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Geospatial Standards, the OGC and
Pervasive Computing
Carl Reed, PhD
CTO
Open Geospatial Consortium
November 11, 2009
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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
PortalU
German Environmental Information Portal
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and
Prediction (SCOOP) Program
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The OGC Mission
• To serve as a global forum for the development,
promotion and harmonization of open and
freely available geospatial standards …
Urban Model of Berlin based on OGC CityGML
Source: www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de
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The 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
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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
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• 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
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OGC Standards and Energy modeling
• Building energy modeling
– http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS197909+05-May2009+BW20090505
• Electricity Production by Solar Plants
– http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/350
• Solar plant placement
– http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIP2ERs#energy
• And others
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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.
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Ubiquitous services: Mobile apps using WMS
• Android:
– http://androidgps.blogspot.com/2008/09/simple-wms-client-forandroid.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-Client40587.shtml
– http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/products/gps_sim.html
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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.
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Ubiquitous services: Integrated Home Sensor
System
• Taiwan: Zuii, the Home Messenger - All OGC SWE Based
– Implements SensorML, SOS, SPS
Dongle
Temperature/Humidity Sensor
Alarm
Motion
Sensor
Glass
Break
Sensor
Smoke
Alarm
Gas
Alarm
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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.
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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_Works
hop.pdf
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