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Journal articles on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Maduako, Ikechukwu. "PostGIS-Based Heterogeneous Sensor Database Framework for the Sensor Observation Service." Geoinformatics FCE CTU 8 (October 14, 2012): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14311/gi.8.4.
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Environmental monitoring and management systems in most cases deal with models and spatial analytics that involve the integration of in-situ and remote sensor observations. In-situ sensor observations and those gathered by remote sensors are usually provided by different databases and services in real-time dynamic services such as the Geo-Web Services. Thus, data have to be pulled from different databases and transferred over the network before they are fused and processed on the service middleware. This process is very massive and unnecessary communication and work load on the service. Massive work load in large raster downloads from flat-file raster data sources each time a request is made and huge integration and geo-processing work load on the service middleware which could actually be better leveraged at the database level. In this paper, we propose and present a heterogeneous sensor database framework or model for integration, geo-processing and spatial analysis of remote and in-situ sensor observations at the database level. And how this can be integrated in the Sensor Observation Service, SOS to reduce communication and massive workload on the Geospatial Web Services and as well make query request from the user end a lot more flexible.
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Lee, Hyuk, Yeon Lee, Weon-Il Chung, and Hae-Young Bae. "Spatial-Sensor Observation Service for Spatial Operation of GeoSensor." Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information 16, no. 11 (2011): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2011.16.11.035.
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Pradilla, Juan, Carlos Palau, and Manuel Esteve. "SOSLite: Lightweight Sensor Observation Service (SOS)." IEEE Latin America Transactions 13, no. 12 (2015): 3758–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tla.2015.7404905.
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Wang, Jianmin, and Xiaoqin Yang. "An Automatic Online Disaster Monitoring Network: Network Architecture and a Case Study Monitoring Slope Stability." International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) 14, no. 03 (2018): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v14i03.7669.
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Geosensor networks(GSN) is an important development direction of the disaster monitoring in the future. An online automatic unattended disaster monitoring system can prevent and reduce the geology disaster to protect the safety of life and property. At present, most GSN are independent and usually service for respective community. The observations data of GSN are bigger and complex , and GSN is mostly heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. So this paper proposes a novel GSN disaster monitoring overall architecture, This architecture can seamlessly integrate sensors for long- term, remote, and near-real-time monitoring. In the architecture, there are four layers are used to collect, manage , transport and processing observation data. Among them, the data server layer applies the OGC SWE standards to integrate and share heterogeneous monitoring data. sensor metadata and observation data are packaged into a virtual sensor that are is transported from data center to application layer through Sensor Observation Service (SOS). To demonstrates the applicability of our proposed method, we use a case named PS-MDMs which are developed and deployed to support mine disaster monitoring and modeling research.
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Havlik, Denis, Thomas Bleier, and Gerald Schimak. "Sharing Sensor Data with SensorSA and Cascading Sensor Observation Service." Sensors 9, no. 7 (2009): 5493–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s90705493.
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Chen, Nengcheng, Liping Di, Genong Yu, and Min Min. "A flexible geospatial sensor observation service for diverse sensor data based on Web service." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 64, no. 2 (2009): 234–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.12.001.
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Chung, Chiu Chiao, and Wei Shiang Weng. "Remote Access the ZigBee Sensor Network through the IP Network." Advanced Materials Research 684 (April 2013): 539–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.684.539.
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With the wireless communication technology and world-wide Internet, living styles have become more and more convenient and smart, especially, for the application of context-aware systems based in wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, mobile devices provide users timely information browsing and mobile data access. In this study, the ZigBee wireless sensor network combined with sensor data observed Services (Sensor data Observation Service), and PostgreSQL database systems is developed to implement a remote access ZigBee wireless sensor network through an IP Internet browser. This system includes: (a) the integration of ZigBee CC2430 sensor sensing light, humidity and temperature; (b) PostgreSQL database tools accessing data; (c) via the sensor data Observation Service (SOS ) technologies; (d) through mobile devices to master the relevant environmental information.
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Arias Muñoz, C., A. Oggioni, and M. A. Brovelli. "Geospatial web services for limnological data: a case study of sensor observation service for ecological observations." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-4 (April 23, 2014): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-4-9-2014.
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The present work aims at designing and implementing a spatial data infrastructure for storing and sharing ecological data through geospatial web services. As case study, we concentrated on limnological data coming from the drainage basin of Lake Maggiore in the Northern of Italy. In order to establish the infrastructure, we started with two basic questions: (1) What type of data is the ecological dataset? (2) Which are the geospatial web services standards most suitable to store and share ecological data? In this paper we describe the possibilities for sharing ecological data using geospatial web services and the difficulties that can be encountered in this task. In order to test actual technological solutions, we use real data of a limnological published study.We concluded that limnological data can be considered observational data, composed by biological (species) data and environmental data, and it can be modeled using Observation and Measurement (O&M) specification. With the actual web service implementation the geospatial web services that could potentially be used to publish limnological data are Sensor Observation Services (SOS) and Web Feature Services (WFS). SOS holds the essential components to represent time series observations, while WFS is a simple model that requires profiling. Both, SOS and WFS are not perfectly suitable to publish biological data, so other alternatives must be considered, as linked data.
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Liu, Ya, Jian Hua Mao, and Xue Feng Liu. "Smart Community Security System Based on Sensor Web." Applied Mechanics and Materials 571-572 (June 2014): 1037–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.571-572.1037.
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The traditional smart security systems have poor extensity, delayed alarm systems, and cannot be controlled through the remote network. To solve the shortcomings, this article proposed a smart security system based on Sensor Web. The system used Sensor Observation Service to achieve the data transmission and storage in real time. Users can send requests to Sensor Observation Service to get home environment information in real time via Internet. The system also implemented Sensor Event Service, so that users can get home security alarm information in real time by subscribing the events they are interested in.
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Chung, Huang, Guan, and Jian. "Applying OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards to Develop a TDR Multi-Functional Measurement Model." Sensors 19, no. 19 (2019): 4070. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19194070.
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Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) is considered as a passive monitoring technique which reveals multi-functions, such as water level, bridge scour, landslide, and suspended sediment concentration (SSC), based on a single TDR device via multiplexing and related algorithms. The current platform for revealing TDR analysis and interpreted observations, however, is complex to access, thus a coherent data model and format for TDR heterogeneous data exchange is useful and necessary. To enhance the interoperability of TDR information, this research aims at standardizing the TDR data based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards. To be specific, this study proposes a TDR sensor description model and an observation model based on the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) and Observation and Measurement (O&M) standards. In addition, a middleware was developed to translate existing TDR information to a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) web service. Overall, by standardizing TDR data with the OGC SWE open standards, relevant information for disaster management can be effectively and efficiently integrated in an interoperable manner.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Mokhtary, Mandana. "Sensor Observation Service for Environmental Monitoring Data." Thesis, KTH, Geodesi och geoinformatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-95830.
