Industrial Standards 

The following list of standards and recent initiatives on standards developments form the basis for the platforms and development work offered by Novitek:

Components of OPC UA based communication for ISO 10218-1:2011 and ISO 10218-2:2011 based systems, ISO 11783 based robots, RAS and AEMs/UGVs

An OPC UA server with connection to ISOBUS will be designed and evaluated. According to our best knowledge such a design has never been reported before. The design will specify how both;

  • an OPC UA server is connected to an ISO 10218-1:2011, ISO 10218-2:2011 and ISO 11783 based systems and their Non-ISO counterparts, and
  • an OPC UA data model based on ISO 10218-1:2011, ISO 10218-2:2011 and ISO 11783 based systems and their Non-ISO counterparts.

The design will enable access to the ISO 10218-1:2011, ISO 10218-2:2011 and ISO 11783 data from OPC UA clients in different information systems, e.g. cloud services and mobile handsets. The information system side of the concept will also incorporate OPC UA based communication. This will include capabilities for receiving data from OPC UA servers, particularly from the ISOBUS-machinery, transforming, processing and delivering the data further to the other services of the  cloud and external clients. The OPC UA clients can be made an integral part of COROBICS SOA-based cloud services.

Robots, RAS, UGVs and Automation Systems Connectivity Infrastructure in Agriculture

Standards for communication scheme for data transfer between ISO 10218-1:2011 and ISO 10218-2:2011 based systems, ISO 11783 based systems (including Non-ISO 10218-1:2011, 10218-2:2011, 11783 based systems), e.g. agricultural robots and UGV work machines, and information systems. This scheme is intended to overcome limitations of current solutions and offering new forms of communication. The communication scheme will be based on OPC UA and in order to achieve this, three things are needed:

  • OPC UA server connected with ISO 10218-1:2011 and ISO 10218-2:2011 based systems, ISO 11783 based robots, RAS and AEMs/UGVs.
  • OPC UA clients compatible with an IoT Cloud Intelligent Integrated  Platform
  • OPC UA data model based on ISO 10218-1:2011 and ISO 10218-2:2011 based systems, ISO 11783 based system and its Non-ISO counterparts.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) standards

Standards development organizations such as IEC, ISA and IEEE have extensive portfolios of discipline-specific standards addressing practices and technologies in the area of Industrial IoT and automation.

Standards such as ISA-18 (IEC 62682), ISA-84 (IEC 61511) and ISA-95 (IEC 62264) define many of the essential elements of modern automation systems.

ISO and IEC have been developing a similar model, with groups working on ISO/IEC WD 30141 (Internet of Things Reference Architecture or IoT RA). Finally, IEEE has an effort under way to develop a standard called IEEE P2413 (Standard for an Architectural Framework for the Internet of Things).

ISO standards development for Precision Farming

  • ISO technical committee ISO/TC23, Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry, subcommittee SC19, agricultural electronics will be central in IoT for agriculture.
  • ISO/TC20’s subcommittee SC16 which standardizes unnamed aircraft system UAVs. ISO21384 standard for drones
  • ISO/TC20’s subcommittee SC16 which standardizes unnammed aircracft system UAVs. ISO21384 standard for drones

Following are the leading initiatives within improving standardization ion this area:

  • ISO technical committee ISO/TC23, Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry, subcommittee SC19, agricultural electronics will be central in IoT for agriculture.
  • OGC Geoscience Mark-up Language 4.1 (GML) specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO 19136.
  • INSPIRE Data Specifications on Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

Geospatial ICT infrastructure for precision Farming operations Management. Project GeoWebAgri II http://www.geowebagri.eu/structure.aspx

GEoWebAgri II will enhance open standards and interoperability in information management within the framework of Precision Farming. Heterogeneous user groups, from different backgrounds with the need to access common partial data sets, could benefit with an extensible and open data structure that can be created and maintained throughout different systems and located in different physical locations (web, machinery, office, etc.).

Outputs:

  • Identification and specification of an application schema for Precision Farming Operations Management in the Unified Modelling Language (UML).
  • Definition and implementation of sets of conversion rules in a tool that reads UML class diagrams and writes corresponding GML code as specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO 19136.
  • Development of an Application Map Web Service (AMWS) that allows for a standardized communication between technological entities involved in Precision Farming operations (e.g. sensors, decision support systems, FMIS, machinery on-board interfaces etc.).
  • Test cases of selected field operations management tasks (related to other ICT-Agri projects) will be defined and subjected to test and demonstration validating the defined data model.

OGC Europe – Open Geospatial Consortium

http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/is

The number of OGC members in Europe now exceeds the number of members in North America or any other world region. European companies, agencies, research centers and universities have played and continue to play a critical role in the development, product implementation, and market adoption of OGC standards.

OGC European forums, interest groups and project activities work to:

Promote the development and use of advanced open systems standards and techniques to enable the full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and widespread use of interoperable, commercial geoprocessing software throughout the global information infrastructure.

Represent the European-based membership of OGC in membership organisations/associations in Europe with similar vision and mission to that of the OGC, including agencies, collaborators and affiliates of the European Commission.

Geographic information — Well known text representation of coordinate reference systems

Well-known Text (WKT) offers a compact machine- and human-readable representation of geometric objects. WKT may also be used for succinctly describing the critical elements of coordinate reference system (CRS) definitions.

 WKT was described in the Open Geospatial Consortium implementation specifications 99-036 through 06-103r4 and International Standard ISO 19125-1:2004, “Geographic information – Simple feature access – Part 1: Common architecture”. The WKT representation of coordinate reference systems was subsequently extended in Open Geospatial Consortium implementation specification 01-009 “Coordinate Transformation Services” and this extension was later adopted in the Open Geospatial Consortium GeoAPI 3.0 implementation standard 09-083r3 and GeoPackage 1.0 implementation standard 12-128r10. The WKT representation of coordinate reference systems as defined in ISO 19125-1:2004 and OGC specification 01-009 is inconsistent with the terminology and technical provisions of ISO 19111:2007 and OGC Abstract Specification topic 2 (08-015r2), “Geographic information – Spatial referencing by coordinates”.

This International Standard provides an updated version of WKT representation of coordinate reference systems that follows the provisions of ISO 19111:2007 and ISO 19111-2:2009. It extends earlier WKT to allow for the description of coordinate operations. This International Standard defines the structure and content of well-known text strings. It does not prescribe how implementations should read or write these strings.