5.5.3 Further projects
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5 Sensor Web Enablement
5.1 Scope of the course
5.2 Introduction to SWE
- 5.2.1 Sensor Networks
- 5.2.2 What is Sensor Web Enablement?
- 5.2.3 Overview of the SWE Architecture
- 5.2.4 Benefits of SWE
- 5.4.1 Sensor Observation Service
- 5.4.2 Sensor Planning Service
- 5.4.3 Sensor Alert Service
- 5.4.4 Sensor Discovery
This page lists further SWE related projects. If available links to further resources that provide more detailed information are provided.
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GENESIS
GENESIS (GENeric European Sustainable Information Space for Environment) is an EU funded project within the 7th Framework Programme. It started in September 2008 and will run until August 2011.
GENESIS is focusing on the development of a solution integrating (geospatial) data (not only sensor data) into applications with the health domain. Thus, GENESIS largely relies on Spatial Data Infrastructure concepts. For the integration of sensors it relies on the Sensor Web Enablement technology were it contributes to the enhancement of OGC standards and to the development of open source implementations.
The use case scenarios of GENESIS address the domains of air quality, drinking water quality and bathing water quality.
More information about the GENESIS project can be found here: [1]
PEGELONLINE
The PEGELONLINE service is operated by the German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW). It offers water level data for all German federal waterways through a Sensor Observation Service instance.
More information about this service can be found here: [2]
The service itself is available via this URL: [3]
GITEWS
The GITEWS (German Indonesion Tsunami Early Warning System) project deals with the development of an early warning system for Tsunamis. For collecting the necessary data, GITEWS relies on a broad range of sensors. These sensors provide seismic observations, wave height measurements as well as water pressure data. In case of an earthquake these data sources are used for assessing the situation and for selecting the most appropriate scenario out of a collection of pre-computed cases. Based on this scenario according warnings are issued to the public.
In a part of its internal infrastructure for managing the sensor data, GITEWS relies on the SWE technology.
More information can be found on the project web site: [4]
Human Sensor Web
This project is conducted by the ITC, WI-TMC and 52° North for UN-HABITAT, funded by Google.org. It aims at the improvement of the water supply in Zanzibar.
Whereas most projects use technical sensing devices, the Human Sensor Web project aims at the integration of human observations. This means that users are able to use their mobile phones for reporting the water supply quality at specific water points (e.g. no water supply or bad water quality). Using this system water operators receive better knowledge about the supply situation so that they are able to react accordingly. At the same time the system allows consumers to be warned (e.g. via SMS) if problems with the water supply occur.
AFIS 2.0
The Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS 2.0) project was conducted in 2006 by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
The aim of this project was to protect power lines from the influence of bush fires. In case of a fire power lines are endangered as fires can cause short circuits. Such short circuits can lead to the destruction of expensive equipment (i.e. transformer stations) which will lead on the one hand to very high costs and on the other hand to interruptions of the power supply. In order to avoid such damage, power lines need to be switched off in a controlled manner during a nearby bush fire event.
For building the Advanced Fire Information System, especially satellite data is used in order to discover critical bush fires. Furthermore the infrastructure integrates weather information as well as geometry data of the power lines.
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