Sensor networks are a concept that has become very popular in data acquisition and processing for multiple applications in different fields such as industrial, medicine, home automation, environmental detection, etc. To date, the web has developed most rapidly as a medium of documents for people rather than for data and information that can be processed automatically. Quality is an important aspect of data discovery in the semantic sensor web. Machineinterpretable semantics allows autonomous or semiautonomous agents to. Semantic web services architectures for sensor networks. It will use the internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. Web was invented by tim bernerslee amongst others, a physicist working at cern his vision of the web was much more ambitious than the reality of the existing syntactic web. Like the internet, the semantic web will be as decentralized as possible. Sensor web by combining 1 semantic matchmaking functionality, 2 a. The adobe flash plugin is needed to view this content. A semantic sensor web, on the other hand, is an ogcstyle sensor web enriched. The sensor web enablement swe 1 initiative of the open geospatial. To address the shortcomings of existing sensor ontologies, such as lack of a unified. Pdf the w3c semantic sensor network incubator group the ssnxg produced an owl2 ontology to describe sensors and.
The rapid development and deployment of sensor technology involves many different types of sensors, both remote and in situ, with such diverse capabilities as range, modality, and maneuverability. Semantic sensor web ssw millions of sensors around the globe currently collect avalanches of data about our environment. Nov 12, 2011 this work proposes a novel intelligent personalized food service recommendation system ipfsrs, which contains a vital sensor web layer vswl, semantic medical web layer smwl, and medical service presentation layer mspl. First now we get into some overview about the basic things about the ogc based sensor web enablement swe and wireless. A survey of the semantic specification of sensors ceur.
The raw sensor data is converted to rdf using the semantic sensor network ssn ontology and further processed to generate abstractions used for event detection in emergency scenarios. Video on the semantic sensor web world wide web consortium. Despite the promising successes of the semantic sensor web technology, current semantic sensor web frameworks are typically focused at developing applications. Our ai analyzes research papers and pulls out authors, references, figures, and topics. Explorers guide to the semantic web, p 4 the semantic web is a vision of the next generation web, which. Pdf semantic sensor web infrastructures use ontologybased models to represent the data that they manage. Enrich machinetomachine data with semantic web technologies for crossdomain applications amelie gyrard, christian bonnet mobile communication eurecom. Semantic sensor web technology supports semantic enrichment of sensor data and provides expressive analytic techniques for data fusion, situation detection and situation analysis. Paper open access on performing semantic queries in. Ontologies that represent sensors and observations can form the basis for semantic sensor data infrastructures. The goal of the semantic web is to make internet data machinereadable. A use case in semantic modelling and ranking for the sensor web. Semantic web for the working ontologist modeling in rdf, rdfs and owl dean allemang james hendler amsterdam boston heidelberg london new york oxford paris san diego san francisco morgan kaufmann publishers is an imprint of elsevier. A semantic infrastructure for a knowledge driven sensor web deshendran moodley 1,3 and jules raymond tapamo 2,3 1school of computer science, university of kwazulunatal, durban, south africa 2school of electrical, electronic and computer engineering, university of kwazulunatal, durban, south africa 3centre for artificial intelligence research, university of kwazulunatal and csir meraka.
Ppt semantic sensor web powerpoint presentation free. Semantic web based sensor planning services sps for sensor web enablement swe. The w3c semantic sensor network incubator group developed an ontology 14, 15 to describe. Ontology alignment architecture for semantic sensor web. Such ontologies may help to cope with the problems of sensor discovery, data integration, and reuse, but need to be used in conjunction with algorithms for sensor selection and ranking. The semantic web vision articulated in a scientific american article by tim bernerslee, james hendler and ora lassila may 2001. Pdf ontology alignment architecture for semantic sensor web. Semantic sensor web, abstraction, sensor, robotics, rescue environment, wireless sensor network 1 introduction. An ontological representation of time series observations. This work proposes a novel intelligent personalized food service recommendation system ipfsrs, which contains a vital sensor web layer vswl, semantic medical web layer smwl, and medical service presentation layer mspl. The semantic web is therefore regarded as an integrator across different content and information applications and systems. Jayaraman, jeanpaul calbimonte and hoan nguyen mau quoc rmit university, lsir epfl, insight nui galway ssntc 2015. Semantic web based sensor planning services sps for. In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin.
