Subject: [its] The OGC and the IETF ITS activity

From: "Carl Reed" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:57:44 -0700

Dear ITS Group

I have been asked by Alex why the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is interested in the proposed work of this group.

First, the OGC is a standards organization focused on developing and evolving standards for modeling, sharing, and communicating location enabled (geographic, GIS, remote sensing, geosciences, etc) data as well as the service interfaces that provide access to location enabled repositories, sensors, and other services.

Personally, in my role as CTO of the OGC, I liaise with numerous other standards development organizations. There are a number of reasons for such activity. Two of the key reasons are: 1.) understand requirements for the use of geographic (location, GIS, whatever the popular term is) data by other standards organizations and 2.) work with other standards organizations to ensure that at a minimum the modeling of geographic data (coordinate reference systems, geometry, etc) are consistent with current best practices as defined in standards by the OGC, ISO, and other organizations.

In this role, I have or am working with ISO TC 211 (geomatics), OMA, OASIS, 
the IETF GeoPriv WG, the TM Forum, the W3C, and JTC1. We have other OGC 
staff working with other SDOs, such as with ISO TC 204.

Now, one of the examples used in the geonet/ITS discussions is:

Two main scenarios are:
o Environmental Monitoring involves querying devices such as sensors
   located in specific geographic areas, for applications such as fire
   hazard prevention.

The OGC has a suite of widely implemented standards for describing, tasking, 
and accessing sensors (in-situ and dynamic), including standard response 
packages for observations and measurements. We call these OGC Sensor Web 
Enablement standards (SWE). SWE standards have been widely deployed in 
operational systems for monitoring the earths oceans (NOAA), hydrology, city 
environments (pollution, hot spots), alerting (tsunamis, debris flow, 
landslide hazard), and many more applications.

A few presentations/papers are:

https://delicious.com/carlreedogc/monitoring

There are also major European projects that have been implementing SWE. 
There are some excellent web resources describing these projects that I can 
provide. Check out Copernicus (FP7) for example.

Finally, the OGC members are working on a lightweight API for SWE 
functionality called SWE for IoT. Related somewhat to this work are 
implementations of SWE for Android.

Hope this information is useful.

Kind regards

Carl

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Standards Program
Open Geospatial Consortium
www.opengeospatial.org

The OGC: Making Location Count!

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