1. A system comprising primary sensors deployed in an environment, with sensors for ambient data whose output as a form of metadata with a reference time code can characterize performance conditions including background ambient conditions where a metadata pattern reference would subsequently be representative as a look up table in a relational database or reference algorithm in a semantic network system and where metadata is collected from one or more additional sensors from the group consisting of an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, humidity, atmospheric pressure, fluid flow, fluid condition such as ultrasound or an electro-mechanical transducer such as a piezo electric crystal or linear actuator or optical position measurement.