L E Bermudez 1, P Bogden 2, G Creager 3, J Graybeal 4, Dec 2008 L E Bermudez 1, P Bogden 2, G Creager 3, J Graybeal 4, Dec In 2010, there will be 10,000 telemetric devices for every human in the planet (prediction by Ernst and Young). IN53A-1185 Acknowledgements Ongoing funding for this project is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA Ocean Service, Award NA04NOS , and the National Science Foundation through grant ATM Major contributions to the project are being provided as a component of the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program, an initiative of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). Funding support for SCOOP has been provided by the Office of Naval Research, Award N , and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA Ocean Service, Award NA04NOS Further support provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Any material in this poster represents the understanding of the authors and not necessarily of NSF. Interoperability in Sensor Networks OOSTethys Semantic Sensor Observation Networks in a Billion-Sensor World We are a community of software developers and marine scientists who develop open source tools to integrate ocean observing systems. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the time it takes to install, adopt and update standards-compliant Web services. We test and develop our software with an open-access interoperability test bed. Our end-to-end "system of systems" includes over 1000 platforms with real-time data, and it’s growing fast. If you install one of our reference implementations, or if you have your own Sensor Observation Service, we encourage you to register it in the system. We believe that standards enable innovation, so we work directly with standards organizations. At the Open Geospatial Consortium, we initiated an Oceans Interoperability Experiment so we could advance the OGC Sensor Web Enablement initiative. We just finished Phase I and we are in process of starting Phase II, so stay tuned. System Components Community vocabularies and ontologies support data discovery and integration We are developing OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) reference implementations to help you get an SOS installed easily and quickly on a web server. The following applications are available. Contact each leader if you want to join us. * PERL (Eric Bridger, GoMOOS, * JAVA (Luis Bermudez, SURA, * PYTHON (Bill Howe, NaNOOS, * ASP (Brenda Babin, lumcon, Toolkits Collaborators Semantic Mediator Improving understanding of coastal phenomena requires an IT infrastructure to bring heterogeneous information to decision support tools. Term mappings, rules, and inferences for powerful search capabilities