Sensorpedia: Web 2.0 Sensor Information Sharing

For:

Gov 2.0 Boot CampKnoxville, Tennessee

15 April 2009

By:Bryan L. Gorman

Oak Ridge National Laboratorygormanbl@ornl.gov

+1.865.576.4241

Enterprises Citizens

Academia

Municipalities

Media

International Partners

States

NavyAir Force

Army

Marines

DOD DOJ

DCI

DHS

DOS

DODDOJ

DOE

DHS

DOS

EPAHUD

HHS

FederalGovernment Intelligence

Community

Military

In a post 9/11 world, users, enterprises and governments rely more and more on networks for information sharing.

The growing demand for information sharing

Counties

On the domestic front, there are demonstrated examples of emergent and indeterminate, near-term and long-term threats, both natural and man-made, that require detection, analysis, and information sharing.

The case for sensor information sharing: man-made and natural threats

The growing global market for sensors

Unlike computers, printers, and memory sticks, these devices are not explicitly designed with universal plug-and-play interfaces to enterprise applications!

While it is technically feasible for all sectors of the sensor industry to support hardened and secure versions of the same plug-and-play interfaces that mass market vendors provide for consumer devices, sensor developers will postpone their own investment to implement specific features until a clear demand for common and established standards emerges in their markets.

Market Inertia

The high cost of software engineering

In the near-term, given the absence of interoperable, plug-and-play, net-ready sensors, the deployment of sensor networks for defense, security, research, and safety will continue to rely on costly software engineering and systems integration to interface sensors to enterprise applications.

Is there an alternative to systems integrationor waiting for the market to deliver

interoperable sensors?

User Innovation and Web 2.0

Individual Innovation ≠ Enterprise Innovation

Follow the innovators and “pave the cow paths” for everyone.

An Alternative Approach

Tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled enterprise architectures

Web 2.0Enterprise Applications

Application-CentricTightly-Coupled ApplicationsIn-house DataDocumented Business Cases

Network –CentricLoosely-Coupled ServicesExternal DataUndocumented Ad Hoc Uses

http://sensorpedia.org

Sensorpedia: The Basics

1. Currently under development at ORNL, Sensorpedia uses established Web 2.0 technologies (e.g., blogs, subscriptions, mashups) to network subscribers with mutual sensor information sharing interests.

2. Using easy editing tools, registered users can create their own Sensorpedia profiles and mashups for contributing and subscribing to sensor information feeds.

3. Users set permissions and trust levels based on their own rules to permit other Sensorpedia users to explore, read, and contribute content, or to subscribe to alerts.

4. Sensorpedia will accept contributed modules or “gadgets” from third party developers so that other systems—old or new, open or proprietary—can interface to Sensorpedia users, applications and devices.

Contact Information

• Bryan Gormangormanbl@ornl.gov +1.865.576.4241

• David Resseguieresseguiedr@ornl.gov +1.865.241.5385

http://www.sensorpedia.orghttp://twitter.com/Sensorpediahttp://linkedin.com (Sensorpedia group)

Backup Slides

DoD DHS OGC

JPEO-CBDStandards Portfolio

S&T DirectorateSensor Web Enablement

Dr. Bert CourseyDHS

Prof. Tom JohnsonNPS

Tom SwansonJPEO CBD

Mr. Sam BacharachOGC

ANSI N42.32ANSI N42.33ANSI N42.34ANSI N42.35ANSI N42.38ANSI N42.42

ASTM E54

AOAC International

DHSEmergency

InteroperabilityConsortium

Ms. Elysa JonesOASIS

Common Alerting Protocol

Emergency Data Exchange Language

Distribution Element

Sensor Observation Service

Sensor Planning Service

Sensor Alerting Service

NISTSensor Interface

Standards

Mr. Kang Lee, NIST

IEEE 1451.0IEEE 1451.1IEEE 1451.2IEEE 1451.3IEEE 1451.4IEEE 1451.5IEEE 1451.6

PO

CA

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ards

DOT

IEEE Std 1512.3-2002 (HAZMAT Standard)

Ann Lorscheider NCDOT

IncidentManagement

DoD

NGIC GWG

Tammera CountrymanDIA DTM-2

MASINT (DIA) Distributed Common

Ground Station (DCGS)

Harmonization

JPM-IS Data CBRN

Common DataModel

Common CBRN Sensor Interface

(CCSI)

Emerging sensor standards

Based on the slow progress we have observed over the last six years, it will be years before any of the emerging sensor standards are broadly adopted by industry—if they ever are.

The Evolution of the Web

Early 1990’s

Mid 1990’s

2005

Early Web Sites

Early Web Applications

Early Social Webs

from Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Tool Kit

managing editor

contributing editors

Web 2.0

Web Site

Web 1.0

Web Sitewebmaster

“…a diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or even experts…”

Diversity of opinionIndependence Decentralization Aggregation

Four required elements:

Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom of Crowds

Faceted Classification: Everything is Miscellaneous

“A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways, rather than in a single, pre-determined, taxonomic order.”

Web 1.0 sharing

Web 2.0 sharing

Sharing the Web 2.0 Way

LinkedIn Study Group

NY Times Article