Here, real-time data is provided to queue the current occupancy status of parking spaces for people with disabilities in the city of Osnabrück. The data can be accessed using SensorThingsAPI.
The associated data model looks as follows:
Entity Key Value Standardisation
Thing name Parking place
      description Parking (location: Location)
  &   properties/topic Parking management
  &   properties/keywords [“parking space”, “occupancy status”, “availability” (“disabled parking space”)]
  &   properties/language de
    properties/owner OPG
  &   properties/ownerThing OPG
    properties/ImageLink URL to image
  &   properties/deviceIDniota deviceID from niota
  &   properties/navigation http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lat%2Clon
  &   properties/disabled parking yes/no
Location name Location of Parking Location
      description Here is the parking place
    encodingType application/geo + json
Location GeoJSON Point Geometry
Historical Location time Timestamp UTC
Datastream name Occupancy status in the parking lot Location
      description Document status
    observationType OpenGIS url OpenGIS
    unitOfMeasurement/name Status
  unitOfMeasurement/symbol
  unitOfMeasurement/definition
    observedArea GeoJSON Point Geometry (automatic)
  &   phenomenonTime Timestamp UTC (automatic)
  & ResultTime Timestamp UTC (automatic)
  &   properties/mediaMonitored transport eionet (?)/inspire
Sensor name PNI PlacePod parking sensor (or other)
      description The parking sensor detects and reports the occupancy of parking spaces eionet
    encodingType application/pdf
  &   metadata “https://www.pnicorp.com/wp-content/uploads/PNI-PlacePod-Vehicle-Detection-Sensor-User-Manual.pdf”
Observed Property name Condition
      description instant procuring, gearedness; Manner of existence of someone, of a thing at a certain moment; Constitution, nature [Source: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Zustand; retrieved 28.06.2021]
      definition http://www.opengis.net/def/observationType/OGC-OM/2.0/OM_CategoryObservation eionet/OpenGIS
Observation result “free”/“occupied”/“unknown”
  &   phenomenonTime Timestamp UTC
  & ResultTime Timestamp UTC
Feature of Interest name FoI for location location_id
      description Generated from location location_id
    encodingType application/vnd.geo + json
    feature GeoJSON Point Geometry
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