The Sensor Management System (SMS) serves as a central infrastructure for collecting and managing sensor metadata for scientific projects across four Helmholtz Centers (GFZ, UFZ, FZJ, and KIT). To ensure metadata consistency across different SMS-instances, an independent but central Controlled Vocabulary (CV) Service provides curated terms for attributes such as device types, units, and measured quantities. The project aims to modernize the SMS-CV architecture by transforming it from an SMS-specific solution into an integrated component within the NFDI ecosystem, especially useful within the Earth System Science community (NFDI4Earth) and beyond.
SensorCV is an incubator project within the Terminology Service (TS) basic service of Base4NFDI.
Current status
In preparation — cycle 4, planned start 2026-07-15.
Timeline
- Start: 2026-07-15
- End: —
- Cycle: 4
Partners & entities
- NFDI consortia: NFDI4Earth (1 linked)
- Participating entity: Helmholtz Association (1 linked)
- Partner publications: 0
Notes
This report maps to row ts-sensorcv in the NocoDB dashboard table. (key_article is not yet set in NocoDB.)