Identifiable qualities of features of interest that can be acted upon by devices, such as observed or controlled. An instance of saref:PropertyOfInterest is specific to a feature of interest. It is inherent to and cannot exist without that feature of interest.

Property of Interest

The air temperature of the atmosphere sample at a certain location and altitude, the received signal strength indicator of an wireless IoT connection, the luminance of the ETSI ATHENA amphitheatre. <etsi_premises/athena#luminance> a saref:PropertyOfInterest ; saref:isPropertyOfInterestOf <etsi_premises/athena> ; saref:hasPropertyKind saref:Luminance ; rdfs:comment "The luminance of amphitheatre ATHENA"@en .

V3.2.1: Introduced saref:PropertyOfInterest to solved the ambiguity between generic vs specific properties.

Per convention, the IRI of properties of interest should consist of the IRI of their feature of interest, suffixed with a fragment identifier #{P} where {P} refers to the name of the property.

Properties of interest need not always be explicited. It depends on the use case. Typically, properties of interest are useful in applications, where the association between a feature of interest and a property (i.e., the property of interest) needs to be identified and related to other properties of interest.

A property of interest is the property of (OP saref:isPropertyOfInterestOf) exactly one feature of interest.