Short Paper: Using SOAR as a semantic support component for Sensor Web Enablement

Semantic service discovery is necessary to facilitate the potential of service providers (many sensors, different characteristics) to change the sensor configuration in a generic surveillance application without modifications to the application's business logic. To combine efficiency and flexibility, semantic annotation of sensors and semantic aware match making components are needed. This short paper gives the reader an understandig of the SOAR component for semantic SWE support and rule based sensor selection.