Many of today’s sensor systems are comprised of several sensors which work in unison. It is necessary that we capture and exchange instantaneous system state for all sensors at any time during operation.

No single data format exists to handle all sensors. TML provides a standard data format for sensors so that data exchange between different types of sensors is possible.

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TML Enables:

1. Interoperability and fusion of disparate sensor data -

   TML enables interoperability of heterogeneous sensor systems by providing a self describing data exchange protocol based on XML.
   

2. Data exchange across multiple sensor types -

   TML is not tailored to any particular application making it ideal for exchanging sensor data across operational domains.
   

3. Registration of different sensors and the correlations between them -

   TML maintains relative and absolute time sequencing of data from various sensors within a system.
   

4. One common processor to handle incoming sensor data -

   TML as a common sensor model and format facilitates the development of a common sensor processor and improves multi-sensor fusion. Each available sensor has a common memory structure.
   

5. Faster and more accurate targeting -

   TML provides high fidelity exchange of sensor data and facilitates precision space-time registration as well as error characterization of data.
   

6. Plug-n-play sensor -

   TML promotes plug-n-play sensors and is therefore adaptable to new sensors because no modification is required to the TML enabled processor.

    

   
   

7. Preservation of raw sensor data –

   Through time-tagging, TML allows precise ordering of raw sensor data and the reconstruction of raw data streams.
   

8. Sensor discovery –

   TML enables a user to obtain a list of available sensors on a real-time basis, and to select specific sensors from which to receive data.