scope:

This standard defines the vocabulary, data formats, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for acquiring information from sensors, enabling communication between the cyber world and the physical world, including:

- Data formats for interfacing sensor data defining a root schema with individual sensor data

- Data formats for recognizing sensor capabilities defining a root schema with individual sensor capabilities

- Data formats for common data types

- Application programming interfaces to transmit a sensor and its capability data between cyber and physical worlds