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The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) is the public agency in Sweden with responsibility to overview the conditions of the environment and the policies related to the environmental monitoring data. Nowadays, observation data are stored in several different data models in this organization, leading to difficulties in finding, understanding and consequently using data in terms of analysis and management of environmental issues. One common model that uniformly structures observation data could largely make it easier for decision makers to find the required information. The aim of this study is to build an interoperable data model for environmental monitoring observation in Naturvårdsverket based on OGC-SWE standard formats. The proposed solution relies on Sensor Web architecture, which is the set of data model definitions andweb service specifications. Also, this methodology is based on open source components; therefore it is cost-effective for the users. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used to create a uniform model by using communication protocols such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The primary findings of the thesis is that when the observation is encoded into the standard format from the beginning, then it is easier to parse these documents and find the required information for the end users without knowing how these information are gathered and stored. The client scan send a request to the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and receive the observation that is structured based on Observation and Measurements (O&M).
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Giménez, Salazar Pablo. "Aplicaciones de SWE en entornos industriales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/51282.
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[EN] This thesis has been created within the framework of the interoperability of the networks of sensors in industrial environments, using standard SWE (Sensor Web Enablement). It has developed from the participation in different research projects, within the research group SATRD (Distributed Real Time Systems and Applications) of the Communications Department of the UPV.
Has gone a long time since the appearance of the first sensors that were only able to respond to a stimulus, to the concept of sensor web, where sensors can be remotely configured, perform actions and process and integrate data from other sensors. Nowadays, the use of networks of sensors or WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) is widespread in several fields, to gather information, which can then be used by other applications.
As it increases its use, it is necessary to combine or add data from sensors of different WSN, which is not always possible, due to the lack of interoperability between different manufacturers. That is why OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) founded SWE, in order to develop standards for access to sensors via the Internet and thus improve the interoperability.
For these reasons, in this thesis is specified an IoT architecture (Internet of Things) generically, so that it can be extended to multiple environments. The I3WSN architecture is designed for monitoring and control systems, ensuring interoperability between the different elements through the integration of SWE standards.
After the design, the application of the architecture is carried out in three different contexts, associated with three research projects. The first of them, in order to monitor and manage the workers' health in industrial environments, based on environmental and medical data, within the project FASyS (Fabrica Absolutamente Segura y Saludable). Secondly, to ensure the level of assurance of a smart grid environment, from the capture of the security information of all its elements, in the UniverSEC project. Finally, to manage efficiently and intelligently transport freight containers, from traffic data in real time, in the project STIMULO.<br>[ES] Esta tesis se ha creado en el marco de la interoperabilidad de las redes de sensores en entornos industriales, mediante la utilización del estándar SWE (Sensor Web Enablement). Se ha desarrollado a partir de la participación en diferentes proyectos de investigación, dentro del grupo de investigación SATRD (Sistemas y Aplicaciones de Tiempo Real Distribuidos) del Departamento de Comunicaciones de la UPV.
Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde la aparición de los primeros sensores que únicamente eran capaces de responder frente a un estímulo, hasta el concepto de sensor web, donde los sensores pueden ser configurados de forma remota, realizar acciones y procesar e integrar datos de otros sensores. Hoy en día, la utilización de redes de sensores o WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) está ampliamente extendida en diversos ámbitos, para recopilar información, que luego pueda ser utilizada por otras aplicaciones.
A medida que aumenta su utilización, surge la necesidad de combinar o agregar datos de sensores de distintas WSN, lo cual no siempre es posible, debido a la falta de interoperabilidad entre los distintos fabricantes. Es por ello que OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) fundó SWE, con el fin de desarrollar estándares para el acceso a sensores a través de Internet y así mejorar la interoperabilidad.
Por estos motivos, en esta tesis se ha especificado una arquitectura IoT (Internet of Things) de forma genérica, para que se pueda extender a múltiples entornos. La arquitectura I3WSN se ha diseñado para la monitorización y el control de sistemas, garantizando la interoperabilidad entre los distintos elementos gracias a la integración de los estándares de SWE.
Tras el diseño, se ha llevado a cabo la aplicación de la arquitectura en tres contextos distintos, asociados a tres proyectos de investigación. El primero de ellos, con el objetivo de monitorizar y gestionar la salud de los trabajadores en entornos industriales, a partir de datos del entorno y datos médicos, dentro del proyecto FASyS (Fabrica Absolutamente Segura y Saludable). El segundo, para garantizar el nivel de aseguramiento de un entorno smart grid, a partir de la captura de la información de seguridad de todos sus elementos, en el proyecto UniverSEC. Y por último, para gestionar de forma eficiente e inteligente el transporte de contenedores de mercancías, a partir de los datos de tráfico en tiempo real, en el proyecto STIMULO.<br>[CAT] Aquesta tesi ha estat creada en el marc de la interoperabilitat de les xarxes de sensors en entorns industrialitzats, utilitzant l'estàndard SWE (Sensor Web capacitació). S'ha desenvolupat des de la participació en diversos projectes d'investigació, dins del grup d'investigació SATRD (Sistemes i Aplicacions de Temps Real Distribuïts) del Departament de Comunicació de la UPV.
Ha passat molt temps des de l'aparició dels primers sensors que només eren capaços de respondre a un estímul, fins al concepte de sensor web, on els sensors es poden configurar remotament, realitzar accions i processar i integrar les dades d'altres sensors. Avui en dia, l'ús de xarxes de sensors o WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) està àmpliament estesa en diversos àmbits, per a recollir informació, que desprès puga ser utilitzada per altres aplicacions.
A mesura que augmenta el seu ús, sorgeix la necessitat de combinar o afegir dades de sensors de diferents WSN, que no sempre és possible, degut a la falta d'interoperabilitat entre els diferents fabricants. És per això que OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) va fundar SWE, per desenvolupar estàndards per l'accés de sensors a Internet i així millorar la interoperabilitat.
Per aquests motius, en aquesta tesi s'ha especificat una arquitectura IoT (Internet of Things) de forma genèrica, per tal que es puga estendre a múltiples entorns. L'arquitectura I3WSN s'ha dissenyat per la monitorització i el control de sistemes, garantint la interoperabilitat entre els diferents elements gràcies a la integració dels estàndards de SWE.
