Sensor Observations Service for Environmentally Optimizing Irrigation: istSOS within the ENORASIS Example

Abstract

This paper presents the experience and the lesson learned from the application of the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) standard as the main component for data fusion and distribution within the European project ENORASIS. The project aimed at developing a smart system to sustain optimal water usage in irrigation. This is mainly achieved by providing daily irrigation schedule to single farmers taking advantage of an advanced system that integrates optimization algorithms, weather forecasts, low cost sensors and soil information. The final phase of validating the ENORASIS system permitted to test the istSOS software, which implements the SOS standard, and to identify through data and service statistics the system stability, the user behavior and the service usage. istSOS has proven to be a stable solution offering useful features confirmed by usage statistics. The experiment showed also that the big data issue is one of the key challenges to be addressed by istSOS in the next future development.