ISSUE-93: What is a sensor?
sos-core:Sensor
What is a sensor?
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
- Raised by:
- Kerry Taylor
- Opened on:
- 2016-11-13
- Description:
- sosa:core idea of Sensor is similar to ssn but is it the same? If there is only one concept that we should not change -- surely this is it?
ssn:Sensor is equivalent to OGC SENSOR-ML sensor. It is different to "sensor" in O&M which might be a process (but O&M does not specifically model Sensor -it just mentions it as one of the things that might be used for an observation).
ssn:sensor is (from rdfs:comment there is also a lot more) "A sensor can do (implements) sensing: that is, a sensor is any entity that can follow a sensing method and thus observe some Property of a FeatureOfInterest. Sensors may be physical devices, computational methods, a laboratory setup with a person following a method, or any other thing that can follow a Sensing Method to observe a Property." ;
sosa-core:sensor is "Device, agent (including humans), or software (simulation) involved in, or implementing, a (Sensing) Process. Sensors responds to a stimulus, e.g., a change in the environment, and generate a Result. Sensors can be mounted on Platforms, e.g., a modern smart phone hosts multiple sensors."@en ;
If it is the same -- then why not use the ssn definition for sosa-core? Why can a sosa-core sensor be "involved-in" sensing but not "implement" it? If it is different then how? And if it is different that is suggesting a very significant change to SSN. - Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- ssn: issue-139 strategy to connect sosa to ssn (from kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au on 2017-01-11)
- Re: new issues raised for ssn (from rgarcia@fi.upm.es on 2016-12-20)
- new issues raised for ssn (from kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au on 2016-11-13)
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