Semantic sensor network ontology world wide web consortium. The ssn ontology of the w3c semantic sensor network. Three initiatives, in particular, tackle this issue from different perspectives. Oct 11, 2015 the schema editor of openiot for semantic sensor networks 1. The encoding of sensor descriptions and sensor observation data with semantic web languages enables more expressive representation, advanced access, and formal analysis of sensor resources. Preprint submitted to journal of web semantics may 11, 2012. The semantic web will bring structure to the meaningful content of web pages, creating an environment where agents roaming from page to page readily carry out sophisticated tasks for. A use case in semantic modelling and ranking for the. A new tool for uncovering supplementdrug interactions.
The open geospatial consortium ogc defines standardization for the sensor web as named sensor web enablement swe. The semantic web makes the meaning of information accessible not only to humans, but also to machines. The semantic web is a project that aims to change that by presenting web page data in such a way that it is understood by computers, enabling machines to do the searching, aggregating and combining of the webs information without a human operator. Semantic web technologies a set of technologies and frameworks that enable the web of data. Remove this presentation flag as inappropriate i dont like this i like this remember as a favorite. The vital sensors in the vswl can transfer user clinical data based on sensor web enablement swe. A specific instance of the semantic web is a sensor web enablement swe that makes sensors addressable over the web and provides an extensive monitoring and sensing. Today, with the proliferation of small communication devices with sensors that collect environmental data, semantic web technologies are becoming closely related with sensor networks. Sheth 1, krishnaprasad thirunarayan 1, and rajkumar buyya 3 1 kno. The rapid development and deployment of sensor technology involves many different types of sensors, both remote and in situ, with such.
The semantic sensor web ssw is a marriage of sensor and semantic web technologies. A semantic layer for embedded sensor networks salvatore f. This ontology is developed by the w3c semantic sensor networks incubator group ssnxg. W3c semantic sensor network incubator group description this ontology describes sensors and observations, and related concepts. Semantic web for the working ontologist modeling in rdf, rdfs and owl dean allemang james hendler amsterdam boston heidelberg london new york oxford paris san diego san francisco morgan kaufmann publishers is an imprint of elsevier singapore sydney tokyo. Video on the semantic sensor web cory henson, amit sheth, prateek jain, josh pschorr, terry rapoch kno. At the other end we have databases, programs and sensor output. In this paper we focused on sensor planning services sps from sensor web enablement swe service model. A semantic infrastructure for a knowledge driven sensor web. Semantic web based sensor planning services sps for sensor. The semantic sensor network ssn ontology is an ontology for describing. The combination of sensor networks with the web, web services and database technologies, was named some years ago as the sensor web or the sensor internet 1,6,7,11,15.
This vision of the web has become known as the semantic web what is the semantic web. The ssw annotates sensor data with spatial, temporal, and thematic. Previous sensor internet, sensor web and sensor grid proposals make very little use of semantics e. Ontologies and the semantic web school of informatics. The semantic sensor network use semantic web technologies and reasoning to interpret sensor data. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as resource description framework rdf and web ontology language owl are used. Were now sensor web is recent technology which will give solution to the. The ssn ontology of the w3c semantic sensor network incubator. Ios press dogont as a viable seed for semantic modeling of. The initial w3c semantic sensor network incubator group ontology ssn was built around an ontology design pattern called the stimulus sensor observation sso pattern ssopattern. Pdf a core ontological model for semantic sensor web. Ogcs sensor web enablement standards oandm, sensorml. Requires machine interpretable specifications of sensors, their output types and the. This article describes the ontology, its development, an example and current uses.
