OGC SensorThings API 


2023, February 1°. As part of the USAGE Project, our partner OGC hosted a workshop on FAIR solutions for dynamic sensor data.



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OGC (partner of the USAGE project)

Francesca Noardo opened the session with an overview of OGC's mission, focusing on FAIR principles and the development of standards to support interoperability, linked to the activities of the OGC Innovation Program. She announced the upcoming opening of an OGC Academy. 


European Commission DG JRC 

Marco Minghini - On the Science for Policy Report (published in 2021) on the INSPIRE updates, you can read the vision for the future of INSPIRE and SDIs. The ultimate goal of data sharing and interoperability is to support the urban policy lifecycle: it must be integrated into policy frameworks. From a technological perspective, we want to encourage the adoption of well-documented standard APIs. There is a need to focus on GP proposals from the community. It is a step-by-step process for GP. OGC STA GP is an alternative for download services, focusing on coding and data sharing aspects. Next steps are to support STA-based download services in INSPIRE GeoPortal and INSPIRE Reference Validator. 

Therefore, we welcomed the USAGE project to provide feedback useful to improve the GP.


We presented implementations and success stories based on open solutions as:


DataCove 

Kathi Schleidt - API4INSPIRE: mentioned GP and ELISE funding. "You don't need a sensor to love sensors," she said about Air Quality Applications and COVID case information. STA data model. She listed all classes of the data model with details on API and "Tailoring Responses."


BRGM, France 

Sylvain Grellet, Mickaël Beaufils - SensorThings for water measurements. They said it records a growing interest in OGC STA in France in several environmental application areas, for the Management of National Groundwater Monitoring (FROST implementation of STA). The National Water Quality Database has received over 130 million observations, although taxonomies have not yet been mapped between France and Germany). 


Fraunhofer Institute, Germany 

Hylke van der Schaaf - Smart cities examples: Hamburg, Berlin, Erfurt


University of Calgary 

Steve Liang - SensorHub


Deda Next, Italy (partner of USAGE)

Luca Giovannini - Implementing SensorThings in Ferrara (Air-Break) and Trentino (Highlander): the architecture developed, as an aggregator and not the owner of the sensor's network. QGIS STA plugin. 


Then we started a conversation with a round table with representatives from Italian authorities. See the following presentations:


In the last part of the workshop, our coordinator Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica Madrid) showcased the USAGE project with examples from the City of Zaragoza.


Other EU projects were illustrated, as