Sensor Registry as a Base Layer for Smart Cities

There is a growing number of sensors, cameras and measuring devices in public space — but who placed them, what do they measure, and why? This paper makes the case for SensRNet: a national sensor registry as a shared, transparent platform for municipalities, sensor owners, citizens and researchers.

The proposed architecture is distributed — each municipality runs its own node — and uses event sourcing to synchronise state across nodes, with a public viewer providing a unified overview.

Presented at the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) conference, 3 September 2021.

Publication details

• Authors: M. van Andel, S. Bussemaker, M. Grus, W. Florijn
• Published in: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
• Date: 3 September 2021

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