Glossary of Terms

The purpose of this page is to define terms used throughout the architecture

Controlled Vocabulary (CV)

ETL

Extract, Transform, Load. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load

FROST

A Server implementation of the OGC SensorThings API. The FRaunhofer Opensource SensorThings-Server is the first complete, open-source implementation of the OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing. It now also includes preliminary actuation support.https://github.com/FraunhoferIOSB/FROST-Server

GAE

Google App Engine

GCP

Google Cloud Platform

GOST

GOST (Go-SensorThings) is an IoT Platform written in Golang (Go). It implements the Sensing profile (part 1) of the OGC SensorThings API standard including the MQTT extension. https://github.com/gost/server

SensorThings (ST)

A a data model plus a REST API standard. Defined by the OGC specification.

WDIETL

Extracts the data from a datasource, transforms into the ST data model and uploads