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Horizon 2020
Call: H2020-ICT-2016-2017
(Information and Communication Technologies Call)
Topic: ICT-12-2016
Type of action: IA
(Innovation action)
Proposal number: 732851
Proposal acronym: FI-NEXT
Deadline Id: H2020-ICT-2016-1
Table of contents
Section
Title
1
General information
2
Participants & contacts
3
Budget
4
Ethics
5
Call-specific questions
Action
How to fill in the forms
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1 - General information
Topic ICT-12-2016
Call Identifier H2020-ICT-2016-2017
Type of Action IA
Deadline Id H2020-ICT-2016-1
Acronym
FI-NEXT
Proposal title*
Bringing FIWARE to the NEXT step
Note that for technical reasons, the following characters are not accepted in the Proposal Title and will be removed: < > " &
Duration in months 24
Fixed keyword 1
Free keywords
Add
Technological innovation
Open source software
Abstract
Digital technologies underpin innovation and competitiveness across a broad range of market sectors. A key technology to
boost such innovation and competitiveness is represented by the full and wide adoption of Open Service Platforms. In fact,
they will allow increased competition and market penetration because they should be built on top of royalty-free open
specifications, adopting open source reference implementations, and s such allowed to be offered by multiple vendors. The
Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development (FP7) has developed the FIWARE platform
which has demonstrated its potential of becoming a service platform of choice, with proven potential for usage by SMEs and
startups. This rises to the extent that four main ICT players in Europe with global ambition have put FIWARE in their strategy
for market development. More than that, those four players announced the creation of an open to all legal entity, the
FIWARE Foundation, to have more stakeholders driving the evolution of FIWARE. Well in this scope, the aim of the FI-NEXT
project is to put in place all the measures necessary in order to make FIWARE materializing such a potential. This will
achieved pursuing the following objectives: a) bringing FIWARE from an European Open Source project to a global Open
Source Community, b) ensuring FIWARE meets the highest quality standards and best technical support, c) positioning
FIWARE as the de facto standard for the development of smart applications, and d) ensuring FIWARE Lab to be a selfsustainable environment.
Remaining characters
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Has this proposal (or a very similar one) been submitted in the past 2 years in response to a call for
proposals under the 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020 or any other EU programme(s)?
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No
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Declarations
1) The coordinator declares to have the explicit consent of all applicants on their participation and on the content
of this proposal.
2) The information contained in this proposal is correct and complete.
3) This proposal complies with ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity — as set
out, for instance, in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity — and including, in particular,
avoiding fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other research misconduct).
4) The coordinator confirms:
- to have carried out the self-check of the financial capacity of the organisation on
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/lfv.html or to be covered by a financial
viability check in an EU project for the last closed financial year. Where the result was “weak” or “insufficient”,
the coordinator confirms being aware of the measures that may be imposed in accordance with the H2020
Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or
- is exempt from the financial capacity check being a public body including international organisations, higher or
secondary education establishment or a legal entity, whose viability is guaranteed by a Member State or
associated country, as defined in the H2020 Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or
- as sole participant in the proposal is exempt from the financial capacity check.
5) The coordinator hereby declares that each applicant has confirmed:
- they are fully eligible in accordance with the criteria set out in the specific call for proposals; and
- they have the financial and operational capacity to carry out the proposed action.
The coordinator is only responsible for the correctness of the information relating to his/her own organisation. Each applicant
remains responsible for the correctness of the information related to him/her and declared above. Where the proposal to be
retained for EU funding, the coordinator and each beneficiary applicant will be required to present a formal declaration in this
respect.
According to Article 131 of the Financial Regulation of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union
(Official Journal L 298 of 26.10.2012, p. 1) and Article 145 of its Rules of Application (Official Journal L 362, 31.12.2012, p.1) applicants
found guilty of misrepresentation may be subject to administrative and financial penalties under certain conditions.
Personal data protection
Your reply to the grant application will involve the recording and processing of personal data (such as your name, address and CV), which
will be processed pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by
the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data. Unless indicated otherwise, your replies to the questions in
this form and any personal data requested are required to assess your grant application in accordance with the specifications of the call for
proposals and will be processed solely for that purpose. Details concerning the processing of your personal data are available on the
privacy statement. Applicants may lodge a complaint about the processing of their personal data with the European Data Protection
Supervisor at any time.
Your personal data may be registered in the Early Warning System (EWS) only or both in the EWS and Central Exclusion Database (CED)
by the Accounting Officer of the Commission, should you be in one of the situations mentioned in:
-the Commission Decision 2008/969 of 16.12.2008 on the Early Warning System (for more information see the Privacy Statement), or
-the Commission Regulation 2008/1302 of 17.12.2008 on the Central Exclusion Database (for more information see the Privacy Statement) .
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List of participants
#
Participant Legal Name
Country
1
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA
Spain
2
FIWARE Foundation
France
3
ATOS SPAIN SA
Spain
4
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Italy
5
ORANGE SA
France
6
TIKAL TECHNOLOGIES SL
Spain
7
MARTEL GMBH
8
CREATE-NET (CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTATION FOR
NETWORKED COMMUNITIES)
9
ASSOCIATION IMAGES & RESEAUX
10
ZURCHER HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN
11
DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH
12
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
13
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Germany
14
Grassroots Arts and Research UG GmbH
Germany
15
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY
Mexico
16
Fondo de Información y Documentación para la Industria INFOTEC
Mexico
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Italy
France
Switzerland
Germany
Spain
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Acronym
Short name TID
FI-NEXT
2 - Administrative data of participating organisations
PIC
Legal name
999910824
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA
Short name: TID
Address of the organisation
Street RONDA DE LA COMUNICACION S/N DISTRIT
Town MADRID
Postcode 28050
Country Spain
Webpage http://www.tid.es
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2013 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is not an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.
NACE Code: - - Not applicable
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Department(s) carrying out the proposed work
Department 1
Department name
Industrial IoT
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
RONDA DE LA COMUNICACION S/N DISTRITO C
Town
MADRID
Postcode
28050
Country
Spain
Dependencies with other proposal participants
Character of dependence
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Person in charge of the proposal
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Title
Sex
Mr.
Male
Female
Last name MARTINEZ GARCIA
First name Santiago
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
Product specialist
Same as organisation
Industrial IoT
Same as organisation address
Street
Telefónica Diagonal 00.Planta14. Plaza Ernest Lluch i Martin S/N
Town
Barcelona
Country
Spain
Website
www.tid.es
Phone 1
+34 660022912
Post code
+34 933653127
Phone 2
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Other contact persons
First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Juan José
Hierro
[email protected]
+34619817347
José Luis
Peña Sedano
[email protected]
+34913129477
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Acronym
PIC
Legal name
919308965
FIWARE Foundation
Short name FIWARE Foundation
FI-NEXT
Short name: FIWARE Foundation
Address of the organisation
Street Avenue Pierre Marzin
Town LANNION
Postcode 22300
Country France
Webpage
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... unknown
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is not an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.
NACE Code: -
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Department(s) carrying out the proposed work
Department 1
Department name
FIWARE Foundation
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
Avenue Pierre Marzin
Town
LANNION
Postcode
Country
22300
France
Dependencies with other proposal participants
Character of dependence
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FI-NEXT
Person in charge of the proposal
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Title
Sex
Mr.
Male
Female
Last name Danet
First name Pierre-Yves
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
Administrative contact
Same as organisation
FIWARE Foundation
Same as organisation address
Street
Avenue Pierre Marzin
Town
LANNION
Post code
Country
France
Website
https://www.fiware.org/foundation
Phone 1
+33673674776
22300
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Phone 2
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Other contact persons
First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Frederique
Cornette
[email protected]
+33673674776
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999993856
ATOS SPAIN SA
Short name ATOS
FI-NEXT
Short name: ATOS
Address of the organisation
Street CALLE DE ALBARRACIN 25
Town MADRID
Postcode 28037
Country Spain
Webpage www.atos.net
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2013 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
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NACE Code: 72 - Scientific research and development
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Department name
Research and Innovation
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
CALLE DE ALBARRACIN 25
Town
MADRID
Postcode
28037
Country
Spain
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Sex
Mrs
Male
Female
Last name Pezuela
First name Clara
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
Head ot IT market
Same as organisation
Research and Innovation
Same as organisation address
Street
CALLE DE ALBARRACIN 25
Town
MADRID
Country
Spain
Website
www.atos.net
Phone 1
+34912148800
Post code
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Phone 2
28037
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Other contact persons
First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Nuria
De Lama
[email protected]
Juan
Bareño
[email protected]
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Phone
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Short name ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATIC
FI-NEXT
PIC
Legal name
999960488
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Short name: ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Address of the organisation
Street Via San Martino Della Battaglia 56
Town ROMA
Postcode 00185
Country Italy
Webpage www.eng.it
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. unknown
International organisation of European interest ...... unknown
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2014 - yes
SME self-assessment ...................................... 2014 - no
SME validation sme.......................................... 2013 - no
Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is not an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.
NACE Code: 72 - Scientific research and development
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Department 1
Department name
Research and Development
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
Via Riccardo Morandi 32
Town
roma
Postcode
Country
00158
Italy
Dependencies with other proposal participants
Character of dependence
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Female
Male
Last name De Panfilis
First name Stefano
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
Chief Innovation Officer
Same as organisation
Research and Development
Same as organisation address
Street
via Riccardo Morandi 32
Town
roma
Country
Italy
Website
www.eng.it
Phone 1
+39 335 7542567
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Phone 2
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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00148
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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PIC
Legal name
999908981
ORANGE SA
Short name ORANGE SA
FI-NEXT
Short name: ORANGE SA
Address of the organisation
Street RUE OLIVIER DE SERRES 78
Town PARIS
Postcode 75015
Country France
Webpage www.francetelecom.com
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2013 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
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NACE Code: 61 - Telecommunications
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Department name
Orange/IMT/OLPS/BIZZ/MIS/CITY
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
28 Chemin du Vieux Chêne - BP 98
Town
Meylan
Postcode
Country
38243
France
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Character of dependence
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Last name Privat
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Department
Expert de recherche sénior
Same as organisation
Orange/IMT/OLPS/BIZZ/MIS/CITY
Same as organisation address
Street
28 Chemin du Vieux Chêne - BP 98
Town
Meylan
Country
France
Post code
38243
Website
Phone 1
+33 4 38 42 86 16
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Phone 2
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Other contact persons
First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Danièle
Le Borgne
[email protected]
+33299124591
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Short name NAEVATEC
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PIC
Legal name
968580309
TIKAL TECHNOLOGIES SL
Short name: NAEVATEC
Address of the organisation
Street CALLE VIRGEN DE LOS ROSALES 74
Town MADRID
Postcode 28023
Country Spain
Webpage www.naevatec.com
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Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2014 - yes
SME self-assessment ...................................... 2014 - yes
SME validation sme.......................................... 2011 - yes
Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.
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Department name
Kurento
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
CALLE CHILE 10 OFICINA 8
Town
LAS ROZAS DE MADRID
Postcode
28290
Country
Spain
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Sex
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Male
Female
Last name López
First name Javier
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
CTO
Same as organisation
TIKAL TECHNOLOGIES SL
Same as organisation address
Street
CALLE VIRGEN DE LOS ROSALES 74
Town
MADRID
Country
Spain
Website
www.naevatec.com
Phone 1
+34 911407507
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Phone 2
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Fax
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PIC
Legal name
999695387
MARTEL GMBH
Short name MARTEL
FI-NEXT
Short name: MARTEL
Address of the organisation
Street DORFSTRASSE 73
Town GUEMLIGEN
Postcode 3073
Country Switzerland
Webpage
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Enterprise Data
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SME self-assessment ...................................... 2014 - yes
SME validation sme.......................................... 2008 - yes
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NACE Code: 61 - Telecommunications
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Martel Lab
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DORFSTRASSE 73
Town
GUEMLIGEN
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Last name Facca
First name Federico Michele
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Head of Martel Lab
Same as organisation
Martel Lab
Same as organisation address
Street
DORFSTRASSE 73
Town
GUEMLIGEN
Country
Switzerland
Website
www.martel-innovate.com
Phone 1
+41319942525
Post code
3073
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Phone 2
Fax
+41319942529
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First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Monique
Calisti
[email protected]
+41763213981
Martin
Potts
[email protected]
+41319942525
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999575786
CREATE-NET (CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTATION FOR
Short name: CREATE-NET
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Street VIA ALLA CASCATA 56 D
Town TRENTO
Postcode 38100
Country Italy
Webpage www.create-net.org
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Non-profit ...................................................... yes
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Enterprise Data
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CREATE-NET (CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION E
Same as organisation
Same as organisation address
Street
VIA ALLA CASCATA 56 D
Town
TRENTO
Country
Italy
Website
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Phone 1
+390461312433
Post code
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
Phone 2
38100
Fax
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First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Antonella
Franceschin
[email protected]
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Short name MN
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Legal name
999649894
ASSOCIATION IMAGES & RESEAUX
Short name: MN
Address of the organisation
Street RUE ANDRE MARIE AMPERE 4
Town LANNION
Postcode 22300
Country France
Webpage
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Legal person .............................. yes
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Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
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SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... 2011 - yes
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NACE Code: -
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ASSOCIATION IMAGES & RESEAUX
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RUE ANDRE MARIE AMPERE 4
Town
LANNION
Postcode
Country
22300
France
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Last name Maugis
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Department
European Project Manager
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ASSOCIATION IMAGES & RESEAUX
Same as organisation address
Street
RUE ANDRE MARIE AMPERE 4
Town
LANNION
Post code
Country
France
Website
http://www.images-et-reseaux.com/fr
Phone 1
+33 6 70 06 80 58
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22300
Fax
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Short name ZHAW
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PIC
Legal name
998291506
ZURCHER HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN
Short name: ZHAW
Address of the organisation
Street GERTRUDSTRASSE 15
Town WINTERTHUR
Postcode 8401
Country Switzerland
Webpage www.zhaw.ch
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Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
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Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... yes
Research organisation ..................................... yes
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... unknown
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
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NACE Code: 853 - Higher education
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Research Area Service Engineering
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GERTRUDSTRASSE 15
Town
WINTERTHUR
Postcode
Country
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Area Director
Same as organisation
Research Area Service Engineering
Same as organisation address
Street
GERTRUDSTRASSE 15
Town
WINTERTHUR
Post code
Country
Switzerland
Website
https://www.zhaw.ch/de/hochschule/
Phone 1
+41791758136
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+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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Short name DFKI
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Legal name
999607602
DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH
Short name: DFKI
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Street Trippstadter Strasse 122
Town KAISERSLAUTERN
Postcode 67663
Country Germany
Webpage www.dfki.de
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Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... no
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
International organisation .................................. no
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Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... no
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Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2008 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... 2008 - no
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NACE Code: - - Not applicable
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Agents and Simulated Reality
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CAMPUS D 3_2
Town
Saarbrücken
Postcode
Country
66123
Germany
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Department
Scientific Director
Same as organisation
Agents and Simulated Reality
Same as organisation address
Street
CAMPUS D 3_2
Town
Saarbrücken
Country
Germany
Website
www.dfki.de
Phone 1
+49 681 85775 5377
Post code
+49 681 85775 5276
Phone 2
66123
Fax
+49 681 85775 2235
Other contact persons
First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Oliver
Keller
[email protected]
+49 681 85775 5327
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Legal name
999974844
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
Short name: UPM
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Street CALLE RAMIRO DE MAEZTU 7 EDIFICIO REC
Town MADRID
Postcode 28040
Country Spain
Webpage www.upm.es
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Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
International organisation .................................. no
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Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... yes
Research organisation ..................................... yes
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2007 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... 2007 - no
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NACE Code: 853 - Higher education
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Departamento de Ing. de Sist. Telematicos(DIT)- Gr. Inves. ING
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Street
Avenida Complutense 30-ETSITelecomunicac
Town
Madrid
Postcode
28040
Country
Spain
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Departamento de Ing. de Sist. Telematicos(DIT)- Gr. Inves. ING
Same as organisation address
Street
Avenida Complutense nº 30
Town
Madrid
Post code
Country
Spain
Website
www.dit.upm.es
Phone 1
+34 91 3367331
+34 91 3367333
Phone 2
28040
Fax
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Javier
Soriano
[email protected]
+34 91 3367396
Isidoro
Padilla
[email protected]
+34676452438
Vice Rector
for Research
[email protected]
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Short name Fraunhofer
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Legal name
999984059
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Short name: Fraunhofer
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Street HANSASTRASSE 27C
Town MUNCHEN
Postcode 80686
Country Germany
Webpage www.fraunhofer.de
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Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
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Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... 2007 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... 2007 - no
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NACE Code: 721 - Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
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Department 1
Department name
Net Media. Fraunhofer IAIS
not applicable
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Street
Schloss Birlinghoven 1
Town
St. Augustin
Postcode
Country
53754
Germany
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Department
Scientific Researcher
Same as organisation
Net Media. Fraunhofer IAIS
Same as organisation address
Street
Schloss Birlinghoven 1
Town
St.Agustin
Post code
Country
Germany
Website
http://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html
Phone 1
+49 2241143413
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Fax
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Short name Grassroots Arts and Research UG GmbH
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Legal name
986311715
Grassroots Arts and Research UG GmbH
Short name: Grassroots Arts and Research UG GmbH
Address of the organisation
Street PALANTER STRASSE 5
Town KOLN
Postcode 50937
Country Germany
Webpage www.grassroots-arts.eu
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Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... no
International organisation .................................. no
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Research organisation ..................................... no
Enterprise Data
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SME self-assessment ...................................... 2013 - yes
SME validation sme.......................................... 2008 - yes
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NACE Code: 7220 - Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
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Director
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Grassroots Arts and Research UG GmbH
Same as organisation address
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PALANTER STRASSE 5
Town
KOLN
Country
Germany
Website
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Phone 1
00491739775472
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50937
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Short name ITESM
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999625741
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY
Short name: ITESM
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Street AV. EUGENIO GARZA SADA 2501
Town MONTERREY NUEVO LEON
Postcode 64849
Country Mexico
Webpage www.itesm.mx
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Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
International organisation .................................. no
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SME self-declared status ................................... 2012 - no
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
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NACE Code: 853 - Higher education
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Department 1
Department name
Computer Science Department
not applicable
Same as organisation address
Street
Carr. al Lago de Guadalupe Km. 3.5
Town
Atizapan de Zaragoza
Postcode
Country
52926
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Sex
Dr.
Male
Female
Last name González Mendoza
First name Miguel
E-Mail [email protected]
Position in org.
Department
Head of Graduate Programs con Computer Sciences
Same as organisation
Computer Sciences Department
Same as organisation address
Street
Carr. Lago de Guadalupe Km. 3.5
Town
Atizapan de Zaragoza
Country
Mexico
Website
www.itesm.mx
Phone 1
+525558645875
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Legal name
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Short name: INFOTEC
Address of the organisation
Street San Fernando 37
Town Mexico City
Postcode 14050
Country Mexico
Webpage www.infotec.com.mx
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... yes
Legal person .............................. yes
Non-profit ...................................................... yes
International organisation .................................. no
International organisation of European interest ...... no
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... yes
Research organisation ..................................... yes
Enterprise Data
SME self-declared status ................................... unknown
SME self-assessment ...................................... unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
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Department name
Research and Innovation Area
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Street
San Fernando 37
Town
Mexico City
Postcode
Country
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Last name Estrada
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Position in org.
Department
Researcher and Leader of the National Future Internet Laboratory
Same as organisation
Research and Innovation Area
Same as organisation address
Street
San Fernando 37
Town
Mexico City
Country
Mexico
Website
https://www.infotec.mx/
Phone 1
+525558645875
Post code
+xxx xxxxxxxxx
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Fax
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First Name
Last Name
E-mail
Phone
Blanca
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3 - Budget for the proposal
No
Participant
Country
(A)
Direct
personnel
costs/€
?
(B)
Other direct
costs/€
?
(E)
(C)
(D)
(F)
(G)
(H)
Direct costs of Direct costs of Costs of inkind Indirect Costs Special unit
Total
contributions
subproviding
/€
costs covering
estimated
not used on the
contracting/€
financial
direct &
eligible costs
beneficiary's
(=0.25(A+B-E)) indirect costs
support to
/€
premises/€
third parties/€
/€
(=A+B+C+D
+F+G)
(I)
Reimbursement rate (%)
BENEFICIARY
BENEFICIARY
BENEFICIARY
THIRD
PARTIES
THIRD
PARTIES
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
(J)
Max.EU
Contribution /
€
(K)
Costs of third
parties linked
to participant
(L)
Max.EU
Contribution /
€
(M)
Total Costs
for
BENEFICIARY
& THIRD
PARTIES
(=H*I)
(=H+K)
?
(N)
Max.EU
Contribution /
€
(O)
Requested
EU
Contribution /
BENEFICIARY
€
& THIRD
BENEFICIARY
PARTIES
& THIRD
(=J+L)
PARTIES
?
?
1
Tid
ES
1159242
15000
2500
0
0
293560,50
0
1470302,50
70
1029211,75
0
0
1470302,50
1029211,75
1029211,75
2
Fiware Foundation
FR
864000
30000
303000
100000
0
223500,00
0
1520500,00
100
1520500,00
0
0
1520500,00
1520500,00
1520500,00
3
Atos
ES
590000
15000
3000
0
0
151250,00
0
759250,00
70
531475,00
0
0
759250,00
531475,00
531475,00
4
Engineering - Ingegneria
Informatica Spa
IT
770000
15000
3000
0
0
196250,00
0
984250,00
70
688975,00
0
0
984250,00
688975,00
688975,00
5
Orange Sa
FR
451384
15000
3000
0
0
116596,00
0
585980,00
70
410186,00
0
0
585980,00
410186,00
410186,00
6
Naevatec
ES
222000
10000
3000
0
0
58000,00
0
293000,00
70
205100,00
0
0
293000,00
205100,00
205100,00
7
Martel
CH
287040
10000
3000
0
0
74260,00
0
374300,00
70
262010,00
0
0
374300,00
262010,00
0,00
8
Create-net
IT
264000
10000
2000
0
0
68500,00
0
344500,00
100
344500,00
0
0
344500,00
344500,00
344500,00
9
Mn
FR
204000
3000
0
0
0
51750,00
0
258750,00
100
258750,00
0
0
258750,00
258750,00
258750,00
10
Zhaw
CH
532000
10000
3000
0
0
135500,00
0
680500,00
100
680500,00
0
0
680500,00
680500,00
0,00
11
Dfki
DE
252000
10000
3000
0
0
65500,00
0
330500,00
100
330500,00
0
0
330500,00
330500,00
330500,00
12
Upm
ES
396000
10000
3000
0
0
101500,00
0
510500,00
100
510500,00
0
0
510500,00
510500,00
510500,00
13
Fraunhofer
DE
53100
10000
0
0
0
15775,00
0
78875,00
100
78875,00
0
0
78875,00
78875,00
78875,00
14
Grassroots Arts And
Research Ug Gmbh
DE
86000
10000
0
0
0
24000,00
0
120000,00
70
84000,00
0
0
120000,00
84000,00
84000,00
15
Itesm
MX
324168
60750
4000
0
0
96229,50
0
485147,50
100
485147,50
0
0
485147,50
485147,50
0,00
16
Infotec
MX
320012
60750
4000
0
0
95190,50
0
479952,50
100
479952,50
0
0
479952,50
479952,50
0,00
6774946
294500
339500
100000
0
1767361,50
0
9276307,50
7900182,75
0,00
0,00
9276307,50
7900182,75
5992572,75
Total
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4 - Ethics issues table
1. HUMAN EMBRYOS/FOETUSES
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Does your research involve Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)?
Yes
No
Does your research involve the use of human embryos?
Yes
No
Does your research involve the use of human foetal tissues / cells?
Yes
No
2. HUMANS
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Does your research involve human participants?
Yes
No
Does your research involve physical interventions on the study participants?
Yes
No
3. HUMAN CELLS / TISSUES
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Does your research involve human cells or tissues (other than from Human Embryos/
Foetuses, i.e. section 1)?
Yes
No
Page
4. PERSONAL DATA
Does your research involve personal data collection and/or processing?
Yes
No
Does your research involve further processing of previously collected personal data
(secondary use)?
Yes
No
5. ANIMALS
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Yes
No
6. THIRD COUNTRIES
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In case non-EU countries are involved, do the research related activities undertaken in
these countries raise potential ethics issues?
Yes
No
Do you plan to use local resources (e.g. animal and/or human tissue samples, genetic
material, live animals, human remains, materials of historical value, endangered fauna or
flora samples, etc.)?
Yes
No
Do you plan to import any material - including personal data - from non-EU countries into
the EU?
Yes
No
Yes
No
For data imports, please fill in also section 4.
For imports concerning human cells or tissues, fill in also section 3.
Do you plan to export any material - including personal data - from the EU to non-EU
countries?
For data exports, please fill in also section 4.
