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OGC SensorThings API

Information Model IoT openly published

The OGC SensorThings API Standard defines RESTful interfaces to interconnect IoT sensors, observations, and metadata for unified environmental and sensor data access....

Open Geospatial Consortium, from their own og:description

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Model Details
Steward Open Geospatial Consortium
Origin International United States
Layer Information Model
Domain IoT
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/3. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

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Access Open
Assessed 55.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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