Providing unique experiences to reduce time to insight and knowledge through visualizing data and information
The SensorMap project at Microsoft Research provides a common platform and set of tools for data owners to easily publish and query sensor data from live data sources. We are building a portfolio of research projects that take advantage of the SensorMap platform:
- To develop shared infrastructure and tools for data publishing, data management, and data querying and visualization
- To build an open, diverse community of sensor data publishers and consumers
Projects
SensorMap: Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time
Microsoft Research is partnering with selected academic projects to build infrastructure support and tools:
- To simplify publishing data to SensorMap
- To build new services or break down existing ones to make SensorMap data more useful
Examples of current SensorMap projects:
- Swiss Experiment, EPFL
- National Weather Study Project, Intelligent Systems Centre, Nanyang Technological University
- CitySense, an Open, Urban-Scale Sensor Network Testbed, Harvard University
- SensorMap for the Great Barrier Reef, ISSNIP, Australia
See all SensorMap project awards…
Research Tools and Services
Sensor Map Tools
- SenseWeb – Peer-Produced, Worldwide Sensor Network: tutorial and reports
- Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit from Microsoft Research
- SensorMap Live Site
- SensorMap Forum on Microsoft Research
Visualization Tools
- NodeXL on Codeplex
A pair of applications for viewing network graphs and adding network graphs to custom applications - Silverlight Tools
Photosynth
A Microsoft Live Labs tool for constructing a 3D environment from regular photos
WorldWide Telescope
An open platform from Microsoft Research that astronomers use to make data and images available to the community
Publications
- Optima: Tool for Ontology Alignment with Application to Semantic Reconciliation of Sensor Metadata for Publication in Sensormap, Kolli and Doshi, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems, University of Georgia
- "SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 8-13, October-December 2007
Events
- Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI
December 7–9, 2008, Indianapolis, IN, United States - AGU 2008 - American Geophysical Union
December 15, 2008, San Francisco, CA, United States