For exports concerning human cells or tissues, fill in also section 3.
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If your research involves low and/or lower middle income countries, are benefits-sharing
actions planned?
Yes
No
Could the situation in the country put the individuals taking part in the research at risk?
Yes
No
7. ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH and SAFETY
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environment, to animals or plants?
For research involving animal experiments, please fill in also section 5.
Yes
No
Does your research deal with endangered fauna and/or flora and/or protected areas?
Yes
No
Does your research involve the use of elements that may cause harm to humans,
including research staff?
For research involving human participants, please fill in also section 2.
Yes
No
8. DUAL USE
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Yes
No
9. MISUSE
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Does your research have the potential for malevolent/criminal/terrorist abuse?
Yes
No
10. OTHER ETHICS ISSUES
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Are there any other ethics issues that should be taken into consideration? Please specify
Yes
No
I confirm that I have taken into account all ethics issues described above and that, if any ethics issues
apply, I will complete the ethics self-assessment and attach the required documents.
✖
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Open Research Data Pilot in Horizon 2020
If selected, all applicants will participate in the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 20201 , which aims to improve and
maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by actions. Participating in the Pilot does not necessarily mean
opening up all research data. Actions participating in the Pilot will be invited to formulate a Data Management Plan in which
they will determine and explain which of the research data they generate will be made open.
Applicants have the possibility to opt out of this Pilot and must indicate a reason for this choice.
Participation in this Pilot does not constitute part of the evaluation process. Proposals will not be evaluated favourably
because they are part of the Pilot and will not be penalised for opting out of the Pilot.
We wish to opt out of the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020.
Yes
No
1
According to article 43.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 December 2013, laying down the rules for participation and
dissemination in "Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)" and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1906/2006.
Data management activities
The use of a Data Management Plan (DMP) is required for projects participating in
the Open Research Data Pilot in Horizon 2020, in the form of a deliverable in the first 6 months of the project.
All other projects may deliver a DMP on a voluntary basis, if relevant for their research.
Are data management activities relevant for your proposed project?
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Title of Proposal: FI-NEXT Bringing FIWARE to the NEXT step
List of participants
Participant No *
Participant organisation name
Country
1
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A.
Unipersonal (TID)
Spain
2(Coordinator)
FIWARE Foundation
France
3
ATOS Spain S.A
Spain
4
Engineering -Ingegnieria Informatica SPA
Italy
5
Orange S.A
France
6
Naevatec
Spain
7
Martel
Switzerland
8
Center For Research And
Telecommunication Experimentation For
Networked Communities (CREATE-NET)
Italy
9
Association Images & Reseaux
France
10
Zürcher Hochschule Für Angewandte
Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
Switzerland
11
Deutsches Forschungszentrum Für
Künstliche Intelligenz GMBH (DFKI)
Germany
12
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Spain
13
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung
der angewandten Forschung e.V.
Germany
14
Grassroots Arts and Research UG
Germany
15
Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios
Superiores Monterrey (ITESM)
Mexico
16
Fondo de Información y Documentación
para la Industria (INFOTEC)
Mexico
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Table of Contents
1.
Excellence.................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.1
Objectives .......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1.1
Background................................................................................................................................ 3
1.1.2
Main goals ................................................................................................................................. 4
1.2
Relation to the work programme ....................................................................................................... 8
1.3
Concept and methodology ............................................................................................................... 10
1.3.1
Concept .................................................................................................................................... 10
1.3.2
Methodology............................................................................................................................ 17
1.4
Ambition .......................................................................................................................................... 19
1.4.1
A Long-term Sustainable Open Source Community ............................................................... 19
1.4.2
Creating a pan-European infrastructure for Smart Digital Services ........................................ 19
1.4.3
Materializing the Economy of Data......................................................................................... 20
1.4.4
A sustainable and federated sandbox infrastructure for innovation ........................................ 20
1.4.5
Ensuring the transition from the Lab to the market by quality standards ................................ 21
2.
Impact .............................................................................................................................................. 22
2.1
Expected impacts ......................................................................................................................... 22
2.1.1 Strategic Impact: FIWARE, a business opportunity Europe must not miss ................................... 22
2.1.2 Economic Impact: FIWARE: market positioning and potential ..................................................... 23
2.1.3 Societal Impact: FIWARE: technology…and much beyond .......................................................... 25
2.2 FI-NEXT Expected Impact and Key Performance Indicators ............................................................... 26
2.2.1 Contribution to expected impacts listed in the Work Programme .................................................. 26
2.2.2 FI-NEXT Key Performance Indicators ........................................................................................... 27
2.3
Measures to maximise impact ..................................................................................................... 31
2.3.1
Innovation and exploitation activities ...................................................................................... 31
2.3.2 Contribution to standardization ..................................................................................................... 32
2.2.3 IPR 33
2.2.4 Reaping platform benefits through cross-side network effects ...................................................... 33
2.3
Dissemination and Communication activities ................................................................................. 34
2.3.1 Situation as of today in FIWARE Marketing & Communications ................................................. 34
2.3.2 FIWARE Learning experience ....................................................................................................... 35
2.3.3 FI-NEXT Strategy .......................................................................................................................... 35
3 Implementation ........................................................................................................................................ 37
3.1
Work plan – Work packages, deliverables ...................................................................................... 37
3.1.1
Work plan overview ................................................................................................................ 37
3.1.2
List of Work Packages ............................................................................................................. 37
3.1.3
List of deliverables .................................................................................................................. 38
3.1.4
List of milestones..................................................................................................................... 40
3.1.5
Work Package Descriptions..................................................................................................... 41
Deliverables (from all tasks): .................................................................................................................. 53
3.2
Management structure, milestones and procedures ..................................................................... 61
3.2.1.Management structure and procedures ........................................................................................... 61
3.2.2 Project Plan and Activity Management .......................................................................................... 62
3.2.3 Risk Management and Conflict Resolution .................................................................................... 63
3.2.4 Quality Assurance and Configuration Control ............................................................................... 64
3.3
Consortium as a whole ................................................................................................................ 65
3.4
Resources to be committed .......................................................................................................... 67
4. References ............................................................................................................................................... 68
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1.
Excellence
1.1
Objectives
1.1.1
Background
FIWARE (http://fiware.org) is an open initiative targeted at creating a sustainable ecosystem around
standards for the creation of Smart Applications/Services. The aim is to position primarily Europe - but also
other regions who wish to join Europe in this endeavor - at the vanguard of key technology developments to
be best positioned to capture the opportunities that will emerge in the next phase of the digital revolution.
The value proposition of the FIWARE ecosystem is built upon the following major pillars:
● The FIWARE Platform
The FIWARE platform provides a set of intuitive, yet powerful APIs (Application Programming
Interfaces) that make it easier to develop Smart Applications managing context information (e.g.,
connecting to the Internet of Things, and carrying out information processing and BigData analysis on
the Cloud). The specifications of these APIs are public and royalty-free. Further, an open source
reference implementation of FIWARE components is publicly available to provide for experience
and experimentiation, but of course other FIWARE providers can contribute their own
implementations of the APIs, resulting in a diverse ecosystem with many options. For more info, see
[FWPlatform].
● The FIWARE Lab
The FIWARE Lab, launched in September 2013, is a non-commercial sandbox environment where
innovation and experimentation based on FIWARE technologies takes place. Entrepreneurs and
individuals can experience FIWARE technology “hands on” as well as test and showcase their
applications on The FIWARE Lab, exploiting open data published by cities and other organizations.
Several cities are already connected or are currently working on setting up a connection to the
FIWARE Lab in order to export their open data in this environment. The FIWARE Lab is deployed
over a geographically distributed network of federated nodes. Their operation is powered by the
FIWARE Ops suite of tools. For more info, see [FWLabHome], [FWLabData].
● The FIWARE Acceleration programme
The FIWARE Acceleration programme promotes adoption of FIWARE technologies among solution
integrators and application developers, with special focus on SMEs and start-ups. As part of this
programme, the EU launched an ambitious campaign in September 2014 mobilizing 100M€ to support
entrepreneurs (SMEs and startups) that develop innovative applications based on FIWARE. For more
info, see [FWAcc].
● The FIWARE Mundus programme
Despite being born in Europe, FIWARE was designed with a global ambition, aiming at expanding to
other regions. The FIWARE Mundus programme is designed to bring coverage to this effort by
engaging local ICT players and domain stakeholders, and eventually liaising with local governments.
As a first achievement, partners in several countries of latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Chile) with
support of their local governments are embracing FIWARE, working on the setup of FIWARE Lab
nodes in their countries and promoting FIWARE locally. Opportunities also clearly exist in other
regions like Africa (Senegal and Tunisia) and Asia (India and China). For more info, see
[FWMundus]. There are also huge opportunities with the US in partnership with the Global Smart City
Challenge.
● The FIWARE iHubs programme
FIWARE was designed to be a global initiative but capable of providing support at local level. The
network of FIWARE iHubs will play a fundamental role in building the community of adopters as
well as contributors at local level. For more info, see [FWiHubs].
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Five large use case projects - 34 trials in 17 countries - have validated the adaptability of the FIWARE
platform in different vertical sectors, exploring domain specific extensions. They have covered diverse
sectors including energy, agro-food logistics, eHealth, smart fabrication/manufacturing and creative
industries. Three of these projects have defined a concrete roadmap for the use of the technologies
developed within their industry sector (e.g. the FISPACE foundation for agro-food logistics).
But FIWARE is not only about large trials with large industry players; the FIWARE Accelerator
programme has been shown to be a fantastic tool to reach-out to SMEs and startups that the EC
recognizes has never been able to reach so systematically before. The European network of 16 accelerator
projects within the programme has so far attracted more than 5,000 submissions to their open calls and
selected more than 1,000 SMEs and startups for the FIWARE business acceleration programme (see
[FWAccelera]). SMEs and startups receive coaching, mentoring services, access to technologies and funding
for their innovative commercial use of FIWARE, and they join the wider European startup community with
contacts worldwide. Overall, the aim is to double these numbers and to produce at least 300 market ready
or investment ready businesses by end of 2016.
The FIWARE ecosystem grew far beyond the beneficiaries in the projects. Today, it comprises of several
thousand people from SMEs and startups, industry, customers, users, cities, investors, incubators, developers
and technology enthusiasts. The development of this vibrant ecosystem can be followed through the presence
of FIWARE in most popular social networks (see [FWYouTube], [FWTwitter] and [FWLinkedIn]
[FWFaceBook])). In particular, the Open and Agile Smart City Alliance (OASC) is promoting the FIWARE
technologies in order to accelerate the development of smart city services and an impressive 89 cities have
already been involved in this initiative.
The FIWARE Core Industry Group, initially formed by Atos, Engineering, Orange and Telefónica, is
recruiting relevant ICT players who can help to push the FIWARE initiative on the market and further
develop the FIWARE platform as a key catalyser for Digitizing the European Industry. The FIWARE
Industry Group announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (23 Feb 2016) the creation of a
FIWARE Foundation to give a longer term perspective to the FIWARE initiative [FWFoundation].
1.1.2
Main goals
1.1.2.1 From an EU Open Source project to a global Open Source community
Open Source has become a major force in the IT landscape, as witnessed by facts such as that key open
source projects like Linux, Apache, OpenStack, and others drive major parts of the IT infrastructure, that
Microsoft is now adding a Linux compatibility layer to its Windows 10 operating system1, and that the
premiere pure Open Source company Red Hat has reached a yearly revenue of $2 billion2.
From the outset, FIWARE adopted a strong Open Source philosophy and is now well along its transition
from an EU project to a true and large-scale Open Source project. A key objective of FI-NEXT is to support
this transition and strengthen FIWARE as a global player in the Open Source community. Part of that goal is
to carefully understand the reasons for becoming a successful Open Source community. To this end, an
example study has been published by [Gama-14], who looked at the difference between the Open Source
projects OpenOffice and LibreOffice, where the latter was forked (an independent copy created) from the
former, thus starting off at the exactly the same point but each with its own community, processes, etc. and
with LibreOffice ending up being vastly more successful than OpenOffice. While the situation is very
different for FIWARE, there are important lessons to be learned from this and other open source initiatives,
such as OpenStack, Apache, Linux, etc., that we summarize in the following.
As the authors of the above paper conclude based on their own work and that of others, Community
sustainability is dependent on the motivation and incentives for developers to contribute to a project,
including economic, social, and technical aspects. It also depends on an “effective governance structure”
where “the community manager [...] plays a key role”, and “clear leadership, congruence in terms of project
goals, and good team spirit”. The choice of licensing plays a critical role as “fair licensing of all
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http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-download-now-3/
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/red-hat-revenue-2-billion-open-source/
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contributions adds a strong sense of confidence” and “can positively or negatively influence the growth of
your community”. The authors note that “the art of establishing a long-term sustainable OSS community is a
huge challenge” and “when the community begins to see more bureaucracy and repetition than useful and
enjoyable contributions, something is wrong”. However, they also point out that even if a project fails for
some reason but interest and a (partially) new community is available, Open Source provides the ability to
fork a project and continue in a different (hopefully more successful) way.
In the context of FIWARE there already is an existing and well-functioning community, largely out of
existing EU or company projects but in many cases with substantial Open Source experience, that in its
current form has shown substantial motivation and incentives beyond each project’s context and funding.
The governance rules of FIWARE have been set up based on best-practice (mainly based on OpenStack, but
with input from other initiatives as well) and pretty commonly very well accepted Open Source licensing
terms and source code management tools (e.g. Github) have been adopted. As has been observed in this and
other studies, the social aspects of these projects have not been studied well yet, and this is probably still a
key but critical aspect also for FIWARE. FIWARE has chosen to base its values mainly on openness,
meritocracy, transparency, and the market-driven approach. Clear rules have been established for onboarding of new components, called Generic Enablers (GEs), and managing the lifecycle as well as
contribution of existing ones [FWGovern]. While FIWARE has thus (and in other ways) demonstrated clear
openness to external individual and communities and the community leadership has been chosen in a first
election already (instead of chosen based on EU project mechanisms), it is hard to tell at this point how well
the new community will continue to work also on a social level.
While most signs look promising, further support can make a big difference. Indeed, drastic actions such as
completely stopping all funding would have very deleterious consequences on the nascent FIWARE
ecosystem. FI-NEXT is aimed at smoothing and providing further support for the Open Source transition of
the FIWARE community. Besides its focus on enhancing and extending the project at the technical level by
funding additional research and development, a key goal of the project is to support a robust and stable core
team of developers that will help stabilize the community during this non-trivial period. Subsequently, this
stable base will be a keystone of the next growth phase of FIWARE development and will be essential to
driving further investment into the ecosystem.
It is worth noting that large, successful Open Source communities are underpinned by an organization whose
sole raison d’etre is to foster the community: examples include Openstack, Apache, Mozilla, Linux etc.
Although there have been examples in which individual companies support an ecosystem, generally tensions
arise between the companies and the individuals contributing their efforts at some point; with an independent
non-profit organization supporting the ecosystem with no agenda other than growing the ecosystem, such
conflicts in motivation do not occur. This accepted model for operating Open Source ecosystems - the
support of an independent organization - will be adopted here and indeed is an important driver for the FINEXT proposal. This is an important dimension to the FIWARE growth strategy and will be described in
more detail in section 1.3.
The FIWARE Community is there, now it needs to be instantiated, which means to staff it properly, support
it with infrastructure, and engage the community
1.1.2.2 Ensure FIWARE meets the highest quality standards and best technical support
Nowadays, when you buy an electric appliance, you pay attention to the saving energy label like
.
Could we achieve something like this in software? What if FIWARE will be the first open source community
to introduce an approach to make quality of its software components visible for developers and business
deciders?
The FIWARE ecosystem relies on a large set of freely available, sophisticated open source components,
featured as Enablers. Many of these components offer advanced functionality, covering for example Cloud
Computing, Internet of Things and Big Data. Its mission - to provide the building blocks fora free and open
Future Internet - is a challenge in a dynamic global market dominated by transnational high tech
corporations.
To face this challenge, we propose that FIWARE should not just implement best practices and follow
standards for software quality, but demonstrate a next generation, innovative excellence concept for the
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Software Development Lifecycle seen as an industrial Value Chain. This broad perspective is a call to excel
not only in product quality, but also in quality of underlying production technology, i.e. in this context,
software engineering.
Following the famous quotation from computer technology pioneer Fred Brooks, that “techniques proven
and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in software engineering”
which could be radical innovations in software engineering in next decades, in times of exponential
technological progress and how could FIWARE leverage these to excel and become a reference for others?
For modern industry, it is widely agreed that most recent innovations in production technology, at least in
developed countries, arose in the context of the Third Industrial revolution, or Digital Revolution.
Specifically, the introduction of digital computing, digital sensors and access to the Internet radically
changed many industrial processes. The next expected change is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where
computing, now dominated by artificial intelligence, and sensors become ubiquitous and generally
accessible. (Schwab, 2016)
Which industrial approaches of the above are relevant to the quality of software, and what can be their
disruptive impacts for the software industry, as they become routine? A comparison of the evolution - and
revolutions - in the software industry reveals that an analog of the assembly lines known in classical industry
since the Second Industrial Revolution has been in existence for about a decade, and supply chain
management is just at its beginning. (SIGSPL-2015, SIGSPL-2016).
What if software engineering backing FIWARE ecosystem would start to mimic industrial production
methods following the Third Industrial Revolution, and additionally introduce approaches as described by
proponents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Our vision addressing these questions is driven by three approaches addressing three critical aspects of any
IT project: analysis, labour automation and advanced visualization, to introduce the new production
technology for delivery of high quality software. We call this production technology Software Production
Lines (SPL) and elaborate it in more details further in this task description.
A reference SPL production system implemented for FIWARE ecosystem we propose to introduce, will
result in FIWARE Enablers seen as hi-tech products, associated with quality labels like
as we
mentioned above, and supported by a transparent automated measurement process to issue these labels
already before release to give real time feedback to developer and testing teams. Furthermore, we expect this
innovation to be able to catalyze a deep shift for the global software industry, as chances are big that many
people will ask themselves how could other components’ - open or not open - labels look like.
1.1.2.3 Position FIWARE as de-facto standard for development of Smart Applications
Implementation of Smart Digital Application/Services relies heavily on the management of Context
Information. Indeed, nothing can be “smart” (i.e., exhibit an intelligent behavior) without first being
“context-aware” (i.e., capable to capture and handle the information describing what is happening around).
By context information we mean all information about entities that are relevant to applications/services. For
example, context information in the Smart Home could refer to room temperatures, user preferences, weather
forecast, etc. Context information in Smart Cities refers to information describing what is going on in the
city at any point in time (e.g., location of buses, traffic intensity on streets, pollution levels etc) as well as
information provided by citizens (e.g., preferences, claims), and so on. Implicit in the intelligent behavior of
Smart Applications/Services is the advanced processing and analysis of available context information.
Although context information has been worked on since the development of the e-business revolution or the
Web 2.0 phenomena, the emergence of the Internet of Things has the capacity to enormously enrich context
due to much greater data availability. This, combined with the ability of new cloud-based technologies
enabling real-time processing and big data analysis, paves the way for a new breed of innovative Smart
Digital Applications/Services supported by smart objects3 that will transform the life of individuals and the
way companies run their businesses.
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By smart digital object we mean a physical equipment (e.g., a car, a fridge, a telecare device) or a
manufactured object (e.g. a reading lamp, a flowerpot, etc) with an embedded system enabling interaction
with management applications or other systems through the Internet.
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In order to realize this vision a common standard for Context Information Management is required. Such a
standard would provide the means by which individuals, products and processes will become more
connected, through the generation and exchange of context information about who is (and was) doing what
and where, fueling processing and analytics. Portability of applications/services across platforms supporting
this basic context information management standard would be feasible, thus avoiding lock in any platform
vendor. On the other hand, the existence of a context information management standard would be key to
enabling an Economy of Data that would be based on interoperability among players in multi-sided markets
where context information produced by applications/services providers in one sector (e.g., information about
traffic provided by the smart city platform in a city) can become valuable for the identification of new
services around products by other providers (e.g., product delivery in the retail sector), altogether creating a
spectrum of services with the potential to address the dovetailing requirements of both producers and users
of information.. This is the key value proposition of a platform, which has promoted its transformational
value in ICT and in economics4. Data and service providers will benefit mutually and should be able to
identify potential new revenue streams from the sharing of context information (real-time or historic)
between them and with other players in the market and help promote, in a self-multiplying way, the
infrastructure through which context information is shared. Last but not least, a common standard will be
instrumental in reconciling, at a higher level, the wide variety of competing protocols (be they standard or
proprietary) associated with the Internet of Things, irrespective of what concrete IoT protocol is being used
to capture the current value of an attribute of a given context entity (e.g., the temperature of a room, the
traffic in a street) provided we use a standard way to represent and construe the values of entity attributes,
hiding the complexity of how those values have been obtained and the heterogeneity of the underlying lowlevel data models
Europe must not miss the opportunity to be a key player in the establishing of connected collaboration
platforms enabling the new Economy of Data by taking the lead in implementing context information
management standards. Standardization of Context Information Management can capitalize on results of the
FIWARE initiative. The FIWARE NGSI API [FW-NGSI] has been developed within FIWARE, providing
the means by which applications/services can update, query, provide access to, or subscribe to changes in,
context information. Specifications are public and royalty-free supported by a high-performance and highlyscalable open source reference implementation enabling appearance of platforms supporting this proposed
standard faster in the market and accelerating the adoption. In this respect, it is worth highlighting the
adoption of FIWARE NGSI as a de-facto standard by cities which have joined the OASC (Open and Agile
Smart Cities) initiative [OASC], which has growth up to incorporate 89 cities from 19 different countries
worldwide in less than one year. All of them have embraced the FIWARE NGSI standard for getting access
to near real-time information about what is going on in the city. The FIWARE NGSI API has proven also
successful in other sectors like Smart Agrifood or Smart Industry. FIWARE NGSI has evolved to become
more open and future proof by adopting JSON-LD as a default format for the API payload, making it
possible to describe more explicitly links between entities and devices, links with external resources, and
semantic referencing of the identifiers and parameters. Adopting the evolved FIWARE NGSI standard in
multiple sectors will be instrumental in creating the kind of multi-sided market effects which will pave the
way for creation of disruptive digital services. Acknowledging this potential, the EC identified an action
point in the recently published 2016 Rolling Plan on ICT standardization [EC-Standards].
FIWARE brings additional components - GEs - to perform real-time complex event processing, big data
analysis or advanced visualization of context information on the Cloud. If FIWARE NGSI becomes a defacto standard for context information management, the already solved integration with all these
complementary FIWARE Generic Enablers (GEs) will help to position FIWARE as preferred platform for
the development of Smart Applications.
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Multi-Sided Platforms (MSPs) in economics lingo, see section 2.2.1.4
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1.1.2.4 Ensure support and sustainability of the FIWARE Lab environment
FIWARE Lab (http://lab.fiware.org) is a non-commercial sandbox environment where innovation and
experimentation based on FIWARE technologies can take place. Web entrepreneurs, developers and domain
stakeholders can experiment with FIWARE technologies to implement their applications within the
FIWARE Lab, having also the possibility to exploit Open Data published by cities and other organizations
(currently more than 2.600 open data sets are published through the data portal of FIWARE Lab).
FIWARE Lab is deployed over a geographically distributed network of federated FIWARE Lab nodes. Each
FIWARE Lab node, operated under the responsibility of a specific organization, maps to one (or a network
of) datacentres on top of which an OpenStack instance has been deployed.
FIWARE Lab nodes may be classified in two main categories:
● Full nodes: i.e. nodes that are officially part of FIWARE and are committed to commercial grade
SLA and open to any FIWARE Lab registered user; this category includes all the nodes that are or
will be financed by the FIWARE programme.
● Associated nodes: i.e. nodes that are providing resources to FIWARE Lab without being part of the
FIWARE Programme, with less stringent SLA constraints and that may restrict access to a limited
set of users; such type of nodes may include nodes that are connected to the Lab for educational
purposes within a University or for a restricted group of Start-Ups
FIWARE lab is an environment open to any developers free of charge in order to help them to understand
the FIWARE technology and to check the efficiency of the solution on real developments.
However, such a platform has a cost including hardware and manpower for exploitation and maintenance.
Thus there is the need to find a sustainable economic model to ensure sustainable operations of FIWARE
Lab within the FIWARE Foundation.
In this context the aim of FI-NEXT is keep the open and free of charge nature of FIWARE Lab while
identifying and putting in place a business model capable of ensuring its sustainability in an independent
way.
1.2
Relation to the work programme
As indicated in the call text of the work programme, “FIWARE sustainability and evolution will be
supported by the further evolution of the service platform by an open community” and the FI-NEXT proposal
is focused in this goal. The following table captures how the project plans to cover the different activities
identified in the call text.
Activities include supporting the
execution of a roadmap with a
full set of supported enablers ...
