<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The </span><a href="http://reap.ecoinformatics.org/">REAP</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> and </span><a href="http://kepler-project.org/">Kepler</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Projects are pleased to announce the beta release of the open source </span><a href="https://kepler-project.org/users/add_on_modules/kepler-sensor-platform-and-sensor-view">Kepler Sensor Platform</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Kepler Sensor Platform enables:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> * monitoring and visualizing field-deployed sensor sites and data streams</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> * controlling sensor sites manually or automatically (e.g. for event response)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> * sensor data analysis, modeling, archival, and archive retrieval</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> * scheduling repeated jobs (e.g. sensor data archival, site status reports, QA/QC) for periodic, remote execution</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> * simulating sensor sites</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Kepler Sensor Platform consists of a flexible set of components that may be partially or entirely adopted to help you manage sensor site deployments. A typical scenario has components installed in three areas:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>1) Field Components: A low-power PC running the Sensor Processing and Acquisition Network (SPAN) for datalogger or sensor communication, and a DataTurbine as on-site ring buffer.</div><div>2) Server Components: A server running a DataTurbine as buffer and data provider, Scheduler and Kepler Run Engine web services for periodic, remote workflow executions, and a Metacat repository for archiving sensor data and workflow run results.</div><div>3) Desktop Components: Desktop computers interacting with the Kepler Sensor Platform through the Sensor View 0.9 add-on suite for Kepler 2.3.</div>
<br>This beta release of the Kepler Sensor platform represents a technology preview that illustrates new functionality for sensor data management within Kepler. We encourage others to contribute further to its development and testing so that it might become a fully supported release within Kepler. Please contact <a href="mailto:barseghian@nceas.ucsb.edu">Derik Barseghian</a> and/or <a href="mailto:jones@nceas.ucsb.edu">Matt Jones</a> for details on how to contribute or on future plans for the Kepler Sensor Platform.<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br>The Kepler Sensor Platform was developed under a grant from the National Science Foundation (CEO-P #0619060) to the <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinfo/">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis</a> (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara, with collaborating partners at UC San Diego, UC Davis, OPeNDAP Inc., and University of Minnesota.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Installation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">To download and install Sensor View 0.9, first </span><a href="https://kepler-project.org/users/downloads">download and install Kepler 2.3</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> using its installer.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Then open the Module Manager from the Tools menu, change to the Available Suites and Modules tab, select and move the sensor-view-0.9 suite to the Selected Modules area, and click Apply and Restart.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Installation instructions for Field and Server components may be found in the documentation below.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Further Reading</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Detailed documentation for the Kepler Sensor Platform </span><a href="https://kepler-project.org/users/documentation">is available online</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">, and from within Kepler from the Help => Modules Documentation menu.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Known Issues</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">------------------------</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Help improve this software by contributing to our list of </span></font><a href="http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_id=1036&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=sensor-view-1.x.y">bug reports and enhancement requests</a><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></font></div></div></body></html>