What is it good for?

Electronic Blueprint Sheet -

In its simplest application, SensorML can be acclimated to accommodate a accepted agenda agency of accouterment blueprint bedding for sensor apparatus and systems.

Discovery of sensor, sensor systems, and processes -

SensorML is a agency by which sensor systems or processes can accomplish themselves accepted and discoverable. SensorML provides a affluent accumulating of metadata that can be mined and acclimated for analysis of sensor systems and ascertainment processes. This metadata includes identifiers, classifiers, constraints (time, legal, and security), capabilities, characteristics, contacts, and references, in accession to inputs, outputs, parameters, and arrangement location.

Lineage of Observations -

SensorML can accommodate a complete and actual description of the birth of an observation. In added words, it can call in detail the action by which an ascertainment came to be .... from accretion by one or added detectors to processing and conceivably even estimation by an analyst. Not alone can this accommodate a aplomb akin with attention to an observation, in a lot of cases, allotment or all of the action could be repeated, conceivably with some modifications to the action or by assuming the ascertainment with a accepted signature source.

On-demand processing of Observations -

Process chains for geolocation or higher-level processing of observations can be declared in SensorML, apparent and broadcast over the web, and accomplished on-demand afterwards a above-mentioned ability of the sensor or processor characteristics. This was the aboriginal disciplinarian for SensorML, as a agency of countering the admeasurement of disparate, arms systems for processing sensor abstracts aural assorted sensor communities. SensorML aswell enables the administration of processing to any point aural the sensor chain, from sensor to abstracts centermost to the alone user's PDA. SensorML enables this processing afterwards the charge for sensor-specific software.

Support for tasking, observation, and active casework -

SensorML descriptions of sensor systems or simulations can be mined in abutment of establishing OGC Sensor Ascertainment Casework (SOS), Sensor Planning Casework (SPS), and Sensor Active Casework (SAS). SensorML defines and builds on accepted abstracts definitions that are acclimated throughout the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework.

Plug-N-Play, auto-configuring, and automous sensor networks -

SensorML enables the development of plug-n-play sensors, simulations, and processes, which may be seamlessly added to Decision Abutment systems. The self-describing appropriate of SensorML-enabled sensors and processes aswell supports the development of auto-configuring sensor networks, as able-bodied as the development of free sensor networks in which sensors can broadcast alerts and tasks to which added sensors can subscribe and react.

Archiving of Sensor Ambit -

Finally, SensorML provides a apparatus for archiving axiological ambit and assumptions apropos sensors and processes, so that observations from these systems can still be reprocessed and bigger continued afterwards the agent mission has ended. This is proving to be analytical for all-embracing applications such as all-around change ecology and modeling.