Beyond the current functionality provided by FIWARE, FI-NEXT will
deliver a comprehensive roadmap for technical evolution of the
FIWARE portfolio: WP3 will produce a set of deliverables describing
a roadmap for key FIWARE technologies. . The evolution has been
focused in the most promising FIWARE features that can bring
greatest value to the economy of data and IoT-enabled smart
applications. The planned activities include: 1) In T3.1, the
development of a module for synchronization and end-to-end
integration of backend data providers and frontend applications,
making more intuitive the development of applications in FIWARE; 2)
In T3.2, integration of key data models and greater support for Linked
Data and semantic data analysis 3) In T3.3, the implementation of
edge/fog computing in IoT and cloud FIWARE chapters, to tackle
better heterogeneous IoT infrastructures and addressing latency and
eco-efficiency as sensor data is expected to grow dramatically; 4) In
T3.4, maturing the FIWARE business framework (developed in
collaboration with TMForum) around data and services market by
extending CKAN for fully-managed offerings; 5) In T3.5 the
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development of enhanced data processing and visualization tools.
The support to these new or upgraded enablers is ensured by the Open
Source Community and the FIWARE foundation.
… with a reference
implementation in open source
...
FI-NEXT aims at providing an enhanced reference implementation of
existing GEs, all of which are open source. FI-NEXT will also support
the inclusion of new GEs with appropriate reference implementations
and processes have been outlined in WP2 (specifically T2.4) for such
inclusion. FI-NEXT will also put significant emphasis on stimulating
substantial engagement from the Open Source community.
All the FIWARE enablers are released under open source schema,
clearly stated in the FIWARE Catalogue and open to the developers
community for contributions under a defined contributions
management process (T2.4).
… maintained and made
All the GE owners are committed to the maintenance of their enablers
available to third parties for use to be kept as official FIWARE GEs. They are open and public through
...
the FIWARE Open Source Community, supported by the FIWARE
foundation. T2.4 will monitor the support of GEs and take action in
the case that GEs are not sufficiently maintained.
… with high quality ...
Continuous and systematic testing activities (WP2) are planned in FINEXT to leverage FIWARE GEs at the adequate quality, reliability
and performance level for real and commercial workload conditions. A
Quality Assurance Lab (T2.3) will be set up to address this
requirement by curating the documentation, verifying the GEs
functionality and assessing the performance, stability and scalability in
stressing conditions.
Monitoring, reports and tools, conducted by agile Scrum methodology
applied (T2.2), contribute also to higher quality of enablers.
… and clear terms and
conditions.
All the FIWARE GEs and consequently also their future evolutions
supported by FI-NEXT are included in the FIWARE Catalogue where
a clear description of their terms and conditions for use and
exploitation are stated.
… a public sandbox
environment for
experimentation of all supported
enablers by any third party
interested is made available.
FIWARE Lab is an already operating infrastructure offering services to
those who wants to experiment FIWARE technologies. The FIWARE
Lab Operations Office of the FIWARE Foundation will coordinate the
operation of FIWARE Lab nodes (T4.1). The set of tools and
mechanisms for providing different levels of support to the users will
be enhanced in T4.2. T4.3 will define a clear process and tools to
maintain and monitor the set of nodes belonging to the FIWARE Lab,
ensuring the proper level of service for FIWARE users.
Activities contribute to building
an open source community to
manage the integrity and
evolution of the FIWARE
technology, and to ensure a real
multi-vendor approach.
WP2 is devoted to supporting the FIWARE Open Source Community
to materialize the FIWARE mission, creating an open and sustainable
ecosystem.
The constituted FIWARE Technical Steering Committee (T2.1) will
provide the coordination of all technical activities and it will ensure
alignment of evolutions to the FIWARE reference architecture.
The open and agile principles followed by FIWARE and alignment
with main standards in the domain (NGSI, CKAN, etc) support a real
multi-vendor approach by avoiding vendor lock-in.
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Concept and methodology
1.3.1
Concept
1.3.1.1 From an EU Open Source project to a global Open Source community
As discussed in Main Goals (Section 1.3.1.1) FIWARE has already started the transition from an EU Open
Source project to a global Open Source community. This includes at the low end things like adopting
common Open Source practices such as providing all FIWARE code on Github under a FIWARE branded
repository, using common approaches for code documentation, establishing common processes for code
releases, creating a common structure for architectural, installation, and other manuals, and so on. Also, to
address the openness and availability of its software FIWARE has adopted a set of common, well-accepted
Open Source licenses for its software, which fit to the different areas addressed by the FIWARE Generic
Enabler.
While this is important to be recognized as an serious Open Source project, it does not the address the
aspects of creating an effective, robust, sustainable, and global Open Source community that will be able in
the long term to maintain, continue to develop, and extend the software and the ecosystem that has been
established around FIWARE already and help it grow further. To that end, FIWARE has set up a governance
model that is based on best practice (modeled on OpenStack) and already provides the basic mechanisms to
support openness, transparency and meritocracy (http://www.fiware.org/fiware-governance/).
The structures defined in the governance model have meanwhile been created and are fully operational:
Existing active contributors have been identified and registered, new contributors have been encouraged to
join, initial elections have been held to establish the governance structure independent from the original
project, and so on. Now that this new structure is in place and active, the community has begun
implementing the processes as defined in the governance model, such as incubating new GEs, and
refinements to the initial governance model and its practical implementation are being realized.
The original processes and structures of the EU project have been completely replaced and taken over by the
newly established community. The sole purpose of the existing EU project is now to best support this
community (compliant with its DOW). It only maintains a minimal infrastructure to fulfill its separate, legal
obligations. In this new project, we continue this approach but extend it further by making the FIWARE
Foundation a key partner with full rights and funding, thus helping it to quickly establish itself as the legal
support structure for the FIWARE community.
For this new project we will
● set up the FIWARE Foundation as a legal entity to support the FIWARE community (this will be be
done before the commencement of FI-NEXT). The Foundation, whose entire mission (“core
business”) is to support the FIWARE community, will be open to accept new members, thereby
growing the basis, financial and otherwise, for supporting the community. Details of the
announcement of the Foundation are available at fiware.org5
● structure the Foundation such that it can ensure that the Governance Model is fully implemented,
effective, and observed independently of individual players. For instance, it will be responsible for
organizing the registration of the FIWARE Active Contributions, the elections to the different
FIWARE governance bodies, etc.
● transfer a number of activities to people working for the Foundation. This will help make the
FIWARE community independent from the project partners and companies that – so far – still fund
many of these activities. In this way, we are sure that they will be focused on ensuring that the
Governance Model is implemented, that it is refined by the requirements of daily operations, and
that key processes are realized effectively solely with the focus on the community. Also, this will
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●
help ensure that the FIWARE community is clearly independent of its current corporate sponsors
and is perceived as such.
create different jobs positions with concrete and specific profiles (this includes positions such as:
press officer, evangelist, Open Source community manager, social network outreach, strategic
liaisons, …). Only some of these positions will be funded under this project. Those linked to other
objectives of the EU call addressed by this proposal are expected to be covered by those projects,
such as ecosystem creation (mapping to the FIWARE iHubs and FIWARE Mundus programme) and
acceleration activities (mapping to the FIWARE Accelerator Programme).
transfer the Communication and Dissemination activities to the control of the FIWARE Press Office
that will be coordinated by the FIWARE Foundation.
Having described these more administrative and formal – but very important for the long-term success –
aspects of the transition to a global Open Source community, it is absolutely critical to note that the key
activities of an Open Source community – the technical process of creating, maintaining, and extending
useful, usable, and used software artefacts – remain solely in the hands of the FIWARE Active Contributors.
It is a fundamental principle of the FIWARE community and its governance model that the technical aspects
of FIWARE are exclusively managed by them based on the principle of meritocracy, with no influence by
the members of the FIWARE Foundation whatsoever.
1.3.1.2 Ensure FIWARE meets the highest quality standards and best support
As explained above, we suggest that given the complexity and scale of the FIWARE ecosystem, enhancing
software engineering methods with industrial engineering approaches can be beneficial. Our methodology is
based on the combination of three pillar approaches, which we reference as analysis, labour automation and
advanced visualization, and explain them below in more detail.
To give a simple analogy, imagine software development lifecycle to be an industrial assembly line, for
example for cars. We will refer to it to support more clarity in the following elaboration of our holistic, value
chain driven methodology.
Analysis pillar - Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC
The first pillar of the SPL methodology is to introduce a next generation of quality management based on
software and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) metrics, to set quality standards in the software
delivery process using the quality gate concept implemented as a virtual autonomous sensor-driven
appliance, able to measure and to control the value delivery process at its critical points - and to enhance the
Continual Service Improvement process defined by ITIL (Lloyd 2011) with the industrial process
improvement framework called Lean Six Sigma.
Six Sigma is a process optimization and quality improvement approach used for complex industrial
processes and recently also in software engineering (Sun, 2000). Lean Six Sigma additionally leverages lean
production concepts (Cox, 2009).
Following these concepts, we recommend to model SDLC related quality improvement work packages to
measure and improve quality following the Continual Improvement work cycle given by Six Sigma’s
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DMAIC operational concept for quality improvement: Define, Measure, Analyse and Improve. Measuring
means as required by Six Sigma to measure physical hard facts, derived from digital footprints of SDLC
processes and artifacts; we consider classical human driven
reporting in this area as at least partly obsolete in the era of the
Fourth Industrial Revolution. On the Lean methodology side, we
apply the waste model to organizational inefficiencies in IT
projects (Poppendieck, 2003).
What we can measure about SDLC and its artifacts, can be
assembled to a Quality Label similar to the EU energy saving label
(as displayed in the image of a hypothetical quality label issued for
a specific release of an Enabler, with sub-labels given e.g. for
security or performance of software components. Every sub-label
is a product of a Quality Gate from the other pillar addressing
labour automation).
If we project ideas building this pillar to our industrial assembly
line analogy, this analysis pillar introduces digital sensors to collect
physical information during the production process, like air
temperature or noise level, and additionally
introduces a
relationship between metrics and quality.
Labour automation pillar: DevOps
DevOps is a booming and yet not very well-known Lean approach
to bring together parts of IT organizations normally separated to discover synergies of collaboration and
transparency: software development and systems operations. DevOps builds on principles CALMS (Culture,
Automation and Lean). Here, we want to introduce more specific automation approaches like, for example,
image bakery for mass production of one-way testing environments using state of the art lightweight
virtualization technology, as demonstrated when using Docker Technology.
An important SPL concept introduced with this pillar is Quality Gate; in the car assembly line analogy
should be obvious, that there are hard acceptance criteria for intermediate artefacts to move from one
production station to the other: it makes no sense to put lack onto a malformed car body, or apply a crash test
to it. However, it is quite normal that software acceptance testers responsible for functional test find
themselves testing software with serious technical bugs.
While in future we aim to leverage this procedure to SDLC, our primary goal is to use a non-invasive
approach and let the Quality Gate just issue a score reflecting the added value, because defining the
minimum acceptance level for quality of intermediate SDLC phases is an organizational task to be assessed
together with FIWARE teams.
A Quality Gate should accompany any significant SDLC technical phase, and an overall quality label has to
rely on a subset of per-phase sub-labels, covering the whole value chain. From the previous work at the end
of FI-Core project in 2016, four Quality Gates are expected to become available before start of FI-NEXT,
namely addressing quality of online documentation, system integration, functional and performance testing.
SPL is expected to become available for four Generic Enablers, implementing the procedure for Java and
C++ technology to produce first experimental labels.
In the context of FI-NEXT existing Quality Gates can be improved, and/or new may be introduced. Metrics
precision should also be improved if perceived as not sufficient.
Advanced visualization pillar: Dashboards
We think that any known type of visual communication in business has the purpose to communicate complex
facts in an accessible and appealing form across interdisciplinary roles. Therefore, be it a spreadsheet, pie
chart, interactive dashboard or an immersive virtual reality, all these are in SPL context architectural
components providing a visual human interface to very abstract entities and processes happening in complex
distributed organisations and systems. To deliver this information aggregated in a convenient way in real
time is the ultimate goal to reduce communication overhead.
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The reference to industry is a digital war room aka Obeya known from Japanese lean manufacturing,
displaying aggregated sensor data in real time (Abaja 2015), as depicted below. This is our vision of how a
technical coordination process for SDlC will look like in a decade, extended beyond today’s site operation
monitoring to the whole value chain, which starts with description of business processes and specifications to
for software.
1.3.1.3 Position FIWARE as de-facto standard for development of Smart Applications
As explained in Section 1.1, FIWARE is in a privileged position to become a de-facto standard for Smart
Applications. It relies on an easy-to-use yet powerful API for context information management that is
increasingly getting adopted in multiple sectors. It can emerge as the open source alternative to the emerging
IoT-oriented platforms released by major incumbent Internet players (Amazon, Google), very much like
OpenStack emerged back in 2010.
However, how can we consolidate this potential and ultimately rise FIWARE as the open standard for Smart
Applications?
Firstly, FIWARE has to strengthen its presence in, or help to incubate, initiatives that may be instrumental
for adoption in specific sectors, including, but not limited to standardization bodies. The support given to the
creation and expansion of the Open and Agile Smart Cities initiative is a good example to be extrapolated to
other domains. Thus, first contacts have taken place regarding collaboration with the Industrial Data Space
initiative [IDS-16] recently launched in Germany which may help to setup the technology foundation needed
to materialize the ambitious objectives defined in the DEI (Digitizing the European Industry) Policy Action
within the Digital Single Market strategy of the European Commission. FIWARE may also help to incubate
the creation of initiatives also in the Smart Agrifood, Smart Logistics, eHealth or other sectors, as results of
the FIWARE Accelerator programme illustrate [Agrifood-15] [CreatiFI-15] [SoulFI-15]. Collaboration is a
cornerstone in all cases, focused on a driven-by-implementation approach and working as the first step
towards fast-track adoption of results in relevant standardization bodies.
Secondly, FIWARE has to bring a number of distinguishable features that will allow to keep it ahead of
existing cloud platforms (mostly those emerging from the IoT space) in front of software architects and
developers. In this respect, FIWARE will not be different than any product for which incorporation of
innovative features will be constantly required to remain competitive in the market. Going beyond the
shorter-term features that companies and organizations contributing to FIWARE are developing on their
own, FI-NEXT will accelerate the development of a number of features that will help to position FIWARE
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far ahead of comparable products in the medium and long term. Below is a list of concrete challenges that
will be addressed:
● Powerful but simple end-to-end integration and configuration of the FIWARE Generic Enablers
required to build the technology stack suited for highly-distributed smart applications comprising of
network-edge parts (for example, IoT devices or robots) and backend systems (e.g, smart city
services) acting as context information providers, up to front-end applications which may be
displaying gathered context information in 3D scenes.
● Support of advanced security, trust and privacy management features which can be used to realize
the notion of “ownership of data” and "sovereignty of data" (being able to define who may access
what data owned by whom). This would require to evolve the current Security Framework (mostly
focused on just access control) so that it supports establishing policies to deliver these features end to
end.
● Innovative Linked Data enabled context management capabilities, that combine the flexibility and
expresiveness features of semantics with the efficient and scalable mechanism to share context data
in time from dynamic sources as IoT devices. Together with the definition of cross domain and
domain specific data models to be applied on top of the APIs, it will enable real interoperability for
smart solutions as smart city applications.
● Ability to handle media streams as context information which can be consumed or processed as any
other kind of context information (therefore also addressing the issue about sovereignty of data
mentioned in the previous point). Besides this, building a framework enabling to build algorithms
that will transform media stream sources (e.g. cameras) into “sensor devices”.
● Advanced features for the management of access rights and monetization of context information
sources. This way, context information produced by applications/services providers in one sector can
become valuable for the identification of new services around products offered by others, altogether
creating multi-sided markets and paving the way for an Economy of Data.
● Advanced standard-based publication as well as powerful access management and visualization of
data sources (historic, static or real-time, discrete or multimedia). This means extending DCAT
specifications and implement advanced plugins in CKAN supporting the powerful features referred
in the previous point, going beyond what is needed for the publication of Open Data.
Development of this features will be approached following a “driven by implementation” approach, trying to
demonstrate results in the context of concrete showcases. In this respect, collaboration will be explored with
other projects that may be selected under Horizon 2020 for the development of these showcases.
1.3.1.4 Ensure support and sustainability of the FIWARE Lab environment
As said in previous sections, key goal of FI-NEXT is to assure the sustainability of FIWARE Lab, in
agreement with its mission well beyond the end of the project. In order to achieve this sustainability, the aim
of FI-NEXT is to define and to support to put in place a suitable business model which will allow the
FIWARE Foundation not only to sustain the operations of FIWARE Lab, but the Foundation itself.
Currently FIWARE Lab consists of 15 different nodes worldwide. In the context of FI-NEXT at least 5 of
those nodes will be kept fully operational. The selected nodes are those for which:
● the organisation running the node has committed in its strategy, beyond pure R&I, the key
importance of FIWARE. Indeed, in some cases such organisations already run also commercial
instances of FIWARE
● the organisation running the node has proved that the node is highly reliable and support to its users
prompt and complete.
The FIWARE Lab nodes at least supported by the FI-NEXT project are:
● Telefonica: Sevilla-Málaga-LasPalmas 1408 cores, 5.5 TB RAM, 30 TB disk space and 4098 IPs
● Engineering: Vicenza (IT) with 384 cores, 3 TB RAM, 34 TB disk space, and 250 public IPs
● Atos: Located in Tenerife (ES) with 256 cores, 512 GB RAM, 5 TB HD Disk space, 256 public IPs
extensive to 1024.
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Orange: Located in Brittany (FR) with 600 cores, 2.2 TB RAM, 32 TB HD and 254 public IPs. It is
offering one Intégration platform in order to test updates and one exploitation platform for
application development.
● ZHAW: Located in Winterthur (CH), the Zurich node comprises of 302 cores, 2.5 TB RAM and 57
TB disk space, 250 public IPs.
The costs for running a typical full FIWARE Lab node (i.e. equipped with 200 cores with 2 Gb RAM and
20 Gb HD per core, 200 public IPs, 100 Mbits connectivity), through the extensive experiences gained with
the XIFI and Fi-Core projects, are about 200 K€ / Year.
Thus, in order to assure the sustainability of FIWARE Lab, in agreement with its mission well beyond the
end of the project, requires to define and to put in place a quite relevant business model.
However, the path to such a business model is quite narrow as from one hand the FIWARE Foundation is a
non profit organisation and from the other it cannot enter in competition with the FIWARE commercial
instances as the FIWARE Foundation, by its statute, can benefit from public funding. In this context the FINEXT project aims at designing and experimenting such a balanced business model for FIWARE Lab.
Possible sources of revenues are the following:
● R&D&i projects needing to setup their own FIWARE instance for experimentation as well as
development and deployment of pilots. Typically this service would be offered to Horizon 2020
projects as well as R&D&i projects in other regional, national or european programmes. A possible
approach could be to
○ charge based on monthly rates depending on the capacity hired by the projects
○ Charge based on performance requirements if current offered performances needs to be
improved
○ SLAs will be appropriate for R&D&i projects starting from the current SLAs offered by
FIWARE Lab. If more stringent requirements are needed a charge will apply.
● Consultancy and training services. These includes:
○ Use of the FIWARE Lab
○ Introductory courses on developing with FIWARE
○ Advanced courses on developing with FIWARE
Around 20% of the income will be used by the FIWARE Foundation to support the sustainability of the
FIWARE Foundation itself (including coordination of the FIWARE Lab), while the 80% of the incomes will
be dedicated to hire services (following a public procurement and transparent process) offered by
organizations already operating, or aiming at operating, a FIWARE Lab node.
1.3.1.5 From Lab to Market
FIWARE is a multi-vendor open service platform, based on open royalty free specifications and open source
platform component reference implementations that has already demonstrated its capacity to become a
preferred service platform, in this sense. FI-NEXT will focus on three main pillars to bridge the gap from
Lab to Market:


Continuous evolution of the FIWARE platform through the FIWARE Open Source
community: it is of utmost importance that FIWARE components (both existing and potentially
identified new ones) are driven by usage and their implementation managed by the FIWARE Open
Source community. This will ensure FIWARE remains at the cutting edge in terms in providing new
and emerging technologies and that it is permanently synchronized with the requirements and
necessities of its stakeholders community.
Evolution and maintenance of FIWARE Lab nodes: concept idea for innovative
services/applications may be good, however it is fundamental to be able to make the proof of the
added value of the solution developed and the technology used, reducing in turn the adoption risk.
By making use of the FIWARE components deployed in the FIWARE Lab nodes, their related
hosting capabilities and the FIWARE business framework around data and services market, third
parties can facilitate interactions with potential users and demonstrate their developed solution,
while ensuring the development process of the solution remains at a competitive cost.
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In this perspective FIWARE Lab nodes can help application developers to cover TRLs from 3 to 5
(i.e: from experimental proof of concept to technology validation) of their solutions in terms of
development of new products/services based on FIWARE technology.
 FIWARE commercial node instances: once the developed solution has been proved in terms of
technical and development cost feasibility, applications developers will be able to port their
solutions into one of the commercial FIWARE instances. Indeed, they already exist two of such
instances (Engineering and Telefonica) and the members of the FIWARE Foundation (Atos and
Orange) have committed to provide FIWARE commercial instances as part of their portfolio.
In this context, FIWARE Commercial instances assure TRL 9 (full system proven in operational
environment) for FIWARE components and developed third party services.
1.3.1.6
Related national or international research and innovation activities
Several ongoing initiatives, listed below, are linked to FIWARE and then to this project.
● Digital Single Market6 is a European Commission strategy aimed at eliminating the barriers of the
citizens towards the digital technologies. The strategy is based on three policy areas: access to digital
goods and services; digital networks; and digital technologies boosting economic growth. All what
FIWARE has done and will be doing is to facilitate these three aspects, so it is fully aligned with this
strategy. Both the FIWARE platform and the FIWARE ecosystem are ways to grant citizens access
to digital services; to provide a digital infrastructure for creating services; and to boost business for
European economy growth.
● Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC)7 ia aiming at creating an open smart city market based on
cities and communities needs. OASC is promoting some principles about openness, interoperability,
replicability and standardization that are not only shared by FIWARE but even emanating from
FIWARE, as for example NGSI and CKAN standards.
● European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP SCC)8 is a partnership
among cities, industry and citizens to improve urban life through more sustainable integrated
solutions. It combines energy efficiency, transport solutions and ICT. Interoperability and
replicability of smart city solutions across european cities are key issues for this initiative, and
FIWARE facilitates the implementation of these concepts and it is already proven in some cities.
● Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)9 was promoted by EC for the dialogue and
interaction among IoT players in Europe for creating an ecosystem that unleash the potentials of IoT.
Besides sharing common view about IoT domain and principles, FIWARE is able to contribute
many working groups of the AIOTI initiative, such as for defining future research challenges, or
creating appropriate innovation ecosystems, or contributing to IoT standards. Many vertical domains
for IoT (cities, farming, manufacturing, environment, etc) considered by AIOTI can benefit from
FIWARE adoption to implement AIOTI mission.
● Digitising European Industry10 is the European strategy proposed by the commissioner Oettinger for
the digital transformation of industry complementary to the Digital Single Market. Manufacturing
sector is one of the pillars of Europe economy but the benefits of the digital infrastructures are not
being maximized by this sector. Thus, the industry needs to adapt to the digital era and scale up the
national and regional practices. Then, a group of European industry players has contributed a report
proposing four main actions to reach that objective. FIWARE may especially contribute to two of
these actions by providing the digital platform which helps the digitalization of the industry; and by
leveraging to existing ecosystem up to the industry arena.
● Big Data Value Association (BVDA)11 is a non-profit organization of European SMEs and large
enterprises to boost research, development and innovation of Big Data value in Europe. For that, the
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https://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market_en
http://oascities.org/
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http://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/
9
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/alliance-internet-things-innovation-aioti
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https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digitising-european-industry
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http://www.bdva.eu/
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initiative has collaborated with EC to provide the strategic research agenda for Big Data in next
years. BDVA and FIWARE are sharing the objective to boost the Economy of Data in Europe by
following the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness. FIWARE ecosystem and
infrastructure can be an added value for ongoing BDVA instruments and activities.
● European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)12. As part of the Digital Single Market strategy the EC
launched this initiative aiming at creating a trusted environment for hosting and processing research
data to support EU science in its global leading role. The EOSC plan is expected by spring 2016
under the European Cloud Initiative. For this reason, it is still not clear how FIWARE could relate
with this initiative but considering it is fostering open science and open innovation, there is a
promising opportunity for FIWARE to contribute this initiative.
● ETSI13 is the European Telecommunications Standards Institute in charge of producing global
standards for ICT. FIWARE is following many of these standards and also it is aiming at creating an
Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Cross-cutting Context Information Management standards.
