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.

The W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group has published their final report. As networks of sensors become more commonplace there is a greater need for their management and querying to be assisted by standards and computer reasoning. Building on the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement services-based architecture and standards, including four description languages, the group produced ontologies for describing sensors and extended a language to support semantic annotations. The report lists use-cases and reviews existing ontologies leading to the selection of the SSN ontology, analyzes examples and semantic markup as well as mapping to existing standards. The report also includes a list of directions for future work in the context of Linked Sensor Data, or Semantic Internet of Things for work at the border of Internet of Things and Internet of Service. The group plans to create a W3C Community Group to focus on the maintenance and extension of the SSN Ontology.