Re: Sensor API : New draft

There is also the case of Temperature and RelHumidity. These are often 
(always?) combined into a single physical sensor -- so I don't know how 
to set the power consumed by it if I have to represent it as two 
sensors. In particular, with temp and rel humidity, you can calculate 
dewpoint.

Also, for the case of units, why are the standard SI units being used 
for each sensor? For example, magnetic field should be in Tesla, 
temperature in Kelvin, and atmospheric pressure in Pascals. If there is 
a simple rule that says that the standard SI unit is used, then it will 
make guessing the unit much easier and new sensor types will be easier 
to define

philip

On 11/22/2011 7:00 PM, Tran, Dzung D wrote:
> That makes sense. Now, just a matter of how we would represent this in the API? Any suggestion?
> Thanks
> -DT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Combee [mailto:ben.combee@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:14 AM
> To: Tran, Dzung D; public-device-apis@w3.org WG
> Subject: RE: Sensor API : New draft
>
> A GPS sensor has different ranges and units for latitude, longitude, and altitude, for example.
>
> From: Tran, Dzung D
> Sent: 11/22/2011 5:16 PM
> To: Ben Combee; public-device-apis@w3.org WG
> Subject: RE: Sensor API : New draft
> Hello Ben,
>
> We will try to address these.  As for sensor range, we assume it starts at zero which is probably wrong. What do you mean for other sensors you might need a range for each sub-component?
>
> Thanks
> -DT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Combee [mailto:ben.combee@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:21 PM
> To: public-device-apis@w3.org WG
> Subject: Re: Sensor API : New draft
>
> Spotted a couple of minor issues in the new draft hosted at http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/system-info/Sensors.html
>
> In the first example in part 1, the sensor connection instance variable is named "sensorCnx", but later is referred to as "session".
>
> In part 5.1, I'm unclear why the range property is described as "short" when most data values are doubles or collections of doubles.
> I also an unclear why range is a single value -- for something like a temperature sensor which has units of degrees Celsius, the range of the sensor might not go all the way to absolute 0 so you'd need a minimum and maximum range, and for other sensors you might need a range for each sub-component.

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