{"id":1234,"date":"2012-06-18T06:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T06:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:01:53","slug":"sensors-their-observations-and-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/getting-together-for-content-and-networking\/sensors-their-observations-and-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensors, Their Observations and Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a splash when my suitcase fell into the puddle next to the taxi outside the Exeter St. David&#39;s rail station last night. Although it was sunny under blue skies for both the days in London, while I was indoors attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openiotassembly.com\">Open IoT Assembly<\/a>, I was expecting rain in England and came prepared, I thought; it was the force of gravity that I had underestimated and caught me (and my suitcase) by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;More rain&quot; announced the lonely receptionist at the White Hart hotel when I inquired about today&#39;s forecast. Instead the sky could not be bluer or clearer of clouds. Is the unpredictability of the weather an omen for the day? At least I won&#39;t be traveling with wet belongings on my way to the UK Met Office for the open session of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/event\/1206tc\">OGC meeting<\/a> and back to the rail station this afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m attending the meeting only for a few hours so that I can conduct in person meetings with the chairs and conveners of the IndoorGML Standards Working Group, the Sensors 4 IoT Standards Working group and other luminaries in the geospatial realm. I find it highly appropriate that the sensors I&#39;ve used for weather have been so highly inaccurate today! I trust that my internal confidence about my meetings will serve me better today than they did last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a splash when my suitcase fell into the puddle next to the taxi outside the Exeter St. David&#39;s rail station last night. Although it was sunny under blue skies for both the days in London, while I was indoors attending the Open IoT Assembly, I was expecting rain in England and came prepared, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,76,92],"tags":[21,20,200],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-together-for-content-and-networking","category-internet-of-things","category-standards","tag-iot-applications","tag-iot-standards","tag-ogc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}