This is a presentation introducing the OGC SensorThings API to the LASS citizen sensing community, one of the most active citizen sensing group in the world with thousands of IoT sensors actively reporting data.

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International IoT Open Cloud API Standard
- OGC SensorThings API
Dr. Steve Liang ( ), Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Founder and CEO, SensorUp Inc.
Chair, OGC SensorThings API Standard Working Group
Chairman, WG 2 of ITU-T Focus Group on DPM for IoT and Smart Cities
Rapporteur, ITU-T SG12/11 on IoT Test Specification
steve.liang@sensorup.com
2017-07-29
Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

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Open Geospatial Consortium
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Define standards for
Geographic Features
or Things…
Among the OGC standards we have
Sensor Web Enablement and
SensorThings API

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Internet of Things and Smart Cities need
Information Standards
connected
buildings
networked
sensors
connected
vehicles
connected
machines
networked
video
cameras
drones
networked
assets
OGC SensorThings
API
so that we can enable instant and on-demand
integration of different sensing systems
ISO/OGC 19156
ISO/OGC 19156
ISO/OGC 19156
ISO/OGC 19156 ISO/OGC 19156
ISO/OGC 19156 ISO/OGC 19156

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Internet of Things and Smart Cities need
Information Standards
So that we can build an Internet Scale
System of Systems
OGC SensorThings
API

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Open Standard means Freedom and Choices
•No need to reinvent the
wheels
•Long product life cycle
•Clear IP policy
•Vibrant ecosystem
•Both open source or
commercial systems
available
!!

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e.g., Information Model - Observations and
Measurements (OGC/ISO 19156)
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Observations and Tasking
a Thing
a Thing

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Use Case - Next Generation First Responder
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wearable cam
heart beat,
breathing rate
location,
acceleration,
headings
equipment status
drone

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OGC Incident Management
Information Sharing - IoT Pilot
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http://bit.ly/dhs-sup-1

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OGC SensorThings API and Drones
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http://bit.ly/drone-dashboard

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Singapore CXA Smart Cities Challenge
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• 100+ teams
• 200+ programmers received
SensorThings API training
• July 14th 2017
• 24 hours to finish an APP
• SensorThings API is part of
Singapore’s Smart Nation
Reference Architecture

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Singapore CXA Smart Cities Challenge
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Smart Citizens for Smart Cities by SensorUp
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500+ sensors in 10 Canadian cities - 10 workshops
Special thanks to Natural Resources Canada GeoConnections

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Smart Citizens for Smart Cities by SensorUp
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Unique weather challenges in Canada (snow and very low
temperature….e.g., -30 Celsius…)
Gen 2.Gen 1.

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Smart Citizens for Smart Cities by SensorUp
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Easy installation - Smart Citizens Board
Video - http://bit.ly/diy-sensor
My car filled with radiation
shield….my wife is not very
happy….

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Wild Fire in Canada - 2017-07
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Wild Fire in Canada - 2017-07
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About 3km apart but big
difference in air quality

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OGC SensorThings API Benefits to LASS
•Clearer semantic definitions of
•Observed Properties ( )
•Unit Of Measurements ( )
•Feature Of Interests ( )
•Time Formats and Time Zone
•Proposal:
•A LASS Dictionary?
•A potential LASS OGC Best Practice
Standard?

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OGC SensorThings API Benefits to LASS
•Scalability and Reliability
•a distributed RESTful API architecture
Lafayette, US
Canada

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OGC SensorThings API Benefits to LASS
•Save time and money… by having a
consistency way to share data
ThingSpeak AirMap
5 different Airbox APIs, 2 different time formats…

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Thank you very much!!
Steve Liang ( )
steve.liang@sensorup.com