This is the presentation for United Nation's ITU-T Forum on Smart Cities Data Management. From a connected babies perspective, it showed the pain of existing IoT system, which is not interoperable and difficult to integrate them into one coherent system. Then we demonstrated several examples of OGC SensorThings API, including smart shirts, drones, and air quality monitoring.

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OGC SensorThings API -
Opportunities and Challenges for Building Smart
Cities with Open Standards
Dr. Steve Liang – steve.liang@sensorup.com
Founder/CEO – SensorUp
Associate Professor – University of Calgary
Chair, OGC SensorThings API Working Group
Rapporteur, Q12/11 on IoT Specifications
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Connected Babies

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Today’s IoT / Smart Cities Silos
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Network A
Application A
Thing A
Network B
Application B
Thing B
Network C
Application C
Thing C
Network D
Application D
Thing D

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OGC SensorThings API
for Sensor Data Exchange and Analysis
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IoT / Smart Cities Value Chain
Sensor and
Actuator
Smart
Things
Network
Operator
Device-
Cloud
API
Data and
Analytics
APP-Cloud
API
System /
Application
Integration
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OGC SensorThings API
Data and Analytics
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Interoperable Smart Cities Vision
Service
Registry
A Smart Cities BrowserIoT System A : Air
IoT System B : Water
IoT System C: Citizen and Smart
Phones
station 1
station 2
station 3
station 4
station 5
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wearable cam
heart beat,
breathing rate
location,
acceleration,
headings
equipment status

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OGC Pilot for Next Generation First Responder
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https://goo.gl/kjd8HL

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UAV/Drones are also part of IoT
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Example: Smart Citizens for Smart Cities
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Calgary Air Quality
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http://calgary-air.sensorup.com

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IoT Reveal Invisible Insights
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Interoperable Data Enables Analytics
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3 ug/m3
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Thank you
• Real value of IoT / Smart Cities is System of Systems
• Interoperable IoT data needs a proper data model like
ISO/OGC 19156
• Interoperable IoT data needs an cloud API like OGC
SensorThings API
• http://www.opengeospatial.org/
• Dr. Steve Liang
–steve.liang@sensorup.com
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