve interoperability between separate implementations – Clearly define Intellectual Property basis – Expose only those parts that participants chose to expose – Focus on interfaces

•  Demonstrate capability to attract attention of larger (non-technical) audience – Use cases define functions: Guide, Create, Play

•  When and how?