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I met Sherry Amour in the fifth grade when my family moved from the city of Chicago to the suburbs. She is one of my oldest friends that still plays a significant role in my life. We didn't initially hit it off but after coming to school multiple times with identical outfits on without planning to do so, we became friends. Soon after that, my 2nd home was her family's home. Even though in high school, I moved hours away from her, we still maintained our friendship. It has been almost 16 years and we have always stayed connected. During college, we'd meet up on breaks and have all night talking sessions. After college, we'd meet up for dinner dates here and there and its just been a pleasure to see the progress of our friendship after all these years.
It wasn't until near the end of highschool that Sherry shifted gears to pursue music full time. I've had the honor of watching Sherry in a recording studio… I wonder if she remembers that night. I've seen her perform. I've listened to her music on my ipod and I've seen her artistic growth throughout the years and while I may be bias, I find that I am so proud of her. She sings of love and life. She exudes energy, sensuality and joy. She is such a lovely lady and it is with a huge smile that I introduce you to one of my dearest, most wonderful friends.
Everyone meet
SLY: What kind of artist are you?
Sherry: I am a recording/performing artist who enjoys educating others with my music!
SLY: How have you learned what you know? Education? Experience? Formal Training?
Sherry: I have learned what I know, thus far in various ways, through education, experience and just being an inquisitive person who loves to ask questions! = )
SLY: Why do you believe art is important?
Sherry: Art is important because it is a reflection of Life. It is through art that we as people learn about one another and find ways to connect with one another.
Sherry: I am inspired by life, simply put. I am open to inspiration, daily. Conversations with God, friends, family and life experiences all inspire me.
SLY: What is your favorite medium to use in creating art?
Sherry: The stage! I truly enjoy interacting with people when sharing my music at a show. Performing live is a moment that is fleeting, yet its an opportunity to connect with so many people at one time. Its a platform to create a memorable moment that will hopefully inspire and/or comfort someone.
SLY: What are you currently working on?
Sherry: I am currently working on my next recording project! I am so excited to share my new music that I have been working so diligently on…"Mirror, Mirror"
SLY: What has been the highlight of your artistic career, so far?
Sherry: hHmmm, the highlight of my career thus far, honestly is having had the opportunity to independently release my first recording project ('Seasons" which is available on iTunes) and the music being well received and appreciated by people. To have someone, a complete stranger, enjoy and relate to my music is something that I am grateful for.
SLY: What, if any, artistic mistakes have you made?
Sherry: Great question! I believe one of my mistakes I've made is comparing myself to other artists and trying to duplicate their path and road they are on in their perspective music careers. I've learned that I only have wasted time trying to keep up with another artist's career path and pursuits. In this mistake I was challenged to seek God and His direction and path He has for me.
SLY: What's the most important thing you have learned or discovered?
Sherry: One important thing I have discovered recently in my life is that its ok to "Teach people how to Treat You"
SLY: What do you do when you have "artist" block? (similar to writer's block)
Sherry: Once I'm done trying to analyze WHY I'm having an artist block, I force myself to do something fun and different I've been putting off doing.
SLY: What is your favorite quote?
Sherry: I have 3 of them I would like to share if that's ok: "Don't buy into the Hype, Challenge your own Reality" Sherry Amour….."Be the Change you wish to see"-Ghandi….."To thine own self be true!"-Shakespeare
SLY: Do you have any encouraging words for those who want to be more creative?
Sherry: Allow yourself to feel and just be HONEST about your convictions and own it and release it!
SLY: Of what, are you sure?
Sherry: That God is REAL and that He will NEVER leave you, nor forsake you! Life brings many challenges, ups and downs, but God 's love and comfort is what eases the bruises of life.
SLY: What legacy do you want to leave?
Sherry: The legacy I want to leave is that With God all things are possible! I desire for my life and my music to exemplify what it means to have Faith, Hope and Love.
SLY: Where can we find you?
Sherry: You can find me in several places:
Facebook.com/Sherry Amour Music
SLY: Any last words?
Sherry: Cherish the day!! Go be Great!!
SLY: Is there a question I didn't ask that you wish I had?
Sherry: What's my favorite color and why?? = )
SHERRY, thanks so much beautiful for doing this interview. What I've gathered is that you are so strong and rooted in your faith and yourself. I find you to be incredible and I can't wait for more music from you.
If you'd like to hear a bit of Sherry Amour, watch her video below and if you enjoy it, go to youtube and leave a comment. Let her know. Tweet her. Friend her. If you're local to Chicago, catch one of her performances. She is a star on stage. You will find it difficult to take your eyes away!
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Things that probably inspired the creation of the new College Football Playoff trophy
The new college football trophy made its debut today in Irving, Texas. It's called the College Football Playoff Championship Trophy, which is a fittingly vanilla name for a piece of hardware that was so clearly inspired by a waffle cone.
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Geo-sensor networks have traditionally been built up in closed monolithic systems, thus limiting trans-domain usage of real-time measurements. This paper presents the technical infrastructure of a standardised embedded sensing device, which has been developed in the course of the Live Geography approach. The sensor pod implements data provision standards of the Sensor Web Enablement initiative, including an event-based alerting mechanism and location-aware Complex Event Processing functionality for detection of threshold transgression and quality assurance. The goal of this research is that the resultant highly flexible sensing architecture will bring sensor network applications one step further towards the realisation of the vision of a "digital skin for planet earth". The developed infrastructure can potentially have far-reaching impacts on sensor-based monitoring systems through the deployment of ubiquitous and fine-grained sensor networks. This in turn allows for the straight-forward use of live sensor data in existing spatial decision support systems to enable better-informed decision-making.
"In the next century, planet Earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices. … These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, … fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies—even our dreams [
Following this comprehensive vision formulated by Neil Gross in 1999, it can be assumed that sensor web deployments (see Subsection 3.2 for a disambiguation of the term "sensor web"
Of specific interest in this paper is the concern that most sensor networks are being built up in monolithic and specialised application-centred measurement systems. Subsequently, there is a clear gap between sensor network research and largely heterogeneous end user requirements. Sensor network research is usually dedicated to a long-term vision, which tells a compelling story about potential applications. On the contrary, the actual implementation is often not more than a very specific use case oriented closed system without taking into account technical and conceptual issues such as interoperability, sustainable development, portability, or combination with established data analysis systems. Therefore, the availability of geo-sensor networks is growing but still limited [
Generally speaking, a key requirement for achieving meaningful analysis results in sensor-based systems is high quality of underlying data in terms of
Furthermore, all components of measurement systems are currently undergoing great performance enhancement combined with drastic price reduction [
This raises the issue that real-time integration of heterogeneous data sources will be of particular importance as a broad spectrum of diverse actors establish their systems, often measuring the same parameters. This paper presents the sensor web part of the Live Geography approach [
This paper is structured as follows: after a short presentation of related work (Section 2), a brief status quo is given on pervasive sensing and sensor web technology (Section 3). This is followed by a detailed description of the Live Geography concept for standardised embedded sensing (Section 4) and its implementation of an intelligent sensor pod (Section 5). The final sections of the paper deal with a discussion of standardisation needs and processes (Section 6), and a short conclusion and future outlook (Section 7).
There are a number of approaches establishing pervasive sensor web applications. In [
Another sensing infrastructure is described in [
King's College London established an urban sensor network for air quality monitoring. The London Air Quality Network (LAQN) [
The SenseWeb project aims to establish a Wikipedia-like sensor platform [
Summarising, these network developments do not make use of open standards as a whole, meaning that they are built up in proprietary systems, although sensor data are accessible over the internet. Despite this shortcoming, the described sensor networks can be considered stand-alone solutions of great local significance, though limiting trans-regional inter-linkage with other similar approaches.
Pervasive sensing and ubiquitous monitoring are critical processes to ensure public safety including the state of the national infrastructure, to set up continuous information services, and to provide input for spatial decision support systems [
However, establishing an overarching monitoring infrastructure is not trivial. Currently, different authorities with heterogeneous interests each implement their own monolithic systems to achieve very specific goals in areas like air quality monitoring, flood water prediction or traffic management.
These measurement systems are mostly built up in a minimalistic—though often short-term cost-optimised—manner resulting in a hard-wired workflow, as shown in
These single-purpose measurement systems are typically characterised by a centralised sensor network sending data in a proprietary format, which prevents distributed architectures and interoperability with other systems. The gained measurements are stored in a database, which can often become a bottle-neck in the overall workflow when dealing with large amounts of data.
