at the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019

1. Team 4
IoT Technologies for Africa
Karel Charvat, Michal Kepka
Club of Ossiach, University of West Bohemia
Czech Republic
10. 5. 2019

2. Overview
• Team overview
• Challenges – defined
• Tasks – defined
• Tasks – done

3. Team overview
• Registrants: 51
• Countries: 23
• Types of expertize:
• Agriculture
• GIS
• IT
• Research
• Fishery, Forestry, Health, Environmental
• Data analytics expert
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NUMBER OF SELECTED
PROJECTS
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Kenya Nigeria Ghana Uganda CZ Other 18
COUNTRIES OF REGISTRANTS

4. Challenges
• Catalogue of available IoT data in and for particular region
• Overview of formats and services used in particular region
• Integration of data from different sources
• Data analysis / data mining on integrated data sets
• Interpretation of analyses results based on local knowledge

5. Tasks – defined
• T1 – testing deployment of new version of SensLog
• T2 – design of VGI module for SensLog v2
• T3 – research on available data and services
• T4 – reseach on commonly used formats and services

6. Tasks – done
• T1 – testing deployment of new version of SensLog
• SensLog-processing and SensLog-provider deployed on server
• SensLog-model implemented in PostgreSQL v 10
• API described using Swagger utility
• T2 – design of VGI module for SensLog v2
• redesign module from SensLog v1
• new approach – Entity oriented design
• as extension module for core data model

7. SensLog 2.0
• Web-based data management application for storing, managing and
publishing sensor data
• higher scalability – designed as set of micro services
• used Docker for deployment
• proprietary API – REST, JSON data encoding

8. SensLog 2.0 – structure overview

9. SensLog 2 – VGI module
• Storing VGI observations from web and mobile applications
• Attributes of VGI observations not only simple datatypes but
multimedia files too
• Additional attributes stored as JSON data type -> available for queries

10. Thank you for attention
Karel Charvát charvat@ccss.cz
Michal Kepka mkepka@kgm.zcu.cz