Després el disseny, s'ha dut a terme l'aplicació de l'arquitectura en tres contextos diferents, associats amb tres projectes d'investigació. El primer d'ells, amb la finalitat de monitoritzar i gestionar la salut dels treballadors en entorns industrials, a partir de dades ambientals i dades mèdiques, dins del projecte FASyS (Fabrica Absolutamente Segura y Saludable). El segon, per garantir el nivell d'assegurament d'un entorn de smart grid, a partir de la captura de la informació de seguretat de tots els seus elements, en el projecte UniverSEC. I finalment, per gestionar de manera eficient i intel·ligent el transport de contenidors de mercaderies, a partir de les dades de trànsit en temps real, en el projecte STIMULO.<br>Giménez Salazar, P. (2015). Aplicaciones de SWE en entornos industriales [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/51282<br>TESIS
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Pschorr, Joshua Kenneth. "SemSOS : an Architecture for Query, Insertion, and Discovery for Semantic Sensor Networks." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1368741809.
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Pradilla, Ceron Juan Vicente. "SOSLite: Soporte para Sistemas Ciber-Físicos y Computación en la Nube." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/76808.
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have become one of the greatest research topics today; because they pose a new complex discipline, which addresses big existing and future systems as the Internet, the Internet of Things, sensors networks and smart grids. As a recent discipline, there are many possibilities to improve the state of the art, interoperability being one of the most relevant.
Thus, this thesis has been created within the framework of interoperability for CPS, by using the SOS (Sensor Observation Service) standard, which belongs to the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) framework of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). It has been developed to give rise to a new line of research within the Distributed Real-Time Systems and Applications group (SATRD for its acronym in Spanish) from the Communications Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV for its acronym in Valencian).
The approach, with which the interoperability in the CPS has been addressed, is of synthetic type (from parts to whole), starting from a verifiable and workable solution for interoperability in sensor networks, one of the most significant CPSs because it is integrated in many other CPSs, next adapting and testing the solution in more complex CPS, such as the Internet of Things.
In this way, an interoperability solution in sensor networks is proposed based on the SOS, but adapted to some requirements that makes of this mechanism a lighter version of the standard, which facilitates the deployment of future implementations due to the possibility of using limited devices for this purpose. This theoretical solution is brought to a first implementation, called SOSLite, which is tested to determine its characteristic behavior and to verify the fulfillment of its purpose.
Analogously, and starting from the same theoretical solution, a second implementation is projected called SOSFul, which proposes an update to the SOS standard so that it is lighter, more efficient and easier to use. The SOSFul, has a more ambitious projection by addressing the Internet of Things, a more complex CPS than sensors networks. As in the case of the SOSLite, tests are performed and validation is made through a use case.
So, both the SOSLite and the SOSFul are projected as interoperability solutions in the CPS. Both implementations are based on the theoretical proposal of a light SOS and are available for free and under open source licensing so that it can be used by the research community to continue its development and increase its use.<br>Los Sistemas Ciber-Físicos (CPS) se han convertido en uno de los temas de investigación con mayor proyección en la actualidad; debido a que plantean una nueva disciplina compleja, que aborda sistemas existentes y futuros de gran auge como: la Internet, la Internet de las Cosas, las redes de sensores y las redes eléctricas inteligentes. Como disciplina en gestación, existen muchas posibilidades para aportar al estado del arte, siendo la interoperabilidad uno de los más relevantes.
Así, esta tesis se ha creado en el marco de la interoperabilidad para los CPS, mediante la utilización del estándar SOS (Sensor Observation Service) perteneciente al marco de trabajo SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) del OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). Se ha desarrollado para dar surgimiento a una nueva línea de investigación dentro del grupo SATRD (Sistemas y Aplicaciones de Tiempo Real Distribuidos) del Departamento de Comunicaciones de la UPV (Universitat Politècnica de València).
La aproximación con la cual se ha abordado la interoperabilidad en los CPS es de tipo sintética (pasar de las partes al todo), iniciando desde una solución, verificable y realizable, para la interoperabilidad en las redes de sensores, uno de los CPS más significativos debido a que se integra en muchos otros CPS, y pasando a adaptar y comprobar dicha solución en CPS de mayor complejidad, como la Internet de las Cosas.
De esta forma, se propone una solución de interoperabilidad en las redes de sensores fundamentada en el SOS, pero adaptada a unos requerimientos que hacen de este mecanismo una versión más ligera del estándar, con lo que se facilita el despliegue de futuras implementaciones debido a la posibilidad de emplear dispositivos limitados para tal fin. Dicha solución teórica, se lleva a una primera implementación, denominada SOSLite, la cual se prueba para determinar su comportamiento característico y verificar el cumplimiento de su propósito.
De forma análoga y partiendo de la misma solución teórica, se proyecta una segunda implementación, llamada SOSFul, la cual propone una actualización del estándar SOS de forma que sea más ligero, eficiente y fácil de emplear. El SOSFul, tiene una proyección más ambiciosa al abordar la Internet de las Cosas, un CPS más complejo que las redes de sensores. Como en el caso del SOSLite, se realizan pruebas y se valida mediante un caso de uso.
Así, tanto el SOSLite como el SOSFul se proyectan como soluciones de interoperabilidad en los CPS. Ambas implementaciones parten de la propuesta teórica de SOS ligero y se encuentran disponibles de forma gratuita y bajo código libre, para ser empleados por la comunidad investigativa para continuar su desarrollo y aumentar su uso.<br>Els sistemes ciberfísics (CPS, Cyber-Physical Systems) s'han convertit en un dels temes de recerca amb major projecció en l'actualitat, a causa del fet que plantegen una nova disciplina complexa que aborda sistemes existents i futurs de gran auge, com ara: la Internet, la Internet de les Coses, les xarxes de sensors i les xarxes elèctriques intel·ligents. Com a disciplina en gestació, hi ha moltes possibilitats per a aportar a l'estat de la qüestió, sent la interoperabilitat una de les més rellevants.
Així, aquesta tesi s'ha creat en el marc de la interoperabilitat per als CPS, mitjançant la utilització de l'estàndard SOS (Sensor Observation Service) pertanyent al marc de treball SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) de l'OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). S'ha desenvolupat per a iniciar una nova línia de recerca dins del Grup de SATRD (Sistemes i Aplicacions de Temps Real Distribuïts) del Departament de Comunicacions de la UPV (Universitat Politècnica de València).
L'aproximació amb la qual s'ha abordat la interoperabilitat en els CPS és de tipus sintètic (passar de les parts al tot), iniciant des d'una solució, verificable i realitzable, per a la interoperabilitat en les xarxes de sensors, un dels CPS més significatius pel fet que s'integra en molts altres CPS, i passant a adaptar i comprovar aquesta solució en CPS de major complexitat, com la Internet de les Coses.