The fact that these systems tend to be deployed in an isolated and uncoordinated way means that the automatic assembly and analysis of these diverse data streams is impossible. However, making use of all available data sources is a prerequisite for holistic and successful monitoring for broad decision support. This applies to emergency situations as well as to continuous observation of environmental parameters. Thus, we developed the Live Geography approach, which tries to standardise the whole process chain shown in
Over the last few years, sensor webs have been a rapidly emerging technology, which serves for gathering measured data and combining them to generate an overall combined result. For the formation of such a sweeping vision of a "digital skin for planet Earth" as envisaged in [
Generally speaking, sensor webs are a network of intra-communicating sensors, which might be of a different type, used to monitor the environment. Monitored parameters are manifold, including temperature, precipitation, different substances in the atmosphere, processes within the human body, industrial control functions, and innumerable more.
In contrast to ordinary sensor networks, sensor webs are characterised by three main criteria. The first characteristic is
Within sensor webs, information is accessed via attribute-based naming instead of explicit addressing, which enables resource-sparing and effective data retrieval. Depending on the capabilities of the sensor, also a history of measured values might be saved resulting in the aptitude to create modular outputs for a certain period of time. This also enables the generation of time series of sensor values originating from a combination of single measurements, which is important for generating motion vectors or mean values over a particular interval to perform plausibility checks.
Geo-sensor webs are the essential data source for monitoring applications and real-time information services. Section 2 illustrated a number of recent sensor network deployments, showing that research areas are highly heterogeneous; as well in sensor web research itself as in their application fields.
The design of a sensor network is defined by a number of parameters such as the operating environment, miniaturisation requirements, energy consumption, bandwidth utilisation or connectivity. These factors are highly application-specific and can thus not be uniquely specified for a general architecture like the Live Geography infrastructure.
However, a fundamental prerequisite for pervasive sensor webs is interoperability, which concerns data structures, measurement transmission, sensor queries and alerting functionality. Thus, the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative has been chosen to assure interoperability throughout the Live Geography architecture. This choice was taken because of SWE's comprehensiveness (it serves the whole process chain), its broad development support as well from academia as from industry, its rapid advancement and introduction as official standards, and its maturity, which it has mainly gained through the last two years.
The most essential SWE standards for monitoring applications are the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) for sensor data provision, Observations and Measurements (O&M) for encapsulating measurements into a standardised XML-based format, and the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) for describing sensor platforms. Furthermore, the Sensor Alert Service (SAS) plays an important role for sending event-triggered alerts, e.g., in case of threshold transgression.
The actual implementation of the geo-sensor web is greatly application-specific according to the unique requirements of every single deployment. Thus, the Live Geography approach only suggests broad interoperability, which is achieved by the extensive use of the OGC SWE standards, whereas other sensor network challenges have to be solved as the case arises.
A central design aspect in the Live Geography approach was the support for both stationary and mobile sensors. Stationary sensors are deployed at a fixed position where their geographical location is only measured once. The position can be—but does not have to be—transmitted along with every broadcasted data set in the same manner as with mobile sensors. In contrast to stationary sensors, mobile ones have to record their current position periodically in order to make measurement results meaningful. The main challenges in the development of a sensor pod supporting stationary and mobile deployments are optimised data transmission capabilities, communication availability, resource-saving operation modes and optimised database design (finding the best possible trade-off between simplicity and normalisation). The implementation described in Section 5 addresses these issues.
SWE aims to make different types of sensors discoverable, accessible and possibly controllable over the web, and thus to enable the creation of interoperable and scalable sensor webs, which are built up in a service-oriented fashion [
The Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is a general schema for describing functional models of the sensor. It provides an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema for defining the geometric, dynamic and observational properties of a sensor. Thus, SensorML serves for discovering different types of sensors, supporting processing and analysis of the retrieved data as well as the geo-location of observed values [
Observations and Measurements (O&M) provides a description of sensor observations and measurements in the form of general models and XML encodings. The term observation is defined as "an action with a result which has a value describing some phenomenon". The O&M standard labels several terms for the measurements themselves as well as for the relationship between them, whereby the extent is limited to measurement results, which are expressed as quantities, categories, temporal or geometrical values as well as arrays or composites of these [
It shall be stated that despite OGC's tendency towards using the geographical position as the central and connecting element in geospatial standards, the location parameter is considered a regular measurement within O&M. This means that the position is equipollent with other measurands such as time, air temperature or satellite images.
The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) provides a service interface for standardised access to sensor data and metadata. In other words, the SOS groups a collection of possibly heterogeneous sensors, as illustrated in
The SOS specification defines the operations offered by a specific sensor, whereat the minimum collection of methods comprises
The OGC Sensor Alert Service (SAS) specifies interfaces (not a service in the traditional sense) enabling sensors to advertise and publish alerts including according metadata. While SOS allows for pull-based data queries, SAS provides data in a push-based manner. Thus, SAS can be used by clients to subscribe for sensor data alerts with some spatial and property-based constraints. Also, sensors can be advertised to the SAS allowing clients to subscribe for the sensor data via the SAS, as shown in
The OGC Sensor Event Service (SES) constitutes another specification (to date an OGC Discussion Paper) for event-driven data transmission. In contrast to SAS, SES specifies a service interface for filtering sensor data according to pre-defined filter criteria, whereby the filtering process itself operates on (sensor) data or on events. In this context, events are defined as "actions that occur at an instant or over an interval of time". SES defines three levels of filtering:
syntactic filtering of sensor data filtering on single data sets (sensor measurements) filtering of data streams ("data fusion")
syntactic filtering of sensor data
filtering on single data sets (sensor measurements)
filtering of data streams ("data fusion")
Generally speaking, the provided filtering capabilities of SAS and SES are clearly on a different scale. While SAS only provides predefined filter capabilities, SES allows for the dynamic creation of custom filter criteria. On the one hand static criteria and definitions may restrict the freedom of an application and its use-cases, on the other hand they are much easier to implement and can therefore be used on light-weight systems such as embedded devices. The possibility of defining dynamic criteria in SES provides more flexibility and can be adopted for a broader range of high-level applications. It shall be noted that this kind of flexibility comes with the price of more complex implementations. Taking these facts into consideration, SES may provide more flexibility using dynamic criteria, but in its current specification, it is hardly feasible to implement it in small-scale systems.
Another difference
Generally, SES (currently in version 0.0.1) is designed as a functional extension of SAS (currently in version 0.9) in terms of event (stream) processing. In addition to SAS, SES not only specifies the interface for advertising and publishing alerts, but also for filtering operations. Consequently, for providing the same functionality like the SES, SAS has to be coupled with an event processing engine, which creates events. Again, after this processing, results can be published via the SAS interface.
An important ongoing effort in SWE development is the establishment of a central SWE Common specification. Its goal is to optimise common usage and maximise reusability by grouping common elements for several standards under one central specification. Thus, it aims to reduce redundancy between the seven standards. In other words, the SWE Common namespace specification aims at collecting elements, which are used in more than one standard of the SWE family. SWE Common will mainly comprise very general elements such as counts, quantities, time elements or simple generic data representations. SWE Common is currently part of the SensorML standard. However, it is foreseen to make SWE Common a separate stand-alone document as an integral component of the SWE initiative.
Apart from standardised data transmission and provision, a special focus in the Live Geography approach is the extension of Complex Event Processing (CEP) functionality by spatial components. In a geographic context, CEP can e.g., serve for detecting threshold exceedances, for geo-fencing implementations, for investigating spatial clusters or as well for assuring data quality. To guarantee real-time measurement quality (e.g., to detect sensor failures or measurement outliers), location-enabled CEP technology can be used following Waldo Tobler's first law of geography stating that near features are more related then distant features.
Generally speaking, CEP is a technology that extracts knowledge from distributed systems and transforms it into contextual knowledge. Since the information content of this contextual knowledge is of higher quality than in the original raw data, business decisions that are derived from it can be more accurate. A general CEP architecture is shown in
The CEP processing chain is divided into five levels that represent processing steps and the database management component, which is responsible for handling data and profiles. Since individual systems may have different requirements, the implementation depth will vary from system to system. The following list notes the basic requirements for each level, according to [
Level P: Pre-processing—Before the actual processing, the input data is normalised, validated and eventually pre-filtered. Although this is an essential step, it is technically not part of the CEP process and therefore marked as "Level P".
