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52N Days on Juist

February 14, 2012 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Last week, 52°North staff braved the cold, circumvented icy waters and flew to the North Sea island Juist for our yearly retreat. We wracked our brains from thursday through staurday discussing and defining 52°North roadmaps and strategies. We successfully aligned 2012 strategies in the field of Sensor Web and Geoprocessing, as well as in new 52N innovation topics such as Web of Things, Linked Open Data and Augmented Reality. The charms of the local pubs influenced some intrinsically creative natures and resulted in some interesting App ideas! All in all it was a very informative, productive and constructive event. Unfortunately, we were not able to go for a walk in the tidal flats, but Heino our guide gave us a great presentation and converted most of us to nonclam eaters!

OGC adopts PUCK standard… Congratulations, Tom!

January 31, 2012 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: PUCK, Sensor Plug and Play, SID, SWE

Congratulations to Tom O’Reilly (MBARI), the editor of the PUCK standard! Today, the OGC membership has voted to adopt the OGC PUCK Protocol Standard.

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Successful HackDay Münster 2011

January 12, 2012 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Sensor Web

Ifgi recently hosted Münster’s first HackDay to promote contributions to the nationwide “Apps4DE” competition. Between 40 and 60 hackers and thinkers from Münster met throughout the day to discuss “open data” and come up with ideas for Apps which demonstrate the use of public sector information. An opening presentation by Albert Remke was followed by a series of lightening talks about linked science, linked open data, map Apps and Augmented Reality. After several hours of brainstorming and hacking in small groups, the participants presented resulting ideas and small prototypes such as:

Family and Recreation App
App for Open Sensor Data
Linked open data applications for the Bundestag members and their private activities in the market economy

Several participants also announced that they plan to submit their idea or App as a proposal to the “Apps4DE” competition. In the eyes of the particpants, the Münster HackDay – one in a series of Hackdays promoted by the Open Knowledge Foundation – proved to be a highly successful event!

Organisers: Geonetzwerk Münsterland, 52N, ifgi, con terra, Open Knowledge Foundation

SenseBox and standardization recommendations for the Internet of Things

December 2, 2011 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: internet of things, sensebox, web of things

At the Internet of Things workshop of the OGC TC meeting in Brussels, we presented the SenseBox project which we are conducting together with the SWSL group at the Institute for Geoinformatics of the Uni Münster.
Besides demonstrating the SenseBox project, we gave recommendations for bringing the Internet (or better Web) of Things field together with the standardization efforts at OGC. Standardized REST APIs for things as well as well-defined JSON encodings for exchanging data about / from things could be an interesting contribution of the OGC to this emerging technology field. Similar suggestions were made by other particiapnts. E.g., Ben Pirt from the Internet of Things platform pachube announced their interest in OGC and standardized protocols for the Internet of Things.

Please check out the slides.