Introduction to SWE Common

SWE Common Data Models are an essential building blocks of the SWE achitecture since they are used by many other SWE standards such as SensorML, SOS, SPS and the future SAS/SES. They define models for encoding any kind of sensor data, including measurement data but also status and auxiliary information.

More precisely, it provides a standard specification for supporting fundamental data types, including Quantity, Category, Boolean, Count, Time, DataArray, and DataRecord. The DataArray is of special interest for high throughput sensor systems since it provides an efficient means of packaging large volumes of data using ASCII, raw binary or even compressed binary encodings.