Recent research project: SWIMA
A QinetiQ led consortium with the help of the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), are funding a £900,000 two year project, to research how a standards and sensor web-based control and information system could address data gathering issues for environmental monitoring. The consortium support will deliver the Sensor Web for Infrastructure Management (SWIMA) project.
SWIMA is a 2 year Project aimed at monitoring water quality in river catchments. It will include a fundamental analysis of data gathering methodology and processes, and then implement and field trial a web-based information system Test-bed, based on emerging Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards from the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc (OGC). The project will provide a generic interface between users and sensors with specific relevance to gathering and understanding information relating to water quality.
NGI is taking a prominent role due to its expertise in associated geospatial theory and technologies. The project is built upon the Open Geospatial Consortium's Sensor Web Enablement framework (SWE). An SWE Node is a computing element with an IP address connected to the internet which understands the SWE protocols, this could be a desktop PC, Laptop or portable computing device running appropriate software that allows the conversion of its internal sensor interface into the interoperable language of the sensor web.
![SWIMA illustration](/NGI/images-multimedia/Geospatial-science/swima/SWIMAillustration.gif)
The SWIMA Project aims to test the use of SWE Standards via a real application, i.e. monitoring water quality. Emphasis is on the management and control of a range of different types of sensor through a common user interface with the concepts and strategies developed being applicable to other types of environmental sensing, such as flooding.
Project partners
- QinetiQ
- 1Spatial
- YSI Hydrodata
- South West Water
- Environment Agency
Project runs: 2008-2010
Project website (restricted access): http://zsite.space.qinetiq.com/swima/
Project contact: Jeremy Morley