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OGC Keynote: Connecting Islands in the Internet of Things
With the increasing pace of change in computing technology,
islands of relative stability become important to reaping the
benefits of geospatial information. Geospatial standards are
bases for persistent developments in the complex adaptive
ecosystem of geospatial computing technology. Standards are the
backbone of the Geoweb and will be also for the Internet of
Things (IoT).
At COM.Geo 2011, the workshop, "Expanding Geoweb to An Internet
of Things", explored ways in which the success of the Geoweb
were a basis for the emerging Internet of Things. COM.Geo 2012
aims to continue this discussion of sensor and mobile computing
for geospatial research and application.
IoT can be seen as a fuller expression of a vision of The
Computer for the 21st Century (M. Weiser, 1991, Sci. Amer.).
That vision of "Ubiquitous Computing" anticipated computers
disappearing into the fabric of everyday life. What perhaps
could not have been anticipated was how computing would be
changed by the WWW making information ubiquitously accessible
via the internet. Now, everyday objects with embedded computers
are becoming ubiquitously accessible and interactive via the
internet and mobile communications to the benefit of
researchers, decision-makers, developers, and application users.
Sensor webs and RFID are major elements of IoT. Beginning in
2000, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) anticipated the
proliferation of network-accessible sensors and defined a set of
Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards. SWE allows sensors to be
used in user applications not anticipated with the initial
deployment of the sensors. The AutoID lab is a pioneer
identifying how RFID systems and SWE can work together to for
understanding real world objects both from physical measurements
and identity.
Geospatial location is fundamental to IoT with the spaces in
which IoT operates going beyond the geographic positioning
technologies currently on mobile devices. Fusion of information
from new sensors on-board mobile devices will enable positioning
indoors and other locations where GPS is not present. "Indoor
maps" with the complexity of 3 dimensions and complex route
topology are needed for IoT be placed and used in a rich spatial
computing context.
End user applications will reap the benefits of ubiquitous
information from IoT. Augmented Reality applications will allow
users to view a rich set of information about the space around
them both historical information and real-time information. The
many domains of Business Intelligence will be informed by this
stream of information enabling better decisions.
OGC brings several innovative, yet stable standards to the
computing and geospatial world of IoT. The second generation of
SWE standards is currently being finalized. CityGML and
IndoorGML meet the need for indoor maps. And the Augmented
Reality Markup Language is poised to bring IoT information into
a context aware visualization on mobile devices. OGC will
continue to work with other standards developing organizations
that address IoT, e.g., ITU, JTC1, IETF, OMA.
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