Invited Talk at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

LD4Sensors is an application that generates annotations for provided sensor-related details, while using the SPITFIRE ontology. It is currently in a Beta release and it is accessible by either an HTML form or a REST API. In this project the following aspects have been realized.

inContext-Sensing is a web application that shows how users with no expertise can benefit of a Linked Data representation to make sense of raw sensor data. In fact average users are becoming the main consumers of sensor data, but sensors conceptualization do not consider their point of view.
The novelty consists in the dynamicity of the linked sensor data creation, since in other state of the art applications the data sets to be linked are usually predefined.

IBBT has released an open source implementation of IDRA, an novel protocol architecture for networked embedded devices. To this end, a website has been launched at http://idraproject.net offering the source code and extensive documentation. The architecture is highly flexible and has low memory and processing requirements.

SPITFIRE contribution to the SSN-XG ontology, was recently highlighted by Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia) in her talk at the Semantic Technology conference (SemTech).

We are delighted to announce that the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group published their final report ! SPITFIRE has been contributed to the report with a dedicated use-cases, since we are using the SSN ontology and some homegrown extensions to represent sensor data semantically in the project.

Here is the official announcement by the W3C.

A paper by NUIG members, titled a “Contextualized Cognitive Perspective for Linked Sensor Data” has been presented recently at the Semantic Sensor Networks Workshop at the 2010 International Semantic Web Conference on. In this paper a context-awareness approach to sensors is targeted, proposing a first extension of sensor ontologies in this direction.

From October 11th to October 15th we held the SPITFIRE Winter School which was co-located with the FRONTS Experiments Workshop at the TU Braunschweig.

This event gave us the opportunity to achieve the following goals:

• Dissemination of the Wiselib
• Dissemination of semantic web technologies
• Definition and a common understanding of first year objectives

For more details, see the announcement.

We're happy to announce that the SPITFIRE project has a new logo, as well as a new design for the website, as you can currently see.

In the next weeks, we will regularly update the website with new content and first outcomes of the project !