Evolving Sensor Web Protocols for Sensor Data Management

Standard interfaces for data and information access facilitate data management and usability by minimizing the effort required to acquire, catalog and integrate data from a variety of sources. The authors have prototyped several data management and analysis applications using Sensor Web Enablement Services, a suite of service protocols being developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium specifically for handling sensor data in near real time. This paper provides a brief overview of some of the service protocols and describes how they are used in three different sensor web projects involving near real time management of sensor data.