Botts Innovative Research Inc (Botts-Inc) is a software development company specializing in open standards for sensor systems within the intelligence, defense, and scientific communities. With the firm's management having been heavily involved in all standards within the SWE framework, primary focus of the firm is design and development of OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standard encodings and web services. Additional areas of focus are design and application of Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) to achieve interoperability of disparate sensors and actuators. Multiple open-source softwares have beendeveloped by the firm meet ing the various needs of the sensor communities including: Space Time Toolkit for visualization and analysis environment, SensorML Process Execution Engine for describing processes and process chains, SensorML Process Profile Repository and Library, SWE Common Data Parser/Writer Library for a standard means of describing and encoding archived and real-time data streaming between sensor and processing systems, among others.
