Adhering to OGC SWE Standards Simplifies Sensor Web Development

The OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Service Model Interface Standard Version 2.0 and the OGC SWE Common Data Model Encoding Standard Version 2.0 have been declared as OGC standards by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) members.

The SWE Common Service Model interface standard can be applied across services, which either require information from sensors or give information about sensors. In all the cases involving access and management of sensors through service interfaces the OGC SWE Interface standard can be applied.

The OGC SWE Common Encoding standard gives the standard model of how the sensor related data such as nature, structure and encoding must be presented. This standard explains how static data in the form of files and dynamically data generated processing is to be presented. It also describes how real time data streams and web service outputs and inputs should be processed. Other OGC Sensor Web Enablement standards like OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) Encoding Standard, Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Interface Standard and Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard are compatible with the OGC Interface and Encoding standards.