A history of the OGC Interoperability Program was just published the the ISPRS International Journal of GeoInformation (IJGI). The article was written by the four people who have served as Executive Directors of the program: Jeff Harrison, Nadine Alameh, Terry Idol and George Percivall.
This is the abstract of the paper:
Interoperability is a major challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT). The real potential of IoT, like the potential of the Internet itself, lies in “systems of IoT systems” rather than IoT systems that operate as isolated technology silos. Real interoperability requires layers of standards, and each layer addresses different interoperability challenges.
Republished from the Sensorup Blog 29 October 2015
"So our rockstar dev team put together a little Halloween treat for IoT watchers today.
The FOODIE project (Farm Oriented Open Data in Europe (http://www.foodie-project.eu/) has the goal of building an open cloud-based agricultural specialized platform hub for the collection, management and processing of data related to the agri-food sector.
At the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, we have been advancing technology for interoperable marine sensor networks on the OBSEA cabled observatory in the Mediterranean Sea.
The advent of smartphones and the use of GPS technology has sky-rocketed in recent years. All of us have had the experience, however, of following the directions provided by the device and finding ourselves “not quite” at the destination. This is often because the geo-coordinates accessed by the device are usually rendered by satellite and represent a general approximation of home or business, not necessarily the “front door”.
ProgrammableWeb, an online news and directory for web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) references more than 13,900 APIs, which is up from 6,000 registered APIs in May 2012. This phenomenal growth! The number one category of web APIS by far is Mapping with more than 4,500 APIs. This is more than Social, Mobile or Finance! Perhaps this is why over the last 6 months there has been considerable discussion in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) concerning APIs: What is an API, is there an ontology for classifying APIs, does the OGC develop APIs, and so forth.
The 2015 Web3D City Model Contest award winners were announced in June at the 20th Annual Web3D Conference in Crete, Greece. http://web3d2015.web3d.org/
i-locate, a project of Europe’s ICT-PSP program, provides the first reference implementation of IndoorGML. The i-locate portal provides an indoor counterpart to OpenStreetMap (OSM).