Level 1: Event Refinement—This component's task is to track and trace an event in the system. An event's characteristics, such as data, behaviour and relationships, are translated into event attributes,
Level 2: Situation Refinement—The central part in the CEP workflow is the Situation Refinement, where the actual processing of simple and complex events takes place. This analysis includes mathematical algorithms, which comprise not only computing boundaries for certain values, but also matching them against patterns and historical data.
Level 3: Impact Assessment—This stage deals with the simulation of outcomes. It takes various scenarios and simulates them by taking cost factors and resources into account.
Level 4: Process Refinement—Finally, the last level deals with the interaction between the CEP system and business processes. It defines a feedback loop to control and refine business processes. While this could include integration and automatic controlling of processes, e.g., within a geo-workflow, it may also just be the creation of alerting messages or business reports.
CEP has originated and traditionally been implemented in the financial and economic sectors to predict market developments and exchange rate trends. In these areas, CEP patterns emerge from relationships between the factors time, cause (dependency between events) and aggregation (significance of an event's activity towards other events). In a location-aware CEP these aspects are extended by additional parameters indicating spatial information of the event.
The new approach of integrating the "location" parameter into CEP systems, which is pursued in this paper, allows for rule-based data processing of measurement data and for creating complex events accordingly. These can be related to time (temporal validity), space (e.g., geo-fencing with geographic "intersect", "overlap" or "join" operations) or measurement parameters (e.g., threshold exceedances).
As geo-referenced data is subject for further processing, one important aspect is to control its data quality. Quality criteria comprise lineage, logical consistency, completeness, temporal quality, or spatial accuracy. From a practical viewpoint, this means that the location may be used to define quality indicators which can be integrated into CEP pattern rules. This happens by the use of external geographical code libraries, as presented in Subsection 5.3.
Within the Live Geography approach, it is primarily used for performing operations on events and synchronously derived event data (e.g., sensor fusion results). These operations comprise—amongst others—quality assurance like filtering and error detection, whereas more complex processing is performed by data fusion and geo-processing operations. In effect, this means that the CEP component can trigger a geo-processing or data-fusion operation based on an event that appears in fused data.
As described in Subsection 4.2.4, the OGC Sensor Alert Service (SAS) specifies interfaces (not a service in the traditional sense) enabling sensors to advertise and publish alerts including according metadata. In the SAS specification, "alerts" are not only understood in the classic meaning of the word,
From an implementation viewpoint, SAS may be integrated with a CEP system as it operates asynchronously—after a synchronous initialisation process. An adapter for the service manages the subscriptions and converts received alerts into events that can be processed by the filtering engine. The adapter itself maintains a list of all established connections. A connection comprises several subscriptions and their corresponding chat rooms (MUC). In order to retrieve a sensor subscription, the adapter sends a request. This request can be used for all three types of service operations—
A challenging particularity is that SAS lacks advanced filtering capabilities. Thus, CEP rules cannot be matched directly onto the SAS interface. This issue is resolved in that state-of-the-art CEP engines rely on adapters to fetch the data that should be processed. Such an adapter has been used to create a pre-selection layer transforming data into pre-defined event types - as only pre-processed information can be parsed by a CEP system. Basically the adapter is connected to the SAS and uses the small set of provided filtering capabilities to create a further subset of data for CEP. Since a central CEP issue is handling huge amounts of data in relatively short time, this pre-selection can be used to narrow down the relevant dataset. The wide range of CEP capabilities can then be applied to this reduced set. Moreover, a CEP module is needed to connect the CEP engine with the data adapter and the resulting complex events. Within this research, a prototype has been implemented using the Esper CEP engine. This technology choice is motivated in Subsection 5.3.
For the integration of geographic topological functions in the filtering process, it is necessary to offer a possibility to define these functions when entering a CEP rule. The Esper CEP engine provides this functionality in the form of User-Defined Functions (UDF). A set of topological rules (based on open-source Java Topology Suite) has been implemented for OGC Simple Features, as described in Subsection 5.3.
Concluding, it shall be stated that SAS can be combined with CEP in a very modular fashion allowing for loose coupling of event processing and alerting/notification components. A future point of discussion is the integration of CEP and alerting with the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS). This issue is however not in the scope of this paper.
The implementation described within this section comprises a tailor-made sensing device, embedded implementations of SOS and SAS services, a CEP and alerting module, and an optimised database schema. All these components are unified on an embedded device (as explained below) and make up an intelligent sensor pod. The underlying scientific challenge is the conception of a framework, which allows for the integration of standardised pre-processed sensor measurements into GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
The measurement device has been particularly designed for pervasive monitoring applications using ubiquitous embedded sensing technologies. The system has been conceived in such a modular way that the base platform can be used within a variety of sensor web applications such as environmental monitoring, biometric parameter surveillance, critical infrastructure protection, or energy network observation by simply changing the interfaced sensors.
As it can be seen from
Furthermore, a lightweight database is utilised on the sensor device to provide for the possibility of short-term data storage. This enables trend analysis and quality assurance, and reduces communication overhead with the central archive database.
The intelligent sensor pod implements the most essential standards of the SWE family, as illustrated in
The pod connects sensors via a variety of hardware interfaces such as serial, UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter), I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), Universal Serial Bus (USB), ZigBee, Bluetooth
Compared to general-purpose computers (e.g., PCs), embedded devices are particularly characterised by their specific functionality and their real-time capabilities. Thus, embedded devices are employed in a wide variety of applications, ranging from MP3 players to industrial control devices, building automation, or automated diagnosis systems in the automotive sector. The main characteristics of embedded devices are thus:
tailored design for a specific field of application integrative design minimised costs low energy consumption optimised software infrastructure constrained capabilities of the hardware infrastructure
tailored design for a specific field of application
integrative design
minimised costs
low energy consumption
optimised software infrastructure
constrained capabilities of the hardware infrastructure
The sensor pod used in this implementation consists of a COTS embedded device, an ISEE IGEPv2 platform including an ARM7-based Cortex A8 600 MHz processor with 512 MB RAM and 32 MB flash memory, as shown in
In the configuration for this specific implementation, a GPS module (U-BLOX NEO 4S and LEA-4P) has been attached for positioning. Different sensors (e.g., LM92 temperature, Toradex Oak USB for air temperature and humidity, NONIN 8000SM oxygen saturation and pulse, or SSM1 radiation sensors) have been interfaced via standardised interfaces like UART, I2C, USB
The size of the complete sensor pod is approximately 93 × 65 × 10 mm,
The electric charge is defined as the product of current conduction and time (
The above calculation was done using an assumed electric charge of 4,000 mAh, which is held by a reasonably-sized rechargeable Lithium-ion Polymer (LiPo) battery (140 × 40 × 10 mm)—where its capacity and size is naturally dependent on the specific use case—and a constant voltage of 5 V as per the specifications of the embedded device. In a production environment, the sensor pod shuts down non-active components (transmission unit, GPS receiver
The sensing device runs a customised version of the
The hardware drivers for interfacing sensors and reading their measurements make up the first part of the embedded software infrastructure. As the geographical position is an essential must-parameter in geo-sensor webs, the sensor pod always interfaces a location sensor (e.g., a GPS/Galileo module, a ZigBee/WiFi-based positioning component
These measurements are then read by a special sensor daemon that essentially builds the bridge between the sensors and the internal software components. The daemon, which is running in the background, interprets the bit stream coming from the sensor interface and converts it into meaningful measurement data.
These data are then stored into an embedded database (
HTTPS is considered a high enough security level for this implementation providing a secure channel between server and client using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Web Service Security (WSS), would be a viable alternative providing message-based security. However, as WSS is using the SOAP, it is characterised by large overhead, which is not well suitable for embedded sensor unit implementations.
Due to its small footprint and open-source availability, the
As alerting functionality including CEP and SAS implementations is a vital part of the workflow, it is treated separately in 6.3.
Finally, the "top" of the software stack in
In order to allow for short-term storage of sensor measurements, the sensor pod runs an embedded database. It basically serves for organisation of a small amount of data sets (e.g., 12.500 entries as explained below) to enable quality control, error detection or trend analysis, directly on the embedded device.