D'aquesta forma, es proposa una solució d'interoperabilitat en les xarxes de sensors fonamentada en el SOS, però adaptada a uns requeriments que fan d'aquest mecanisme una versió més lleugera de l'estàndard, amb la qual cosa es facilita el desplegament de futures implementacions per la possibilitat d'emprar dispositius limitats a aquest fi. Aquesta solució teòrica es porta a una primera implementació, denominada SOSLite, que es prova per a determinar el seu comportament característic i verificar el compliment del seu propòsit.
De forma anàloga i partint de la mateixa solució teòrica, es projecta una segona implementació, anomenada SOSFul, que proposa una actualització de l'estàndard SOS de manera que siga més lleuger, eficient i fàcil d'emprar. El SOSFul té una projecció més ambiciosa quan aborda la Internet de les Coses, un CPS més complex que les xarxes de sensors. Com en el cas del SOSLite, es realitzen proves i es valida mitjançant un cas d'ús.
Així, tant el SOSLite com el SOSFul, es projecten com a solucions d'interoperabilitat en els CPS. Ambdues implementacions parteixen de la proposta teòrica de SOS lleuger, i es troben disponibles de forma gratuïta i en codi lliure per a ser emprades per la comunitat investigadora a fi de continuar el seu desenvolupament i augmentar-ne l'ús.<br>Pradilla Ceron, JV. (2016). SOSLite: Soporte para Sistemas Ciber-Físicos y Computación en la Nube [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/76808<br>TESIS
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Maduako, Ikechukwu Nmandi. "Heterogeneous sensor database framework for the sensor observation service: integrating remote and in-situ sensor observations at the database backend." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8303.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.<br>Environmental monitoring and management systems in most cases deal with models and
spatial analytics that involve the integration of in-situ and remote sensor observations. In-situ
sensor observations and those gathered by remote sensors are usually provided by different databases and services in real-time dynamic service systems like the Geo-Web Services. Thus,
data have to be pulled from different databases and transferred over the web before they are
fused and processed on the service middleware. This process is very massive and unnecessary
communication and work load on the service, especially when retrieving massive raster
coverage data. Thus in this research, we propose a database model for heterogeneous sensortypes
that enables geo-scientific processing and spatial analytics involving remote and in-situ
sensor observations at the database level of the Sensor Observation Service, SOS. This
approach would be used to reduce communication and massive workload on the Geospatial
Web Service, as well make query request from the user end a lot more flexible. Hence the
challenging task is to develop a heterogeneous sensor database model that enables geoprocessing
and spatial analytics at the database level and how this could be integrated with the
geo-web services to reduce communication and workload on the service and as well make
query request from the client end more flexible through the use of SQL statements.
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Guan, Jhih-Ruei, and 關智瑞. "A modified monitoring platform with TDR sensing capability and Sensor Observation Service." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ca8d4a.
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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>土木工程學系<br>106<br>The automatic monitoring systems are gradually concerned for disaster prevention in Taiwan recently. Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) is a passive monitoring technique which provides multi-functions, such as water level , bridge scour, landslide, and suspended sediment concentration (SSC), based on a single TDR device via a multiplexer. This study reviewed firstly the existing TDR information platform and a case study of using TDR landslide monitoring in JiuFen. To integrate the landslide function into TDR monitoring platform, the study provided an improved architecture designed in Unified Modeling Language (UML) and modified interfaces for administrator and client. Heterogeneity data management and sensor description for open data sharing are also discussed in this platform. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) of Sensor Observation Service (SOS) can enhance the interoperability of information. SOS has a standardized definition for the sensor description, observed position, and observed feature. Besides, it realizes data interoperable way by providing web service. This study developed a middleware between SOS and the existing TDR information platform to heterogeneity data interoperability finally.
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Martí, Irene Garcia. "Adding SOS Core & transactional profiles support to a web thin client." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8296.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.<br>In a world where day by day more web applications provide plenty of creative and interesting services, it is important to create similar applications to distribute and spread geographic information easily. In this context, it becomes necessary to develop new web clients capable of connecting with remote geospatial servers, request and retrieve data and allow the user to make a set of operations or just present him or her those results overlaid on a map. Sensor Observation Services (SOS) is a protocol that defines how to interchange geospatial data between a client and a SOS server by using a set of operations classified in three profiles: Core, Enhanced and Transactional. In this document, it is possible to find a description of the software engineering process to create a web client supporting the operations of the Core & Transactional profiles that a user may use without needing additional software.
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Benedito, Bordonau Mauricia. "Creating a GWT web application for the SOS standard enhanced profile." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8297.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.<br>Sensor Networks have become very popular in recent years. With the proliferation of
the use of these networks for very different purposes, it has appeared also the necessity
of developing one standard to unify all these types of networks and make them
interoperable. This standard is Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and was developed by
the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2007 as part of the Sensor Web Enablement
(SWE) activities.
The access to the information provided by sensor networks can be done using PC,
laptops on mobile devices such as mobile phones, and that’s why in this project, it has
been developed a thin client in Google Web Toolkit (GWT), which follows the SOS
standard to access to all information contained in the server without overloading the
device.
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Wan, Chih-Tai, and 萬致泰. "Design and Implementation of Sensor Observation Services on EmbeddedGateway." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71463463444383206905.
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碩士<br>逢甲大學<br>資訊電機工程碩士在職專班<br>99<br>With the warming of the earth, observing and monitoring the environment are more and more important. To obtain a variety of measuring information, applying wireless sensor networks to achieve the goal is a common way. Traditional wireless sensor networks usually have their own communication protocols, so interoperability functions will be not good. However, Open Geospatial Consortium proposes that the standard of wireless sensor network protocol. This standard defines different sensors and the method of obtaining sensors’ information.
The Web service function provided by a server is able to deal with the data which sent by gateways in different areas and offers users the services and information they want. However, it is not enough only by the server for receiving and coping with information because its’ function is limited. In this thesis, we will design an embedded gateway which provides the function of sensor observation service in sensor web enablement and supports all kinds of sensors. Through this framework, we can propose the distributed service model, to spread the sensor observation services to each gateway, the main advantages can reduce system resource consumption, saving installation costs and limited resources to solve problems. Besides, we also design a management platform for sensor observation service to obtain the content of services and sensor’s information easily. Last, in addition to demonstrate the function of embedded gateway supporting sensors, we also analyze and compare test results for distributive and concentrative services. The experimental results show that our proposed distributed services that provide better than the centralized service efficiency and reduce resource consumption.
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Mrlina, Rostislav. "Zvyšování kvality sociální služby domova pro seniory v Karviné." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328865.
