Dr. Steve Liang is a world-renown researcher, teacher, and entrepreneur. Dr. Liang is a global influencer and change maker in the emerging area of the Internet of Things (IoT), a disruptive technology that will radically change the world we live in.
Dr. Liang is currently the working group chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) SensorThings API Standard Working Group and the Rapporteur of the ITU-T Q12/11 on IoT Test Specifications. From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Liang held the AITF-Microsoft Industrial Research Chair on Open Sensor Web. In 2013, he was selected as one of Calgarys Top 40 under 40.
In the past four years, Dr. Liang has given more than 50 invited talks in more than ten countries around the world. Dr. Steve Liang is also the founder and CEO of SensorUp Inc., offering an innovative standard-compliant IoT cloud platform.
Title of presentation: OGC SensorThings API – A Sensor Data Exchange and Tasking Standard
In the near future, millions to billions of small sensors and actuators will be embedded in real-world objects and connected to the Internet forming the Internet of Things (IoT). The basic premise of the IoT is that everyday objects or devices can sense their environment, collect information, and communicate and interact with each other. The changing nature of smart, connected "things" is disrupting value chains and will force organizations to rethink and retool nearly everything they do internally in order to stay competitive. For example, progressive cities around the world are using IoT to transform themselves into smart cities, and changing how we live, work, and play. In this talk, Dr. Liang will present the opportunities and challenges of building smart cities and IoT with open standards, especially the OGC SensorThings API standard. Dr. Liang will firstly introduce the Internet of Things from a data perspective, its value chain, its potential applications, its opportunities and challenges, and its vision and trend in the future. In particular, Dr. Liang will present the real-world use cases of using the OGC SensorThings API to build smart cities applications. A project titled "Smart Citizens for Smart Cities" will also be presented. Citizens across Canada is joining the project becoming "smart citizens", setting up air quality sensors. Collectively these citizen sensors form a very large scale air quality system of systems that costs a fraction of time and cost comparing to traditional monitoring networks.
