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Sensor Observation Service Installer and Back-end

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What’s the benefit of an awesome software if it’s too complex to use? Will you use google.com if, in addition to what you want to search for, you have to specify what a particular thing looks like or how you want google to search for you? The answer is no.

This year’s Google Summer of Code project “SOS Administrator” focuses on the usability of the SOS. The basic purpose of an SOS Administrator is to make SOS deployment and use as user-friendly as possible. No more editing configuration files, no more editing and saving global properties headaches !

We aim to provide two main deliverables. One is a web-based installer and the other is an administrative back-end.

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Intelligent Farming by Applying the Web of Things Paradigm

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Agriculture in India boasts it is the single largest economic activity in the country, employing about 40% of the population and feeding just over a billion people. By 2030 the Indian population will account for 18% of the total world population. In order to provide good quality grains and cereals to their home, farmers need to employ intelligent and cost efficient farming practices which maximize production while minimizing the use of precious resources such as water and nutrients.

This can be achieved by deploying sensors and applying the principles of the Web of Things. The immediate goal is to provide growers with the ability to precisely monitor and control the use of water and nutrients to plants in these production settings, based upon daily plant requirements. An example of such a Web of Things application is AgriSenseBox – an instance of the 52°North SenseBox project.

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Dynamic Output Formats for the Sensor Observation Service

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[Starting today, our Google Summer of Code students will present their projects. Alexander Kmoch is first. Enjoy!]

As one of the 52°North Google Summer of Code projects, “Exchangeable Encodings for the 52°North Sensor Observation Service (SOS)” aims to implement a customisable result set encoding mechanism. The users would then be able to add their own compiled libraries (like plugins), which contain all the necessary code to provide the requested data in different formats, such as CSV or GeoJSON,  to the SOS. When that mechanism works, we can easily add more encodings, e.g. the planned WaterML2.0 – but for now, where to start?

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