The requirements for the implementation of an embedded database are a minimal footprint and support for the quasi-standardised Structured Query Language (SQL). Thus, SQLite was chosen, which is a "self-contained, server-less, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine" [
The initial realisation of an OGC-conformant Sensor Observation Service (SOS) is done by the open-source initiative 52° North [
The model is divided into three categories of sensor data sub-sets. Firstly, the observation part contains the observation itself and the feature of interest; secondly, the measurements section comprises the phenomena and procedures; and thirdly the values set covers the measurement values itself including their position. These terms are defined in Subsection 5.2.1.
The embedded database schema has been designed towards simplifying SOS queries while aiming for an optimal trade-off between normalisation, completeness and performance. The element structure is highly similar to SOS process logic and to O&M data structures. For the Live Geography implementation, the database holds 12.500 measurement values, which approximately corresponds to 1 MB of data volume presuming that one dataset is 80 bytes. This limit was set to account for the specific sensor device's limited storage capacities and can naturally be adapted for other use cases. The presented relational schema is reasonably scalable as it uses few constraints, but still corresponds to the 4th normal form. In order to prevent m:n-relations, interim tables have been inserted to ensure data integrity.
To allow for longer-term data analysis, the measurements stored directly on the sensing device have to be transferred to an archive database, which is housed in a central data warehouse. However, this collection database has not been set-up within the implementation phase of this research as this is a standard process without major research aspect. Several spatial relational database products offer ready-to-use automated synchronisation mechanisms. Thus, it was not necessary to develop a dedicated software component for this purpose. However, it shall be noted that a database storing historical measurement data is naturally essential for sophisticated longer-term analysis in the context of fully-fledged Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI).
For standardised data retrieval, a service has been created implementing the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Sensor Model Language (SensorML) and Observations and Measurements (O&M) standards in an application-specific way. Like this, measurement data are served via HTTP/HTTPS over UMTS in the standardised XML-based O&M format over the SOS service interface. SensorML is used to describe the whole sensor platform as well as to control the sensor via the OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS), e.g., to dynamically adjust measurement cycles. It shall be mentioned that SPS has to date only been implemented in a rudimentary prototype. Finally, SAS is responsible for creating events and alerts from measurement data. The overall service stack on the embedded sensing device is illustrated in
The OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) serves for querying measurement data from the embedded sensing unit. The service implements the three mandatory methods as specified by the OGC SOS standard [
According to the OGC O&M standard [ observation—an act of observing a property or phenomenon, with the goal of producing an estimate of the value of the property. A specialised event whose result is a data value. phenomenon—concept that is a characteristic of one or more feature types, the value for which may be estimated by application of some procedure in an observation. property—characteristic of a feature type, including attribute, association role, defined behaviour, feature association, specialisation, and generalisation relationship and constraints. procedure—method, algorithm or instrument. It is the description of a process used to generate the result. It must be suitable for the observed property. result—an estimate of the value of some property generated by a known procedure. featureOfInterest—a feature (abstraction of a real-world phenomenon) of any type, which is a representation of the observation target, being the real-world object, regarding which the observation is made.
observation—an act of observing a property or phenomenon, with the goal of producing an estimate of the value of the property. A specialised event whose result is a data value.
phenomenon—concept that is a characteristic of one or more feature types, the value for which may be estimated by application of some procedure in an observation.
property—characteristic of a feature type, including attribute, association role, defined behaviour, feature association, specialisation, and generalisation relationship and constraints.
procedure—method, algorithm or instrument. It is the description of a process used to generate the result. It must be suitable for the observed property.
result—an estimate of the value of some property generated by a known procedure.
featureOfInterest—a feature (abstraction of a real-world phenomenon) of any type, which is a representation of the observation target, being the real-world object, regarding which the observation is made.
The implemented Sensor Alert Service (SAS) is responsible for sending alerts, which have been triggered by events created in the CEP engine, as explained in Subsection 5.3. The service implements the mandatory operations according to the specification, namely
As its name indicates, the
Furthermore, a CEP and alerting mechanism based on Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), conformant to the OGC Sensor Alerting Service (SAS) specification has been implemented. For generating alerts, the SAS standard has been implemented for mobile sensor devices. SAS, which is part of the SWE initiative, specifies interfaces allowing sensors to advertise and publish alerts including according metadata.
Alerts, which are based on SAS filter rules, are defined as "data" sent from the SAS to the client or, in this case, to a Complex Event Processing Engine (CEP). Data can either be alerts/notifications (e.g., OGC WNS) or actual sensing data (measurements matching pre-defined criteria). As SAS is based on the standardised XMPP protocol, alerts can be broadcasted very efficiently over the internet to subscribed consumers [
Within the Live Geography concept, CEP is used for detecting patterns in measurement data and for creating complex events accordingly. These can be related to time, space or measurement parameters, as explained in Subsection 4.3. These CEP operations can occur at two different stages of the workflow. Firstly, at sensor level CEP is used to detect errors in measurement values by performing different statistical calculations including standard deviations, spatial and temporal averaging, or outlier detection. Secondly, after the data harmonisation process CEP serves for spatio-temporal pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and alert generation in case of threshold transgression.
For sending events created by the CEP engine, a push-based SAS compliant alerting service has been realised. In this case, SAS is an asynchronous service connecting a sensor in a network to an observation client. If specified rules apply, a pre-defined alert is sent to subscribed clients via XMPP. It shall be stated that the whole communication between the embedded XMPP server (jabberd2) and the client is XML-based for simplifying machine-to-machine (M2M) messaging.
In the actual implementation, the Esper CEP engine in its version 3.0.0 has been used because of its open availability, Event Query Language (EQL) based event description, and its simple integration by just including a single Java library. The evaluation of available geographic code libraries yielded that the Java Topology Suite (JTS) is the preferable solution for this implementation because of its easy integration. This choice has been taken despite GeoTools offers a richer feature set. However, JTS' features are more than enough for location-aware CEP implementations.
Generally speaking, the event processing component connects the data layer (
Finally, the
The SOS service is the main interface for data provision. It follows the classical OGC Web Services (OWS) pull-based request-response model as defined by OGC—see Subsection 5.1.2 for more detailed information. For near real-time applications, the service's performance is essential. Thus, the sensing device has been tested under the following pre-conditions:
The database on the embedded device contained 1,000 measurement data sets. All datasets were queried. The IP-based communication happened over UMTS. The pod's IP address was mapped via DynDNS ( Position information was captured via DPGS enhanced by NTRIP correction parameters. Qualitative measurements were collected using the radiation sensor SSM-1, which was connected to the embedded device via the RS232 interface. During the whole test, measurements (time, position and radiation dose rate) were recorded at a one-second interval. A number of 100 data queries were performed over an interval of five minutes.
The database on the embedded device contained 1,000 measurement data sets.
All datasets were queried.
IP-based communication happened over UMTS.
The pod's IP address was mapped via DynDNS (
Position information was captured via DPGS enhanced by NTRIP correction parameters.
Qualitative measurements were collected using the radiation sensor SSM-1, which was connected to the embedded device via the RS232 interface.
During the whole test, measurements (time, position and radiation dose rate) were recorded at a one-second interval.
A number of 100 data queries were performed over an interval of five minutes.
The tests yielded an average response time of 1.9 seconds, where the size of the O&M-encoded SOS response was approximately 38 kB. The measured response time includes sending the request on the client side, parsing it on the server side, querying the embedded database, encapsulating the measurements in O&M-conformal format, and sending the
These performance figures show that the presented intelligent sensor pod is capable of providing measurement data in near real-time. It shall be mentioned that the IP address mapping through DynDNS and data transmission via the cellular network introduce latencies, which could be mitigated by the use of alternative communication technologies such as WLAN. However, the goal of these tests was to evaluate the system's performance in a realistic real-world scenario instead of in an optimised lab environment.
As mentioned in Subsection 3.1, standardisation is a vital prerequisite for creating interoperable and portable infrastructures. To achieve maximum interoperability, standardisation has to be applied throughout the whole workflow, ranging from unified data encapsulation and representation to service interfaces for data provision, event detection and alert generation, and to workflow management.
As shown in
The OGC pursues a double-sided approach in establishing geospatial standards. General standards are developed in a top-down fashion. For instance, the GML standard has been created aiming to model every single object in the world while being as generic as possible. In contrast, standards such as KML have been created out of a concrete need of specialised companies (in the case of KML, Google needed a format for data representation for their 3D viewer Google Earth). In case of broad support and development perspectives, these formats are then officially adopted as OGC standards.
