Thin SWE Client

The "Thin SWE Client" is a web-based client application which offers an easy to use interface to generate graphs and tables from timely structured sensor data. Since it hides the technical details of SWE services and protocols, non-experts can also use this client. To enable a maximum of platform independence the application is developed as a web-based thin client. It is executable in a browser and makes use of newest web technologies like the AJAX concept.

The user can add multiple time series coming from different SOS instances. The received sensor data can be displayed as graphs or tables. A legend shows information about color and hatching settings of the displayed measurement series and offers options to manipulate those. Besides the measured data the application is able to present the metadata of a sensor. Further on, the client allows the user to export the configured view of the data to a local file in common formats (like PDF).

Design Documentation

This client application is divided into two parts: an HTML/Javascript frontend and a server component which is built upon the OX-Framework. The server component acts like a facade to the SOS-instance. This facade server forwards the requests of the HTML frontend to the SOS. The returning SOS responses are parsed and translated by the facade server (so this need not be done by the Javascript part of the client).

Versions

Demo

Go ahead and try out the Live Demo with preloaded data or try to load it yourself.

You can also watch the functionality of a previous version of the Thin SWE Client in this video.

Code Manager

In charge of the quality management and source code control of the browser-based SWE clients is:

  • Felix Bache

Contributing Developers

  • Philipp Verhoeven
  • Arne Broering