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Diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou standardů kvality poskytovaných služeb, konkrétně zvyšováním kvality sociálních služeb Domova pro seniory v Karviné. Cílem práce bylo zjistit, jak se projevuje subjektivní vnímání pracovníků ohledně způsobu poskytování sociálních služeb na základě jejich poslání, zásad poskytování služeb, osobních cílů uživatelů služby a jejich chování a postojů. Teoretická část je zaměřena na definování kvality, a to v souvislosti s kvalitou poskytovaných služeb domova pro seniory, měření a zvyšování kvality sociálních služeb. Dále se zabývá přístupy zaměřené na člověka jako model, který může být vodítkem "dobré" služby v návaznosti na možné důkazy o zvýšení kvality poskytovaných pobytových služeb pro osoby vyššího věku. Ty vycházejí především ze standardů kvality poskytovaných služeb. Postoje a chování pracovníků jsou sledovány v rámci empirické části ve vybraných situacích, které jsou v organizaci považovány z hlediska přímé péče a ochrany práv uživatele za rizikové. Na základě výsledků z ohniskových skupin jsou vytvořena doporučení, která mohou být základem pro změny v pojetí kvality v dané pobytové sociální službě a nastavení programu jejího zvyšování. Klíčová slova: Sociální služby, domov pro seniory, kvalita, měření kvality, zvyšování kvality, kvalita života seniorů,...
Books on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Brough, Gideon, and Sophie Patrick, eds. The Observations of Gilles le Bouvier. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350418981.
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Translated from the medieval French, this book is a landmark English-language version of the work of Gilles le Bouvier. As the senior herald to King Charles VII, the monarch on the French throne as they advanced to victory in the Hundred Years’ War between England, France and their allies, Gilles le Bouvier was close to the king during a decisive, formative period in France’s history, as well as being a well-known figure from the period.The Berry Herald’s Impressions of Europethus delivers a rare glimpse of a singular medieval worldview, offered through the constrained voice of a skilled diplomat carefully and occasionally sharing his opinions to audiences composed of his social superiors. During his lifelong career as a messenger and a diplomat in Charles’s service, Gilles le Bouvier, known as The Berry Herald, travelled far and wide on his master’s behalf. This translated work is a compilation of his observations as he moved around Western Europe, the Mediterranean states and the Black Sea region. Throughout the text, Gilles le Bouvier: * assessed or commented on the lands encompassed by his extensive travels * discussed the peoples he claimed to have encountered, from the honourable Turks to the ‘bad Catholics’ of southern Italy * surveyed the military capabilities of France’s neighbours, allies, enemies and neutral states Expertly introduced and contextualised by Gideon Brough and Sophie Patrick, this book provides a compelling and unique historical source for understanding life in late-medieval Europe through the eyes of someone who lived it.
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Eugene, Nicole. Narratives of Narcolepsy in Everyday Life. The Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978723580.
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Numerous movies, YouTube videos, books, and public service announcements have begun to address people with narcolepsy, and this discourse has led to greater visibility and understanding about an often-misunderstood condition. In Narratives of Narcolepsy in Everyday Life: Exploring Intricacies of Identity, Sleepiness, and Place, Nicole Eugene draws on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and field notes to examine life with narcolepsy, witha particular focus on how certain socially-defined places play significant roles in determining the meaning of sleepiness, medication side effects, and other narcolepsy symptoms. Eugene also includes one autoethnographic essay that explores her own experiences with narcolepsy as a Black woman, refracted through the lens of the various places where sleepiness may arise. Throughout the book, an emphasis on making sense of narcolepsy by communicating with others with the condition demonstrates a peer-based approach to researching health communication and disabilities. Drawing on feminist disability studies, health communication, narrative inquiry, and autoethnography, this book is an example of interpretive qualitative communication research that renders the lives of vulnerable people with compassion and understanding.
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Gallagher, Sally K. Getting to Church. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190239671.001.0001.
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Getting to Church explores the ways in which congregations continue to provide an arena in which adults deepen and expand a sense of identity, connection, and growth. Data for this analysis come from three years of participant observation, focus groups, and personal interviews with clergy, current members, and prospective members in three congregations representing diverse traditions within US Christianity. Our analysis demonstrates that historic tradition or denomination as embodied in buildings and programs, as well as the specific teachings and ethos of congregations, draws men and women differently toward membership. Contrary to the generalization that women are more religious than men, we argue that women’s and men’s religious identity, experience, and practice vary in substance, direction, and breath across religious tradition. Gender shapes joining, though not in the directions or degree we might expect. For both women and men, connecting to congregations provides an opportunity to experience dimensions of personhood that are broader than the current cultural gender script. Congregations provide robust narratives of transcendence that are experienced as empowering to women, as well as narratives of community, connection, and service for men. The fact that these themes appear in congregations located at very different points across the religious field underscores the salience of formal religious affiliation in the formation of adult personhood.
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Eastman, Jason T. Southern Rock Revival. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978736702.
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While some people find new opportunities in the postindustrial economy, many working-class men find their social and economic well-being collapse as blue-collar jobs are outsourced and offshored to the global labor market. Faced with limited options to earn a living-wage, many of these blue-collar workers are instead changing who they are, embracing a deviant, rebellious identity expressed by the contemporary southern rock revival musicians studied in this book. Although loosely based in the traditional culture and lifestyle of the southeastern United States, contemporary southerness has little to do with region but instead is a way to rebel from the very institutions blue-collar men traditionally used as the basis of their masculine pride: family, education, employment, military service, and religion. This contemporary form of southerness reflected in their music also involves deviance, as many of these men adorn themselves with the highly controversial confederate flag, binge drink alcohol, brawl with one another and use drugs. Combining interviews, participant observation and a lyrical analysis, this book explores these aspects of rebellious southerness through music as it exists in the ideal sense and as individual men try to live up to these subcultural ideals in their daily lives. The southern rock revival is a new social movement carving out a place for an alternative way to live while simultaneously perpetuating stereotypes about poor men, reinforcing social disadvantage and marginalization.
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Wills, David. Killing Times. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283521.001.0001.
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Killing Times starts from the deceptively simple observation— made by Jacques Derrida—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time, preempting our normal experience of not knowing when we will die. The book examines more broadly what constitutes mortal temporality and how the “machinery of death” exploits and perverts time. It first examines Eighth Amendment challenges to the death penalty in the U.S, from the late nineteenth-century introduction of execution by firing squad and the electric chair to current cases involving lethal injection. Although defining the instant of death emerges as an insoluble problem, all the machines of execution of the post-Enlightenment period presume to appropriate and control that instant, ostensibly in service of a humane death penalty. That comes into particular focus with the guillotine, introduced in France in 1791–92, at the same moment as the American Bill of Rights. Later chapters analyze how the instant of the death penalty works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time and how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated in various ways. The book’s emphasis on time then allows it to expand the sense of the death penalty into suicide bombing, where the terrorist seeks to bypass judicial process with a simultaneous crime and “punishment”; into targeted killing by drone, where the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed and disappear into the black hole of secrecy; and into narrative and fictive spaces of crime, court proceedings, and punishment.
