Providing Mobile Sensor Data in a Standardized Way - The SOSmobile Web Service Interface
Christoph Stasch, A. Broering, Alexander C. Walkowski · 2008
Abstract. The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines a web service to distribute sensor data. During the utilization of the SOS in different mobile sensor use cases of the OSIRIS project deficits of the specification were identified. For example, the SOS specification lacks the ability to update information about deployed mobile sensors (e.g. position or status) dynamically. This work presents the concept of an interoperable web service interface (SOSmobile) allowing the exchange of mobile sensor data. The requirement for such a service arises due to the fast growing number of applications which incorporate mobile sensors. To enable the integration of data collected by mobile sensors into multiple applications the use of an appropriate interoperable encoding as well as a well-defined interface to access the data is essential. After introducing the SOS and the related data models the deficits are being described and the new SOSmobile interface based upon the OGC SOS specification is defined.