This standard provides an open, geospatial-enabled and unified way to interconnect the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. It provides 2 main functions Sensing and Tasking.
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This standard provides an open, geospatial-enabled and unified way to interconnect the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. It provides 2 main functions Sensing and Tasking.
| Document title | Version | OGC Doc No. | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Version 1.1 | 1.1 | 18-088 | IS |
| OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing | 1.0 | 15-078r6 | IS |
| OGC SensorThings API Part 2 – Tasking Core | 1.0 | 17-079r1 | IS |
| OGC SensorThings API Extension: STAplus 1.0 | 1.0 | 22-022r1 | IS |
| OGC SensorThings API Extension: WebSub Asynchronous Messaging Standard | 1.0 | 24-032r1 | IS |
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Go To OGC Press Page →The OGC SensorThings API provides an open, geospatial-enabled and unified way to interconnect the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. At a high level the OGC SensorThings API provides two main functionalities and each function is handled by a part. The two parts are the Sensing part and the Tasking part. The Sensing part provides a standard way to manage and retrieve observations and metadata from heterogeneous IoT sensor systems. The Tasking part is defined in a separate document as Part 2 of the SensorThings API.
The OGC SensorThings API Extension: STAplus 1.0 Standard specifies a backwards-compatible extension to the OGC Standard SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing and Sensing 1.1 data model.
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