OpenSensorHub

Introduction

What is it?

OpenSensorHub is a collaborative open source software package for supporting easy deployment and access to sensor, actuators and processes on the web.

It is compliant with OGC® SWE standards but also supports other IoT standards such as MQTT.

It can be used and extended to build smart and scalable sensor networks.

Licensed under Mozilla Public License v2.0.

Objectives

Implement the whole SWE vision: Dynamic, Generic
Enable Auto-Configuration of SWE service interfaces
Hide the complexity and make it easy to build on-top of SWE
Make it easy to develop new sensor drivers
Allow efficient live data streaming and stream processing
Support multiple platforms (especially embedded)
Not limited to SWE, Integrate with IoT protocols such as MQTT
Does not reinvent GIS tools but rather integrate with them

Main Features

Connect ANY sensor/actuator and store/view collected data

Deploy standard web services
- Access archive data and/or live sensor data streams
- Send commands to sensors and actuators
- Process live streams or historical data

Interconnect OSH instances to form larger networks
- Via classical HTTP services and WebSockets
- Via IoT protocols (e.g. MQTT)
- Via P2P overlay networks (roadmap)

Integrate with Mapping Servers (e.g. Geoserver)

Configure using modern web UI

Supported Platforms

Android
Tablets / Phones

Laptop / Desktop PC

Servers / Cloud

Raspberry Pi

and other Linux Boards

Arduino and other
µC boards
(C++ library)

Supported Web Standards

SensorML

SWE
Common

SOS

SPS

O&M

WebSocket

SSL

HTTP

MQTT

RelaxNG

TCP

UDP

RTSP

RTP

JSON

Connectivity

Security

Supported Authentication Methods

HTTP Basic, HTTP Digest, Client Certificate, OAuth

Optional SSL Encryption for HTTP and TCP

Fine-Grained Permission Based Access Control

Each module can define its own set of permissions
Permissions are then assigned to users and roles via pluggable realm implementation
Default realm implementation provided in core

TODO: Anti-Spoofing and better DoS protections