Book chapters on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Müller, Roland, Manuel Fabritius, and Michael Mock. "An OGC compliant Sensor Observation Service for mobile sensors." In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19789-5_9.
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Samourkasidis, Argyrios, and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis. "A Sensor Observation Service Extension for Internet of Things." In Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56877-5_4.
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Regueiro, Manuel A., José R. R. Viqueira, Christoph Stasch, and José A. Taboada. "Sensor Observation Service Semantic Mediation: Generic Wrappers for In-Situ and Remote Devices." In Conceptual Modeling. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_21.
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Huang, Chih-Yuan, Steve Liang, and Yan Xu. "A Sensor Data Mediator Bridging the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and the OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData)." In Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37087-8_10.
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Viqueira, José R. R., José Varela, Joaquín Triñanes, and José M. Cotos. "A Sensor Observation Service Based on OGC Specifications for a Meteorological SDI in Galicia." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16385-2_6.
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Tamayo, Alain, Pablo Viciano, Carlos Granell, and Joaquín Huerta. "Empirical Study of Sensor Observation Services Server Instances." In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19789-5_10.
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Vaz, Ana Sofia, Ricardo Moreno-Llorca, Cláudia Carvalho-Santos, et al. "Earth Observations of Human-Nature Interactions from a Cultural Ecosystem Service Perspective." In Human-Nature Interactions. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7_8.
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Significance StatementReconciling nature conservation and cultural ecosystem services (CES) has become fundamental to manage mountain protected areas. The timely monitoring of CES opportunities at large scales is therefore a pressing need. We combined social media data and Earth observations (EO) into a multi model inference framework to assess CES opportunities in two contrasting mountain Biosphere Reserves in Southern Europe: Peneda-Gerês (Portugal) and Sierra Nevada (Spain). EO indicators expressing people’s accessibility to leisure elements and landscape visual-sensory characteristics appear to be effective candidates for the monitoring of attributes underlying CES. Our findings recognise EO as complementary tools to socio-cultural approaches for the evaluation of CES, aiding stakeholders in their management decisions focused on the resilience and sustainability of mountain protected areas.
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Winkel, James P., Samantha A. Bittinger, Vicente J. Suárez, and James C. Akers. "European Service Module: Structural Test Article (E-STA) Building Block Test Approach and Model Correlation Observations." In Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting & Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12676-6_25.
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Mourkousis, Georgios, Matthaios Protonotarios, Chrysostomos Antoniou, et al. "EURMARS: An Advanced Surveillance Platform to Improve the European Multiauthority Border Security Efficiency and Cooperation." In Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62083-6_31.
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AbstractEuropean maritime border management is a complex and multifaceted task. EURMARS innovates border surveillance in Europe by addressing the main challenges of irregular migration attempts, smuggling, trafficking, as well as management of search and rescue operations and oil spill observation and monitoring in parallel with the coordination and cooperation among different authorities and agencies at the national and EU levels. EURMARS implements and intends to validate a 24/7 surveillance platform with the following characteristics: (i) provision for the integration of existing and future data sources and services; (ii) utilisation and clustering of high-altitude technology, satellite imagery, UAVs, and ground-based sensors into a joint surveillance capability to provide continuous complementary data; (iii) innovative coupling of sensors data with data fusion, AI analytics, risk assessment, and alarming functionality; (iv) flexible interoperable surveillance platform with multiauthority cooperation capabilities and verified easy-to-integrate potential for next-generation platforms and systems; and (v) performance benchmark platform to ensure acceptability by all stakeholders, including extensive technical and user acceptance tests and ethical and legal impact assessments.
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Windmann, Stefan, and Christian Kühnert. "Information modeling and knowledge extraction for machine learning applications in industrial production systems." In Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62746-4_8.
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AbstractIn this paper, a new information model for machine learning applications is introduced, which allows for a consistent acquisition and semantic annotation of process data, structural information and domain knowledge from industrial productions systems. The proposed information model is based on Industry 4.0 components and IEC 61360 component descriptions. To model sensor data, components of the OGC SensorThings model such as data streams and observations have been incorporated in this approach. Machine learning models can be integrated into the information model in terms of existing model serving frameworks like PMML or Tensorflowgraph. Based on the proposed information model, a tool chain for automatic knowledge extraction is introduced and the automatic classification of unstructured text is investigated as a particular application case for the proposed tool chain.
Conference papers on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Henson, Cory A., Josh K. Pschorr, Amit P. Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan. "SemSOS: Semantic sensor Observation Service." In 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cts.2009.5067461.
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McFerren, Graeme, Derek Hohls, Gavin Fleming, and Tim Sutton. "Evaluating Sensor Observation Service implementations." In 2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2009.5417655.
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Huilin Wang, Liping Di, Genong Yu, and Bei Zhang. "Implementation of Sensor Observation Service for Satellite Imagery Sensors." In 2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/geoinformatics.2009.5293487.
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Gattuta, Laura, Alessio Langiu, Luca Sabatucci, Vincenzo Suraci, and Mario Sprovieri. "Affordable Remote Terminal for Sensor Observation Service." In 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009149802720278.
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Pradilla, J., R. Gonzalez, M. Esteve, and C. Palau. "Sensor Observation Service (SOS)/Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) proxy design." In 2016 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/melcon.2016.7495411.
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Chen, Nengcheng, Zhong Zheng, and Zeqiang Chen. "An Efficient Sensor Observation Data Registration based on Asynchronous Service Middleware." In 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/npc.2007.25.
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Jen-Chu Liu and Kuo-Yu Chuang. "WASP: An innovative sensor observation service with web-/GIS-based architecture." In 2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/geoinformatics.2009.5293493.
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Chen, Nengcheng, Zhong Zheng, and Zeqiang Chen. "An Efficient Sensor Observation Data Registration based on Asynchronous Service Middleware." In 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icnpcw.2007.4351513.
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Bermudez, Luis, Philip Bogden, Eric Bridger, et al. "Web feature service (WFS) and sensor observation service (SOS) comparison to publish time series data." In 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cts.2009.5067460.
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Martinez, Enoc, Daniel M. Toma, Joaquin del Rio, and Simon Jirka. "Remote configuration service for marine observation platforms through Sensor Web Enablement components." In OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen. IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/oceanse.2017.8084792.
Full textReports on the topic "Sensor Observation Service"
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Delwiche, Michael, Boaz Zion, Robert BonDurant, Judith Rishpon, Ephraim Maltz, and Miriam Rosenberg. Biosensors for On-Line Measurement of Reproductive Hormones and Milk Proteins to Improve Dairy Herd Management. United States Department of Agriculture, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2001.7573998.bard.
