istSOS is an "Free & Open Source" complete and easy to use sensor data management system for acquiring, storing and dispatching time-series observations. istSOS is compliant with the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) version 1.0 and 2.0 standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and offers unique extended capabilities to support scientific data analyses (integrated quality assurance, RESTful API, on the fly processing with virtual procedures, remote data aggregation and time-space re-projection etc.).

The workshop will give the audience all the necessary skills to deploy the istSOS server for managing and dispatching sensor data. Moreover attenders will be introduced with all the extra features that istSOS offers. The workshop will cover the following sections:
- Introduction to the standard and to istSOS
- Installation of the software
- Set-up of the service
- Registering new sensors
- Inserting, Manipulating & Validation of observations
- Creating virtual sensors (virtual procedures)
- Mapping sensors and data with OpenLayers 3
- Plotting observations on the Web
- Setting up the istSOS web notification service