Many other initiatives at national level are arising in some European countries aligned with listed European
initiatives above in fields related to FIWARE, as IoT, Big Data and Cloud.
1.3.2
Methodology
FI-NEXT aims at fostering FIWARE sustainability and evolution and at promoting the FIWARE Open
Source Community. In order to reach the main goals described in section 1.1.2, the project has been designed
taking into account the historical background and the lessons learnt in the past projects and has been
structured into three main technical strands cooperating together. In this respect, the FI-NEXT consortium is
composed by industrial and academic partners with a relevant past experience in all the different pillars of
the FIWARE ecosystem: the implementation of those strands is assigned to the partners with the most
relevant experience in that specific sector and has been declined in the definition of the structure of the work
packages (see section 3.x). The following table summarizes the objectives and the corresponding
methodology adopted to reach them.
Id
Objectives (What)
Methodology (How)
1
From an open source project to
a sustainable Open Source
Community
The FIWARE Open Source Community is already a well
established institution aiming at materializing the FIWARE
mission and at maintaining and further developing FIWARE
technologies, but its novelty deserves a support in terms of:
Ensure FIWARE meets the
highest quality standards and
best support
● Coordination through the so called Technical Steering
Committee of, among the others, administrative and
managerial activities (secretarial, tools, follow up decisions,
etc.)
● Supporting the evolution of the FIWARE Technologies with
the adoption of a well structured agile approach already
successfully implemented in the past FIWARE projects.
● Ensuring and guaranteeing the quality of FIWARE GEs
towards production grade in terms of documentation,
functional and non-functional testing.
All this activities will be implemented in WP2.
2
12
13
Position FIWARE as de-facto Historically FIWARE has adopted a specification (NGSI) and an
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud
http://www.etsi.org/
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standard for development of
Smart Applications
approach for smart and context-aware applications that became a
de-facto standard.
The plan of FI-NEXT is to extend such an approach in terms of:
● new version of FIWARE APIs and data models based on
NGSIv2 and JSON-LD for easing integration of GEs into
complete smart applications (the developer should be able to
declare dependencies that are automatically resolved by the
execution environment)
● enhancements of some GEs (e.g. CKAN, Synchronization
FiVES, Context Broker, Complex Event Processing,
SpagoBI) supporting the so called "Economy of Data"
● fostering a Cloud Edge/Fog Computing architecture for
satisfying application requirements related with latency,
bandwidth, data transfer etc.
All this activities will be implemented in WP3.
3
FIWARE Lab is currently offering a sandbox environment where
Ensure support and
sustainability of the FIWARE to experiment the FIWARE technologies. Maintaining, evolving
and easing the operations of FIWARE Lab is a key factor for the
Lab environment
success of FIWARE because it represents the FIWARE instance
of reference for all the experimenters and for all the providers
willing to set up new FIWARE instance.
In order to achieve the goal of supporting operations and
sustainability of FIWARE Lab, the following actions will be put
in place:
● Governance and coordination of FIWARE Lab in terms of
definition of policies and procedures for user management,
access rights, onboarding and federation of new nodes, helpdesk, etc.
● Maintain a high degree of maturity and stability of FIWARE
Lab defining, applying and monitoring a set of SLAs in
terms of service availability and support guaranteed.
● Facilitate the operation of FIWARE Lab through proper
adoption of tools that automate and ease the main duties like
monitoring, deployment and daily operations.
All this activities will be implemented in WP4.
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Ambition
1.4.1
A Long-term Sustainable Open Source Community
State of the Art / Market situation
Previous projects of the FIWARE initiative contributed to FIWARE, not only with technologies, but also
clearly expressing the need that to make FIWARE technologies widely recognised and adopted not only
those should be Open Source, but also that a sound, vibrant and independent community is needed. With
this respect the FI-Core project took the challenge on board and outlined the FIWARE Open Source
Community Governance Model (published in fiware.org). Nowadays the FIWARE Open Source
Community is up-and-running with a large number of contributors, but still under the push and
embodiment in the FI-Core project as, for instance, its TC members all come from the project.
Ambition
The ambition is to have the FIWARE Open Source Community recognised as an accumulation and
aggregation point of interest for all those developers who believe that further evolution of Future Internet
technologies is needed, who want to make them more appealing and performant, and above all market
viable. To do that the FI-NEXT project will give full support to the FIWARE Open Source Community,
through the FIWARE Foundation, any case as any external interested parties and not as a contractual
entity to which the community as to respond to. It is clear that this is possible if and only if relevant
industrial stakeholders are involved. In fact it is notable the case of OpenStack and its impressive rump-up
when global ICT vendors recognised the relevance of the technologies and the need to all cooperate in
them. Such nucleus of core industries is already committed in FIWAE as recently shown by Atos,
Engineering, Orange and Telefonica.
1.4.2
Creating a pan-European infrastructure for Smart Digital Services
State of the Art / Market situation
Most existing Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures are little more than dedicated stovepipes connecting
one set of sensor devices to applications, or watertight silos in exclusive mastery of a single network
operator, stakeholder (as for e.g. metering infrastructures) or manufacturer (as for the newish breed of
“connected devices”). These infrastructures vary widely in scope, scale, genericity, and the levels of
abstraction of the data they provide access to. As such they will not achieve scale and make it possible for
network effects to kick in.
Beyond IoT, no infrastructure exists which would allow an application to be launched on my smartphone
and then connect to well-known APIs where relevant contextual information, combining a broad set of
data sources, would be available.
Ambition
A broad-based context information management infrastructure can connect applications to access
aggregated value-added context information. The FIWARE foundation will support such a federated
platform that has the potential to reach a scale where self-reinforcing network effects may come into play.
This would be difficult to achieve if this infrastructure was a regular commercial offering under exclusive
mastery of a single actor. The FIWARE platform does not intend to replace existing lower-level or more
specialized data mediation infrastructures, but to provide an overarching clearinghouse or hub where such
information could be gathered and consolidated.
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Materializing the Economy of Data
State of the Art / Market situation
In the last decade there was a big hype regarding Open Data and solutions for Data governance. This
resulted in a plethora of initiatives and tools and to the commitment of different public bodies to release
open data sets. The reality is that these efforts, often didn’t help the creation of a Data Economy, for
different reasons. One of the key reasons is that publishing data sets in a not interoperable and dynamic
format (e.g. Excel) limits drastically their adoption and increase the cost for their reuse and maintenance.
Tim Berners Lee depicted a complete picture of the needs to build a 5 star Open Data14. FIWARE, with its
development in the context of data governance, fully embraced this philosophy. FIWARE data are: Web
published, structured and queryable, described through open format. referable and interlinked..The
engagement with the community of FIWARE developers has shown that access to open and reusable data
sources is key to develop innovative applications. This has led to a continuous population of FIWARE Lab
with data sets from different sources, and essentially open data fed by cities. Use of NGSI and CKAN
contribute to that concept. The growing deployment of IoT calls for platforms like FIWARE, able to
gather, analyse data and provide results as context for applications. It is precisely in the areas of IoT and
big data where most contributions from the Open Source Community are expected.
As connectivity grows, so it does the potential for development of new services. But taking maximum
advantage of data leads to new requirements in terms of machine learning, privacy management, and data
management (including the understanding of what data elements are needed for new services, together
with their value), as discussed in the Atos Position Paper “Smart City Economics”. Data, being such a
powerful asset, has become a currency for many stakeholders (e.g cities), and FIWARE, as a multi-sided
platform that allows every player to trade, becomes a clear enabler to realize the economy of data.
Ambition
FIWARE aims to become the de-facto model for creating sustainable data governance models through
open interoperable standards, royalty free implementations that facilitate publication of live and dynamic
data, going beyond current platforms. Key to this process will be the evolutions within FI-NEXT project
that will be the release of the NGSIv2 specification that is suitable to work as shared message format and
data model, also exploiting the capabilities of Linked Data and the introduction of FIWARE
Synchronization GEi (FiVES) able to simplify the interoperability between NGSIv2 and other data format
(private or open). On top of that, FI-NEXT will enhance CKAN integrating it with the FIWARE Business
Framework GEs, to provide a fully-fledged data market where offerings related to “premium” data can be
defined and managed end-to-end, including their associated publication, acquisition, accounting of usage,
billing and charging, and revenue settlement and sharing processes.
1.4.4
A sustainable and federated sandbox infrastructure for innovation
State of the Art / Market situation
Cloud Computing and in particular Public Clouds are nowadays a commodity: big vendors (e.g. Amazon,
Microsoft, Google) are offering a plethora of services ranging from IaaS to PaaS and SaaS service
models. Often these environments comprise of many data centres and cover many geographical regions
with huge capacity in terms of CPU, RAM and storage. Some of them offer added-value services like
integration with IoT (AWS IoT) or support to machine learning (Google). Nevertheless these Cloud
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http://5stardata.info/en/
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Computing environments are generally closed, owned by single vendors and are not providing an open
place where developers can experiment their innovative applications for free.
Ambition
FIWARE Lab brings a truly open sandbox environment based on OpenStack and currently ranked among
the top 30% as size of the cloud infrastructures using OpenStack15. It is highly distributed throughout
Europe and Latin America and is sustained by a federation of infrastructure owners each providing not
only hardware but also human resources. FIWARE Lab is not only a Cloud Computing sandbox but offers
added-value services (GE images and instances, IoT, Open Data) where developers can test their
innovative ideas.
The aim of FI-NEXT is to set up a schema for FIWARE Lab that will become sustainable over time and
to which any organization can join as a provider as long as a certain amount of hardware resources are
provided, a well defined SLA is guaranteed and the FIWARE mission and code of conduct is respected.
Moreover FI-NEXT plans to enhance the maturity and to ease the operations of FIWARE Lab automating
routine activities and supporting users in duties that are time consuming and error prone (e.g. migration of
resources from/to nodes, upgrading of OpenStack version).
The final ambition is to have an open, sustainable, federated, mature and highly available meeting point
for infrastructure providers, technology providers, data providers and SMEs where true innovation can
take place.
1.4.5
Ensuring the transition from the Lab to the market by quality standards
State of the Art / Market situation
Chances are big that the Future Internet will inevitably introduce new levels of software variety and
complexity, existing methods and tools might come to its limit, e.g. just scaling personal resources can
lead to inefficiency of the business model.
The challenge is therefore to find innovative methods allowing managing complexity and change on large
scale and addressing root causes of shortcomings in currently available approaches. Fortunately,
Information Technology is yet quite young, and there are still many industrial methodologies which could
become relevant, i.e. supply chain management, autonomous systems and high precision quality assurance
in mass production.
Ambition
The labour automation pillar delivers the assembly line, the real time dashboards correspond to the
advanced visualization pillar, and whether we consider the artifacts depicted as cubes to be of high quality,
is defined through the digital sensors and the labeling model, introduced by the analysis pillar.
The organization of the SDLC following the described SPL scheme is as perceived by authors of the SPL
concept goes beyond SotA and definitely not an operational model in many leading IT enterprises.
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October 2015, OpenStack User Survey
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Impact
2.1
Expected impacts
2.1.1 Strategic Impact: FIWARE, a business opportunity Europe must not miss
According to the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2015, the EU continues to be outperformed by the US, Japan
and South Korea, as it can be seen in the picture below.
EU Innovation performance compared to main global partners; Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard
(European Commission, May 2015)
Innovation in the digital age is driven by technologies like cloud computing, mobile computing, social
networking, and big data analytics. Hefty competition in this global digital arena, generally known as digital
transformation of industries, demands continuous innovations on-top of platforms, as sheer scale does not
permit much room for individual and purpose-built environments, stacks and applications. This in turn places
huge pressure on IT providers and consumers, as they are fully exposed to very fast evolving and
dynamically evolving business needs. And indeed, the trend clearly points into the direction of consuming
“X as a service”. Those offerings are provided to many tenants (customers), and have a common platform as
foundation, simply for being more efficient in terms of operations and maintenance.
Besides becoming more effective in software and systems operations, adopting new features is of paramount
importance to software-based enterprises, especially in high-income regions like Europe. FIWARE has the
potential to become a European-wide accelerator for this, as the value of platform strategies for software
enterprises is unquestioned, c.f. The “Software Pricing Trends” study by PwC 16. What FIWARE needs at
this stage, however, is true “enterprise grade”, not only in terms of technology (e.g. GEs) but even
more so in terms of structures, like governance, branding, long-term support and similar mechanisms.
Especially continuity, in terms of maintenance, but more so advancement in terms of innovations and
respective technology will be the decisive factor. The original objective, and meanwhile largely achieved
milestone, of FIWARE becoming the platform to be at the technological edge in software-based innovations
is something that needs extensive maintenance, especially as the huge awareness created by FIWARE will
not only attract adopters, but also many copycats. In conclusion, FIWARE’s potential originates from the
innovations materialized by its software components. But being at the edge is something ephemeral, and
FIWARE needs to move from being a “high-potential runner-up” to being a “long-term highperformer”
And FIWARE is already a reality. FIWARE is there indeed, not only as a prospect, but as a solution that
has initially proved to generate value, and more importantly, not only for its founders, but for an open
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ecosystem where IT providers, cities, companies operating in a varied range of verticals, and startups,
among others, all interact in a natural and creative way as part of a multi-sided market (see map.fiware.org).
The basis is ready, as well as the ambition to stay.
Nevertheless, in order to realize its potential impact in a sustainable way, technology is not enough.
Considerable effort has been invested in setting up an ecosystem around FIWARE, but additional measures
are needed to create and preserve incentives of all stakeholders, to eventually advance the ecosystem
beyond the European Framework Program, and to ultimately make it sustainable in all regards.
Steps that are still needed, as highlighted by the experts selected by the EC for the Future Internet PublicPrivate Partnership Second Interim Evaluation[1], are:
● be widely recognized and competitive with respect to other platforms, both commercial and open
source, in the market if it is to become adopted in sufficient volumes alongside those others
● attract revenue funding from its users, sufficient to maintain and develop the platform for the
foreseeable future, as EC funding will shortly come to an end.
This proposal will target the two of them with a credible, realistic and concrete Strategic and Implementation
Plan. Funds requested by FI-NEXT will be utilized to create and put in place the mechanisms that
ensure self-sustainability. For this to happen, the baseline needs to be stable and some specific assets need
to be in place, namely:
● FIWARE evolution and technical support of key GEs that cannot fly alone yet and that are the most
wanted
● Availability of FIWARE Lab as experimentation infrastructure that will allow to attract continuously
new stakeholders and make further tests of both GEs and the cloud infrastructure (of utmost
relevance for the commercial FIWARE instances)
● Mobilizing the Open Source Community, which entails effort and work until it gets the right
momentum
● An ambitious communication strategy in cooperation with the other projects funded by the EC under
ICT12a and collaboration with other institutions, both private and public, to ensure scalability and
coherence at EU, National and regional level will add to this list.
2.1.2 Economic Impact: FIWARE: market positioning and potential
Novel domains related to new services and applications include cloud-based and mobile-accessible solutions,
the rise of the Internet of Things – a myriad of hyper-connected, intelligent devices in a fabric of
interoperating systems and Smart Cities, are creating new demands on applications developers while giving
rise to a host of exciting new possibilities. This is what the market tells, evaluated by IDC, illustrated the
following graphs.
Cloud and PaaS adoption plans; Source: IDC’s CloudView Survey December 2014
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Evolving application architectures; Source: IDC 2015
Based on different analysts, including IDC, FIWARE fits to a great extent to this ecosystem offering IaaS
and PaaS functionalities enriched by value-added services provided by the different Generic Enablers and
provisioned in line with the increasingly adopted DevOps approach.
IDC analysis of the market describes a PaaS platform offerings that are a mix of proprietary and open source
platforms. Many of these are hybrid solutions with a mixture of both proprietary and open source
components. The growth of the Open Source community continues unabated, with increasing interest in
initiatives like Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes. Cloud Foundry had strong backing from
vendors including IBM, HP, and VMware. Red Hat, arguably the leader in open source software, is backing
another PaaS standard under the OpenShift brand.
The most commercially successful platforms are generally available in the public cloud – including offerings
from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce. But there are other options, including hosting on-premise
or private managed solutions – such as Fujitsu’s offering of a private hosted and managed Azure service for
some of its clients. Private cloud PaaS offerings include those from Pivotal or Jelastic.
While PaaS abstracts the infrastructure, current offerings can still raise lock-in concerns amongst customers.
They are reluctant to choose vendors whose offerings are proprietary. However, container services are
reducing this concern. IDC predicts that by 2017, 20% of enterprises will see enough value in communitydriven open source standards to adopt them strategically[2]. It is notable that the worldwide public cloud
PaaS market is a very consolidated market from a revenue perspective; although no vendor has more than
13% of the market share, the top 5 vendors control about 44% of the market. Most of those large vendors are
seeing double or even triple digit growth in their platform business (year on year).
According to the diagram below, the PaaS market in Europe in 2014 was worth approximately €1.5 billion,
rising to almost €5 billion in 2019. The market will show a compound annual growth rate of 25% in the
period 2014-2019.
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EU28 Platform as a Service: Market Revenues and growth; Source: IDC EstimaEconomic Potential of
Platforms, Platforms as a Service, and FIWARE
FIWARE is at the intersection of PaaS/IaaS and the IoT markets, and adds important features such as big
data analytics and strategic tools for context awareness. This includes access to real-time data thanks to the
implementation of the NGSI protocol (this translates into the ability for an organization to sense a city, i.e. to
know what is happening at any moment). As well as advanced tooling, the importance of data became
evident more recently. Consequently, besides working on the API offering (GEs), FIWARE has worked
simultaneously on attracting data providers. An example of this is the agreement reached with The European
Open data Portal and especially with OASC, which accounts for 89 cities ready to gather real-time data
through NGSI and publish open data through CKAN.
Nevertheless, these are not the most strategic directions of FIWARE that position it as a unique proposal in
the market. A key decision that has proven to be most appealing differential factor is its openness. FIWARE
proposes API specifications that are open, public and royalty-free, plus an open source reference
implementation of each of the FIWARE components. Anyone can release another implementation of the
GEs, still ensuring interoperability with FIWARE components. This ensures a fully open ecosystem of
providers, avoiding vendor lock-in and a cheap and flexible solution that accelerates the go-to-market of any
application. As value proposition, it tackles the needs of both big corporations and, critically, SMEs.
2.1.3 Societal Impact: FIWARE: technology…and much beyond
Looking at the analysis above it may seem that FIWARE is providing yet another set of technologies, but
FIWARE goes beyond the pure technological axis. The way it has been conceived provides a basis to set up
innovation ecosystems, being this is a major need in Europe, both around cities (to address regional or local
development by – among others - pushing forward entrepreneurship initiatives), and around private
organizations (businesses that need further innovation to remain competitive in the market).
As of today, the FIWARE ecosystem comprises 963 active SMEs (see figure below) powering their
applications through FIWARE, 18 iHubs creating awareness around FIWARE and providing local
support in different countries, 16 accelerator initiatives and 89 cities engaged with FIWARE. These
figures are conservative, since they consider just the explicit contributors that have shown visibility, but a
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good number of stakeholders in many domains may be added to this list based on the requests for support
that arrive daily to FIWARE coaches and personnel. Additional information is provided later on in the
proposal to explain collaborations envisaged by FI-NEXT to achieve its objectives.
View of the SMEs actively using FIWARE (source: FIWARE website[3])
[1] Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Second Interim Evaluation, Final Report, Georghiou et al,
March 2015
[2] IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2015 Predictions, Johnston Turner et al, IDC December 2014
[3] http://map.fiware.org/actors/smes
2.2 FI-NEXT Expected Impact and Key Performance Indicators
2.2.1 Contribution to expected impacts listed in the Work Programme
Expected Impact
Contribution
The outcomes of the Future Internet PPP
are handed over to an open, multistakeholder community to ensure the
evolution of FIWARE and its take-up
among industry, small business and
notably establishing FIWARE as the
open service platform of choice for
cities. This will allow them to develop
and integrate smart cities applications
more easily and faster, but also to
achieve economies of scale through
easy sharing of applications between
● FI-NEXT is coordinated by the FIWARE Foundation
● FI-NEXT primary aim is to support the transition from FIPPP projects to the FIWARE Foundation. This is achieved
by implementing, and executing on foundational
structures, the governance model, and technology onboarding, advancement, quality assurance, and
sustainability management.
● FI-NEXT is focused on addressing the most important
feature requests by Smart Cities; Advanced features for
End to End Context Information Management, Advanced
features for End to End Context Information Management
IoT Infrastructures Interoperation, Support for an
Economy of Data
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cities
● FI-NEXT will significantly increase the quality of
FIWARE Lab operations, and hence push a set of
commercial nodes targeted at becoming sustainable and
reliable platform providers for cities to host and share
FIWARE based applications and for application
providers to innovate on top of
Increased take-up of Future Internet
technologies by SMEs and web
entrepreneurs
● FI-NEXT will establish and fully suport to equip the
FIWARE foundation as a legal entity, thus providing the
long overdue trust measure for enterprises
● FI-NEXT will create trust by defining an objectivea
software quality assurance approach and a respective
label
● FI-NEXT defines the role of a community manager
● FI-NEXT will provide the FIWARE foundation with
extensive community engagement and training
measures
● FI-NEXT will in particular support the implementation
the FIWARE incubation process and by that facilitate
participation of SMEs and other contributors
significantly
Significant increase of the effectiveness
of business processes and applications of
high economic and/or societal value
● FI-NEXT will develop the concept of Sofware Product
Lines (SPLs), which will bring more effectiveness to
applications
● The entire FIWARE quality assurance approach, defined
by the FIWARE Foundation and now being implemented
by FINEXT, will not only cover the evolutions of the
GEri’s but also the FIWARE Lab and hence increase
effectiveness of application development and usage
widely
2.2.2 FI-NEXT Key Performance Indicators
Major KPIs are defined to state and evaluate the level of ambition of FI-NEXT. The project aims to provide
a justification why it should be funded by concrete and quantifiable terms. The target value of the KPIs
(explicitly expressed in the following tables or not) will be assessed and fine tuned at the beginning of the
project in agreement with the EC and external experts to establish the final values.
2.2.2.1 From an EU open source project to a global Open Source community
KPI description
Situation as of today
Situation with FI-NEXT
High quality Governance Model
in effective force, measured in terms
of:
● clear leadership, elected by
community, in fixed terms
● based
on
principles,
not
influenced by company or
community agenda
FIWARE
Community
Governance Model on
https://www.fiware.org/fiw
are-governance/. It is in use
now and there is an interim
FIWARE
Technical
Committee.
The
Community members and
FIWARE Community Governance
Model maintained. At least one
yearly revision and update
Elections held in fixed terms
Evidences of following the main
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● Balanced powers, i.e. number of
industry users vs community
reps in boards
● Transparency,
openness,
meritocracy principles
● Good team spirit, appraisal
mechanisms in place (top
contributor of the month, most
innovative contribution in the
year, most uptaken contribution
of a given Release)
● Community Manager in place
TC are seeded within FI- principles: independency, balance of
Core partners
powers, transparency, openness,
meritocracy, congruency
Sound Legal Foundation:
● Fair licensing of all contributions
● Choice of licenses take into
account
the
ideological
motivation of individuals and the
imperatives of market-based
economies
● Clear positioning towards patent
and
potential
patent
infringements
Transition completed to
open and free to use
licenses exclusively. The
number
of
different
licenses is still high
Contributors
● Contributors well balanced
between
industry-sponsored,
public-institutions, and private
individuals
● Attention span by contributors
more than 6 months in average
● Number of members
Industrial
contributors
outweigh others as a result
of the approach adopted in
the initial stages of
FIWARE
Uptake
● Widespread deployment in
organisations of at least 20
different countries. At least 5 of
them outside the EU.
Numerous adopters, mainly
industrial actors in many
countries, most of the
experiences supported by
the
Acceleration
Programme.
Target figures reached at the end of
the project. The platform permeates
widely a number of organizations
equal or higher than the target
figures, going beyond the EU
Community Performance
● National user groups formed
● Meetups and other developer
meetings appear without direct
engagement and incentives by
the FIWARE Foundation
User groups mainly within
the foundational companies
of the PPP Programme and
those supported by the PPP
Acceleration Programme
Interest groups flourishing at national
or supranational level both for users
and developers
Events/meetings with and without the
engagement of the Foundation
Main principles
made
explicit and accepted by all Appraisal mechanisms in place with
a number of them awarded yearly.
Initial plans to foster
participation (e.g. bounty Community manager acting. The
programme)
performance of this figure will
undergo a yearly assessment.
