Towards a framework for sensor-based research and development platform for critical, socio-technical systems
Henrik Surm, Daniela Nicklas · BTW Workshops · 2015
The complexity of critical systems, in which failures can either endanger human life or cause drastic economic losses, has dramatically increased over the last decades. More and more critical systems envolve into so-called “socio-technical systems”: humans are integrated by providing and assessing information and by making decisions in otherwise semi-autonomous systems. Such systems depend heavily on situational awareness, which is obtained by processing data from multiple, heterogenous sensors: raw sensor data is cleansed and filtered to obtain features or events, which are combined, enriched and interpreted to reach higher semantical levels, relevant for system decisions.