Sensor Platform

• CURIE: gmeow:SensorPlatform
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/SensorPlatform
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/sensory
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A physical entity that hosts one or more sensors — a weather station, a satellite, a buoy, a drone, a vehicle, or a building-mounted instrument. The platform is situated at a place and carries sensors that observe properties of the environment. Distinct from the Sensor itself (the observing agent) and from the Place (the location).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:SensorPlatform as a specialized kind of gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Sensor Reading

• Source: slices/extensions/sensory/examples/sensor-reading.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-sensory-examples-sensor-reading

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a sensor reading on the observation stack . A
# gmeow:SensoryObservation records WHAT was sensed (gmeow:sensoryObservationOf),
# WHICH gmeow:ObservableProperty (humidity), and the gmeow:SensoryQuantity result.
# A gmeow:Sensor is a gufo functional complex that is also an Agent, so it is the
# observation's gmeow:vantage — the SensoryObservation is an Observation like any
# other, just produced by an instrument on a gmeow:SensorPlatform at a location.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/sensory/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:platform a gmeow:SensorPlatform ;
    gmeow:platformLocation ex:greenhouse .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: sosa

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage