Interview with Henning Bredel
Henning Bredel is part of the Cos4Cloud project team implementing the Agile methodology. He explains the 52°North strategy to implement agile methodology from a coordination level by creating a workflow to ensure all the services developers are connected to the relevant stakeholders and receive and implement their feedback.
The 117th OGC Member Meeting meeting takes place virtually from December 7 – 16, 2020. 52°North’s Benjamin Proß leads discussions in the OGC API – Processes SWG. Henning Bredel supports presentations in the CitSci and Architecture DWGs.
December 7th
12:20 – 12:40 OGC API – Processes SWG
– OGC API – Processes – Update (Benjamin Pross, 52°North GmbH)
12:20 -12:40 Cit.Sci DWG
– Sensors Things API extension for Citizen Science (Andreas Matheus, Secure Dimensions)
December 10th
12:00 – 1:30 Architecture DWG
– Sensors Things API extension for Citizen Science – straight forward? (Andreas Matheus, Secure Dimensions)
Hamm’s city administration employees are the first participants to test the CITRAM app. Today’s virtual kickoff informs the participants of the enviroCar driver fleet on the use of ODB (On-Board-Diagnose) adapters with the enviroCar and [ui] ECOMAT apps. Equipped with a car, an Android smart phone and an OBD adapter, the participants will anonymously track their driving along predefined routes for approximately 2 months.
The first fleet of cars will take to the streets on June 15, 2020. The cities of Krefeld (testing in Krefeld) and Chemnitz (testing in Chemnitz) will follow in the coming weeks. Testing should be completed by the end of August.
Design and Development of Interoperable Cloud Sensor Services to Support Citizen Science Projects
Citizen Observatories are becoming an increasingly popular source of input data in many scientific domains. During the recent EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online, Simon Jirka (52°North) presented the ideas behind the European H2020 project Cos4Cloud (Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud). The project aims at providing re-usable services for setting up Citizen Observatories based on the European Open Science (EOS) Cloud. In particular, it will use interoperability standards such as the the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Sensor Observation Service (SOS), SensorThings API and Observations and Measurements (O&M).