Resource description framework rdf a variety of data interchange formats e. A semantic sensor web for environmental decision support applications a semantic sensor web for environmental decision support applications sensing devices are increasingly being deployed to monitor the physical world around us. The schema editor of openiot for semantic sensor networks. A semantic sensor web framework for proactive environmental. The vision of the semantic web is to let computer software relieve us of much of the burden of locating resources on the web that are relevant to our needs and extracting, integrating and indexing the information contained within. Pdf the ssn ontology of the w3c semantic sensor network. W3c semantic sensor networks ontologies, applications, and future directions cory henson ohio center of excellence in knowledgeenabled computing kno. Applying semanticbased approaches to sensor web challenges in this section we provide brief descriptions of how the aforementioned challenges are being addressed in existing initiatives and projects, by means. A semantic sensor web for environmental decision support. We demonstrate the use of our semantic sensor web architecture in the context of a flood response planning web application that uses data from sensor networks monitoring the seastate around the coast of england. According to the w3c, the semantic web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Most of the work done on this topic, performed in some cases under the umbrella of the ogc sensor web enablement working group1.
With a view to addressing this problem, the semantic sensor web ssw proposes that sensor data be annotated with semantic metadata that will both increase interoperability and provide contextual. An ontological representation of time series observations could provide a more expressive model and resolve problems of semantic level interoperability of sensor networks on the semantic sensor web. Five challenges for sensor web applications this section starts presenting those challenges in the area of the sensor web that have to do with the characteristics of the data sources that are handled in typical sensor web applications, and then moves into those. Ppt semantic sensor web powerpoint presentation free to view id. If we assume for the sake of simplicity that such annotations take the form of xml style tags, we could imagine. In this paper, such an ontology model is proposed, as well as a realworld use.
Pdf ontology alignment architecture for semantic sensor. Rdfxml,n3,turtle,ntriples notations such as rdf schema rdfs and the web ontology language owl all are intended to provide a formal. The w3c semantic sensor network incubator group ssnxg defined an owl 2 ontology to describe the capabilities and properties of sensors, the act of sensing and the resulting observations. Such ontologies may help to cope with the problems of sensor discovery, data integration, and reuse, but need to be used in conjunction with algorithms for. Intelligent personalized food recommendation system based. Ppt semantic sensor web powerpoint presentation free to.
Existing works such as semantic sensor web works sheth et al. Sensor networks progressively assumed the critical role of bridges between the real world and information systems. Ontology alignment architecture for semantic sensor web integration article pdf available in sensors 9. The semantic web is an extension of the world wide web through standards set by the world wide web consortium w3c.
A semantic web primer grigoris antoniou frank van harmelen the mit press cambridge, massachusetts london, england. Instead we concentrate on the main ideas and techniques, but provide. Sensor ontology building in semantic sensor web springerlink. It will use the internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its. In 2008 a framework named semantic sensor web was proposed. Introduction to semantic webeb thomas baker, fraunhofergesellschaft cashmereintworkshop gottingen, germany 20050228 erei.
An evolving extension of the world wide web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. The sso was developed as a minimal and common ground for heavyweight ontologies for the use on the semantic sensor web as well as to explicitly address the need. Enabling query technologies for the semantic sensor web. Weve pulled over 180 million scientific papers from sources across all fields of science. Semantic scholar is a free, nonprofit, academic search engine from ai2. Semantic sensor networks ceur workshop proceedings. The semantic sensor network ssn ontology is an ontology for describing sensors and their observations, the involved procedures, the studied features of interest, the samples used to do so, and the observed properties, as well as actuators. The schema editor of openiot for semantic sensor networks prem p. The semantic web is not a separate entity from the world wide web. The linking of elements from semantic web technologies with sensor networks dates back to 2005 and was called semantic sensor nets. Ieee transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 520.
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