What is Sensor Web Enablement?
OGC members have developed a set of specifications to support the building of “sensor webs,” that is, networks of Web-connected geo-located sensors and imaging devices of all kinds. The specifications provide standard XML encodings for data describing sensors and sensor data and they specify interfaces for querying and controlling the sensors and imaging devices. The Observations & Measurements specification, which provides general models and XML encodings for sensor observations and measurements, promises to become an indispensable standard in science and engineering.