The establishment of open architectures can benefit in various ways from the use of open standards. First, standardised data representation/provision, and information visualisation foster
Another crucial benefit of using open standards is simple
One trade-off when using open standards is that
Summarising, it can be stated that open standards in pervasive measurement infrastructures foster interoperability and reusability. The main goal is to achieve request uniformity within the system. Moreover, the integration of new and emerging standards such as OGC SWE is a main focus in the sensor web part of the Live Geography approach. This allows for automated M2M communication as sensor data can be automatically integrated into real-time analysis processes.
The widespread availability of sensor data with high spatial and temporal resolution is expected to increase dramatically with rapidly decreasing sensor prices [
From a technical viewpoint, unresolved research challenges for ubiquitous monitoring infrastructures are manifold and include: finding a uniform representation method for measurement values, optimising data routing algorithms in multi-hop networks, data fusion, and developing optimal data visualisation and presentation methods. The latter issue is an essential aspect of decision support systems, as different user groups might need different views of the underlying information. Naturally, there are a number of well-known domain-specific technical issues (energy supply, mote size, robustness, routing, ad-hoc network connections, connectivity, self-healing mechanisms
From a political and legal standpoint, national and international legislative bodies are called upon to foster the introduction of open standards in public institutions. Comprehensive efforts in this direction are made by the European Commission through targeted directives such as INSPIRE, which aims at Europe-wide harmonisation of discovery and usage of geo-data for analysing and solving environmental issues [
This paper presents the technical infrastructure for an intelligent standardised embedded sensing device, which is part of the Live Geography approach. The goal of this research is that the resultant highly flexible measurement and analysis architecture will bring sensor network applications one step further towards the realisation of the vision of a "digital skin for planet earth". The broad objective of this research is to develop an overarching infrastructure for various kinds of sensor web applications. The developed architecture can potentially have far-reaching impacts on sensor-based monitoring systems through the deployment of ubiquitous and fine-grained sensor webs.
A vital prerequisite to achieve this comprehensive vision is extensive use of open standards in measurement data provision, sensor fusion, analysis and visualisation. Unlike proprietary monolithic systems, this enables automated M2M communication across multiple application domains. Thus, such an approach supports the occurring paradigm shift in GIS that the creation of added value is not revolving around data anymore, but around processes, and increasingly around (information) services.
The intelligent sensor pod presented in this paper uses a wide range of (geospatial) standards such as OGC's SOS, SAS in connection with Complex Event Processing (CEP), SensorML, O&M, GML, and KML. This addresses current compatibility issues between existing and new sensor networks by creating of a common communication framework. The long-term goal is to support the establishment of pervasive sensor webs, providing the basis for ubiquitous and holistic information services.
The particular novelties of our approach can be summarised as follows:
Two main challenges in geo-sensor web research in the coming years will be to harmonise existing networks with upcoming efforts, and to establish automated sensor discovery mechanisms as proposed in [
This work has been funded by the European Commission (FP7 project GENESIS, reference No. 223996), the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (ERASTAR project G2real), and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. The authors would like to thank all involved groups at the Research Studios Austria—iSPACE and the MIT SENSEable City Lab.
Current Approach—Monolithic Single-purpose Sensor Systems.
General SOS Usage Concept (Adapted from [
General SAS Functionality [
General CEP Architecture with Data Processing Levels (Adapted from [
Communication of the Sensor Device with other Components in the Workflow.
ISEE IGEPv2 with GPS and a Combined Air Temperature and Humidity Sensor.
Software Infrastructure on the Embedded Sensing Device.
Relational Schema of the Embedded Measurement Database Structure.
OGC Data Model for O&M.
Internal Service Stack of the CEP Component.
Standardisation Bodies Classified by Legal Bindingness and Genericness.


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jacuzzi, heated indoor pool, delicious breakfast, friendly staff, good location
clean breakfast buffet, rain water leaking from ceiling in restaurant and corridors, bathroom facilities, gym well equipped but in poor state of maintenance, general state of decoration
- View to the Mediterranean Sea. - Breakfast. - Proximity to points of interest (if you have a car). - Good room.
In this hotel one finds relaxing time ,privacy, good service , breakfast very good and the prices in the caffeteria were very good .
Room and facilities excellent, the staff was very friendly and hepfull, easy reach to bus and promenade.
Good location and good access to public transport. Friendly personel.
I could find no fault in the hotel. The breakfast was particularly lovely I have nothing to complain about
location pool area rather simple, run-down
clean, a bit good looking too, wide spaces and good swimming pool. It's very close to the bus terminal it's a bit far away from the night life
Location and friendly helpfull staff
why not have coffee and tes facilities in the rooms?
Good staf, good view, good breakfast. The room was a little old and in some spot dirty. (curtains)
Good facilities, good breakfast, clean room, courteous staff only a very minor thing but would have been better to have fitted sheets and bigger pillows!
friendly and competent personal, services, variety of breakfast and dinner buffet,
the view and the courtesy bus was good service.... expensive bar...sheets only chaned once in 9 days..breakfast buffet was poor and flies on food...poor exchange rate on sterling....no tea and coffee facilities provided unless you pay extra which in a 4 star hotel should be in the room anyway...waited about i hour for iron and board..did not except sterling in bar and had to wait about 20 mins while reception did the tills so they could change.
every thing been six times here everything great nothing
Unfriendly staff, bad cleaning, lack of distinctness about service in the restaurant, old furnitures. For five days nobody start vacuum-cleaner in our room. I'll never propose this hotel. Additional the hotel is far from any cities. If you want to use remote control for TV, then you should pay for remote control.
Great hotel, fantastic position, large & clean rooms, nice staff
Bathrooms by pool in poor condition
swimmingpool / beach accomodation old fashion furnuture in hotelroom massive breakfast with hunderd of people running for food with awfull coffee
only stayed one night but the staff were very friendly and courteous, place was well maintained
Was comfortable, nice sea view, good pools, decent food and quiet atmosphere Incompetent staff..we were given the wrong keys at first. When we came all the way down for new keys, were given an average 2-star room. When we complained again, we were given a better room but still slightly inferior to other rooms of the same standard. Not just that our room was located at the far end of the corridor, and quite far from the lifts so was always time consuming going in and out of the hotel.
There was no noise in the evenings so no problems getting to sleep. Lovely swimming pools. Very busy dining room, had to wait for a table. Had to change room after one night very small room and no terrace. Next room had no sun on the terrace.
Locations was good. Close to bus station. The breakfast buffet was pretty good. They gave us a horrible room with a useless shower. I complained, then they upgraded us two twin beds. It was like night and day. They never replenished any of the consumables. I would recommend a better hotel. This is more like a three star hotel.
Great room. Great view. The beds were uncomfortable. Very hard. Requested queen bed but got twin beds pushed together. Staff seem to be teenagers working during summer holiday and weren't helpful with simple requests like 'where can I get a beach towel?' Although you wouldn't need to ask if the information in the guest directory was correct.
We found the staff to be very helpful and friendly. The whole atmosphere was very relaxing even when the hotel was busy a conference
Leaving(!) and the spa I was booked to stay for only 4 nights and tried 3 rooms in my time there. The first night they stuck me in the time share apartments .... dirty, smelly, mouldy, other people's laundry blocking the door to (167)my room, I could go on. Next they moved me to a room which wasn't an awful lot better (374). Finally they moved me to a room which was 'ok' (128), but certainly not 4*. Ensure you get a good room!
Quiet at night even though in St. Julian's; View from the balcony is nice; Spacious rooms; Rooms need renovation; New towels need to be purchased as the ones available are already worn-out; Type of room whether twin or king should be clarified upon room reservation.
Surrounded by buildings under contruction. No view at all.
Not enough pool. DIdn't like the area it was located near.
good gym facilites but it is not a 5 star hotel by international standards. room was not cleaned until 7.30 pm on one occassion and rest of stay usually after 3pm. did not replenish tea and coffee supplies had to ask ofr them each day. no hotel dressing gowns provided as stipulated in literature(telling of facilites) that was missing from room unitl 2 days before we left.
Suitable location, our room on the 10th floor facing the internal garten was quiet with comportable temperature without using any air conditioning Cleaningness of the pool, the pool area, toiletts and showers.
Amazing property! Wonderful service and very delicious food at two hotel restaurants, I would absolutely stay here again! The staff was wonderful, some of the best service I have ever received and I travel all over the world!