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The original objectives of this research project were to: (1) develop immunoassays, photometric sensors, and electrochemical sensors for real-time measurement of progesterone and estradiol in milk, (2) develop biosensors for measurement of caseins in milk, and (3) integrate and adapt these sensor technologies to create an automated electronic sensing system for operation in dairy parlors during milking. The overall direction of research was not changed, although the work was expanded to include other milk components such as urea and lactose. A second generation biosensor for on-line measurement of bovine progesterone was designed and tested. Anti-progesterone antibody was coated on small disks of nitrocellulose membrane, which were inserted in the reaction chamber prior to testing, and a real-time assay was developed. The biosensor was designed using micropumps and valves under computer control, and assayed fluid volumes on the order of 1 ml. An automated sampler was designed to draw a test volume of milk from the long milk tube using a 4-way pinch valve. The system could execute a measurement cycle in about 10 min. Progesterone could be measured at concentrations low enough to distinguish luteal-phase from follicular-phase cows. The potential of the sensor to detect actual ovulatory events was compared with standard methods of estrus detection, including human observation and an activity monitor. The biosensor correctly identified all ovulatory events during its testperiod, but the variability at low progesterone concentrations triggered some false positives. Direct on-line measurement and intelligent interpretation of reproductive hormone profiles offers the potential for substantial improvement in reproductive management. A simple potentiometric method for measurement of milk protein was developed and tested. The method was based on the fact that proteins bind iodine. When proteins are added to a solution of the redox couple iodine/iodide (I-I2), the concentration of free iodine is changed and, as a consequence, the potential between two electrodes immersed in the solution is changed. The method worked well with analytical casein solutions and accurately measured concentrations of analytical caseins added to fresh milk. When tested with actual milk samples, the correlation between the sensor readings and the reference lab results (of both total proteins and casein content) was inferior to that of analytical casein. A number of different technologies were explored for the analysis of milk urea, and a manometric technique was selected for the final design. In the new sensor, urea in the sample was hydrolyzed to ammonium and carbonate by the enzyme urease, and subsequent shaking of the sample with citric acid in a sealed cell allowed urea to be estimated as a change in partial pressure of carbon dioxide. The pressure change in the cell was measured with a miniature piezoresistive pressure sensor, and effects of background dissolved gases and vapor pressures were corrected for by repeating the measurement of pressure developed in the sample without the addition of urease. Results were accurate in the physiological range of milk, the assay was faster than the typical milking period, and no toxic reagents were required. A sampling device was designed and built to passively draw milk from the long milk tube in the parlor. An electrochemical sensor for lactose was developed starting with a three-cascaded-enzyme sensor, evolving into two enzymes and CO2[Fe (CN)6] as a mediator, and then into a microflow injection system using poly-osmium modified screen-printed electrodes. The sensor was designed to serve multiple milking positions, using a manifold valve, a sampling valve, and two pumps. Disposable screen-printed electrodes with enzymatic membranes were used. The sensor was optimized for electrode coating components, flow rate, pH, and sample size, and the results correlated well (r2= 0.967) with known lactose concentrations.
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Hooke, William. Three Policies Shape Enterprise Value: Minor Adjustments Could Enhance the Societal Benefit. American Meteorological Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/three-policies-shape-enterprise-value-2022.
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This AMS Policy Study examines explicitly the role that public policy plays in determining the sum societal value of Earth Observations, Science, and Services (OSS) as well as the allocation of that value and the costs of OSS production across society. It examines three policy frameworks of quite different origin, purview, and standing. The first is the 2003 Fair Weather Report developed by the National Academy of Sciences. That policy focuses on collaboration. The second is the 2017 Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act enacted by the U.S. Congress. It focuses on innovation. The third is the current World Meteorological Organization development of Resolution 42, which seeks to make international contributions to and access to data and information more equitable, and at the same time expand the domain of data and information sharing from weather per se to Earth observations, science, and services more broadly. The study takes as its point of departure views of individual stakeholders in the so-called Weather, Water and Climate Enterprise (loosely speaking, the community of U.S. providers of weather, water, and climate information and services) with respect to these policies. Their perspectives were captured through informally solicited public and private comments from senior members of the Enterprise. Individually and in aggregate the comments hint at or suggest opportunities for extending and improving Enterprise value by broadening collaboration, fostering innovation, and making the Enterprise more equitable.
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Williams, Sarah. Silos and Systems. Auckland University of Technology, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/10292/16947.
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Executive Summary Education and health are interrelated. Education is positively associated with health behaviours, life expectancy, and morbidity and is an established social determinant of health. However, for learning to occur, children must be healthy, ready, and able. All too frequently, ill-health compromises learning and school attendance, leading to long-term negative consequences throughout life. Positioning health services alongside schools, and upholding collaborative intersectoral working, has positively impacted education and health outcomes for children and young people internationally. In New Zealand, however, the education and health sectors work in silo with no formal directive to do otherwise. Achieving and maintaining inter-sectoral collaboration is therefore challenging, piecemeal, and time-consuming. It is further complicated by system structure, competing priorities, and differing perspectives of the two sectors and those working within them. This multicase study of three urban primary schools explored the relationship between school staff and health services and the influences on this relationship. The study focused on the experiences and perspectives of participant principals, teachers, teacher aides, administrative staff, and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCO) working with health services. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, observations, and reviews of staff professional development and other related learning opportunities. The findings highlighted the uncoordinated working relationship between the health and education sectors in New Zealand and the current barriers to achieving workable, inter-sectoral collaboration. This study has confirmed the need for better inter-sector alignment while acknowledging the interdependence of both sectors. Collaborative inter-sectoral work between education and health is critical. The findings from this study recommend developing and implementing a national policy enabling these sectors to work together to achieve optimal education and health outcomes for children and young people in New Zealand.
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Marold, Juliane, Ruth Wagner, Markus Schöbel, and Dietrich Manzey. Decision-making in groups under uncertainty. Fondation pour une culture de sécurité industrielle, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.57071/361udm.
