Expanding GeoWeb to an Internet of Things
A workshop during COM.Geo 2011
Connecting our world with accessible networks is scaling to trillions of everyday objects. The Internet will be augmented with mobile machine-to-machine communications and ad-hoc local network technologies. At the network nodes, information about objects will come from barcodes, RFIDs, and sensors. The location of all objects will be known. This workshop seeks to explore the role of location in expanding GeoWeb to an Internet of Things.
- Workshop Topics
- Workshop Sessions
- Workshop Chairs
- Organizing Committee
- COM.Geo Conference Main Page
- Workshop Schedule
- 23 May 2011 - Sessions 1 and 2a
- 24 May 2011 - Sessions 2b, 2c and 3
- Results of the workshop
- Emergent Topics from the Workshop
- Articles relevant to this workshop from Directions
Workshop Topics
- Connecting our world with accessible networks is scaling to trillions of everyday objects. The Internet of Things, Pervasive Computing, Sensor Web are research names for this development. Planetary Skin, Smarter Planet and CeNSE are several corporate names. The Internet will be augmented with mobile machine-to-machine communications and ad-hoc local network technologies. At the network nodes, information about objects will come from barcodes, RFIDs, and sensors. The location of all objects will be known.
- This workshop seeks to explore the role of location inexpanding GeoWeb to an Internet of Things. The workshop seeks presentations on functions enabled by geographic location and to location relative to surrounding objects. Many of the objects will be indoor in a 3D setting. The workshop also seeks presentations on relevant technologies such as location determination, geocoding, schemas forpoints of interest, ad-hoc network formation based on location, processing ofinformation of the objects to detect phenomena of interest and location based services. Technology standards will be important for interoperability at this scale, e.g., OpenLS, CityGML, and Sensor Web Enablement standards from the OGC.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published jointly with the COM.Geo Conference proceedings
OGC participation in this workshop is part of the OGC Mobile Internet initiative.
Workshop Schedule
- Monday, May 23, Afternoon - Sessions 1 and 2a
- Tuesday, May 24, Afternoon - Sessions 2b, 2c and 3
| Session | Description / Presenters |
| 1. Scope and Vision | Session will discuss new functions that will be possible by connecting by trillions of everyday objects in accessible networks. New capabilities for commerce, public service and entertainment will be enabled. |
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Session Chair: George Percivall, OGC
Presenters:
• J.D. Stanley, CISCO, “Planetary Skin Institute ALERTS" Abstract Presentation
• Prof. Simon Berkovich, GWU, "Physical World as an Internet of Things" Abstract Presentation
• Jon Gosier, SwiftRiver/Ushahidi, “QR Codes in Crisis Events ” Presentation
• Michael Byrne, US FCC, “National Broadband Map” Presentation
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| 2. Enabling Technology | |
| 2a. Object location, identity and function | Session on technologies being developed to share the identity, location and functions of objects in connected networks. |
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Session Chair: Richard Barnes, BBN
Presenters:
• Richard Barnes, BBN, "Internet Geolocation and Location-Based Applications" Presentation
• Miten Sampat, Quova, “Geolocating things on the Internet” Abstract
• Kipp Jones and Richard Sutton, Skyhook, "What to do with 500M Location Requests a Day?" Abstract Presentation
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| 2b. Location and navigation in small spaces | Session on the determine and use of location and spatial relationships of the objects and how that will enable applications. |
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Session Chair: Steve Smyth, MobileGIS
Presenters:
• Steve Smyth, MobileGIS, “Location and navigation inside small areas" Abstract Presentation
• Paul Bouzide, Navteq, “Navigation-to-thing and highly-context-focused ‘around me’ use cases” Presentation
• Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk, “Building model information” Abstract Presentation
• Eyal Ofek, Microsoft, "Read/Write world" video
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| 2c. User applications: |
Session on how devices, e.g., mobile phones, will be used to access information about the IoT and fuse it with other information to support decision making based on spatial relationships. |
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Session Chair: Paul Watson
Presenters
• Jan Klimke, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, "Integrating 3D Data in Service-based Visualization Systems" Abstract Presentation Video
• Paul Watson, 1Spatial, "Internet of Places – navigating the Web in Space-Time" Abstract Presentation
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| 3. From R&D to operations/commercialization | Session on how the enabling technology can be applied to the vision of IoT to create applications that persist to meet public needs and through commercial applications. |
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Session Chair: Nadine Alameh
Presenters:
• Michael Loushine and Cliff Behrens, Telcordia Applied Research, "Let’s Move E911 Indoors" Abstract Presentation
• PeterVerkooijen, GeoWeb Forum, "Beyond the check-in; fragmentation and consolidation inthe emerging geoweb industry." Abstract Presentation Video_Gorman Video_Jebara Video_Rochlin Video_Mason
• George Percivall, OGC, “Role of collaborative development of open standards” Abstract Presentation
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Workshop Chairs:
- George Percivall, OGC;
- Nadine Alameh, OGC
Organizing Committee
- Steve Smyth, MobileGIS
- Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting
- Richard Barnes, BBN
- Carl Reed, OGC;
- Raj Singh, OGC
Emergent topics from the workshop
- From billions of web pages to trillions of networked objects
- Interaction with accessed objects:
- Communications: M2M, embedded mobile, Near Field Communications
- Codes and Tags
- Sensor Web
- Exposing sensors as network accessible objects, e.g., on the web
- Associating IoT objects with related web information
- Location determination and navigation
- Small area: scale on order of 1 km: college campus, mall, football field.
- Role of e911 legislation for location accuracy.
- Location privacy
- Discovery of objects in Internet of Place based on space and time.
- Role of collaborative testbed in advancing open standards.