Comfortable and well equipped There were problems with interent connection, lack of access to TV channels and the air conditioning started leaking in the middle of the night.
The staff were trying very hard to make up for the short comings from the hotel facilities. The rooms had a smell of dampness and the location of the hotel was in the busiest night spot in Malta. You would probably enjoy this if you were a teenager, however at our age it was a bit too much to bear.
The fee upgrade to a junior suite, the friendliness of the staff upon arrival The overall impression given by the hotel is not the one of a 5 stars, from the bed and furnitures of the room to the various common spaces and pools. It looks more like a 4 stars or a very good 3 stars.
A very nice sea-side restaurant Paranga. The room really smells - that wet sort of smell embeded in the old sea-side hotels. Very annoying.
very clean and a good position none
friendly and attentive staff the room was good value , but the light fitting was loose .
Location Gym and pool facilities were not part of room rate and seperate to hotel
It's on the main road and across the street from the water's edge. The furniture in the room was better than we expected (after reading some comments by other users) The hotel's name cannot be seen from the road which makes it a bit hard to find. We drove by it a couple of times and had to call the hotel to see where they are exactly.Mattresses in the room we got need to be replaced since they are saggy & uncomfortable. Pillows are old and lumpy and bedspreads need replacing. Pity these things are not looked after as the room itself and furniture were fine. However, we did not complain to the hotel about them since we only stayed one night.
The shower did not have much power.The room was dark with a small room - but it was economy. The lifts were very slow to arrive. Tea and coffe could be arranged better at breakfast for a faster moving queue.
The patio and swimming pool area were quite decent, with a nice view and the kids area well separated from the relaxing and quiet "adult part". Very nice animation crew, organising fun activities and just chatting. I really didn't like the fact that the reception staff wasn't very considerate of my age (27) and recommended me a full day tour that was clearly organised for pensioners over 60 (apologies for my ageism, but it works both ways, my Mum wouldn't enjoy a full day tour with a bunch of 20 year old screaming and boozing kids!) ! I think the fact that the reception staff if forbidden to advise the hotel guest about other activities that we can participate in the area (like snorkelling, sailing) only because they are organised by the companies that are not in co-operation with the hotel is quite sad. I would enjoy my stay more if the staff would be a bit more open minded about this.
Excellant staff, nice pool area Hotel room furnitury, pool bar
fantastic hotel. rooms cleaned every day. we were given a sea view room with balcony which was amazing. all rooms mare big and spacious.all staff were extremely helpful especially when i fell over and they arranged me a wheelchair to be delivered from a local hire company. turns out i have broken my leg in 2 places swo very grateful for this. lovely pool area. beautiful hotel. would visit again. only thing is as i was in a wheelchair we had to use the lifts that were a bit tempramental and took forever to come to 3rd floor. also sometimes the didnt align properley so it was hard to get out of them in the chair but overall a very small problem.
Location-on the seaside and naer to the bus station. By the reservation there was no information that the economy room is without balcony and a connected room-very noisy!!! Even after our complaint by the manager on duty nothing was done:( Safe should be included in room price (4* hotel?!).
Good evening entertainment. Bathrooms need upgrading (significant mould and poor quality plastic bathroom suite)
The view from the balcony was exceptional, pool area was nice and proximity to restaurants was also good. Lots of things. It could in no way be classed as a four star hotel.
Large rooms. Very nice poolarea!! Good value for money. We got a good price trough booking.com The room was very dirty when we arrived. The hotel in general needs some upgrading.
This is my second time staying in the Corinthia St George,St Pauls Bay.. We had a very enjoyable week spent mostly sunbathing and swimming. The hotel buffet is very good.They have a nice gym and indoor pool which we used in the evenings.I like the Corinthia and hope to stay there on my next trip.
The room / suite was very comfortable The room was not ready when we arrived, even though we arrived well after allowed check in time.I had to call twice to get bathrobe. Heavy rain caused a leak in the ceiling.
Location was very good. The poolarea was fantastic.
Ther wasn't any tea or coffee making facilities in the room, I feel this is essential.
fantastic friendly hospitality...definitely made up for shortcomings, very child friendly room rather small, in need of modernisation. Breakfast not 5-star
Bayview Restaurant was buffet only which is a shame for the restaurant with the best views of all the hotels' restaurants
size of room size of balcony
Opulant surroundings and quality of service from the staff corridors were not kept clean. Bath was in poor condition
The view from our balcony, pool area, local amenities and the early evening live music played from the foyer balcony We were first shown a room at the front of the building, the balcony and view not as good as the room we moved to. To cater for all preferences it would be nice to have double rooms available at the front and back, and twin rooms available for business people front and back.
Pleasant room with a sea view and balcony which had sun most of the day. Room was clean, well maintained and comfortable. Ineffecient ventillation/air conditioning. Despite the fact it was autumn, the room was always too hot to sleep when I returned on an evening. The ventillation system was noisy. Due to mosquitos it was not practicable to leave the patio door open.
Friendliness and efficiency of reception and concierge staff Good tables cleared and reset very slowly at breakfast time
good value for money, because of special price. Did not read others wiews
Good breakfast selection and location (over looking St Julians Bay). Access to sunbeds and private section of sea. No, all in all decent value for money; it was my fifth stay at the hotel.
The comfort and facilites are what you would expect from a 5 star establishment. The location is perfect. Just a short walk around the bay to where the action is, clubs pubs restaurants etc, but far enough that there was no passing traffic or disturbance. Full choice of breakfast, English or continental All rooms have a sea view, some better than others, ours was fine! Our room was close to the lobby area. Guests arriving late could keep you awake. some of the facilites spa and indoor pool were located in the sister hotel next door, probably why the Marina's rates are less
It is nice and good hotel in excellent location near good night life area, the room is good and has more enough space, comfortable bed and good bathroom. sometimes there are sounds from above as furniture movement.
Location by the sea. Good breakfast. Very friendly staff. After the high season the childrens play area had apparently been closed, which was a shame as we were lacking things to do when it rained for a couple of days during our stay. Not quite the family hotel I imagined it would be. Nice hotel though. For some reason there was a smell of cigarette smoke in the bathroom for the whole 6 days we stayed there. I have no idea where this smell originated from.
I enjoyed the location. Thank you AnnMarie for your "awesome service." Limited shuttle service to and from Valletta and Sliema, hint, people need transportation during the weekends. I would consider checking the temperature on your cold items that you serve for breakfest. The yougart I had was not cold at all, a breeding ground for bacteria growth and spoilage, and my tea kettle I had something floating in it. Paying attention to details will make the difference.
As someone who likes to hop around hotels I ended up staying here for a night. The adjacent hotel, that guest have access to, has a very nice pool area and the staff at both hotels are very accommodating. As someone that jumped around a lot of hotels in St Julian's I can assure you this is not the one that you will get the most bang for your buck. It is old, the exterior and interior need to be redone and the pool area for the hotel is ok at best, having a tiny pool, smaller than typical ones in your backyard. If the price is similar stay at the Radisson or if you don't need a resort stay at the Argento.
Staff were very friendly and helpful Hotel is very big and making your way to the lobby from your room can take a while.
The hotel was directly on the coast with wonderful views. We had a good size room with a very comfortable bed and the bathroom was modern and clean. The hotel was very convenient for public transport as well as for local shops and a choice of restaurants. The staff were very friendly and helpful and there was a very good choice for breakfast. Overall we very much enjoyed our stay. Just one or two points worth mentioning: the airconditioning system in the room worked well in the day but was largely ineffective during the night, resulting in a stuffy room. Disappointingly, breakfast was served in a rather cold marquee, which, admittedly we were there in October, but I think a greater effort could have been made to provide a larger indoor eating area. On the days when it was warm enough we could eat outside on the wonderful terrasse.
Reception staff were very nice Room stunk like cigarette smoke after cleaning.
I have stayed at the Maritim Antonine before and have found it easy to find, very relaxing, very helpful & friendly staff all around the hotel. The Spa treatments are wonderful, good value for money and free use of the sauna & steam rooms is great. There is a wonderful relaxation room too where you can just sit and relax. N/A
The Hotel food is very good, the rooms are clean. TV wasnt working properly..
Good views if you get a sea view room A bit dated for a four star hotel..but still good value, if the improvements are made if would be great value...
