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Cloud Native OGC SensorThings API: GSoC Final Blog

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Introduction

Hello everyone,

It’s been a long while since my last blog post, and indeed so. I am excited to share that my GSoC 2024 project of developing an open, interoperable and cloud native OGC SensorThings API has finally seen the light! It’s been an incredible journey of 20 weeks filled with ups and downs, but as the saying goes, all’s well that ends well.

Continuing from my mid term blog post, I had ‘evaluated’ the libraries, tools and frameworks to use for implementing the end-to-end cloud native persistence layer. However, as I proceeded with using some of these tools, it became apparent that I will have to change gears and look for alternative options. More on it, below.

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Cloud native OGC SensorThings API

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Hello all,

I welcome you all to the introductory blog post on my Google Summer of Code‘s project that I will be working on over the next few weeks. Before I begin, a bit of an introduction about me 🙂

I am a graduate student at the University of Calgary (Yes, I get to see the Canadian Rockies from my window!). I am pursuing my Master’s degree in Geomatics Engineering and working towards revising and improving the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) SensorThings API standard for my thesis.

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52°North SensorThings API Implementation

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Increased support for Sensor Web standards

With the advent of low-cost, low-bandwidth and low-power IoT sensors, new requirements for data handling have arisen. The OGC SensorThings API (STA) was developed to accompany those new requirements and integrate those new sensors into the Sensor Web. It “[…] provides an open, geospatial-enabled and unified way to interconnect the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web” (Preface to the OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing).  The main focus of this development is to find a solution for the heavy restraints on available resources. The STA therefore defines a lightweight REST-API, as well as an MQTT binding for easy retrieval and storage of Sensor Data with a minimal overhead. The “SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing” was officially adopted as an OGC Standard in late 2016, the “SensorThings API Part 2: Tasking” is currently under development.

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