Seamless integration of EMSO Generic Instrument Module into the internet using sensor web components based on OGC SWE framework

Abstract

The EMSODEV [1] (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and waterDcolumn Observatory DEVelopment) is a UE project whose general objective is to set up the full implementation and operation of the EMSO distributed Research Infrastructure (RI), through the development, testing and deployment of an EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM). The scientific drivers for developing and deploying the EGIM across a set of observatories in European Seas are manifold, spanning requirements to collect observations for understanding climate change, marine ecosystems, and geo-hazard early warning research. The EGIM (EMSO Generic Instrument Module) is designed to consistently and continuously measure parameters of interest for most major science areas covered by EMSO. This research infrastructure provides accurate records on marine environmental changes from distributed regional nodes around Europe. EGIM is able to operate on any EMSO node, mooring line, sea bed station, cabled or non-cabled and surface buoy. In fact, a central function of EGIM within the EMSO infrastructure is to have a number of ocean locations where the same set of core variables are measured homogeneously: using the same hardware, same sensor references, same qualification methods, same calibration methods, same data format and access, same maintenance procedures. our contribution to the implementation of the EGIM data acquisition system module focusses on the development of a generic software for sensor web enablement. Through this generic software, the EGIM status data is directly inserted into a centralised SOS (Sensor Observation Service) server and into a laboratory monitor system (Zabbix LabMonitor) for recording events and alarms