Very big room, excellent food would definately go again
the chance for a good price to get a very comfortable room with a nice view of the bay through the window and SPA included. Also there is a chance to eat in one of few different quality/price level restaurants in the complex. The internet is not for free. Even the service to buy internet access for 24 hours I couldn't buy at the reception, because they were out of it. Also, it is quiet distant from Valletta or Paceville so if you plan to spend a night partying you should plan your trip back to hotel by taxi, which is costly.
We arrived late from the airport and found it easily in the dark without a map, simply following the signs from the airport to the area the hotel was in. The breakfast room was lovely with outdoor seating in the garden. 3 swimming pools to choose from although as it was winter we didn't use them. Lovely area, still close to St Julians and Sliema by car due to the fact that Malta is such a small island. Excellent off-peak rates. The car parking set up is terrible. We had a medium sized car and had to wind our way slowly down the circular tunnel, stopping to reverse and line up several times in order not to hit the wall. After the first night we decided to use street parking instead which we found very easy as it was off-peak season.
Very nice, modern hotel, our room was beautiful, spacious and very clean. Breakfast was amazing : wide selection of food. The staff was very friendly. For people looking for intimity, the bathroom is very modern but the door can't be completely closed... 45 minutes by bus from Valetta.
Relatively inexpensive cost for room, location is close to public bus stops and restaurants / cafes (the restaurant Al Ponte attached to hotel was excellent), and I had a great experience at the bar (very friendly bartender) and spa (great massage!) I had ants all over my floor and throughout the entire bathroom upon check-in, the room smelled like sewage, the air quality was stale and the room was humid, the towels were very thin and worn, and although the complimentary breakfast had many options and the food was okay, the quality of the juice and coffee was very poor.
Loved the hotel, great value for money! Lovely SPA with a nice pool (although there were kids&babies after 12pm which according to their own rules shouldnt have been there - allowed only in the morning because its a SPA where people should be able to relax - they should act on it) & the breakfast was quite elaborate as well. Nothing but a good experience this was.
Breakfast was great, a great variety of food. The restaurant besides the hotel (run by the hotel) is great, good italian food and good price. The staff at the reception desk should try to be nicer, at least, one smile.
The location was excellent and the price was very affordable! I wasn't disappointed with the choice of my booking! The beds were two single beds. I expected a double bed. Also, the breakfast starts at 7.30am - for me it was too late since I had to check out at 7am.
amazing choice of breakfast! great location and nice pool area. Great being able to sit outside for a drink in the evening. towels and bed a bit hard, decor old fashioned - could have made more use of fabulous position
The pool area and sun deck and very nice, and the food, especially breakfasts were superb Extremely noisy neighbours, playing load music late at night
A very good hotel with good facilities. Clean and accommodating staff. May be a little difficult to access sea due to sea conditions. However, 4 large swimming pools available
the staff where very nice polite and helpfull, the entertainment was good and the bar at the deck was excellent
the atmosphere was great and relaxing and the staff was extremely helpful and friendly the water was a bit expensive...make sure that you purchase it from the grocery next door....bottle of water in hotel cost euro 4.5
Large and quiet room, nice decor, location next to the bay. Very good Thai restaurant. Poor quality of breakfast. Pooor quality of dinner in the main restaurant. Sheets were not changed daily. Very aggressive communication such as "you mustn't touch anything in the minibar or you will be charged a fortune". The hotel blocked 400eur on my credit card for two weeks.
Just returned from Hotel Hilton Malta feeling very relaxed. Hotel was great with excellent restaurants on site and within walking distance at the marina and nearby Spinola Bay,
Scenery was pleasent but it was a little bit uphill slope to climb! The hotel. Generally if I go to malta I would prefer it again.
The executive lounge was very good for breakfast and pre dinner drinks, felt that it should have stayed open for after dinner drinks.Good location. Access to certain parts of the building required changing lifts.
Staff were all v. v. friendly, location, breakfast is one of the best Hilton breakfasts I've had, pools, good offer on the spa on a rainy day. Room cleaning was not up to scratch, it was of the 'lick and a promise' variety. Bed changed only once during 7 nights' stay, @ €415 per night...Housekeeping walks straight in without knocking, which is really not on. Car park is a very strange affair with hidden lifts and level 5 inside the hotel is level 0 in the car park, utterly confusing.
Everything was excellent, staff, rooms, location, they had great half/full package deals. Kids had lots to do and really enoyed themselves. Lots of sport facilities so we did lots of sports, could eat well and did not put on a gramme of weight!!!
did'nt a room with full sea view even though start of season
Staff are excellent - very friendly and helpful Very Very poor value for money compared to the Intercontinental just round the corner. We stayed in a Tower room which leaked water from the rain and required a new carpet. For the same money at the Inter we could have stayed in a family room and used the VIP lounge. Breakfast was expensive and evening meal was poor for the money. We actually ended up eating at the sports bar in the Inter for 2 nights which has a better menu and far better value for money
The staff and facilities at the hotel were excellent. Very clean hotel and helpful staff. The lounge bar with piano is gorgeous. Can't say anything negative about the hotel.
Absolutely everything - from check-in to check-out! The staff were professional and genuinely friendly. The room was large and comfortable and we had a side view of the pool and the bay. Even if we had a minor problem or question, it was immediatly taken care of. The indoor pool and the gym was excellent, as was the steam room and sauna. Breakfast was yummy, drinks at the bar were classy and the one dinner we had at the hotel was delicious. The gymand indoor pool were not open til after 4pm on New Year's Day (after we had checked-out).
Friendliness off staff, excellent service and food, comfort and ambiance of hotel
i did't like the fact that they block 150 euros on my credit card when we arrive for the future expensis during my stay. i never heard of such thing before!
Clean and nice hotel. The Reef Club was not open, and they did not inform about this. Even the staff at the orher pool did not know there was such a club! It was supposed to open next week, but seeing the spot, I doubt it...
The hotel staff made the stay pleasant. Enjoyed the lobby bar/restaurant with live piano undertainment in the evening. The wardrobe facilities including the sauna by the indoor pool needs upgrading. The fact that it also is used by none hotel residents makes it to much public. Quite a few people were making their full morning toilet.
Wonderful hotel, excellent facilities and friendly staff.
The view from the bedroom, the space in the foyer, the comfort of the hotel. Happy with hotel
It was very expenisve to eat and drink in the hotel
Kindness of Hotel staff Presence of many ants in room 634, however in good igienic conditions
The massages Loud whistling noise from closed windows when the wind was blowing outside.
Good location, nice rooms Staff not very helpful, food average, courtesy bus offered costs more than public transport
excellent room service, friendly staff, terrace, sea view location a bit far away from mainstream cultural, tourist, shopping and night life.
It was a really relaxing and enjoyable experience. The hotel had every facility possible, with lots of pools, deckchairs, several good quality restaurants,, a gym, shop and hairdresser. The buffet breakfast was magnificent. Our room looked out over the sea and it was quiet. The staff were friendly and obliging. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The beds in the room were very narrow single beds. I would have expected two queen size beds or at least king singles for that price. The bathroom is tired and needs retiling. The toilet leaked and it smelled.
Friendliness of staff they were great!!! Absolutely nothing and we have been travelling and staying in hotels for 3 mths and this was the best - the people made it
Food menu was horrible and they tried to charge me for mini bar items upon check-out. I didn't even know there was a mini bar. .
Location, great view , comfortable room Didn`t feel as luxurious as expected for 5 star hotel
dining refrigerator
Great value for money and very friendly staff Queing for a mediocre and somewhat tasteless breakfast. I didn't use them, but the swimming pools (very small outdoor and large bath indoor) must be woefully inadequate during the summer. Not an issue for me, but certainly one for a family.
The tranquillity that there is in this hotel is really billiant during the night and the food is good the drinks at the bar are fair price ........the room was clean hotel is clean aswell I would go there again in a short time for sure The only thing that I did not like was that in the restaurant ...... there is a rush to finish your meal cause there is a function afterwords and they start to clear the restaurant at 20.15 when the last serving is at 20.00 and befor everyone is finished they start peprering the food for the other function and what is finished for that time is not replaced I think that it is a pitty cause all is good and fine there
nice and clean hotel to a very good rate.Near bus stop easy to travel were ever you wanna go. bar lounge and reception noisy every evening if you don`t like coverbands and karaoke
Rooms: we didn't see the sky, we see the wall and stay all day with the lights, room was not so clean. The coffe wasn't good and the breakfast also.
r4ooms were of good size beeding towels change daily staff helpful heating in rooms very poor i feel heating should have been at guest discretion as to when and the temputure was to be acessed in rooms and public areas thease were timed and controlled for when guest may be out of hotel very poor
The good weather :-) This hotel is not 4 stars! for me it's a 2 star hotel.
