Sensorica
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Sensorica is an open value network (OVN), established in 2011 in Montreal, Canada, for open source hardware development.[1][2] It is a pilot project for commons-based peer production applied to hardware, designed to operate at large scale.
Company type | Open Value Network |
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Industry | Sensing |
Founded | February 2011 |
Founder | Tiberius Brastaviceanu, Ivan Pavlov, François Bergeron |
Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Sensors, sensing systems, automation systems |
Services | open source hardware, sensing, automation |
Website | www |
Sensorica uses the Resources, Events, Agents accounting model as a basis of its network resource planning and contribution accounting system (NRP-CAS). The NRP is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) type of software based on the REA model to support the complexity of operations in an OVN.[3] It collects, stores, and interprets data from all the different types of activities in the network and connects them to specific resources, events, and agents. Economic agents are associated with other agents and participate in events of various types, such as processes, exchanges, or transfers. Events change the state of resources by using, citing, consuming, creating, or transferring them. A certain resource may be an output from one process and then an input to another one. Those processes and events are then connected with a resource flow.