Sensor

https://schema.plantphenomics.org.au/Sensor

An electromechanical device that can return the value for an ObservedVariable and that may be mounted on a Platform. Note that SOSA maps electromechanical components to prov:Agent, but CDIF recommendation is that Agent should be an intentional role. A Sensor is also an ObservationUnit so that it may be the target for Control Assays (setting device parameters as ControlledVariables) and potentially for Observation Assays (reading device state as ObservedVariables).

Superclasses

• https://schema.plantphenomics.org.au/Observer
• https://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Sensor
• https://schema.plantphenomics.org.au/ObservationUnit
• https://schema.org/Thing
• http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Entity
• http://purl.org/ppeo/PPEO.owl#observation_unit
• https://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/FeatureOfInterest
• https://schema.org/IndividualProduct

Properties

• appn:Sensor appn:hasSensorType appn:SensorType
  • Links a Sensor to its type.
• appn:Deployment appn:deployedSystem appn:Sensor
  • Identifies a Sensor or Actuator deployed on a Platform.
• appn:Observation appn:madeByObserver appn:Observer
  • Identifies the entity (Observer, i.e. one of a Person, Sensor or SoftwareApplication) responsible for carrying out an Observation.
• appn:Assay appn:isForObservationUnit appn:ObservationUnit
  • Relates an Assay to an ObservationUnit for which it is carried out. Note that when the Assay is an Observation, the model should infer a schema:observationAbout property from isForObservationUnit.
• appn:ObservationUnit appn:inheritsContext appn:ObservationUnit
  • Indicates an ObservationUnit should be considered to inherit values for Variables from another ObservationUnit. Examples include a plant inheriting environmental variables from a pot, growth cabinet or field or a leaf inheriting environmental and developmental properties from a plant.
• appn:ObservationUnit appn:hasLocation appn:Location
  • Specifies the location for an ObservationUnit.
• appn:Location appn:isLocationWithin appn:ObservationUnit
  • Specifies that a location is a position within an ObservationUnit.