IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prochp/978-3-319-99654-7_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Providing Open Environmental Data—The Scalable and Web-Friendly Way

In: Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

Author

Listed:
  • Maria C. Borges

    (Information Systems Engineering Group, TU Berlin)

  • Frank Pallas

    (Information Systems Engineering Group, TU Berlin)

  • Marco Peise

    (Information Systems Engineering Group, TU Berlin)

Abstract

The emergenceBorges, M.C. Pallas, F. Peise, M. of low-cost environmental sensors has presented an opportunity for environmental data, as a substantial pool of real-time and historical data becomes openly available. This environmental open data provides potential for new opportunities to enhance environmental applications. However consuming this data as it is currently available presents many challenges, including heterogeneous platforms and data schema, archaic data formats and limited scaling potential. We address these issues in our solution OpenSense.network. This paper describes in detail the development of the platform, including data model, system architecture and data collection approach. The presented architecture is able to serve huge amounts of data, through the deliberate employment of a decentralized time-series database in combination with a powerful spatial and relational database. Furthermore, we pay special attention to data consumption in our approach and suggest a web-friendly JSON-based API and a discoverable graphic user interface.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria C. Borges & Frank Pallas & Marco Peise, 2018. "Providing Open Environmental Data—The Scalable and Web-Friendly Way," Progress in IS, in: Hans-Joachim Bungartz & Dieter Kranzlmüller & Volker Weinberg & Jens Weismüller & Volker Wohlgemuth (ed.), Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, pages 21-37, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-99654-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99654-7_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-99654-7_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.