1. A method for providing role-based data access to sensor-related data, comprising: providing an interface capable of allowing one or more accessing applications residing on a variety of systems and associated with a plurality of enterprises/organizations to receive sensor-related data; identifying one or more roles of an entity attempting to receive sensor-related data generate by a query through the interface using an accessing application; performing the query to generate a result set within an extent permitted by access authorization associated with the identified one or more roles of the entity; and providing the result set to the accessing application through the interface.