I am trying to look into the aspect of sending meaningful information from sensor nodes with the whole field of IoT. Here, meaningful being context-aware.
If I send information from a temperature sensor, it might not be enough just to send the numerical value e.g.
24.9to a gateway. It would make sense to add information likeunit of measurement,who is sending this information,where is the sensor node situated within the networketc.
This would provide information where one would make more sense out huge information collected from IoT systems (think, Semantics IoT).
For this I found SenML which provides nice data format to make sense of the information. In the RFC an example is described as follows:
[
{"n":"urn:dev:ow:10e2073a01080063","u":"Cel","v":23.1}
]
where n is the name of the device u is the unit v is the actual value from the sensing unit. The RFC is very well described for many cases including batch uploading as well as timestamps.
However it does not provide any field that provides some context-awareness of the sensing unit. For e.g. is the temperature above from "outside" or "inside" or in "car" etc.
Does someone know any other data-format or sensor modelling language that supports some form of context awareness. If not, what could be a possible way around this in senML?
