I'm not sure there's much to be gained from standardizing sensor data
formats as a whole. Standardizing time, quantity, and unit pieces might
be worthwhile, but I don't see a point in trying to create a generic
"sensor data" format.
Thanks,
Simon
On 12/23/2014 10:10 AM, Peter Hunsberger wrote:
> Not a lot of standardization in that field, especially in the mobile
> devices. At the transport level you do have MQTT and there are a couple
> of small efforts to build some standards on top of that. Most of the
> mobile stuff is binary, I've worked with devices from probably over a
> dozen manufacturers and you see a tiny bit of standardization around
> some ASCII with yea olde Hayes modem command sets and so called hex bin
> numerics. At the home level you're starting to see a few manufacturers
> gaining some traction, the Rockchip WiMo (Wireless Mobile Multimedia
> Transmission Protocol)* has a fair number of devices and Google has some
> people jumping on whatever is behind the Nest devices. Lutron uses
> Telnet and a (proprietary) ASCII protocol which makes it very easy to
> work with.*
>
> On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 8:15:25 AM Costello, Roger L. <
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> There is an exploding growth of sensors. Here are a few examples of
> sensors:
>
> - flood gauges
> - air pollution monitors
> - thermostat
> - stress gauges on bridges
> - mobile heart monitors
> - traffic Webcams
>
> Sensors take observations. For example an air pollution monitor
> periodically measures (observes) the air pollution.
>
> How do we structure the data generated by a sensor? Has anyone
> created a _lightweight_ data format for observation data? If yes,
> are there tools to process the data format?
>
> I am aware of the OGC's Observations and Measurements stuff. [1]
> It's nice, but I am wondering if there has been a bottom-up,
> grassroots development of a lightweight data model for observations?
>
> /Roger
>
> [1] OGC Observations and Measurements:
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/__standards/om
> <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om>
>
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