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Botts Innovative Research, Inc. (Botts Inc.) is a boutique R&D services firm, founded by Dr. Michael Botts, that has been in business for nearly two decades, with a diverse set of private and public sector clients.  

Botts-Inc was built on Dr. Botts’ 20 years as a Principal Research Scientist within the National Space Science and Technology Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where he ran the VisAnalysis and Systems Technology (VAST) Lab.  At UAH, his team was heavily involved in research and development in support of fusion and analysis of data from a wide variety of disparate sensors, resulting in Dr. Botts’ creation of Sensor Model Language (SensorML), and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) SensorWebEnablement (SWE) architecture used all over the world.  The Botts-Inc team then created the world leading, open source, open standards-based OpenSensorHub for integrating Sensors, Things, and Robots (all comprised of sensors, actuators and processes) as location-enabled and geographically-aware, web-accessible services – whether space-based, airborne, mobile, in situ, and terrestrial remote – of all phenomenologies in to a common 4D framework. Dr. Botts is now helping to lead the emerging OGC API – Connected Systems specification that is modernizing the OGC SWE legacy using OpenAPI/RESTful patterns.  

The Botts-Inc team is not only a world class R&D services team, and a leader in architecture and standards, but has also demonstrated the ability to commercialize their results as a massively scalable, commercially-supported SaaS version of OpenSensorHub, with the launch of GeoRobotix.  GeoRobotix, Inc is a commercial SaaS/On Prem company that provides subscriptions/licenses to the commercially-supported versions of the OSH open source API for high performance, high availability mission/business environments.  Both companies have been bootstrapped, are privately held, and no fundraising has been required.

Dr. Botts has built a team of leading technologists to advance this vision for national security, public sector, private sector, and scientific communities demanding operational excellence.  Botts-Inc is hiring.  Please review these job postings, and join the Botts-Inc team today.

Dr. Mike Botts

(President/CTO)

Dr. Botts is the creator and chief architect of Sensor Model Language (SensorML), an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) technical standard for describing the measurement and processing of observations from any sensor system. He is the chair of the OGC Connected Systems Specification Working Group and has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the OGC SWE architecture.

Dr. Botts holds TS/SCI clearances in the US.