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The authors have studied daily decision-making processes in groups under uncertainty, with an exploratory field study in the medical domain. The work follows the tradition of naturalistic decision-making (NDM) research. It aims to understand how groups in this high reliability context conceptualize and internalize uncertainties, and how they handle them in order to achieve effective decision-making in their everyday activities. Analysis of the survey data shows that uncertainty is thought of in terms of issues and sources (as identified by previous research), but also (possibly a domain-specific observation) as a lack of personal knowledge or skill. Uncertainty is accompanied by emotions of fear and shame. It arises during the diagnostic process, the treatment process and the outcome of medical decision making. The most frequently cited sources of uncertainty are partly lacking information and inadequate understanding owing to instability of information. Descriptions of typical group decisions reveal that the individual himself is a source of uncertainty when a lack of knowledge, skills and expertise is perceived. The group can serve as a source of uncertainty if divergent opinions in the decision making group exist. Three different situations of group decisions are identified: Interdisciplinary regular meetings (e.g. tumor conferences), formal ward meetings and ad hoc consultations. In all healthcare units concerned by the study, only little use of structured decision making procedures and processes is reported. Strategies used to handle uncertainty include attempts to reduce uncertainty by collecting additional information, delaying action until more information is available or by soliciting advice from other physicians. The factors which ultimately determine group decisions are hierarchy (the opinion of more senior medical staff carries more weight than that of junior staff), patients’ interest and professional competence. Important attributes of poor group decisions are the absence of consensus and the use of hierarchy as the predominant decision criterion. On the other hand, decisions judged to be effective are marked by a sufficient information base, a positive discussion culture and consensus. The authors identify four possible obstacles to effective decision making: a steep hierarchy gradient, a poor discussion culture, a strong need for consensus, and insufficient structure and guidance of group decision making processes. A number of intervention techniques which have been shown in other industries to be effective in improving some of these obstacles are presented.
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Joshi, Anuradha, Jalia Kangave, and Vanessa van den Boogaard. Engendering Taxation: a Research and Policy Agenda. Institute of Development Studies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2024.017.
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Increased attention has been paid to the gender dimensions of taxation in recent years, though there has been limited research on the subject – particularly in lower-income contexts. Understanding how tax policies might affect women in lower-income countries is important at the current time, when governments are looking for new ways to increase domestic revenue – particularly through expanding the tax base. Given that women have historically represented only a small part of the formal workforce in these contexts, a shift towards indirect taxes and taxing the informal economy are likely to have a disproportionate effect on poorer households, and women in particular. Understanding whether, and in what specific ways, tax policy in lower-income countries affects the ability of women to participate in the workforce and carry out their caring responsibilities within households is critical for ensuring development with gender justice. This paper reviews the existing literature and related debates on gender and tax in lower income countries. It identifies knowledge gaps, and maps broader issues that are relevant for understanding the gendered impact of taxation. The paper makes four broad observations. First, existing research focuses on formal direct taxes that are less relevant for women in lower-income contexts, given their high participation rates in the informal economy. Instead, presumptive taxes, user fees and informal taxes place a disproportionate burden on low income women. Second, there needs to be greater attention paid to the ways in which women in senior and junior positions in tax administration can affect how taxpayers interact with tax authorities. Third, any assessment of tax policy’s impact on gender needs to consider revenue and expenditure together to ensure that the positive effects of tax policies are not undermined by budgets, or vice versa. Finally, we show that there has been insufficient gender-disaggregated data collection and analysis, which is required to draw generalizable conclusions about the gendered impact of tax policy. We argue that tax specialists need to think about research questions that address these gaps, and simultaneously address methodological challenges by gender disaggregation in data collection, as well as impact evaluation of tax policy implementation and innovation. Our overall conclusions are that tax policies can be made gender-neutral by paying careful attention to where they affect women differentially. There are opportunities for governments to explore policies that positively discriminate as a way to address structural gendered inequities. At the same time we recognise that, barring a few exceptions, tax policy and administration is often an unwieldy instrument to address gender equity directly. Instead other policies relating to labour markets, social protection and public services are better placed to be gender-transformative.
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Shahverdian, Scott, Derek Schook, Derek Schook, and Scott Shahverdian. Riverscape interpretation in Great Basin National Park: A geomorphic assessment of streams and riparian areas. National Park Service, 2025. https://doi.org/10.36967/2307540.
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Streams can be challenging systems to manage due to their dynamic nature and complex feedbacks between hydrologic, geomorphic, and biological processes that operate over a range of timescales. Stream-riparian ecosystems, also known as riverscapes or river corridors, are affected by events ranging from single storms to large-scale landscape disturbances such as wildfires and landslides. Understanding riverscape dynamics is necessary for identifying potential causes of their degradation, appropriate management actions, and potential restoration strategies. Developing appropriate expectations requires a conceptual understanding of how riverscape conditions and processes vary across the watershed. However, effective interpretation of riverscapes often requires specific expertise related to landscape processes and fluvial geomorphology. This report presents core fluvial geomorphic concepts and develops a reach type classification for riverscapes across Great Basin National Park (GRBA). We begin by identifying landscape factors and basic fluvial geomorphic principles needed to interpret stream forms and processes in GRBA, differentiating the physical characteristics of stream reaches and the processes that maintain them. The report then describes the forms and dynamics of seven different reach types in GRBA. We relied on a combination of remotely sensed data and field observations to categorize GRBA streams. We identify and describe attributes and dominant processes shaping each reach type. Many GRBA streams are found in steep valleys with coarse substrates. These streams have low sensitivity to disturbances, meaning that they are resistant to change. GRBA also supports a limited number of lower-gradient reaches with finer substrates that are more sensitive to disturbances. GRBA streams have variable degrees of confinement, affecting their capacity for lateral adjustment through channel migration or activation of alternative parallel channels. Large wood is important in creating habitat features and influencing stream dynamics throughout GRBA, although the specific processes and habitats influenced by wood vary across reach types. Glacial history and modern hillslope processes are also important features of current stream processes in GRBA, causing the stream reaches in broader valleys to have unusually low sensitivity to disturbance and allowing them to resist disruption to core fluvial processes. This document provides more of an introductory framework and conceptual foundation, rather than serving as a complete how-to manual for managing park streams. Any specific management questions encountered in the future are likely to require more focused investigation. Our goal is that this document will further build a foundation that leads to wise interpretations, expectations, and decisions regarding river management in GRBA.
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Improving the counseling and medical care of postabortion patients in Egypt. Population Council, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh1995.1026.
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This pilot study conducted in Cairo and Minya examined the effects of improving the medical care and counseling of post-abortion patients in Egypt. A pre-test/post-test, no control group study design was used to measure the effects of an intervention that upgraded physicians' clinical and interpersonal communication skills for the care of post-abortion patients, including counseling and family planning (FP). The study's surveys utilized direct interviews with staff working in the OB/GYN wards, structured observations of treatment procedures and counseling of post-abortion patients, and interviews with patients prior to discharge. Changes in the clinical management of post-abortion patients were introduced through a five-day training program in each hospital for senior staff, who then trained junior colleagues individually. Training for nurses and other paramedical personnel was also provided. Results demonstrate that the use of vacuum aspiration for treating post-abortion patients offers significant potential benefits for women, service providers, and the health care system. As this report states, the challenge now is to consolidate the experience gained from this study and develop a larger-scale introduction program in Egypt for the use of vacuum aspiration, combined with minimal pain-control medication and improved counseling.