Plans to hire a Community
Manager that will be ready
before the project end
The number of licenses are narrowed
down to a limited set of widely
accepted royalty free and open source
licenses
Patent
management
procedures
Patent
management clearly established and followed by
procedures
open
and all members
mostly dependent on each
partner
Good
balance
of
Industry/Public/Individual
contributors (FI-NEXT will define
metrics to assess it)
Average time period of active
External
contributors contributions gauged and measured
planned for the end of the against a target
project
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2.2.2.2 Ensure FIWARE meets the highest quality standards and best technical support
KPI description
Situation as of today
Situation with FI-NEXT
Initial designs within the
Software Production Line (SPL)
SPL of technology readiness level PPP Programme but not yet
(TRL) 6, consisting of 4 (four) in use
Quality Gates to automatically
measure
technical
quality
of
FIWARE Generic Enablers
SPL in full use, based on Lean Six
Sigma and DMAIC. Quality labels
can be unequivocally assigned and
effectively characterise new GEs.
No
SLAs
in
place.
Automated tracking tools.
Support
reports
with
detailed
metrics
are
periodically issued by the
Global Scrum Master.
SLAs for support defined and
respected, monitored by automated
tools.
Support SLAs
Statistic KPIs of target mean and
median for incident resolution
times(at GE level, FIWARE Lab
KPIs are in a different KPI section).
Complementary actions apply (user
Small scale surveys carried
satisfaction surveys)
out.
Surveys sent and collected to a
wide and unbiased sample of
users, ideally chosen at random.
Remedial policies in place and
respected.
2.2.2.3 Position FIWARE as de-facto standard for development of Smart Applications
KPI description
Situation as of today
Situation with FI-NEXT
Adoption of FIWARE NGSI as FIWARE NGSI submitted FIWARE NGSI widely accepted
standard for context information to ECSI.
standard in several domains.
management
FIWARE NGSI adopted by other
standardisation agencies outside
Europe (e.g. NIST in USA, LSP in
KOREA)
2.2.2.4 KPIs FOR GOAL 4: “Ensure support and sustainability of the FIWARE Lab environment”
KPI description
Situation as of today
Keeping tight control of the
FIWARE Lab usage
● Number of FIWARE Lab metrics are not a top
priority. Most of them are
registered users (15.000+)
available
on
● Number of FIWARE Lab publicly
http://infographic.lab.fiwar
community users (2.000+)
● Number of FIWARE Lab trial e.org/
Situation with FI-NEXT
The metrics are fully automated
and inspected on a regular basis.
The number of users and the
resource consumption is used as
key metrics to gauge the success of
the ecosystem
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●
users (1000+)
Total resource consumption of
FIWARE lab community users
FIWARE Lab resources
● Total number of nodes (full,
associated)
● Total resources in FIWARE Lab
(cores,
RAM,
storage,
networking) per node
Keeping tight control of the
metrics are not a top
priority. Most of them are
publicly
available
on
http://infographic.lab.fiwar
e.org/
The metrics are fully automated
and inspected on a regular basis.
The number of users and the
resource consumption is used as
key metrics to gauge the success of
the ecosystem
15 nodes worldwide. Some Rules to
of the nodes terminate their published.
support within 2016
FIWARE Lab support and coordination activities
● Number of tickets processed by
FIWARE Lab
● Mean response time per ticket
● Mean response time per ticket
per node
● Percentage of tickets handled at
each support level (1,2,3)
join
the
federation
Reports
are
issued Reports continue to be produced
periodically and activity in and activity continues to be
the Lab is permanently supervised
supervised
FIWARE
Lab
operational Metrics available
activities
● FIWARE Lab Karma points (per
node)
● FIWARE FI-Health metrics
● Percentage of nodes on different
versions of Openstack
● Number of active VMs
Metrics are extended, improved,
and deployed on new nodes as
they join the federation. They
continue available and maintained
The enhancements for this
FIWARE lab enhancement
● Uptake of GE Monitoring by GE KPIin this row are new.
Not deployed at present
Owners
● Node
deployments
of
ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana
enhanced monitoring solutions
● Node
deployments
of
containerized local FI-Health
monitoring solution
● Node
deployments
of
PerfKitBenchMarker solutions
for FIWARE
Fully deployed on all nodes.
90%High percentage of GE
owners adopting the monitoring
tools
FIWARE Lab Training
● Number of FIWARE
training courses added
● Number of FIWARE
consultancy engagements
Courses available from All course available at professional
level
equipped
with
Lab http://help.lab.fiware.org/
and http://edu.fiware.org
comprehension tests.
Lab
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Coaches designed to care At least one full application
for the Accelerators
development course for each of the
relevant FIWARE domains: Smart
city, Industry 4.0, Agrifood. New
courses available and consultancy
services offered.
2.3
Measures to maximise impact
What is the advantage of avoiding vendor lock-in if there are not enough vendors that provide FIWARE
services? What is the advantage of application portability among cities if not enough cities implement
FIWARE? All these questions lead us to give priority to actions that will create critical mass and achieve
cross-side network effects. These measures creating impact are addressing FIWARE contributors,
FIWARE data sources providers and FIWARE users, and any other stakeholder of the FIWARE
universe.. Of course, collaboration, communication and marketing activities play a fundamental role
here, but also -and specifically- the development of the Open Source Community, provided all these
actions are accompanied by the suitable infrastructure and performance of FIWARE GEs.
2.3.1
Innovation and exploitation activities
FI-NEXT will focus on ensuring quality, sustainability and exploiting the full potential of FIWARE. This
means creating more awareness, at this stage, with a stronger focus on the commercial offering and
references that show real-life cases based on FIWARE that illustrate the potential benefits and ROI.
On the other hand, scalability, as mentioned several times in this proposal, is key. Scalability does not only
refer to the technical aspects, but in this case it refers especially to the ability to capitalize other resources
and assets to achieve expected results. The funds to be provided by the EC to support FI-NEXT are very
limited, even though complemented by a 30% investment of partners. It will help in setting up the
sustainability mechanisms and make them work, but resources for the implementation of all the actions
unavoidably will come from other sources. We expect the FIWARE Foundation to play a very relevant role
in this endeavour, as it can be inferred from the work plan. Collaboration with all the other projects funded
by this topic as well as other ongoing activities will be essential to achieve common goals.
On the side of “building FIWARE” (i.e. contributing players to the open source community), FI-NEXT will
make sure that openness is a driving force, and the principles of avoiding vendor lock-in, allowing
competition and promoting offerings by multiple vendors, are respected.
Finally, as explained in 1.1.2.3 and 1.1.2.4 and implemented in tasks 2.3 and 4.1 respectively, the quality
assurance of Generic Enablers and a set of well defined SLA for FIWARE Lab are key factors for improving
the adoption of FIWARE at production level with an high value of Technology Readinness Level (TRL).
All these elements are needed, but should be understood as intermediate tools, as means to achieve FINEXT’s ultimate goal, which is business success.
Activities to maximize the impact in FI-NEXT will include:
● Creating a broader ecosystem of developers and users: extensive work has already been done in
this respect by FIWARE, achieving a community of almost 1.000 SMEs/startups contributing to it;
however, long-term success requires augmenting the existing community and ensuring active
contributions. This requires not only measures to generate more awareness about FIWARE, but also
putting in place the mechanisms and incentives to retain and engage those already involved and
make them contribute to the community. Besides, WP2 addresses increasing the quality of the
FIWARE offering to promote broader adoption. .
● Providing training and educational tools. In addition to the technologies, FIWARE comes with an
extensive set of training and educational materials to teach how to use the FIWARE technology
starting from how to implement smart applications till the detailed use of the various Generic
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●
Enablers. FI-NEXT will maintain FIWARE Academy, a great source of training resources for
developers, will keep up-to-date the Q&A systems (in stackoverflow and ask.fiware.org), as well as
the FIWARE Catalogue. This is included in WP5 in the FI-NEXT work plan. Specific training
activities through hackathons and challenges are expected from a complementary project that will be
funded under ICT12a. Tight collaboration with them is expected.
Attracting companies and private investments to the FIWARE Foundation. In the last months
intense work has been invested in promoting FIWARE as a commercial solution, especially in the
context of cities, but also in a wider context of private organizations working in different verticals,
such as Industry 4.0. Support from private companies that are willing to invest in becoming
FIWARE providers, as well as those that are willing to pay for commercial solutions based on
FIWARE is the ultimate goal of FI-NEXT. The ambition is that FIWARE becomes a reference
success story for Europe, and for that it needs to convince the market and ensure that it is perceived
as a mature, reliable technology, showing that real commercial offerings have emerged, and to
provide SLAs as any company may expect in a production environment. Thus, FI-NEXT will push
both the supply and demand around FIWARE having the FIWARE Foundation as an instrument to
foster both. Collaboration with other initiatives will be key to scale up, for example with the projects
funded under ICT12a for the ecosystem creation as well as the project that will work on FIWARE
adoption by Smart Cities. All of them should be clearly coordinated and contribute to the overall
goals of the FIWARE Foundation in this respect. Other stakeholders, such as the initiatives created
by some of the Use Case projects (e.g. FI-SPACE resulted in a Foundation aiming to make business
out of the supply chain platform based on FIWARE, and FITMAN created an initiative to bring
FIWARE to Industry 4.0 ecosystems), OASC, ENoLL, ERRIN, and others will be considered as part
of our working network.
Getting political support and visibility through policy-makers. The fact that FIWARE is a
European brand should be a motivation to foster the usage of FIWARE. Some achievements have
already been attained, such as the inclusion of FIWARE in some national ICT innovation
programmes. Examples of this are (1) Germany: "Smart Service Welt" (Smart Service World), a
programme with a 50 million Euro budget; and (2) Austria: "IKT der Zukunft" (ICT of the Future),
this is the 3rd call of this programme and it has a budget of 8.75 million Euro[1]; (3) Spain, where
FIWARE is referenced by the National Programme for ICT, but also considered in the Smart Cities
initiative launched by Red.es. Recently the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, launched a public by
invitation bid for a feasibility study of one of their key system mentioning FIWARE as an asset.
Meetings by some of the drivers of this project will happen in April with the Committee of the
Regions as complementary measure to foster the usage of FIWARE in different European regions
through Smart Specialization Strategies. Another example roughly explored but related to the
previous ones is the inclusion of FIWARE in Public Procurement processes. FI-NEXT will intensify
these actions to acquire more references and will collaborate with the projects funded under ICT12a
funded to support the ecosystem creation.
[1] Additional information in http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Themen/Digitale-Welt/Internet-der-Zukunft/smartservice-welt.html;http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Mediathek/publikationen,did=664530.html;
https://www.ffg.at/iktderzukunft_call2014;
https://www.ffg.at/sites/default/files/programm_iktderzukunft_va_20141020_final.pdf
2.3.2 Contribution to standardization
FI-Next will leverage on members of the consortium who play a leading role in Standards Development
Organizations (SDOs), in order to promote and standardize European technology, in line with the "2016
Rolling Plan on ICT Standardization" established by the Digital Single Market initiative launched by the EC.
The strategy will focus on ETSI, where Telefonica is leading the on-going creation of ETSI ISG on "Crosscutting Context Information Management standards for Smart Applications using Open and Agile Smart
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Cities as catalyst", with three focuses: standards for context information management APIs; Data Publication
Platforms specifications for open data; and Cross-domain Context Information Models. We will contribute to
oneM2M standardization process (originally initiated by ETSI) with a focus on smart cities environments.
Additionally, FI-Next will engage and coordinate with Standardization Working Group of AIOTI (Alliance
for the Internet Of Things Innovation). In particular, the recommendations for "IoT Landscape and IoT LSP
Standard Framework Concepts" have been and will be used as input for the standardization strategy of the
project. The "IoT High Level Architecture (HLA)" defined by AIOTI will be considered as basis for
architectural aspects, and specially will drive the integration of OneM2M. Additionally, the semantic
interoperability aspects to define standard data models will take also as relevant input the recommendation
"IoT Semantic interoperability" from AIOTI. On the other hand, and through relevant members of the project
in charge of standardization task that have an active role in AIOTI, the approaches and progresses made in
the project will feed AIOTI WG3 and WG8 activities.
On the other hand, FI-Next will collaborate with TMForum in the adoption and extension of the TMF
Business Ecosystem APIs to build a true data market ecosystem and to contribute to the evolution of those
standards, as well as the adoption by TMF of the NGSI API for smart application environments.
2.2.3 IPR
Being ready-to-market and trustworthy is an essential effort that cannot provide the expected success if not
accompanied by means to protect FIWARE and its assets. In order to achieve such a goal the FIWARE
Foundation is in charge of for FIWARE brand development and protection.
The first step is to transfer the FIWARE trademark, and the respective
Once this is accomplished, several actions shall be put in place. These includes:
- Verify everybody using the FIWARE logo and/or trademark does this in accordance to the FIWARE
mission and Code Of Conduct
- Verify every GEri deployed fulfill the FIWARE rules. This includes that each GEri is implemented
according to an OSS licence as described in fiware.org. With this respect the FIWARE Foundation
will control the coherency of the set of OSS licences adopted in order to avoid a useless and unclear
proliferation of licences adopted by the GEri owners
- Verify every service provided in the name of FIWARE respects the agreed SLAs. This includes
- the operation of a FIWARE Lab node
- the provision of training courses
- the provision of consultancy
- Verify that every product self claiming to be FIWARE-based is actually such
- Provide a QA office, independent from GEri owners, that is the unique authority that can assign
FIWARE label. In this respect it is important to notice that the FIWARE Foundation will not the IPR
of the GEris, but shall be entitled to QA label them. The same applies for the so called Domain
Specific Enablers.
2.2.4 Reaping platform benefits through cross-side network effects
FIWARE is, just like a social network or a smartphone operating system, a multi-sided platform [Hag-15],
where the different “sides” correspond to individual or aggregate suppliers of data, developers and
application providers. Suppliers of primary data may interact directly with the platform or through network
operators or other intermediaries such as IoT infrastructure providers or data aggregators, while end users
will mostly interact through applications developed by third parties unless they are developers themselves.
All stakeholders stand to benefit from cross-side positive network effects (the more data sources, the more
applications are attracted to the platform, and vice-versa), provided they all play by the new rules of platform
economics [Cho-16] in their own role.
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Platform as a Service providers
These service providers will host commercial instances of the platform according to a classical PaaS
business model. As such they benefit from gaining additional users with incentives that are merely
proportional (rather than quadratic, as is the case with network effects) yet most of them may play other
roles such as application providers, so that they benefit in multiple ways and with higher than proportional
returns from a wider use of the platform.
Network operators
Network operators may be primarily data source mediators through the IoT/M2M networks they may
operate, yet many of them may also be PaaS providers, so they stand to benefit from both sides of platform
usage. Yet they should not limit data mediation to the scope of the networks they operate, and they can
benefit, just as the providers of this data and their users, from sharing this data into a wider pool. This is what
the FIWARE platform allows, and will allow on an even wider scale when it grows to be taken over by a
community beyond its founders.
Technology providers & developers
This category corresponds to enabler developers. They stand to gain visibility through the access to a wide
pool of users and the benefits of open & standard interfaces by using the FIWARE platform. They can act as
platform evangelists and recruit new providers of data to leverage cross-side network effects. As concerns
for-profit organizations, they will mostly play other complementary roles such as PaaS or application
providers.
Application Providers
They develop applications using the platform (as distinct from software included in the platform like generic
or specific enablers) and they will gain both visibility, the access to a wide pool of data sources and the
benefits of open & standard interfaces by using the FIWARE platform. They can act as platform evangelists
and recruit new providers of data to leverage cross-side network effects.
IoT Device Manufacturers
Providers of the new breed of connected devices have been trying to migrate from a “hardware vendor”
business model to a data aggregator model, by providing cloud access to their devices through semi-open
APIs. In this sense they play a role similar to that of IoT network operators, though on a narrower scope.
These device-centric cloud-based infrastructures are limited to their devices and cannot achieve scale nor
benefit directly from the sharing of data with other data sources. This is why they need to attach their own
infrastructure to a higher-level and more federative infrastructure that can both achieve scale and support
data sharing.
2.3
Dissemination and Communication activities
The announcement of the FIWARE Foundation, the legal entity taking care of FIWARE, on 23 Feb 2016 at
MWC 2016 in Barcelona represented a milestone for the brand and the full ecosystem around it. When
approaching real business and tangible FIWARE-based products in the market it is time to recap on what has
been achieved in terms of Communications, learn on successes and errors and provide recommendations for
the Communication strategy to maximize impact on relevant stakeholders. We try to reflect all this in the
following sections.
2.3.1 Situation as of today in FIWARE Marketing & Communications
As noted above, acknowledging what has been done up to date is essential to define future actions. The
following list presents a summary of major achievements to date:
● FIWARE brand created, along with a rich universe of activities and concepts relating to the brand
such as FIWARE Acceleration Programme, FIWARE Mundus, FIWARE Success Stories.
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FIWARE Social Channels well established with healthy growth:
○ Twitter: Over 10 K followers by e/o 2016, steady growth of 50 followers/week.
○ Facebook: Over 5 K likes, engagement raising as organic growth improves due to relevance
of content (Success Stories).
○ Linkedin: Still modest, a key area for improvement when FIWARE enters the business
phase.
FIWARE materials:
○ Quality branded off-line materials developed: Brochures, leaflets, event-support materials
(roll-ups, posters,…)
○ World-class booth designs for top-level events.
○ Digital infographics on key topics
○ Video production supported on YouTube channel. Key content element, especially to build
credibility via Success Stories.
FIWARE Website:
○ Continuous evolution to reflect brand needs: from technology driven to acceleration program
to FIWARE Community.
○ Visit rate stable at 2000 visits per working day.
○ Blog included into the website, with a mean of 10 posts per month. Modest impact.
Press:
○ Moderate impact. A mix of relevant local news driven by specific local success stories and
big coverage for selected global news (e.g: FIWARE Foundation Announcement, Launch of
the FIWARE Acceleration Programme). Based on our own critical assessment, this is one of
the areas where improvement could be made.
2.3.2 FIWARE Learning experience
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The awareness of the brand at large is still to be built. Growth of the Community has been mainly
organic via the members, which is very healthy in terms of target suitability, but modest in terms of
global reach. However the budget needed for a global awareness campaign is huge, nevertheless FINEXT and the forthcoming ICT12a projects will jointly continue in this effort.
FIWARE is a brand with many actors around. Consistency has improved with time, but there is a
need for a clear direction from a Head of Marketing to ensure improvements in this field. The Press
Office should be guided by a FIWARE Marketing Strategic Plan from the brand owner (FIWARE
Foundation).
Events are key for networking and showcasing, but being relevant and visible in important events is
quite expensive. Clarity and long-term planning is needed to take the best out of them, especially
when designing the contents/actors to be present.
The business side of FIWARE needs to be created. Some steps have been taken, but a marketplace is
a must to better serve the FIWARE Open Source Community needs.
Press is a common task for all the FIWARE Community. Big corporations and public entities
(Cities, Regions, Politicians) should help driving global media relevance while SMEs and
entrepreneurs should help building local impact.
The FIWARE website maintenance is time-consuming and complex to handle due to the heritage
architecture from an R&D project view. SEO is a must; content management needs to be revisited.
Social Media Activity has improved but there is still place to grow. Selective investment in Twitter
and Linkedin is advisable to ensure reach outside current followers/members.
Integration and consistency around the Community tools should be addressed. Currently FIWARE is
supporting a Q&A platform in Askbot, a chat/forum solution in mobilize.io, a geographical advice
tool within the website (the map)…along with parallel event calendars and other resources.
2.3.3 FI-NEXT Strategy
Based on the starting point (achievements from FIWARE) and learning from experience (as described
above), these are the key actions proposed by FI-NEXT to improve brand relevance:
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Redesign of FIWARE website into a new architecture and content management. SEO optimisation
needed to gain visibility in Search Engines driving organic traffic to website. Selected SEM
investment for key events or milestones. Target: 100 K visits / month.
Clear Marketing Plan from Brand owners, including Product Roadmap, key accounts (target
verticals), Event Roadmap and milestones.
Improvement of Social Channels. Investment Plan for Twitter and Linkedin. Target: 25 K followers
in Twitter, 5 K members in Linkedin.
Definition and implementation of a consistent ecosystem of tools for the Community: Map + Q&A +
Forum + Calendars + News + Marketplace.
Planning and implementation of a tailored plan for addressing Press, involving big corporations and
institutions at global level and SMEs at local level.
Definition and implementation of FIWARE’s own event/conference, covering results, success
stories, end-products in market…and path to the future (product and solutions roadmap, new
members of the Foundation, new vertical solutions…)
Continue producing branded-content, especially digital pieces such as videos and infographics.
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Implementation
3.1
Work plan – Work packages, deliverables
3.1.1
Work plan overview
The following section describes the rationale behind the breakdown of the overall work into the different
Work Packages (WPs) leading to creation of a comprehensive work plan.
The main principle of the organisation of the work plan is to keep it as close as possible to the ICT-12-2016
Net Innovation topic call target outcomes, namely the FIWARE sustainability and evolution innovation
activity.
Thus, the FI-NEXT work plan is organised into five work packages to logically separate activities related to
the the goal of the target innovation activity:
 Project Management: dealing with the overall project coordination and also with programme
coordination activities related to cross-project collaborations with other successful projects selected
under ICT-12-2016 call.
 FIWARE Open Source Community Processes support: covering support activities for the
governance, management and evolution of the FIWARE Open Source Community.
 FIWARE Evolution: covering the roadmap definition and implementation for the existing (and
future) FIWARE Generic Enablers.
 FIWARE Lab: dealing with the maintenance and evolution of the existing FIWARE Lab nodes.
 Communication and dissemination: covering all activities that can help FIWARE achieve a great
impact and visibility among the different target stakeholder communities.
3.1.2
List of Work Packages
The following table summarizes the Work Packages considered in the FI-NEXT project, together with their
lead responsible partner, the total number of PMs assigned for each of them, and their Start and End month:
Table 3.1 b: List of work packages
WP
no
Work Package Title
Lead
Participant
No
Lead
Participant
Short Name
PMs
Start
month
End
month
1
Project Management
1
FIF
34
1
24
2
FIWARE Open Source Community
Processes Support
1
FIF
181
1
24
3
FIWARE Evolution
5
TID
438
1
24
4
FIWARE Lab
1
FIF
396
1
24
5
Communication and Dissemination
1
FIF
81
1
24
TOTAL: 1130
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List of deliverables
The following table summarizes the deliverables considered as part of FI-NEXT project, including their
deliverable number, name, the Work Package they belong to, the corresponding responsible partner for their
delivery, the deliverable type, dissemination level, and finally the expected delivery date.
Please check the table footer for further information on the possible deliverable types and dissemination
levels.
Table 3.1 c:
Deliv.
no
Deliverable name
D.1.1.1
List of Deliverables
WP
no.
Lead
partner
Type
Diss.
level
Delivery
date
Project Management Handbook
1
FIF
R
CO
M10
1.1.2a
Periodic Report (a)
1
FIF
R
CO
M12
D1.1.2b
Periodic Report (b)
1
FIF
R
CO
M23
D1.1.3
Final Project Report
1
FIF
R
CO
M24
D1.2.1a
Coordination Report (a)
1
FIF
R
CO
M12
D1.2.1b
Coordination Report (b)
1
FIF
R
CO
M24
D2.1.1a
FIWARE TSC Support Activities Report (a)
2
FIF
R
PU
M12
D2.1.1b
FIWARE TSC Support Activities Report (b)
2
FIF
R
PU
M24
D2.2.1
FIWARE Scrum Master Activities Report (a)
2
FIF
R
PU
M12
D2.2.1
FIWARE Scrum Master Activities Report (b)
2
FIF
R
PU
M24
D2.3.1
FIWARE Generic Enablers Quality
Assurance Plan
2
FIF
OTHER
PU
M3
D2.3.2a
FIWARE Generic Enablers Quality
Assurance Report (a)
2
FIF
R
PU
M12
D2.3.2b
FIWARE Generic Enablers Quality
Assurance Reports (b)
2
FIF
R
PU
M24
D2.4.1a
FIWARE Technical Evolution Report
2
FIF
R
PU
M12
D2.4.1b
FIWARE Technical Evolution Report
2
FIF
R
PU
M24
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Analysis of FIWARE Developer
Community(a)
2
FIF
R
PU
M12
D2.4.2b
Analysis of FIWARE Developer
Community(b)
2
FIF
R
PU
M24
D2.4.3
Bounty Programme Open Call
2
FIF
R
PU
M4
D2.4.4
Bounty Programme Report
2
FIF
R
PU
M10
D3.1a
Technical Roadmap (a)
3
TID
OTHER
PU
M3
D3.1b
Technical Roadmap (b)
3
TID
OTHER
PU
M15
D3.2a
FIWARE Release (a)
3
Orange
OTHER
PU
M12
D3.2b
FIWARE Release (b)
3
Orange
OTHER
PU
M24
D4.1.1
FIWARE Lab Operation Guide
4
FIF
R
PU
M6
D4.1.2a
FIWARE Lab Operation Report (a)
4
FIF
R
PU
M12
D4.1.2b
FIWARE Lab Operation Report (b)
4
FIF
R
PU
M24
D4.2.1a
FIWARE Ops Releases (a)
4
Martel
OTHER
PU
M12
D4.2.1b
FIWARE Ops Releases (b)
4
Martel
OTHER
PU
M24
D4.3.1a
FIWARE Lab Node Operation Report (a)
4
ENG
R
PU
M12
D4.3.1b
FIWARE Lab Node Operation Report (b)
4
ENG
R
PU
M24
D5.1.1a
Report on Communication, Online Channels
and Promotional Material (a)
5
FIF
R
PU
M3
D5.1.1b
Report on Communication, Online Channels
and Promotional Material (b)
5
FIF
R
PU
M12
D5.1.1c
Report on Communication, Online Channels
and Promotional Material (c)
5
FIF
R
PU
M24
D5.2.1a
Report on Dissemination Activities (a)
5
FIF
R
PU
M3
D5.2.1b
Report on Dissemination Activities (b)
5
FIF
R
PU
M12
D5.2.1c
Report on Dissemination Activities (c)
5
FIF
R
PU
M24
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Type:
● R:
Document, report (excluding the periodic or final report)
● DEC: Websites, patents filing, market studies, press & media actions, videos, etc.
