procssing unit as Platform?

Hi all,

I have a question regarding a control unit that could be connected to various sensors, actuators and samplers.

Let's use the following example: a 'weather station' such as http://imgeo.geostandaarden.nl/def/imgeo-object/sensor/weerstation-niet-bgt. According to the SOSA ontology this would be a Platform that hosts several Sensors (temperature, humidity, CO2, ...) and perhaps some Actuators or Samplers. However, could you also say that there's a control/processing unit inside the weather station that functions as a Platform, that actually hosts and controls said Sensors, Actuators and Samplers? And that control unit is a sub-Platform hosted by another Platform, the weather station? What would be the semantically correct way to include such a control/processing unit in SOSA/SSN?


Kind regards,
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