BISACS binding for oBIX?

The Building and Fire Research lab at NIST is developing
BISACS, the Building Information Services and Control System. I think we should
be considering very carefully how oBIX interacts with BISACS. Is it a standard
contract? Are there competing proprietary apps that work between oBIX below and
BISACS going up? Are these instead competing implementations of oBIX?

 

BISACS is considering how it interacts with CAP (good!).
AFAIK (which is not enough!) it hasn’t yet considered how it might serve
things up in ways that  fit neatly into OGC standards. It would be a
mistake to presume that the OGC standards are exotic, or not there yet. Older
Open Web standards are already supported by many products in the marketplace
(and open source try World Wind)

•             Web
Mapping Services (WMS) – now supported by Google Earth

•             Web
Feature Service

•             Web
Coverage Service

 

Standards from the more recent OGC 3 interoperability
scenario http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows3/index.html 

 

•             OGC
Location Services (OpenLS) 

•             Sensor
Web Enablement (SWE) 

•             Geo-Decision
Support Services (GeoDSS) 

•             Transducer
Markup Language (TML)

 

Seem like a good fit for oBIX – and a good
intersection with BISACS.

 

Watch the video. Note the model of 3rd party shape servers
etc.

 

Scenario 4 Test Bed was a dirty bomb scenario – not
available in full write up, AFAIK. Scenario 5 is just firing up.

 

Please note that the attachment is an early draft –
not a standard. Note the use of Alerts rather than Alarms. I think, once again,
that re-christening Alarms to Alerts should be nearly automatic. is While
BISACS would welcome comments from oBIX, they shared it with me to pass on to
the Emergency Management TC.

 

tc

 

 

"It is the theory
that decides what can be observed."  
- Albert Einstein

 

  
  
Toby Considine

  
Chair, OASIS oBIX TC

  Facilities Technology Office

  University of North Carolina

  Chapel Hill, NC

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
Email: Toby.Considine@
  unc.edu

  Phone: (919)962-9073 

  
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BISACS Alert Categories1.doc