Standardization Research and Solutions

iGSI is a member of the key architects team of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement team. The OGC Sensor Web Enablement suite of standards specifies interoperability interfaces and metadata encodings that enable real time integration of heterogeneous sensors and sensor webs into a common information infrastructure. The standards are sensor and platform generic, i.e. each type of sensing device, active component, or sensor device platform is supported. iGSI is involved in the development of all released service and encoding specifications. The release of Sensor Web Enablement specifcations version 2.0 is scheduled for 2010/2011 and will greatly enhance and improve the existing standards portfolio.

iGSI personnel participated in several standardization activities on behalf of the Open Geospatial Consortium, e.g. as SWE lead architect in OWS 6 and continues its work as Aviation Lead Architect in the SAA Pilot. In addition, iGSI participated in OWS 7 in a number of threads.

The OGC processes for architecture development, proof of concept and procurement readiness services are efficient and able to produce usable results in minimum time and at minimum cost. iGSI has developed a suite of service offerings that span the environment from standards to customer adoption of and migration to interoperable processing. The applied project management and technical approaches are closely aligned to the proven processes and procedures of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): with a strong focus on geospatial services, a close link needs to be maintained so that projects carried out by iGSI can complement activities of the OGC and provide added value, both to consortium membership as well as the global standardization processes.