● OTHER: Software, technical diagram, etc.
Dissemination level:
● PU = Public, fully open, e.g. web
● CO = Confidential, restricted under conditions set out in Model Grant Agreement
● CI = Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC.
3.1.4
List of milestones
The following table summarizes the milestones that have been added as part of the project’s schedule and
plan
Table 3.2 a: List of milestones
Milestone
number
Milestone name
Related work
package(s)
Estimated
date
Means of verification
M1
Bounty program opened
WP2
M4
Publication on the website
and public announcements
M2
Bounty program closed
WP2
M10
Prizes awarded
M3
FIWARE Release 6
WP3
M12
Software and associated
manuals publicly available
M4
FIWARE Release 7
WP3
M24
Software and associated
manuals publicly available
M5
FIWARE Lab nodes
deployed, SLAs in place
WP4
M2
Nodes available for the
users on FIWARE Lab.
SLAs in use
M6
Redesigned FIWARE
website goes live
WP5
M6
New portal online
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Work Package Descriptions
3.1.5.1 WP 1: Project Management
Work Package no.
1
Start date
Work Package title
Project Management
End date
Participant number
Participant shortname
PMs per participant
Objective
This WP comprises activities related to management of the project in order to lead and manage the
consortium to achieve the project objectives while keeping resources and progress under plan and having
risk at acceptable levels so that expected outcomes are reachable. Thus the objectives are to:
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keep the global focus, direction and objectives of the project.
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provide overall coordination and administration resources for all project activities and technical work.
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implement an administration and communication infrastructure to establish a basis for efficient and
easy communication within the project.
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monitor and control deviations due to changes of progress, costs, financial and planning. If changes
occur to update and revise the project planning as frequently as required.
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ensure proper level of cooperation, knowledge diffusion and consensus among project members.
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define and put in place procedures for quality management and assurance
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coordinate, integrate and prepare material for the Project Periodic Reports.
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organise and participate in project meetings.
In addition, this WP will also be responsible for managing the activities related to the project’s involvement
in the overall programme coordination with the rest of the projects on the Net Innovation topic (ICT-12).
Description of work:
Task 1.1: Project Coordination
Task Leader: FIF
This task carries out the coordination, planning, management and administration activities needed to
organise and control the non-technical aspects of the project, including administration activities necessary
for the efficient running of the project.
Project management activities are critical tasks in every project since they aim to achieve the project
objectives while optimizing available resources. Key variables are monitored, such as time delays, resources
provided and costs incurred. The project manager has also to be able to identify risks and deviation soon
enough to involve the Project Coordination Committee (see Section 3.2) to take decision and follow action
lines.
FIF as project coordinator will lead this task and will carry out the administration activities related to the
project.
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Members of the Project Coordination Committee, involved as partners in this task, will contribute by
helping in the coordination, planning, management and monitoring against progress indicators of the
project. The Project Coordination Committee members are involved in overall decision-taking, monitoring
and risk identification activities.
Project Partners will provide information on their activities carried out as well as the resources effort
provided and the costs incurred in due time.
Task 1.2: Involvement in Programme Coordination
Apart from the FIWARE sustainability and evolution covered by the FI-NEXT project, there are three other
complementary innovation activities related to this one that form together the basis of the expected
Innovation Actions within the Net Innovation Initiative topic (ICT-12-2016). This task is responsible to
coordinate the work of the project partners in order to achieve a full and mutually beneficial collaboration
with the forthcoming ICT-12 projects. A description of the envisioned collaboration on each of these three
other innovation activities follows:
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Take up of FIWARE adoption in cities: requirements on new context aware services addressing the
needs of cities and citizens will be taken into account while carrying out evolution activities in FINEXT. In this respect, experience by industry partners in FI-NEXT commercializing solutions for
cities allows to anticipate that planned evolution tasks will be required by cities looking towards a
long-term sustainable vision of Smart Cities. Besides the concerned forthcoming ICT-12 projects,
collaboration is foreseen with other already existing relevant initiatives, such as OASC (Open and
Agile Smart Cities) and ETSI, through a Industry Standardization Group (ISG) focused on the
evolution of FIWARE NGSI APIs, Open Data portal specifications and specifications of Context
Information models.
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Ecosystem creation for building and supporting an open community of FIWARE innovators and
users: the FIWARE sustainability and evolution approach promoted by FI-NEXT will be key in
providing both the technology foundation and sizable enough markets in which innovators can base
the development of their smart applications and services. FI-NEXT will also assist the forthcoming
ICT-12 projects on this innovation activity in the coordination of the challenges, hackathons and open
calls management and execution, due to the previous wide experience gained by the FI-NEXT
consortium members in the organization of this type of actions. It will also assist them in their
engagement in the FIWARE Mundus and iHubs programmes. Indeed, going global while acting local
is a certain key goal of the FIWARE initiative as a whole.
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Acceleration activities for development of Future Internet applications and services into concrete
business and market take up: The FIWARE Acceleration programme has proved to be an essential
asset to promote and disseminate FIWARE among the developers, SMEs and startup communities. It is
envisioned that FI-NEXT, together with the FIWARE Open Source Community and FIWARE
Foundation, will be collaborating in providing technical support and mentoring related to FIWARE
technology, for developers, SMEs and entrepreneurs interested in experiencing and learning how
FIWARE can help in developing their applications and services. FIWARE Lab nodes maintained and
evolved as part of the FI-NEXT project will be offered as an experimentation environment for this
purpose, and the evolution and maintenance of FIWARE eLearning tools (courses, webinars,
catalogue) will also be a key factor in ensuring comprehensive information and tools available for
them. In this sense, continuous feedback received from the forthcoming ICT-12 projects on this
innovation activity, will be essential for evolving and continuously improving the service level of the
FIWARE Lab, as well as quality of FIWARE GEs, including their associated documentation.
Deliverables (from all tasks):
Deliverables are numbered according to the following template: D<x>.<y>.<z>.a,b,... where <x> refers to
the WP number, <y> refers to the task within the WP where the deliverable is produced, <z> is a sequence
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number inside the task. The final letter (if any) numbers releases of the same deliverables over time.
D1.1.1 Project Management Handbook (M6)
This deliverable gives a more detailed and up-to-date description of project management structures and
procedures. It also provides template documents to be used for the different virtual and physical meetings
(e.g., templates for minutes) as well as deliverables. This deliverable will be based on the previous FI-Core
guidelines and management handbooks.
D1.1.2.a,b Project Periodic Report (M12, M23)
Standard project reporting document following EC guidelines focused on periodic progress. The Periodic
reports will be produced once a year.
D1.1.3 Final Project Report (M24)
Standard report following EC guidelines focused on project achievements, their dissemination and
exploitation
D1.2.1.a,b Programme Collaboration Report (M12, M24)
This deliverable will describe the work done in FI-NEXT for the coordination related to its involvement in
the programme collaboration activities with other projects selected under the ICT-12 call.
3.1.5.2 WP 2: FIWARE Open Source Community Processes Support
Work Package no.
2
Start date
End date
Work Package title
FIWARE Open Source Community Process Support
Participant number
Participant shortname
PMs per participant
Objective
This WP aims at providing effective support to the well functioning of the FIWARE Open Source
Community (OSC). Therefore, it will cover the following activities:
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Support to the daily work of the FIWARE Technical Steering Committee (task 2.1)
Support to planning of activities linked to the development of FIWARE Releases and technical
support activities by means of a well structured agile approach which was shown to be efficient in the
development and deployment of FIWARE technologies within the FI-WARE and FI-Core projects.
This support will be materialised in two main tasks:
Support to the FIWARE Quality Assurance Lab activities (task 2.3)
Support to activities aiming at fostering contribution to FIWARE by third parties (task 2.4)
Description of work:
Task 2.1: FIWARE Steering Technical Committee (TSC) support
Task lead: FIF
Although Open Source Communities are very bottom up driven, a well organized managerial function is
necessary to maximize the efficiency of the energy contributed by the community. To this extent the TSC is
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tasked with providing the coordination of technical activities for the wider FIWARE Open Source
Community. It is the responsible to decide on issues affecting multiple chapters, forms an ultimate appeals
board for technical decisions, and generally has oversight over all the FIWARE technical tasks. See
[FWGovern] for more details.
Although the TSC is generally not involved in internal decisions within FIWARE chapters, it still has
oversight over chapter-specific decisions, especially when they affect other chapters or might negatively
impact the general FIWARE Reference Architecture.
In this context this task will support the TSC daily work by:
● Providing secretarial support of the TSC meetings
● Managing TSC on line work such as mailing lists, work spaces, etc.
● Monitoring and assist the execution of the decisions of the TSC
The TSC will also maintain an overall view of the level of activity within the FIWARE OSC community the amount of active GEs, commits, pull requests, downloads etc. These metrics will be collected monthly
and analyzed with the support of the FIWARE Foundation team involved in this task.
Task 2.2: Scrum Management activities
Task lead: FIF
FIWARE follows Agile principles for the Scrum Framework for Large Scale projects [FWScrum].
Scrum Management Activities aim at keeping the team (Scrum) focused on handling requests received from
users in the Help Desk while dealing with items in the Backlogs maintained at FIWARE, FIWARE Chapter
or FIWARE GEri levels, which have been selected and refined for their implementation during sprint
planning activities. These items map to items (epics and features) in the FIWARE Technical Roadmap,
whose content is periodically reviewed by the FIWARE TSC to ensure overall technical coherence and
drive overall technical evolution. The FIWARE TSC also oversees performance in the technical support
activities by the different FIWARE GEri owners.
Main subtasks carried out as part of the FIWARE Scrum Master activities are:
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Monitoring. It refers to monitor all channels in the help desk. Additionally to take specific care of the
FIWARE Tech-help channel (i.e. request received through [email protected]) by
transferring incoming requests to the most suitable FIWARE GEri team, and following-up progress.
Reminders. The Scrum Master sends reminders for any request in the Help Desk deserving special
attention. For example, requests should be replied during the first 24 hours, then, a reminder is sent
when the rule is not observed. For requests with a deadline, a reminder is sent 4 days before deadline,
when the deadline is met, and weekly when overdue.
Reports: Help Desk- Tech channel reports and Reports on execution of the FIWARE Technical
Roadmap. These are cornerstone for following up overall performance of the different teams
associated to FIWARE chapters..
Configuration of Scrum Master Tools: Configuration of JIRA tracker at http://jira.fiware.org and
development of tools helping to properly support help desk and FIWARE releases and sprint
plannings.
Task 2.3: FIWARE Quality Assurance Lab
Task lead: FIF, supported by: Atos, Engineering, Frounhofer Institut, GAR
FIWARE is applied to production environments in which the platform must behave in reliable and real
workload conditions. This fact implies that all FIWARE GEris must work at an adequate quality, reliability
and at performance level appropriate for these conditions. In previous platform stages, testing at component
level has been performed by GEri owners, and even in last period, an incipient functional and stress testing
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This task will enhance the quality assurance level of the FIWARE platform. The task will include following
testing aspects:
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Curation of GEs documentation (documentation testing), both inspecting the code and the
accompanying documentation (installation manuals, user guidelines, and similar). The goal of this
assessment is to support FIWARE users with high-quality support for installation, configuration and
operation of FIWARE technology, thereby improving the FIWARE user experience in general. This
work will take into account the Q&A platform as well as the FIWARE chanel on StackOverflow.
Verification of the GE specification (functional testing), developing the appropriate test cases to
assess if the GEs implementation corresponds to what is defined in the specification. New test cases
definition could be required beyond the ones provided by the GE owners to be sure all potential
erroneous cases can be identified.
Assessment of performance, stability and scalability of GEs in operational environments, like under
excessive workload (stress testing). Test scenarios are defined and executed such that limits of a GE
under test are identified, and can be compared with reference levels. The goal of this assessment is to
convince enterprise users wrt to FIWARE’s enterprise grade and hence applicability in commercial
scenarios.
Support to the automation of software deployment and testing processes in order to increase the
trustworthiness of FIWARE GEs.
The entire set of tests (functional, non-functional) will strictly follow a predefined and documented
methodology, specific for each GE. Results of conducted tests and the degree of automation achieved will
lead to the assignment of quality labels in several quality gates as described in Section 1.3.1.2, which allows
to rank and benchmark the current maturity of the software development of a GEri with respect to the vision
of a Software Production Line. The motivation for this is to support FIWARE users in the GE selection
process with a degree of ascertainty. This approach can also be an extra motivation for GE owners to
improve the quality and reliability of their components and development processes.
The testing processes will be automated (wherever possible, implementing the concept of Continuous
Integration) and is integral part of GEri releases. Test reports will be made publicly available to ensure the
replicability by anyone outside the project.
All the GEris available at the FIWARE Catalogue will be tested within this task, ranking them by a priority
score derived from the level of current usage and at the pertinence for core FIWARE functionality. The
same applies to GEri bundles, for which a testing plan will be defined at the beginning of the project. There
will be several testing phases defined in the testing plan, all of them producing iterative and incremental
reports.
GEri owners will have to address the recommendations and suggestions provided in the due reports to
improve the quality of the software development processes for their GEris. The fulfilment of these
recommendations will be assessed by the testing team with the support of the FIWARE Foundation.
Task 2.4: FIWARE Contribution Management
Task lead: FIF
This task is targeted to manage contributions to FIWARE technology through a series of paths:
● GEris evolution management;
● FIWARE Bounty Program;
● FIWARE IoT-ready Program.
GEris evolution management.
According to the strategies developed by TSC and the contributions received, this task will manage the
evolution of the FIWARE technologies through two specific processes as defined in the FIWARE OSC
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Governance Model [FIWAREGovern]:
● the FIWARE Incubation Process, and
● the FIWARE GE life monitoring process.
The FIWARE Incubation Process consists of the following steps:
1. A team either belonging to the OSC or from outside proposes a new GE, possibly already with a
potential GEri, to the TSC. This proposal may or may not address a particular element in the
FIWARE Roadmap.
2. (only if the proposal is made from someone outside of the OSC) The TSC requests an evaluation
from the relevant FIWARE Chapter which shall provide a statement within 15 days, albeit the answer
is not binding the decision of the TSC.
3. Depending on the completeness level of the proposal this step can be skipped. If the proposal is not
supported with a corresponding GEri or if the GEri is not complete or not considered to be complete,
if the TSC decides to go further, the proposing team is now empowered to provide the complete GEri
which must reach the TSC within an agreed timeframe.
4. Based on the final proposal the TSC decides to promote the GE to become an Incubated GE or to
discard it. If it becomes an Incubated GE the team has 15 days to upload the GE in the FIWARE
Catalogue. In this step an incubated GEri expert (usually, but not limited to the incubated GE owner
him/herself) will be appointed for the period of one month at the end of every incubation cycle, in
order to support the FIWARE Technical Committee (ref. the relevant section below) in gathering
replies to technical inquiries and in particular results of testing procedures, notably security and
performance tests
5. In support of continuous quality assessment and improvement measures several following indicators
are collected from FIWARE users (number of downloads, number of pull requests, number of users
experimenting and/or using, number of positive/negative feedbacks, bugs fixed vs identified, etc)
6. After a period of 3 months the TSC shall assess the Incubated GE/GEri based on objective metrics,
derived from the defined indicators. As a result, the incubated GE can be promoted to be a FIWARE
GE, be kept still holding during another assessment period or be deprecated, in which case proper
communication shall be issued.
The FIWARE Deprecation Process consists of the following steps:
1. In support of continuous quality assessment and improvement measures the same number of
indicators used to assess Incubated GEris are collected from FIWARE users.
2. Every 3 months the TSC shall assess each GEri based on the defined indicators. The outcome of the
assessment for each FIWARE GEri can be that the assessment is fully satisfactory in which case the
GE is kept as a FIWARE GEri. If the FIWARE GEri is judged by the TSC not satisfactory enough,
but still holding some potential to be kept as FIWARE GE if certain recommendations issued by the
TSC, eventually based on FIWARE users feedback, will be satisfied. In this case, the FIWARE GEri
becomes quarantined. During this period the GE owner team is called to make actions in order to
improve the performance of the team or the quality of the GE starting from the TSC
recommendations, but also including other actions such as bug fixing, adding new functionalities,
adding new documentation and training material, or active promotion of the GE. Finally, the TSC
may decide to deprecate a FIWARE GE if performance continues to be not satisfactory over time, in
which case it is unpublished from the FIWARE Catalogue.
FIWARE Bounty Program
The FIWARE Bounty programme is an initiative started in the FI-Core project aiming at providing rewards
to developers outside the stable FIWARE development teams who contribute to the evolution, maintenance,
support, documentation or generation of training material linked to FIWARE GEs. The overall goal is to
actively involve them as FIWARE Active Contributors in the FIWARE Open Source Community. The FINEXT project will provide funds for this programme to be coordinated by the FIWARE Foundation.
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In particular this programme is intended to provide recognition and compensation to individuals who report
or solve bugs (especially those pertaining exploits and vulnerabilities), suggest new or implement features
associated to FIWARE GEris.
FIWARE IOT-ready Program
The FIWARE IoT Ready program [FW-IoTready] aims to enlarge the FIWARE Community by connecting
relevant IoT hardware producers as technology providers to the large base of FIWARE-based application
developers.
The FI-NEXT project aims at providing continuous support to the initiative with this task.
Deliverables (from all tasks):
Deliverables are numbered according to the following template: D<x>.<y>.<z>.a,b,... where <x> refers to
the WP number, <y> refers to the task within the WP where the deliverable is produced, <z> is a sequence
number inside the task. The final letter (if any) numbers releases of the same deliverables over time.
D2.1.1.a,b FIWARE TSC Support Activities Report (M12, M24)
This deliverable will describe the work done in supporting the FIWARE TSC in the related year
D2.2.1.a,b FIWARE SCRUM Master Activities Report (M12, M24)
This deliverable will describe the work done regarding SCRUM activities in the related year
D2.3.1 FIWARE Generic Enabler Quality Assurance Plan (M3)
This deliverable will detail the method, process, phases and tools to perform the three above mentioned
testing activities (documentation, functional and stress).
D2.3.2.a,b FIWARE Generic Enablers Quality Assurance Report (M12, M24)
These two deliverables will contain the report on each period about testing activities. It will include also the
third party certification report. From each report a post in FIWARE blog will be published summarizing the
major assessment in each period. For M12 report, an updating of the testing plan may be needed. This report
will be delivered along the produced code or tools for performing the tests.
D2.4.1.a,b FIWARE Technical Evolution Report (M12, M24)
This deliverable will contain the measures about the FIWARE evolution processes indicators and major
lessons learned.
D2.4.2.a,b Analysis of FIWARE Developer Community (M12, M24)
This report will report about the lessons learnt on all the actions carried out in order to reach the wider
community of developers in order to engage them as FIWARE Active Contributors.
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3.1.5.3 WP 3: FIWARE Evolution
Work Package no.
3
Start date
Work Package title
FIWARE Evolution
M1
End date
M24
Participant number
Participant shortname
PMs per participant
Objectives:
This WP comprise research and development activities aiming at consolidating the potential of FIWARE
and ultimately position it as the open standard for Smart Applications.
FIWARE has to bring a number of distinguishable features that will allow to keep it ahead of existing cloud
platforms (mostly those emerging from the IoT space) in front of software architects and developers. In this
respect, FIWARE will not be different than any product for which incorporation of innovative features will
be constantly required to remain competitive in the market. Going beyond the shorter-term features that
companies and organizations contributing to FIWARE are developing on their own, FI-NEXT will
accelerate the development of a number of features that will help to position FIWARE far ahead of
comparable products in the medium and long term. The WP is structured into tasks that deal with concrete
challenges that will be addressed.
Experience by industry partners in FI-NEXT commercializing solutions for cities allows to anticipate that
planned evolution tasks will be required by cities looking towards a long-term sustainable vision of Smart
Cities. Therefore, collaboration with the project being selected under the ICT-12.a.i objective and partners
within this WP is foreseen.
Description of work:
Task 3.1 Advanced features for End to end Context Information Management
Task lead: Telefonica, supported by Atos, Orange, DFKI, Navatec, UPM
Today’s applications shift more and more to mobile devices as target platform. However, as the
computational complexity of these applications grow, they will quickly exceed the capabilities of mobile
devices, especially in the Web-of-Things context, like Smart City applications. Instead of having the
application compute this task locally on the mobile device, which may put a huge workload on the device
and thus decrease responsiveness of the application and with that user experience, drain battery, and maybe
even simply exceed the device’s computational power, a developer may decide to shift computations to the
cloud, and only deliver the computation results to the mobile device.
Creating dynamic, real-time and cloud-based applications as assemblies of existing Generic Enablers
requires a full end-to-end integration between backend data providers (as for example IoT devices and
smart city services), and front-end applications. Such a complete end-to-end integration of FIWARE
Generic Enablers is the possibility to use services provided by any of the Generic Enablers as source for
client applications that are build with FIWARE technology. Identified ends are thus the set of data and
context producers, such as IoT devices in the backend, and the client application front-ends, but also the set
of processing and analysis GE and other services that may access the data provided by the backend.
This end-to-end integration is also intended to incorporate also real time media. The Stream-oriented GE
provides a suitable structure to multimedia information, so it can be inserted into the context in an
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homogeneous way and can be consumed by client application front-ends or application backends just like
any other context information. Three level can be identified. The first level considers the stream itself as an
context entity managed by context brokers. Presence of the stream, origin, reception endpoint URL are
attributes that can be used to integrate multimedia content as part of the Linked Data. The second level
considers the information carried by the stream content. Task 3.3 describes how this information can be
extracted to convert media devices like cameras into IoT devices using the Kurento real-time media Stream
processing GE. The third level involves the generation of context information as a result of the media
streams analysis or the reception of context data to take decisions in the way the media is processed.
While the deployment of cloud platforms and their building blocks has been a topic in research for several
years now, for example in the CHOReOS project, and is already prepared by the FIWARE Lab
environment in FIWARE, it is not yet clear how to provide a flexible and scalable execution environment
for such distributed applications as assemblies of existing Generic Enablers and make best use of the
provided cloud infrastructure.
Task 3.1 will deal with the design and development of a cloud-based execution runtime environment that
allows integration of existing Generic Enablers and orchestrates their roles to form an end-to-end
application. Towards this end, a developer selects a set of GEs that provide the desired features from the
FIWARE Catalogue and orchestrates the Generic Enablers in a shared cloud-based execution runtime.
Dependencies to external cloud services like storage or sensor devices are resolved by the execution
runtime automatically, and the execution runtime queries data from context producer applications registered
at the Orion Context Broker GE when needed by any of the orchestrated GE. The actual logic of the end-toend application is then assembled from the capabilities provided by the different GE, using intuitive tools
like visual editors or simple scripting languages.
Support of advanced security, trust and privacy management features which can be used to realize the
notion of “ownership of data” and "sovereignty of data" (being able to define who may access what data
owned by whom). This would require to evolve the current Security Framework (mostly focused on just
access control) so that it supports establishing policies to deliver these features end to end.
The cloud-based execution runtime environment will evolve from the existing FIWARE Synchronization
GE FiVES and will enable to interconnect the Orion Context Broker GE, the Economy of Data stack (Task
3.4) with existing FIWARE Processing and Analysis GEs as well as with the FIWARE IoT Service
Enablement GEs to be evolved in Task 3.3. With respect to data models and APIs, one step towards the full
end-to-end integration is already done by the FIWARE NGSI specification that is exploiting the capabilities
of Linked Data. Further evolution of the FIWARE NGSI will be addressed in Task 3.2 and adopted
appropriately in the scope of Task 3.1.
