The sensor bus: integrating geosensors and the sensor web

In the past, a multitude of projects have demonstrated the applicability of OGC’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards. SWE services have been used to encapsulate heterogeneous geosensors for web-based discovery, access, tasking, and alerting. Thereby, the integration of geosensors had to be established by manually adapting each SWE service implementation. This approach is cumbersome and leads to an extensive integration effort in large scale sensor network systems. To overcome these obstacles this work presents the Sensor Bus, an open source project facilitating the integration of new geosensors into the Sensor Web.