]> Sensor Ontology This module contains terms and relations necessary for representing basic sensor entities. Ana Teresa Correia, Institut fuer angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen GmbH (ATB-Bremen) Dragan Stokic, Institut fuer angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen GmbH (ATB-Bremen) Dusan Sormaz, Ohio University Gabriela Henning, CONICET Jim Logan, Ontogenesis Marcela Vegetti, University of Santa Fe Mark Schubert, Parson Europe Roberto Sala, University of Bergamo Todd Schneider, Engineering Semantics Product Service System (PSS) working group http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Industrial Ontology Foundry Sensor Module Ontology Copyright (c) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Open Applications Group detecting device https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ litmus paper a device or instrument designed to detect the presence of a particular object or substance and to emit a signal in response material artifact that bears a detector role detecting function https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ detecting is the function that provides information detecting process https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ a process that discovers or determines the existence, presence, or fact of some entity detector role https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ role held by an entity that is designed to detect the presence of a particular object or substance and to emit a signal in response detector specification https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ design specification that prescribes a detector observation https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ an information content entity that represents a remark, statement, or comment based on something one has seen, heard, or noticed by an observer observer https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ a person or a system that watches or notices or measures something to gain information an agent that has an observer role observer role https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ agent role held by a person, organized group of agents, or engineered system when it perceives or notices an entity and distinguishes that entity from other entities in its environment observing process https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ a planned process executed by an observer which may produce an observation sensing function https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ a sensing function might inhere in different entities: a machine, in lots of different things of different kinds… the function of reacting to the environment sensing process https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ a process to detect especially in response to a stimulus sensor From SSN: A sensor can do (implements) sensing: that is, a sensor is any entity that can follow a sensing method and thus observe some Property of a FeatureOfInterest. Sensors may be physical devices, computational methods, a laboratory setup with a person following a method, or any other thing that can follow a Sensing Method to observe a Property. https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/SSN.html#Sensor provides physical property? https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ We are thinking here about physical sensor not virtual sensors/soft sensor a material entity that responds to changes in its environment sensor measurement process https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ measurement of the value of an attribute of a sensor sensor role https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ this role may be held by entities other than sensors role held by an entity that responds to changes in its environment sensor specification https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ design specification that prescribes a sensor transducer https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ Any device by which variations in one physical quantity (e.g. pressure, brightness) are quantitatively converted into variations in another (e.g. voltage, position) a loudspeaker that transforms electrical energy into sound energy material entity when it is used for transforming energy between two different forms material artifact that bears a transducer role transducer role https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ role held by an entity that transforms energy between two different forms transducer specification https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/productservicesystem/Sensor/ design specification that prescribes a transducer PSSProvider owns a PSS (inverse to PSS belongsTo PSSProvider) is part of relates something to another thing that it is some component or portion of, regardless of how that whole-part relationship is manifested relates something to another thing that it is some component or portion of, regardless of how that whole-part relationship is manifested Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/ relates something to another thing that it is some component or portion of, regardless of how that whole-part relationship is manifested 1