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PublicationPublication, inside Data & licensing: OGC SensorThings API, OGC API – Connected Systems, observation models and ontologies, OPC UA information models and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from OGC SensorThings API Part 1 (Sensing) 1.1 to OGC SensorThings API Part 2 (Tasking Core), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
Plan with usArchitectureThe protocolReference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn · hover a part
01What it is
How observations move from the edge into stores, catalogues and APIs with their provenance, licence and residency attached, and how they interoperate through open standards and the open Observatory Protocol. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Data, software and interoperability
Open API for things, sensors, datastreams and observations, plus tasking.
We design, integrate and operate.
OGC SensorThings API Part 1 (Sensing) 1.1 · OGC SensorThings API Part 2 (Tasking Core)
Data, software and interoperability
System, deployment, procedure and datastream resources with commands, built on OGC API – Features.
We design, integrate and operate.
OGC API – Connected Systems Part 1 (Feature Resources) · Part 2 (Dynamic Data)
Data, software and interoperability
The conceptual model and semantic web ontology for observations and samples.
We design.
ISO 19156:2023 (observations, measurements and samples) · W3C/OGC SOSA/SSN
Data, software and interoperability
Industrial information models and companion specifications for equipment data.
We design and integrate.
IEC 62541 series · OPC UA companion specifications
Data, software and interoperability
Linked-data APIs for entities and their context in cities and infrastructure.
We integrate.
ETSI GS CIM 009 (NGSI-LD API)
Data, software and interoperability
Standard digital representation of an industrial asset and its submodels.
We integrate.
IEC 63278-1 (asset administration shell structure)
Data, software and interoperability
Agency encodings for water and weather data exchange.
We integrate.
OGC WaterML 2.0 · WMO BUFR (FM 94)
Data, software and interoperability
The roles a node can play and the profiles that bundle its capabilities.
We design and integrate.
Observatory Protocol specification (Nexus Consortium)
Data, software and interoperability
The states a device and a provider move through, from manifest to admitted for scope.
We design, integrate and operate.
Observatory Protocol specification (Nexus Consortium)
02Architecture
Publication draws on 1 domain and 8 layers of the spectrum; the highlighted layers carry this area. It speaks 3 of the protocol’s 8 core functions.
Ingest and streaming
8
Storage and data lakes
6
Metadata, provenance and catalogues
8
Open standards and interoperability
7
APIs and SDKs
7
Licensing, residency and governance
8
Digital twins and observability
7
Open protocol interfaces and federation
8
01JoinIdentity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02AdmitAdmitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03DescribeWhat, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04TimeOne clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05ObserveEvery value with quality and provenance.
06QualifyTested against the specification, state on record.
07FederateSigned exchange across grids and trust domains.
08OrchestrateSoftware and configuration by signed plan.
03On the grid
The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into, filtered to the hydrology domain this area serves. A site built here enrols into the same grid.
04In the field
5 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on publication.
Government and public safety05Open and enterprise
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
Open, on the main site
Enterprise, on this site
06The rest of the line
Survey, design, deployment and operation for publication. The form names who receives your details.
Talk to uscontact@observatory.globalPublication, inside Data & licensing: OGC SensorThings API, OGC API – Connected Systems, observation models and ontologies, OPC UA information models and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from OGC SensorThings API Part 1 (Sensing) 1.1 to OGC SensorThings API Part 2 (Tasking Core), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
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