The friendliness of the hotel staff, they are helpful and very knowledgable about local travel etc. There is a comfortable relaxed atmosphere in the public areas. A bit cut off from the town but this was okay for an off season holiday where it was cool enough to walk to a restaurant or cafe. Too few sun loungers, especially on the roof which got more of the sunshine but again okay off season when we were more interested in touring than sun bathing. Breakfast is poor, didn't mind missing it. Didn't expect to be served instant or vending machine type coffee in a hotel but this is a minor gripe, I like a good cup of coffee, especially in the morning!
nice relaxing stay roof spa not working
very good value for money hote, food excellent, staff excellent, free shuttle takes you to ther bus terminal where you can acces everywhere with ease and cheaply only thing i'd say is my partner and me developed cough's within a few days of arrival, as did several other guests i noticed, maybe the air con needs checking? my partner;s cough developed into plourisy,
The location was a little further than I expected from the centre.
Beautiful location, extremely friendly staff, very clean, an absolutly amazing restaurant. I would not hesitate to stay here again
The location is lovely. Great views of St. Paul's Bay. For what we paid, it was good value for money. When arriving late at night, receptionist denied knowledge of our booking as they hadn't checked their printer all day to find the fax from booking.com (which had been there since the morning!). General hotel maintenance is not excellent. Breakfast was average.
the room was equipped quite well. the shower was uncomftable. I could not shower convinently finding quite ergonomical to shower.
one can totally relax and instantly feel on holiday. Breakfast and Spa are excellent. We got married at the hotel and the reception was fantastic - service was excellent throughout and food was superb. Please note that the room I booked was for one of the guests and I stayed in a suite for a longer period. Kids room is smally and floor looks shabby. The carpets in our suite were not cleaned once during our stay and this was quite disappointing considering it's a five star hotel. Our bathroom was cleaned while we were in and this seems quite unprofessional to me. I think there is room for improvement where housekeeping is concerned. Also staff entered our room twice (5 mins apart) when we were in.
Good location! Cleaning of rooms was not perfect, obtaining beach towles was difficult, weak coffee and watery fruit juices at breakfast
The Serene Room with Bedroom and a separate living room and the spectacular sea views. Fantastic lagoon pool. Dreadful car park. Not enough car parking space for a large hotel as this one.
Everything one can possibly imagine, staff, room, cleanliness, resort, pool area. Fabulous treat. We were billed for mini bar when we did not take. apparently they were missing to start with, but because we did not open the fridge we were not aware of this. But it wasnt a problem because they were just deducted from our bill.
Perfect! The hotel is situated in the more quiet, remote spot of Malta. Nice sandy beach, good food, friendly people.... The average age is a bit higher then normal...
the view lack of flexibility by staff, not enough common facilities (such as gym - too small)
Location of the Hotel Yes, Kids were not allowed in the indoor pool after 12 and because of that we will never go again to this hotel especially if it's winter. Kids will get bored in their room and most of them they love swimming. So it's not a suitable hotel for us with 3 kids. It's a pity. Besides the room was much smaller than the one we had last time we visited. We were 4 people in a small room.
We enjoyed the pool and beach facilities plus the evening entertainment were excellent. The bar staff were efficint and friendly and World Cup coverage again excellent. We ate at Flavours on the first evening and very dissapointed, the food was nowhere near the standard we expected, meat was dried up, consequently we did not eat at the hotel again. The poolside bar service not good, friendly kids but they were not looking for opportunities to serve. Reception on check out, the girl (a trainee) was fairly efficient but no eye contact.
Beautifully finished room - amazing views - superb breakfast - great hospitality
First three days in one b/room apart.was very good & without fault. The second part of our stay was in studio apart.Not quite as good.Found a few niggles when we transfered.Main fault being access to the wardrobe facilities & not enough space for two persons clothing.Shower tended to flood the floor.On several occasions items were omitted when the cleaning staff had been.These were soon replaced on request.The airconditioning came on by itself on several occasions through the night,waking us up.
friendliness of all staff everything satisfactory
The service
Friendly and helpful staff. Location of hotel - easy access to Valetta by local transport. Hotel surrounded by beautiful gardens and next to the Presidental Palace Gardens (San Anton) which are always open to the public.
The courtesy/helpfulness of the staff, guided by an excellent general manager.
I would only have one complaint - the person who carries out checks on the spa and pool etc did not wear overshoes. I thought this was unhygenic.....
Hotel was not quite up to 5* Standard.Carpets were worn and wallpaper starting to come off wall
Difficult to find the hotel, especially by night
The facilities are very nice especially the sauna and the staff was very nice and helpfull The wireless internet acces is really expensive regarding the facilities of the hotel and malta in general.
friendliness of staff The indoor Rickshaw oriental restaurant. Quality of food was good, but it took about 2,5 hours before we received our main course. This also happened to other visitors and some were angry and some even left the place.
The staff was extremely nice and helpful. The beds and pillows very really soft and comfortable to have a good night's sleep. Nothing, everything was great.
The Hotel was well located, and of a good standard all round. Staff were friendly when spoken to. The music in the lifts would drive anyone insane....all the guests we shared the lifts with felt the same. The staff were not friendly, or outgoing personalities, and very much waited on us as patrons to make conversation with them. The rooms had very little information if at all any about the area and services offered at the hotel. No daily weather updates etc.... all being said though not the worst I have experienced ether
Lovely room. Good location, Free parking in busy area. Good Gym/Spa. Limited room service menu.
The location is perfect. One thing that is important, is the free car parking for the quests of the hotel. But most we enjoyed the indoor pool and Spa. Very relaxing experience!
The room was good and clean The food. Especially the room service menu.
We loved all of our time at Le Meridien Hotel. It is close to our house and we decided to spend the first few days of our honeymoon there before flying to Rome. My new wife and I enjoyed every moment and look forward to going again as soon as we can. Nothing at all..we we entirely happy with everything and hope to spend our anniversaries there too
all services of a palace at a good price. children policy very aggressive is also a major selling point.
The Pool, gym and spa facilities were very good and it has a large sun terrace. It is also well located near the waterfront and lots of bars and restaurants. Building site outside our room woke us up at 7am every morning. Quality of building work and finish in hotel was sometimes poor, but this seems to be a feature of Maltese workmanship generally. Our toilet flush broke and had to be fixed. Our room safe also broke and had to be fixed. Speed of response from hotel staff could have been better.
The professional staff, location & ambiance. There was nothing we did not like.
the hotel was nice and clean the elevators system needs to be fixed. it takes forever to get elevator and then it makes frequent stops when it doesn't need to
The service,friendleness and cleanliness. N/A
clean and spacious room, great views over st julians bay. tried to book a massage for our last day the day before but there were already no available slots


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The six-day event will be hosted by Augusta State University in its 2,216-seat Christenberry Fieldhouse.
The 11-16 Patriot women enter the tournament as the fifth seed from the North Division and will play Kennesaw State University (16-11), the South Division's fourth seed, in a first-round game on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. The winner of Tuesday's contest will advance to meet UNC Pembroke (18-9) in a quarterfinal game, Thursday at 6 p.m.
FMU beat the Lady Owls 66-60 earlier this season in Florence, but KSU leads the all-time series 10-6. The Patriots are 11-11 in the previous 12 PBC Tournaments.
The FMU men (10-16) are the North Division's fourth seed and will face the South Division's fifth-seed, Armstrong Atlantic State University (14-13), in a first-round game, Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. The winner will advance to Friday's quarterfinals where they will meet Kennesaw State at 3 p.m.
AASU knocked FMU from last year's tournament with a last-second win in the quarterfinals. Earlier this season, the Pirates handed FMU its worst home loss ever in the Smith University Center 79-47, and AASU leads the all-time series 14-12.
FMU is 4-11 in its 10 previous Peach Belt Tournament appearances, including two straight defeats on last-second shots. Francis Marion's last tournament win came in 1999 when FMU defeated Kennesaw State 55-53 in overtime in a first-round game before losing to Columbus State University 69-62 in the quarterfinals.