The following picture shows this demo, based on the successful collaboration with the FI-PPP Phase I Outsmart project.

Outsmart SmartSantander public lighting scenario has built its services on top of DCA IDAS, the main asset in the FI-WARE IoT Back-end Device management GE, that collects data of actual sensors in the "Parque de las LLamas" location.

Additionally, this FI-WARE GE is translating sensor data into real-time OMA NGSI events, accesible to developers via the standard APIs of the Context Broker GE at the FI-WARE Testbed in the cloud. In the terminal snapshot we observe the XML a developer receives whenever GPS-located presence sensors in the park are triggered. In this park there exist also lighting, temperature and public lights energy consumption sensors. 

Developers will be also able to plug those NGSI events into other FI-WARE enablers, and thus benefiting from other assets such as Bigdata, Complex Event Processing, Security APIs, etc. This way, FI-WARE behaves like a kind of "Open Operating System of a Smartcity", ready for developers and entrepreneurs willing to make true totally new and creative Future Internet Apps exploiting Smartcities data and events.

At present, only Phase II FI-PPP use-case projects can exploit this facility to develop Future Internet vertical solutions. However, stay tuned, because right this summer we are opening it to any third party launching the FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab (OIL).

Together with this exhibition, FI-WARE performed a large set of collaboration activities during the FIA week:

1. Attendance to other Workshops to establish cooperation links and tasks. For instance, we met the IERC to align our IoT proposal to the newest research trends.
2. FI-WARE briefing in the FI-PPP session of the FIA Plenary at the Helix on Thu May 9th.
3. Pre-FIA Workshop on Tue May 7th. This session agenda is included below and it included a presentation of the Outsmart project carried out by Luis Sanchez and a presentation of the Phase II FI-CONTENTII project by Carmen Mac Williams.

Pre FIA Workshop Agenda (May 7th 2013)

14:30-14:40 Introduction and brief presentation of the workshop: Nuria de Lama (Atos)

14:40-15:00: The Open Innovation Lab: Stefano de Panfilis (Engineering)

15:00-15:30: FI-WARE Technical value: Juanjo Hierro (Telefónica)

15:30-15:45: Building FI-WARE (contributions from the Research community): representative from IERC cluster

     Break & networking (30’)

-> Real Experiences on how to use FI-WARE

16:15-16:35: Practical case 1: OUTSMART Project: Luis Sánchez

16:35-16:55: Practical case 2: FI-CONTENTII Project: Carmen Mac Williams

Engaging and extending the community:

16:55-17:10: Future Internet in the Manufacturing context: Sergio Gusmeroli (FITMAN)

17:10-17:25 Initiatives from FI-WARE to work with developers and entrepreneurs: Carlos Ralli (Telefónica)

17:25-17:30 Conclusions and next steps

The FI-WARE project is organizing a pre-FIA Workshop next Tuesday May 7th in Dublin from 14:30 to 17:30.

The goal of the meeting was to initiate the collaboration with the Use Case Trials from the very start (ever before their internal kick-offs) to ensure that we share a common view and the same objectives. FI-WARE provided a holistic vision of the achievements and the methodology we use and the Use Cases gave us insights in their respective projects. The focus was mainly at architectural level but there was also room for organisational aspects. Overall, a lot of work for four whole days but we are pleased that we now understand each other rather well.

It was a pleasure to know key members of cSpace, Finesce, FI-CONTENT II, FITMAN and FI-STAR and will continue strengthening the collaboration ties with them. We are working very hard to produce Release 2 and start doing hands on experimentation with them and our GEs on FI-WARE’s Testbed.

Our meeting improved our architecture with the lessons learnt from Release 1 and updated strategies of the participating companies in order to ensure we create a consistent and future-proofed solution.

Besides the open architecture we went deep into the technical details of the enablers implementations, discussing interfaces, APIs and forthcoming proof-of-concepts to ensure the smooth synergic integration of all our components.

We did also have a challenging discussion on demos in future events (stay tuned!) and how to incorporate to our working solution new kind of devices and gateways including Open Hardware solutions that we know developers will love to play with.

Meanwhile we were busy with our exciting discussions and decisions, the city of Paris smiled at us with extremely nice snowed landscape of this breathtaking city. It was nice even when it meant some delays and one canceled flight. Fortunately we all got back to keep on

The test was a fun exercise of members of SafeCity moving around Madrid in freezing temperatures and braving the pouring rain to play the role of “criminals” under the surveillance of the police.  This exercise involved the use of cameras, different levels of video processing, video analytics, 3D video engines and crowd behaviour simulation.

The relevance of the two tests performed by SafeCity is certainly high for FI-WARE, as long as it means a real life validation of the project in the area of Safety and Security. Also, the infrastructure of the FI-WARE testbed performed flawlessly.

We equally welcome the exploitation of FI-WARE’s Generic Enablers in combination with the technologies brought in by SafeCity. Particularly, this was the case with the IaaS Data Center Resource Management, the Complex Event Processing and the Semantic Application Support.

There was an immediate impact on the local media and a myriad of mentions on Internet pages (for instance, on the news agency Europa Press).

FI-WARE would like to wholeheartedly thank Safecity for their fantastic contribution to the FI-PPP and for trusting us. They have made a terrific work demonstrating enthusiasm and decisively helping to pave the way to make the Future Internet a reality.

The project is now past its mid-term, and as pointed out in our last review, we need to keep our efforts on a successful second-half. It's crucial to demonstrate the effectiveness of the platform that FI-WARE is providing and the benefits to the Users- the so-called Live Demo. The first version of it, based on the Testbed (first version) was presented during the past project review in November 2012. The release of the second version of the Testbed, therefore, also the Live Demo needs to be revamped.

The Live Demo is the top priority for all project members, therefore, each of us needs to intensify our efforts in contributing to our specific tasks, this in a coherent and coordinated manner. The success of FI-WARE lies in our commitment. We are confident that we can pull together with focus and determination to see this to a favourable end ! 

The third call is different in scope and nature. Now that we have a core of solid GEs and disparate areas covered, our intention is to make sure that the results are experimented and ultimately adopted by the wider community and the industry.

In summary, the 3^rd Open Call revolves around three axes:

• Take up of FI-WARE results by Internet application developers and entrepreneurs
• Creation and support of a dynamic innovation ecosystem around FI-WARE results
• Gain market visibility for the technologies and services developed by FI-WARE

The documents associated to the call are already available on the call page, namely the Guidelines for Applicants, the templates for the proposals and the Consortium Agreement & Collaboration Agreement. We will also populate the Q&A section if we decide to clarify any aspects that may need further explanations.

The deadline is February, 27 so there is still plenty of time. If you think that you can attract adopters, communities and promote the awareness of our result in our target ecosystems, we are looking for you!  

You may check what are the products that are part of the first release of FI-WARE by means of taking a look to the public FI-WARE Catalogue.   

Marketplace and Repository in the Apps and Services Ecosystem Architecture Blueprint

The Repository

The Repository is a core enabler of the FI-Ware Business Framework. The repository provides a consistent uniform API to USDL service descriptions and associated media files for applications of the business framework. A service provider can use the Repository to publish the description of various aspects of the service according to a Unified Service Description Language (USDL).

The Marketplace

In general the marketplace is an instrument to facilitate commerce by bringing together vendors and buyers, or offers and demand, or producers and consumers.  The core functionality of the Marketplace is to provide a uniform service interface to discover and match application and service offerings from providers and sources (e.g. published by different stores) with demand of consumers. This core functionality provides a basis for extended services depending on the domain and nature of the target markets.