The evolution of the FIWARE FiVES GE and the support for full end-to-end integration will be addressed
along the following lines:
● Provide a scalable real-time cloud-based execution runtime environment as an evolution of the
existing FIWARE Synchronization GE FiVES
● Develop means to ensure scalability of the provided execution runtime by exploiting the
capabilities of the underlying cloud platform (WP 4) and of the new distributed cloud (a.k.a. “fog”)
enablers (Task 3.3)
● Enable full interoperation between existing FIWARE Processing and Analysis GEs, the Orion
Context Broker GE, the Economy of Data stack (Task 3.4) as well as the evolved FIWARE IoT
Service Enablement GEs (Task 3.3) by adoption and implementation of the evolved FIWARENGSI (Task 3.2)
Task 3.2: Information models and Linked Data support
Task lead: Orange, supported by Telefonica, DFKI
The original FIWARE-NGSI data models and APIs have been generally well received because they
provide higher-level and more generic abstractions than most of their device-bound or network-protocolbound brethren. For what concerns IoT, NGSI uses a generic (context) entity abstraction layer above
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devices that duly emphasizes the key IoT distinction between things (entities relevant to the environment)
and devices (networked sensors/actuators used as mere intermediaries to gather data about these entities or
act upon them). This had been advocated early on in the reference architecture proposed the FP7 IoT-A
project [IoT-A-13] and a similar distinction has also been endorsed by the OneM2M base ontology
[OneM2M-16]. A first evolution of this API has been to adopt developer-friendly JSON serialization rather
than XML. Further evolutions have been decided in the course of the FI-CORE project that should make the
FIWARE API even more open, generic and future-proof, first and foremost by adopting JSON-LD, a
serialization of the RDF data model adopted in 2014 as a W3C recommendation [JSON-LD-14]. This
makes it possible to easily and explicitly describe links between entities and devices , but also with relevant
external resources or semantic references.
The use of such generic and semantically defined functionality, properties and parameters for platform APIs
may seem like a theoretical concern, but it is in fact a primary requirement for achieving a true openness of
the platform on a very practical basis : it makes it possible for applications to know where to find the data
they are looking for at configuration stage and whenever the configuration changes. Without this a tedious
manual configuration requiring knowledge of all the specifics of each data source would be necessary.
The data models used with JSON-LD are defined as “contexts17”. A cross-domain data model for context
management information has to be further refined, which would serve as a basis for data interoperation
within the FIWARE platform. Domain-specific instances of data models couched as JSON-LD “contexts”
(e.g. for smart cities) should be defined to complement the cross-domain data model.
This data model definition has been initiated in the course of the FI-Core project as an ETSI ISG (Industry
Specification Group) and this should be continued in the FI-NEXT project, with support from the FIWARE
community.
The evolution of existing FIWARE GEs will be addressed along the following lines :
● matching of implicit, proprietary or ad hoc data models exposed by data sources to generic models
adhering to linked data principles
● joint adaptation and integration of corresponding enablers along the whole data food chain ( at least
IDAS, IDEC, Orion, IoTDiscovery, Ckan) to adapt to these evolving data models, taking into
account the feedback from all categories of users of the platform and of the community of
developers
● interlinking and joint integration of FIWARE devices, context entities and relevant data attributes
into the Linked Data Cloud
And always keeping upfront the need to provide secure, reliable, efficient and scalable implementations to
commit with the needs of smart applications (e.g. real time smart city applications).
Task 3.3 IoT Infrastructures Interoperation
Task lead: Orange, supported by Telefónica and Naevatec
FIWARE IoT components take in data from various IoT infrastructures and consolidate them into Context
Information entities, enabling a standard, open and bidirectional mediation platform between IoT data
sources and third party applications and systems.
FIWARE has achieved a significant take-up level, especially in the field of Smart Cities and European
accelerated SMEs. However, it is clear that the FIWARE platform will exist alongside other IoT
infrastructures varying widely in scale, breadth and depth (from semi-dedicated/semi-closed to semigeneric/semi-open stovepipes or silos, usually mastered by a single stakeholder) and that FIWARE will not
replace these infrastructures.
FIWARE has the potential to become an overarching “super-infrastructure”, a federative platform sitting
above other infrastructures that could mediate information between these existing infrastructures, at a
higher level and on a wider scope. The evolution of IoT activities proposed for the FI-NEXT project
“Context” is a JSON-LD reserved keyword, used in a literal and exclusively lexical sense, by contrast to the broader
notion of situational context used in FIWARE and the context-awareness ICT research agenda that FIWARE draws
upon for this.
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acknowledges that such widely heterogeneous IoT infrastructures are here to stay, taking as an objective to
ensure their interoperation and the loosely coupled federation of their data as context information. Existing
consumer-oriented “connected devices” are a prime target example for such an approach, acknowledging
that they may come with their own cloud-based infrastructure, usually provided by their manufacturer.
At the same time, it should remain an objective to support direct IoT information mediation by FIWARE
used as a single optimized platform, dispensing with the stacking of redundant layers and multiple network
round-trips to the cloud, which will inevitably be incurred when federating multiple existing
infrastructures. This should account for the constraints of hard real-time industrial cyber-physical systems
in the main application domains targeted by FIWARE. These applications have latency, security and safety
constraints that are at variance with the time indeterminacy and loose coupling of regular cloud-based
solutions, yet they stand nonetheless to benefit from the platform effects and information sharing that are
precluded by the closed and dedicated solutions most of them use for now. The “edge” domain of the
FIWARE IoT platform should be consolidated and expanded to host these applications in a long-term
distributed cloud vision (a.k.a. “fog computing”).
Apart from performance objectives for latency-critical “fast-data” applications, the edge domain of IoT has
a role to play for “ecological” IoT data management, in view of the foreseen explosion of sensor data
volumes. This may appear to contradict the default “big data” approach where raw data are systematically
ferried across networks to get dumped into remote cloud-based repositories, even if it were a priori
meaningless, redundant or corrupted. Yet this lazy way of doing things leads to a woefully inefficient use of
network and storage resources, and we propose to emphasize intelligent pre-filtering of data close to the
sources, in order to separate the grain from the chaff in a way that should not preclude unforeseen
exploitation of the corresponding sources by big-data applications.
Existing IoT Services Enablement GEs in FIWARE provide the means by which:
● IoT devices are registered and managed
● These data are consolidated at higher levels of abstraction, corresponding to physical environment
entities that can be referenced as “context entities” by data/context management chapter GEs,
especially Orion Context Information Broker.
● These entities are registered
The evolution of present FIWARE IoT GEs will be addressed along the following lines :
● Integration of new (or evolutions of existing) device protocols and network infrastructures relying
either on IETF standards (e.g. IPv6 networking compatibility, 6LowPAN networks, CoAP & HTTP
2, etc), long-range radio networks, PLC networks, acknowledging that this interface may in the
latter cases occur at the network infrastructure level rather than at the individual device level
(IDAS)
● Extend the collaboration with integrators and device makers initiated as the “FIWARE IoT Ready
Programme”, in order to ensure impact, alignment with new technology successful trends and ease
the work of SMEs and entrepreneurs.
● “Fast-data” Consolidation of state information about entities, geared to control-oriented reactive
applications, guaranteeing real-time latency constraints while adhering to a RESTful architecture
style, where valid states are sub-resources of system entities and state transitions are exposed as
links between theses resources (IDEC).
● Generalization of edge-based Complex Event Processing as a mechanism for “ecological” IoT data
management, i.e. preventing the energy-wasteful saturation of networks and backend cloud
repositories with irrelevant sensor data, in view of the explosion in volume of such data sources
(IDEC-Cepheus)
● Distributed cloud implementation of the edge domain, integrating various platforms such as
operator Points of Presence, gateways and end devices within a comprehensive unified cloud
platform, with attendant properties of distribution transparency, elasticity, reliability and safety
similar to a regular backend cloud. New distributed cloud (a.k.a. “fog”) enablers in relationship to
the existing cloud enablers could be taken up in liaison with projects accepted under the H2020
ICT-6 objective.
● Integration of outputs from real-time video and audio capture, coupled with scene analysis software
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geared to the data models used by other IoT devices and for the description of environment entities,
making it possible to associate audio-video content with matching sensor data in other modalities.
Video and audio streams are a rich source of context information for which the Stream-oriented
FIWARE GE can play the role of a data source homologous to an IoT device. An end-to-end
demonstration of this concept has already been implemented with the crowd-detector module
during project FI-WARE.. a Real-time video and audio scene analysis is out of the scope of the
project, but the project should draw upon recent progress resulting from the use of deep-learningbased solutions. The Stream-oriented GE will implement a framework where different vision and
audio scene analysis algorithms in such a way that generated scene information can be managed
and incorporated into the relevant context entities
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Task 3.4: Support for an Economy of Data
Task lead: UPM, supported by Atos, Orange, Telefonica
Data and Business Framework GEs in FIWARE provide the means by which:
● Data and context information can be published, exposed and consumed, including both: static
datasets and context data provided in NGSI format.
● The visibility to the data can be automatically managed in order to restrict the access to those
datasets that cannot be publicly spreaded.
● Offerings can be defined allowing the acquisition of access rights and data licenses on data under
certain terms and conditions which involve pricing as well as some conditions to be met by users
acquiring the data.
● The usage of data can be rated, allowing to bill and charge users according to this rating.
● The Revenues generated by the acquisition of the existing data can be distributed among the different
stakeholders involved in the provision of the related data service.
All the features provided by the Business Framework are exposed based on the standard TMForum
Business Ecosystem APIs for managing Product Catalog, Ordering, Inventory, Party, Usage, etc.
The evolution of current FIWARE Data and Business Framework GEs will be addressed along the
following lines:
● Enhance CKAN, seamlessly integrating it with the FIWARE Business Framework GEs, to provide a
fully-fledged data market where offerings related to “premium” data can be defined and managed
end-to-end, including their associated publication, acquisition, accounting of usage, billing and
charging, and revenue settlement and sharing processes.
● Support for agreement management in order to handle the SLA and the terms and conditions that
apply to the offered data services.
● Support for onboarding capabilities in order to register and manage the different stakeholders, and
their related roles, involved in the offered data services. Additionally, it enables customers to choose
the role they want to play and thus, their future permissions for accessing the data. In this way, it is
possible to have different pricing models and agreements according to the different offered roles.
● Standardize the mechanisms for the management of data services including the activation and
configuration, performance monitoring, tickets resolution and so on.
As have been done so far during the development of the Business Framework in FIWARE, all these new
features will be implemented by following the standards agreed with the TMForum.
Task 3.5: Integrated and enhanced data and media context processing and analysis
Task lead: Engineering, supported by Telefonica, UPM
Data Publication and Visualization GEs in FIWARE (SpagoBI, Wirecloud, CKAN) provide the means by
which:
● Historic and current context information can be published as datasets/resources in a catalogue and
data portal made available to applications as well as end users.
● Historic and current context information, also from heterogeneous sources, can be analysed and
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visualized, generating reports, etc.
Despite their interest as a value-adding feature for data exploitation, CKAN offers currently very limited
capabilities for data visualization, not only in terms of the number of available views, but also in terms of
the configuration possibilities offered to empower users to build customized visualization dashboards on the
basis of these views. Additionally, CKAN views are very rigid and do not allow the user to enhance the
views with additional functionality specific for those data. For example, CKAN views do not allow users to
associate the POIs displayed on a map (which come from a CKAN dataset) with dynamic changes in their
status (e.g. the battery status of these POIs considered as IoT sensors, which could come from a given data
flow), or to actuate on the status of these POIs directly from the view.
The evolution of present Data Publication and Visualization GEs will be addressed by further evolving
SpagoBI and WireCloud, and as well deeper integrating them the more with CKAN in order to overcome
some of CKAN weaknesses. Thus evolution in this area are along the following lines :
● SpagoBI - This GEri will evolve in the direction of supporting deeper analytical insights complying
with changing requirements coming from knowledge workers while keeping support to the
governance of user generated content. Open APIs will play an essential role in this scenario by
opening up the usage of BI tools as workflows in process and applications. The evolution will
actually be declined alongside the following topics:
○ Information discovery: in order to make easier and effective the interrogation of all enterprise
data reservoirs (aka data lake) new tools will be delivered; these tools will leverage data
profiling techniques to suggest any interesting data points to users even in case where the user
does not know “a priori” the information he/she is actually looking for;
○ Self-service and ad-hoc capabilities: advanced mash-up techniques will be implemented to
combine data from different sources in different format;
○ Adaptive context: the information delivery will be based on paradigms enforcing the capability
to better adapt the data presentation to the data itself taking into account the data context
○ Linked data support: LD is not only as an example of a big data source, but more in the
perspective of the technology to support data federation based on the semantics;
○ Data visualization: implementation of advanced visualization techniques, with powerful zoom
in/out capabilities and support for information delivery based on sharing, collaboration and
storytelling
○ Mobile: implementation of techniques allowing to effectively increase the responsiveness of
SpagoBI on different devices;
● WireCloud - By “embedding” WireCloud in CKAN, end users will be provided with value-adding
tools to easily create enriched data visualizations that not only display the data in many different
ways (thanks to its ever-growing catalogue of widgets, operators and mashups- and sharing features)
and take advantage of standardized datasets (e.g. those published by SpagoBI based on JSON-LD
NGSI) but also enrich these visualizations with external functionality that relies on these data,
empowering end users to build enriched visualization and operational dashboards from the data they
are consuming. Additionally, by exploiting metadata (e.g. JSON-LD attached to FIWARE-NGSI
datasets) and social features, Wirecloud could help guide the users in the process by suggesting those
elements from the catalogue that fits with the dataset content and/or structure, that have been
previously used by other users, and so on.
Deliverables (from all tasks):
Note that unlike the other WPs, deliverables in this WP do not follow the D<x><y><z> convention. As
efforts in this WP result in new FIWARE releases, it is more appropriate to combine them into single, larger
deliverables; similarly, it is more useful for the FIWARE community to see a combined Technical Roadmap
which incorporates input from all of the WP3 tasks.
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This deliverable will define the Technical Roadmap for all of the activities within WP3, incorporating
inputs from all of the tasks. These will be consolidated into a coherent roadmap outlining the development
of key FIWARE technologies providing details for near term evolutions and indicators for longer term
evolutions.
D3.2.a,b FIWARE Release (M12, M24)
This deliverable will comprise of the software and associated documentation relating to the GEris to be
released under WP3 at the FIWARE releases scheduled for M12 and M24.
3.1.5.4 WP 4: FIWARE Lab
Work Package no.
4
Work Package title
FIWARE Lab
Start date
End date
Participant number
Participant short name
PMs per participant
Objective
Maintaining FIWARE Lab, a complimentary and reliable environment in which potential FIWARE users
can experiment with FIWARE technologies, is vital to foster the adoption of FIWARE and reinforcing the
underlying innovation ecosystem. This work package aims at supporting the coordinated operation of
FIWARE Lab. Currently FIWARE Lab ranges across 15 regions in Europe, Brazil and Mexico. Within FINEXT it is foreseen that at least 5 regions keep their operation providing a total of about 2900 cores, 13 TB
of RAM, 150 TB of storage and a total of 5000 public IPs.
The operation of FIWARE Lab is supported by professional teams providing Level 1 and Level 2 helpdesk
support according to the SLAs specified in the description of task 4.1 here under.
In order to fulfill its aims this WP leverages the procedures, outcomes and lessons learned during the FIWARE, XIFI and FI-Core projects.
In order to achieve the overall goal of supporting the operation of FIWARE Lab, this WP will aim for the
following objectives:
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Ensure, through monitoring and assessment of FIWARE Lab services, the correct functioning of
FIWARE Lab as a whole;
Keep up with users’ expectation by providing proper SLAs in term of FIWARE Lab services and of
support services;
Warrant the operation of at least 5 FIWARE Lab nodes, being those operations facilitated through
proper policies, procedures, and tools.
Description of work:
Task 4.1 FIWARE Lab overall coordination
Task lead: FIF, supported by: CreateNet, Engineering, Martel
This task is responsible for coordinating and managing the FIWARE Lab Operations Office of the FIWARE
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Foundation. The FIWARE Lab Operations Office is already defined, built and operative since the FIWARE, XIFI, and FI-Core projects. The activities covered in this task includes:
● Monitoring of the FIWARE Lab nodes operations;
● Coordination of FIWARE Lab level 1 and level 2 help desk. In this task the FIWARE Lab Operations
Office assigns the requests to the proper node and verifies their correct and prompt completions. If this
is not the case, proper actions are taken starting from verifying with the node which are the
impediments till to take on board the specific request. If the case a bad performance complain is issued
to the node;
● Identification, among the received requests, those that are level 3, i.e. those addressing GEris, and issue
them to the FIWARE TSC for proper management;
● Support the setup and federation into the FIWARE Lab of new FIWARE Lab nodes;
● Coordination of the update of FIWARE technologies in the nodes, i.e.
○ Deployment of new versions of OpenStack and of the FIWARE Cloud;
○ Deployment of new FIWARE Ops tools (ref. Task 4.2);
○ Deployment of new new GEris releases;
● Refinement of policies regarding the access and usage to FIWARE Lab by users and the participation
to FIWARE Lab federation by additional nodes.
Besides, this task will ensure that there will be no service loss on FI-Core project termination (31 Dec 2016).
Following its successful adoption in FI-Core, the tool selected to coordinate operations will be JIRA, while
the deployment and monitoring tools, that will be maintained and evolved by Task 4.2, are those already
implemented in the FI-Core project and currently in use.
This task, as coordinator of the Lab operations, is responsible to ensure that FIWARE Lab nodes perform
according to the expected SLA. The FIWARE Lab SLA to be provided by each node funded under FINEXT are:
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Services availability on the node above 95% threshold
Level 1 and Level 2 support, Mon to Fri, 9 am to 5 pm CET
Ticket response time before EOB of the following work day for 95% of requests.
Ticket resolution time within 2 working days (EOB of the second one) for 95% of requests. Tickets
transferred and accepted by level 3 support as tickets that will require a software patch or
workaround to be developed by the level 3 support team will be considered resolved at level 1 and 2
support levels.
In the case of nodes financially supported by FI-NEXT, failure to meet the above SLAs during the execution
of the project may lead to adjustments in the financial contributions to be provided to the responsible
beneficiary to the extent that, in the worst case, the corresponding node may be terminated and related
financial contributions can be stopped. This will be definitively the case if for a period of 2 consecutive
weeks the node is not operational.
In the case of nodes not financially supported by FI-NEXT, failures to meet the above SLAs, may lead, if
not promptly fixed, to the termination of the rights of the node to use the FIWARE brand and its
disconnection from the FIWARE Lab federation.
Among the supporting tools of the FIWARE Lab operation, a dedicated workspace (e.g. wiki) will be set up
where nodes can promptly interact and share best practices by, e.g., identifying which nodes may address a
significant issue first (such as upgrade to new Openstack version) and document and share their experience
with other nodes.
Task 4.2 FIWARE Ops tools
Task lead: Martel, supported by: CreateNet, ZHAW, Telefonica
Operating a complex and distributed system like FIWARE Lab keeping up with the expectation of users in
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term of quality of service is a demanding and challenging effort as demonstrated by the ongoing activities.
Increasing the automation of FIWARE Lab operations and the transparency of information to end-users on
the status of FIWARE Lab is key to improve the quality of the Lab and the image perceived by end-users.
This task, taking on from the lesson learnt through activities undergoing in the FI-CORE project, will focus
on the development and maintenance of the essential tools needed to support the Lab operations and to
provide valuable information on its status to FIWARE Lab Node operators, FIWARE developers and in
general the entire FIWARE Community.
Concretely, the activities in this task will focus on:
● Maintenance and enhancement of the FIWARE Lab monitoring infrastructure;
● Maintenance and enhancement of the FIWARE Lab node deployment tool;
● Maintenance and enhancement of the FIWARE Lab operation tools.
The FIWARE Lab monitoring infrastructure is an essential set of tools that enable monitoring the status
of the different services offered by the Lab both from the perspective of the Lab operators (e.g. incident
investigation, anomaly detection) and of the Lab users (e.g. status of services, quality of service). This stack,
during the lifespan of FIWARE Lab evolved to become a quite extensive instrument able to cover the
different needs and the distributed nature of FIWARE Lab. The components of the current monitoring
infrastructure are: OpenStack Telemetry (responsible to collect the data from each service in each FIWARE
Lab node), FI-Health (a FIWARE Lab dedicated tool to verify that functionalities of the Lab are behaving
correctly), OpenStack Monasca (responsible to harmonise the different monitoring and health data collected
from the different nodes), the FIWARE Lab Monitoring APIs (a set of APIs on top of Monasca that offer
simplified access to FIWARE Lab monitoring data) and the FIWARE Lab Infographics18 (an intuitive
dashboard to display end-users oriented information about FIWARE Lab).
As regards the above described monitoring infrastructure, the project will i) provide maintenance and
updates and ii) introduce the following enhancements that will improve users and operators experience:
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Introduce advanced support for monitoring of GEs by developers and operators (and provide
guidelines to GE developers to inject the needed monitoring probes);
Introduce deep log inspection based on ElasticSearch19, Logstash20 and Kibana21 to simplify the
work by FIWARE Lab operators to identify problems inside a node;
Make available FI-Health as an easy to configure containerised service so that nodes can run test
during deployment and maintenance of FIWARE Lab nodes;
Enhance cloud performance monitoring as achieved in the FI-Core project to analyse and compare
network, disk and cpu performance on each of the nodes using tools like PerfKit Benchmarker22.
The FIWARE Lab node deployment tool takes care of deploying and configuring OpenStack and all the
additional services required to create a FIWARE Lab node. As of today the tool is based on OpenStack
FUEL23 and FIWARE community already provided different mainstream contributions to it. As of today
introduced plugins support: advanced installation of OpenStack Swift; docker compute nodes; FIWARE
monitoring services.
As regard the deployment tool activities, the project will focus on i) provide maintenance and updates of
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http://infographic.lab.fiware.org
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https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
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https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash
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https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
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https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/wiki
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https://www.fuel-infra.org
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existing plugins for new releases of OpenStack and ii) introduce enhancements that will improve the
operators’ experience such as:
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Support for minor version upgrade of OpenStack;
Support for the deployment of FI-Health locally;
Support for the configuration of federated identity management;
Support for the installation of deep log inspection tools (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana).
The FIWARE Lab operation tools provides a number of instruments to support FIWARE Lab nodes
operators in the management of their infrastructure. Theses include: VM Images and Flavours Synch across
the nodes, User management for removing expired Trial users; and FIWARE Lab Nodes Public key
management for improving users support. The focus in FI-NEXT will be on maintaining the existing
instruments and to introduce, in line with available resources, instruments as required by operators
feedbacks. In particular, attention will be devoted to a task revealed critical in the current Lab operations:
the support to users migration from a node to another. FIWARE Lab nodes operators will be provided with a
simple service supporting the process from the snapshot creation, to the copy of the snapshot to a new
FIWARE Lab node and its deployment. Finally it will be provided a set of FIWARE operations focused
scripts which make operations easier, including scripts for understanding resource usage of given
users/tenants on an infrastructure, scripts for quota management, etc.
Task 4.3 Operation of FIWARE Lab nodes
Task lead: Engineering, supported by: Atos, ImagineLab,, Telefonica, ZHAW
The goal of this task is to actually operate the various FIWARE Lab nodes composing FIWARE Lab and
support their users in their daily operations on the nodes. In this context each partner in this task is
responsible for:
● Operate its node in accordance to the criteria defined in task 4.1;
● Provide prompt and complete level 1 and level 2 support as requests come;
● Keep the FIWARE technologies of the node up-to-date;
● Provide all elements enabling the FIWARE Lab Operation Office to monitor behavior of the node;
● Provide and share information with the other nodes so that to constantly improve the services
offered by FIWARE Lab. Information will be shared through appropriate tool (e.g. wiki) as
explained in task 4.1.
The operation of FIWARE Lab nodes will be performed by infrastructure operation experts plus FIWARE
experts. The expected outcome of this task will be a fully operating FIWARE Lab environment and the
periodic monitoring reports on nodes performance.
Deliverables (from all tasks):
Deliverables are numbered according to the following template: D<x>.<y>.<z>.a,b,... where <x> refers to
the WP number, <y> refers to the task within the WP where the deliverable is produced, <z> is a sequence
number inside the task. The final letter (if any) numbers releases of the same deliverables over time.
D4.1.1 FIWARE Lab operation guide (M6)
This is a guide for FIWARE node owners with the description of the requirements, service levels, set up
process, obligations and belonging rules to the FIWARE Lab. This guide is a refinement and completion of
what already available from the FI-Core project.
D4.1.2.a,b FIWARE Lab operation report (M12, M24)
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This series of deliverables will report the assessment of FIWARE Lab nodes operation, recommendations to
each node to improve the provided service, and lessons learnt. Corrective actions will be also reported here.
D4.2.1.a,b FIWARE Ops releases (M12, M24)
This serie of deliverables will document the software developed inside the Task 4.2, providing Users
Manual and Operator Manuals following the FIWARE Community documentation policies.
