Bryan L. Gorman

Sensorpedia: Information sharing across incompatible sensor systems

The concept of adapting social media technologies is introduced as a means of achieving information sharing across incompatible sensor systems. Historical examples of interoperability as an underlying principle in loosely-coupled systems is compared and contrasted with corresponding tightly-coupled integrated systems. Examples of ad hoc information sharing solutions based on Web 2.0 social networks, mashups, blogs, wikis, and data tags are presented and discussed. The underlying technologies of these solutions are isolated and defined, and Sensorpedia is presented as a formalized application for implementing sensor information sharing for enterprises with incompatible sensor systems.

Final Report: Sensorpedia Phases 1 and 2

Over the past several years, ORNL has been actively involved in research to formalize the engineering principles and best practices behind emerging social media and social networking concepts to solve real-time data sharing problems for national security and defense, public health and safety, environmental and infrastructure awareness, and disaster preparedness and response. Sensorpedia, an ORNL web site, is a practical application of several key social media principles. Dubbed the Wikipedia for sensors, Sensorpedia is currently in limited BETA testing and was selected in 2009 by Federal Computer Week as one of the government s top 10 social networking sites.

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Enterprise-Wide Information Technology Tools Final Report

A final report on an ORNL task to establish a knowledge discovery and management tool to retrieve and recommend information from existing S&T documents for the Office of Naval Research Global.

Final Report: Sensorpedia Phase 3

This report is a summary of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory s (ORNL s) Phase 3 development of Sensorpedia, a sensor information sharing platform. Sensorpedia is ORNL s Wikipedia for Sensors. The overall goal of Sensorpedia is to enable global scale sensor information sharing for scientific research, national security and defense, public health and safety, emergency preparedness and response, and general community awareness and outreach.

SensorNet operational prototypes: building wide-area interoperable sensor networks – extended abstract

As sensor network deployments continue to expand, government agencies will benefit from the transmission and processing of sensor data aimed at enhancing public safety and utility services. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s SensorNet project is building a vendor-neutral interoperability framework based on emerging standards for plug-n-play access, control, and integration of online sensors, sensor-derived data repositories, and sensor-related processing capabilities [3]. Focussing on wide-area deployments and on a broad class of sensors and applications, the system prototypes communicate and analyze data from transducers (sensors and actuators) using mechanisms that allow disparate entities to alert each other and share critical information. Deploying operational prototypes allows us to instantiate and field building block components early while collecting a broad range of user feedback in our incremental development.