D4.3.1.a,b FIWARE Lab node operation report (M12, M24)
This series of deliverables will report for each FIWARE Lab node measurements about the node
performances, by including data about use of VM, RAM, HDD and public IPs, data about level 1 and level 2
support provided, list of available enablers (including SEs), and overall info about applications running.
3.1.5.5 WP 5: Communication and Dissemination
Work Package no.
5
Start date
Work Package title
Communication and Dissemination
End date
Participant number
Participant short name
PMs per participant
Objectives
The main objective of this WP will be fostering the FIWARE brand relevance and promoting the whole
innovation ecosystem around FIWARE core assets, ensuring the highest market visibility. Activities will
target the different stakeholders of the community:
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Application developers and entrepreneurs. On the one hand, FIWARE sustainability will rely on the
active contributions of developers to the Open Source Community; on the other hand, the FIWARE
acceleration programme has been very successful in attracting around 1000 SMEs and startups that
have played the role of FIWARE ambassadors by creating a rich umbrella of apps developed with
FIWARE and a number of success stories. Both, contributions to the FIWARE platform as well as
users of the FIWARE technologies, are equally needed and will be addressed by the FI-NEXT
Communication strategy.
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Companies working in different application domains. In order to scale and become relevant in the
market, FIWARE has to prove that it is a suitable platform for demanding sectors such as
manufacturing, energy or transport, to name a few. So far, FIWARE has made a great investment in
communication targeted to Smart Cities. While this effort will continue, a wider implementation plan
will be put in place to develop new markets.
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New FIWARE application providers or companies that could create partnerships with others to build
FIWARE-based services. One of the major advantages and value propositions of FIWARE is that it
allows to avoid vendor-lock in. This element will be strengthened when users have multiple offerings
in front of them, leading to more innovative proposals, and probably to better prices.
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Organizations willing to join the FIWARE Foundation. It is expected that some of the
aforementioned stakeholders will be part of this group.
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Public Sector, including cities but also regional and national administrations, which could be relevant
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multipliers of the FIWARE adoption, starting with the support in regional and national programmes
and following with specific actions in the context of Public Procurement processes.
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Press. As it can be seen in the section 2 of this document and the reflections made based on the
learning experience of the FIWARE Press Office, this is one of the areas where moderate impact has
been achieved. As a result it requires a more focused effort in the next period.
Different channels and actions will be defined to address all these communities. This proposal brings all the
experience of the marketing and communication plan put in practice in the last years around FIWARE. It
can therefore build upon existing material, such as posters, flyers, videos, success stories, profiles in social
networks, website, collaboration platforms and others. This means that a rich baseline of resources is
already available for FI-NEXT. Collaboration with the other projects funded under ICT12a is expected. The
proposal brought about by FI-NEXT would place the FIWARE Foundation as the strategy leader, assisted
by other projects (in particular ICT 12a projects) in creating the ecosystem. This collaboration model has
been successfully applied in the last years (for example FIWARE and the FI-LINKS project have jointly
developed the FIWARE Mundus programme).
The ultimate goal of this WP will be –in cooperation with the other WPs of FI-NEXT- the full
sustainability of the FIWARE ecosystem and its success in the market, becoming a technology reference in
Europe and worldwide. This WP will specifically ensure coherence in messages, creation of the supporting
material, organization and support of events, implementation of an ambitious COMMs campaign in social
networks and as a result, FIWARE awareness among thousands of organizations.
Description of work:
Task 5.1: Communication
Task lead: FIF
This task will define the FIWARE Communication Strategy coordinated by the FIWARE Foundation. It
will make the strategy known to the other projects and initiatives that will work towards FIWARE-related
communities and will provide the guidance to them in order to ensure a joint coherent implementation.
Activities will include specifically:
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Redesign of the FIWARE website into a new architecture and content management. SEO
optimisation needed to gain visibility in Search Engines driving organic traffic to website. Selected
SEM investment for key events or milestones. Target: 100 K visits / month.
Clear Marketing Plan from Brand owners, including Product Roadmap, key accounts (target
verticals), Event Roadmap and milestones.
Improvement of Social Channels. Investment Plan for Twitter and Linkedin. Target: 25 K followers
in Twitter, 5 K members in Linkedin.
Definition and implementation of a consistent ecosystem of tools for the Community: Map + Q&A
+ Forum + Calendars + News + Marketplace.
Definition and execution of a tailored plan for addressing Press, involving big corporations and
institutions at global level and SMEs at local level.
Definition and implementation of FIWARE’s own event/conference, covering results, success
stories, end-products in market and path to the future (product and solutions roadmap, new
members of the Foundation, new vertical solutions…).
Continue producing branded-content, especially digital pieces such as videos and infographics.
Task 5.2: Dissemination
Task lead: FIF, supported by Atos, Engineering, Orange, Telefonica, Navatec, ZHAW, DFKI, UPM
In order to have a massive impact and influence the broader community, FI-NEXT will establish a calendar
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of activities that provide the maximum ROI for the expectations of the overall FIWARE ecosystem as a
result of the analysis performed by the FIWARE Foundation. These activities will include the organization
or follow-up of technical workshops, discussions in major technology-oriented and market-oriented
conferences and also in other events organized by or targeted to stakeholders and projects relevant to FINEXT activities. Smart usage of on-line platforms such as Youtube videos will also be considered, as it has
proved to be a successful channel so far.
As described for the Communication activities, it is expected that the implementation of the plan will
happen in conjunction with the efforts of different projects, since many of the communities aforementioned
are already or will be considered as part of the objectives of other projects under ICT12a. FI-NEXT will
coordinate these efforts and will take responsibility for the implementation of some of them.
Some reference actions include:
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Coordinated participation in technical events. A selection of major events on specific technologies
will be generated and continuously updated. Talks or workshops in those events will be used to
promote and assess FIWARE within their respective technical fields.
● Participation in Entrepreneurs, Developers and start-up events. Particularly, the participation in a
selection of startup events (e.g., Startup Weekend events) and other developer conferences is
planned as of their publicly known good statistics on newly created businesses and coder’s
awareness. Here, a great contribution and leadership is expected from FIWARE iHubs [FWiHubs]
and other relevant actors in the field.
● Participation in Vertical Sectors events as a way to reach different industrial communities in
application domains that could create a demand for FIWARE. Here, market potential will be the
main criterion to consider (this also includes the potential to attract new members to the FIWARE
Foundation, since, in many occasions; they will go hand-in-hand).
● Training workshops and Hackathons. Both activities normally happen together as the first one aims
to train developers in some hours to later participate in the second, a short-term (few days) contests
where good ideas and talented developers are efficiently identified through Hackathons. Here, the
same collaboration model previously mentioned should apply, since there will be actions
specifically funded by the EC to target this part. However, coherence and coordination are essential
to succeed and that is where FI-NEXT will mainly play a role.
Deliverables (brief description and month of delivery)
Deliverables are numbered according to the following template: D<x>.<y>.<z>.a,b,... where <x> refers to
the WP number, <y> refers to the task within the WP where the deliverable is produced, <z> is a sequence
number inside the task. The final letter (if any) numbers releases of the same deliverables over time.
D5.1.1.a,b,c Report on communication, on-line channels and promotional materials (M3, M12, M24)
The first submission will describe in detail all project websites, social tools and promotional material
intended to be considered during the project lifetime. The later versions will report on the evolution, usage,
statistics and impact.
D5.2.1.a,b,c Report on dissemination activities (M3, M12, M24)
The same approach described for D5.1 applies here, but with respect to dissemination
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Management structure, milestones and procedures
3.2.1.Management structure and procedures
FI-NEXT differs from other projects from a management viewpoint in two aspects: (a) FI-NEXT must
consider external stakeholders such as cities, users, startups and projects funded by the EC under the
ICT12a topic and (b) The cooperation with the FIWARE Foundation while securing the specific project
goals. Having them as a player and as the project coordinator will ensure both.
A lightweight management framework will ensure transparency, effectiveness and efficiency in the use of
resources and decision-making processes. A major goal is to reduce complexities and overhead to a
minimum, still providing the elements to govern the project and ensure high quality and impact. A
description of major roles in the FIWARE ecosystem are provided below:
Project Coordinator (PC): the Project Coordinator (PC) is the intermediary between the EC and the
Consortium, and is nominated by the FIWARE Foundation. The PC is responsible for (a)FI-NEXT project
overall coordination, (b)monitoring that the Parties comply with their obligations under the GA and CA,
(c)financial management, (d)communication between the Parties, EC and other relevant projects/initiatives
(e)managing and chairing the General Assembly (f)Reporting and (g)Risk management.
Project Management Support Office (PMSO): set up by the coordination, it will assist the PC in
(a)administrative and financial tasks, (b)coordination and management of deliverables, milestones,
collaborative environment, website, general coordination tasks and (c)work with Agile methodologies
Work Package Leaders (WPLs): supported by the Task Leaders (TLs) they are responsible for the activities
of a Work Package(WP), namely (a)planning and coordination of tasks, (b)supporting and monitoring the
TLs, (c)progress assessment and reporting, (d)WP meeting management, (e)WP risks management, (f)
delivery of WP documentation and (g)timely and quality output from the WP
Task Leaders (TLs): reporting to the WPL, they (a)agree the activity work plan, (b)coordinate and monitor
the task, (c)contribute to the deliverables, (d)liaises with other tasks and (e) provide guidance to other
contributors of the task.
Project Coordination Committee (PCC): the PCC consists of the PC and all the WPLs. The PCC monitors
general project aspects and the work in the WPs. Meetings will be virtual and biweekly. The PCC will be
responsible for (a) progress report assessment, work plan maintenance, resource re-allocation and first level
conflict resolution, (b) quality of WP and deliverables (c) allocation of unassigned effort/budget/funding and
(d) managing submissions of foreground to standards organisations. The PCC may submit proposals to the
GA for (e) reallocation of effort/budget/funding assigned to the Parties, (f) defaults in obligations by a Party,
(g) plans for the background/foreground and (h) procedures and tools for information exchange;
Decisions in the PCC shall be taken by consensus. Failing this, decisions shall be taken by simple majority of
all attending representatives, provided more than 50% of all the PCC members are present. All PCC
members shall have the same voting power. In cases where no final decision can be reached, the issue has to
be brought to the attention of the General Assembly (GA) for conclusion.
General Assembly (GA): the GA manages the direction of the Project in liaison with the FIWARE
Foundation. The GA has a representatives per partner and adopts by consensus decisions on the
objectives/policy of the FI-NEXT consortium based on proposals from the PCC(the CA will explain how
majority voting will resolve disagreements) . Conflicts unresolved by the PCC shall be solved by the GA.
The GA decides on (a)proposals for the reallocation of the effort/budget/funding assigned to partners( those
related to the coordinator or a WPL will be managed by the PCC), (b)changes of WP tasks between partners
and amendments to the GA, (c) defaults in obligations, (d) procedures/tools for information exchange, (e)
proposals for external cooperation, (f)global plans for managing the Background and Foreground.
As described before, the FIWARE ecosystem is much wider and the decisions on how to evolve FIWARE
are taken following a bottom-up approach by the FIWARE Community, which has a well-defined, open
and approved Governance model[FWGovern]. In short, the roles that participate in the decision-making
process of the Open Source Community, described in detail in [FWGovern] are the OSC-Board of
Directors (BoD), the OSC-FIWARE Technical Committee (“TC”), the OSC- Domain Technical
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Committee (“DTC”) and the OSC- Ecosystem Support Committees (ESCs). The following picture
provides an overview of the decision bodies and their interactions.
3.2.2 Project Plan and Activity Management
Project Plan
Based on the Description of Work, a Project Plan will be produced identifying the different phases of the
project, milestones, expected results, costs, tasks and the resources for each activity. The Project Plan will be
kept up to date as the work progresses and will be submitted to the EC in month 3, but will not be a formal
deliverable. Each Task Leader will lead the work and outputs of the Task. All TLs will report to the WPL
and PCC and keep them informed of all Task-level events and decisions. TLs will present the progress,
issues and results of their Task at the Consortium Meetings.
Reporting
Activity Reports will be submitted by the partners to the PC. The Coordinator will consolidate these into an
Periodic Report for the EC. Monitoring and reporting will be conducted using technical notes, working
papers and also Quarterly Progress Reports.
Communications flow
There is a mutual agreement for information exchange between all the Parties participating in the project.
Electronic mail is the default tool of choice for day-to-day communication to exchange documents and news.
A Web server will be used to present the project and to publish on-line all public deliverables. This will also
allow external advisors to assess the progress of the work. A project reporting mechanism will be set up to
allow all participants to report online and to monitor project progress. The web server will also allow users to
deposit the history of the project (deliverables and documents related to the project), as a forum to raise ideas
and keep track of suggestions, and to store news.
Management of deliverables and other documentation
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The Coordinator will establish a project database for internal reports, deliverables, publications, etc.
Deliverables will be timely generated by WP teams led by the TL or WPL who will ensure good quality.
3.2.3 Risk Management and Conflict Resolution
Risk management requires identification, control and recording of risks, highlighting of the consequences
and the appropriate management actions. Risk management is a balance of judgement so that the risks are
minimized without over-emphasizing the potential problems. Risk management will be an integral part of the
project lifecycle management process. Risk assessments methods will be applied in order to minimize
possible deviations from the expected results and schedule.
The experiences in managing complex and international projects allow identifying the following main areas
of possible risks in the FI-NEXT project:
● Organizational/Management risk, e.g. Lack of availability of key resources– or the lack of
participation of a partner having resources with key roles.
● Impact risks, e.g., failure to achieve results that are relevant
● Financial risk, e.g. deterioration of the economic situation of a partner, that may impose a stop or an
unacceptable reduction of all activities for that partner;
● Technical risk, e.g. the research or technical innovation does not provide the expected results.
Corrective measures for these risk factors will be chosen after an evaluation of their impact and relevance on
the project. Risk assessments methods will be applied in order to minimize possible deviations from the
expected project results and schedule.
The following table summarizes critical risks identified and proposed risk-mitigation measures.
Table 3.2b:
Description of risk
WP(s)
Critical risks for implementation
Likeli
hood
Severity
Proposed risk-mitigation
measures
The FIWARE Foundation is
not capable to manage an EU
funded project being its firts
time to do so.
WP1
Low
Very
High
The FIWARE Foundation will employ
experienced resources from its members
(Atos, Engineering, Orange, Telefonica).
Failure to adapt the Agile
methodology
WP2
Low
Medium
Methodology and tools have been
already proven efficient within the FICore project, however the tools can be
refined to provide more automatic
support to project coordination.
A node from inside FI-NEXT
stops to operate and is
disconnected from FIWARE
Lab
WP4
Very
Low
High
Although the partners running nodes in
FI-NEXT are experienced and extremely
committed to the overall FIWARE
success, tools will be developed to
migrate the user resources present on the
discontinued node towards other nodes
(FI-NEXT will try to keep FIWARE
Lab capacity higher than requested)
A node from outside FINEXT stops to operate and is
WP4
Medium
High
Tools will be developed to migrate the
user resources present on the
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disconnected from FIWARE
Lab
discontinued node towards other nodes
(FI-NEXT will try to keep FIWARE
Lab capacity higher than requested)
A node is unavailable due
faults, software upgrades or
some mistakes made by an
inexperienced operator
WP4
Medim
Medium
FI-NEXT will deploy a set of tools for
monitoring faults and performances of
FIWARE Lab nodes and for making
FIWARE Lab operations easier (in
particular for automating software
upgrades).
A proper communication is issued to the
FIWARE Community.
Software developed (related
with GEs) has not the
requested maturity
WP3 WP2
Medium
Medium
(dependi
ng on
the GE)
QA activities have been put in place in
order to exactly prevent deployment of
low quality GEri.. If a GEri does not
respect the minimum desired quality the
previous version is kept.
Support to a GE outside the
FI-NEXT consortium is
stopped
WP1
Medium
Low
All the core FIWARE GE and related
GEri are supported by key FIWARE
organisations. However if this happens
FI-NEXT will:
Ask the TSC to put the GE in quarantine
issuing a proper communication
Verify if any of the FI-NEXT partners
would take this on board. If not
Issue an open call for interest in
supporting and further evolving to the
FIWARE OSC.
3.2.4 Quality Assurance and Configuration Control
A Quality Assurance methodology will be adopted bearing in mind that we target an extended community
around FIWARE. This methodology will ensure that (a)there is a “quality plan” with the requirements and
templates the deliverable must follow, (b) there is a standard coding plan with the design and code
requirements the developers will follow, (c) the WPL will monitor the edition process and (d) an internal
quality revision plan for deliverables applies.
The Quality Assurance Plan, maintained by the Coordinator, will contemplate administrative management,
report planning, meeting schedule, financial planning(updated monthly), project development
planning(updated monthly) and the Project Management Handbook (describing Management organization,
contractual management procedures, templates and Website Guidelines)
Tools will be made available to all consortium Parties in order to build an information management service.
These include e-mail, project database for internal reports, deliverables, publications and relevant reports,
groupware and knowledge management tools, inter/intranet portals, conferencing-type applications, audio or
video conference bridges and online reporting tool for project reports.
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Consortium as a whole
The FI-NEXT consortium has been constructed to put together a group of complementary organizations in
terms of detailed technical competence, organizational, business and market experience. They all prove a
well-recognized leadership, expertise, experience and skills in the coverage of the roles needed to create and
sustain a fully self-contained Future Internet ecosystem, as shown in the table below:
Organization
Acronym
Type
Country
Role
FIWARE Foundation
FIF
Industrial
France
-Technical and admin
coordination
ATOS Spain S.A
ATOS
Major IT
Provider
Spain
-FIWARE GE Provider
-FIWARE Instance Provider
IT vendor
Italy
-FIWARE Technical Evolution
Orange
Industrial
Telco Operator
France
-FIWARE GE Provider
-FIWARE Instance Provider
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider (with
Imagin Lab)
TID
Industrial
Telco Operator
Spain
-FIWARE GE Provider
-FIWARE Instance Provider
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider (with
Red)
Naevatec
Naevatec
SME
Spain
-FIWARE GE Provider
-FIWARE Instance Provider
Martel
Martel
SME
Switzerland
-FIWARE Lab Nodes support
(diagnosis)
Centre For Research
and Telecom.
Experiment. For
Networked
Communities
Create-Net
Research
Institute
Italy
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider (with
Trentino Networks)
Association Images &
Reseaux
I&R
SME
France
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider
Zürcher Hochschule
Für Angewandte
Zhaw
University
Switzerland
-FIWARE Lab Node
– ENG
Engineering
Ingegnieria
Informatica
Orange S.A
Telefónica
Investigación
Desarrollo
Unipersonal
y
S.A
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Wissenschafte
Infrastructure Provider
Deutsches
Forschungszentrum
Für Künstliche
Intelligenz GMBH
DFKI
Research
Institute
Germany
-FIWARE Technical Evolution
Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid
UPM
University
Spain
-FIWARE GE Provider
-FIWARE Instance Provider
FraunhoferGesellschaft zur
Förderung der
angewandten
Forschung e.V.
Fraunhofer
Research
Institute
Germany
-Lab QA assurance
Grassroots Arts and
Research UG
GAR
SME
Germany
-Lab QA Assurance
Instituto Tecnológico y
de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey
ITESM
University
Mexico
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider
-FIWARE Technical Evolution
Fondo de Información
y Documentac. para la
Industria
INFOTEC
Research
Institute
Mexico
-FIWARE Lab Node
Infrastructure Provider
-FIWARE Technical Evolution
In the view of what has been described in the table above, it is clear that the consortium is well positioned to
achieve the ambitions and deliver the expected project results which will in turn facilitate the evolution and
sustainability of the FIWARE ecosystem.
A more detailed view of the consortium balance in terms of the organization types and their country of
origin, can be seen in the pie charts below:
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Resources to be committed
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[FWLabData]
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Section 4: Members of the consortium 4.1. Participants (applicants) Partner No. 1: Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA Unipersonal Acronym: TID Organisation description General description​
: Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID) is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group, and was created with the aim of strengthening the Group's competitiveness through technological innovation. It has been always directed at creating innovative solutions in anticipation of future challenges. TID has four fundamental working lines: End­User Services, Internet & Multimedia, IT Systems, and Networks & Platforms. These four lines contribute to the internal evolution necessary to face the future challenges of the changing Telecom environment. The company has a thorough expertise in formal methods, object oriented design and programming systems, software engineering tools, real time systems, data bases and knowledge bases, knowledge representation and reasoning, man machine interface, software tools for network simulation, etc. The team involved in the project has a thorough knowledge on service platforms, sensor networks, ambience intelligence platforms, and is currently taking a leading role in the FI­PPP, coordinating the FI­WARE project and taking part in a number of related European projects and initiatives. Main interests of this group are related to context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment and open service provision based in the Telco2.0 approach. Role in the project: TID’s main contribution to the project is in leading WP 3 (FIWARE Evolution). TID also provides relevant contributions to other work­packages, including those on FIWARE Lab (WP4) and Communication and Dissemination (WP5). CV or key personnel Juanjo Hierro​
currently holds the CTO position within the Unit in charge of developing the Industry IoT and Smart City platforms at Telefónica. He obtained a degree in Computer Science in 1990 from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and own a certificate of research proficiency. Juanjo Hierro also plays the role of Coordinator and Chief architect of the FIWARE open source platform, developed under the Future Internet Public­Private Partnership between the EC and EU ICT players and now growing globally with the goal to become a de­facto standard easing the development of Smart Applications in multiple vertical sectors. Juanjo Hierro is technically leading the activities towards positioning Telefónica as a platform provider in the Industry sector, developing the technical vision and supporting strategic decisions. He is involved in several standardization activities and has been invited as speaker in numerous events. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Fermín Galán­Márquez (m) holds an M.Sc degree in telecommunications (2002) and a Ph.D in telematics (2010) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is currently involved in the research activities at the Internet of Things unit at Telefónica I+D, mainly in virtualization, cloud computing topics and M2M/IoT topics. Before joining Telefónica in October 2007, he worked at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Agora Systems and Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos (DIT) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). In all those positions, he has developed R&D related tasks. Since 2001, he has been participating in several UE and Spanish public­funded research projects, including MIRA, Euro6IX, DAIDALOS, SAMURAI, NOBELII, RESPLANDOR, RESERVOIR and NUBA. In addition, he has been involved in standardization activities in the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standardization body, in particular in the System Virtualization Partitioning and Clustering Working Group (SVPC) and the Cloud Management Working Group (CMWG) and is one of the contributors to the OVF 2.0 standard. He has authored more than 40 research publications, including 5 in JCR journals, and 1 international patent. In the FIWARE platform, he is the architect and development leader of the Orion Context Broker Generic Enabler and is in charge of the the FIWARE Lab context management platform. He is also an active supporter in events and hackathons representing FIWARE, both in the Spanish and the international scopes (Campus Party London 2013, Brazil 2014 & 2015 and Mexico 2014 & 2015, Santander hackathon October 2013, Hack4good, IMPACT accelerator events, FIWARE Excellence Final, Smart City World Expo 2014, StartUp Weekend FIWARE events, Codemotion 2014, 4YFN 2015, Madrid & Brussels & Utrech FIWARE Developers week, FRACTALS hackathon ICT 2015 Lisbon). Francisco Romero (m) currently works as a developer at Telefónica I+D (R&D Labs). He obtained a degree in Computer Science in 2002 from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Francisco Romero leads the development of the FIWARE Big Data Generic Enabler owner of the FIWARE open source platform (http://fiware.org), developed under the Future Internet Public­Private Partnership between the EC and EU ICT players, and develops data solutions in the IoT area of the company. He focuses in the persistence and analysis of data, especially historic context information gathered through the Orion Context Broker data. This is achieved by a tool, Cygnus, able to create the history of NGSI­like entities in a wide set of storages, including Big Data platforms, NoSQL databases and Open Data platforms. Santiago Martínez Garcia (m) holds degrees both in Telecommunications and Electronic Engineerings and a master degree in Project Management by the Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) in Barcelona. He is a project manager within the Industrial IoT area in Telefonica R&D, and is responsible for leading the data, media and context management chapter in FP7 FIWARE (WP6) and its continuation project (FICore). He is also involved in ICT FP7 District of the Future project for designing and specifying an IoT platform to be used as the basis for achieving significant energy optimization in city districts, and in the FP7 AmpliFIRE Project focusing on identifying and promoting the technical collaboration opportunities between the FIRE scientific community and the industrial and SMEs communities in FI­°©‐PPP, that can help in the evolution of FIWARE's IoT This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
platform. He has also been involved in XiFi Project (federation of FIWARE based infrastructures) and other Smart City related R&D projects. Relevant Publications and/or products F. Ramparany F. G. Marquez ; J. Soriano ; T. Elsaleh "Handling smart environment devices, data and services at the semantic level with the FI­WARE core platform", Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 14­20, 27­30 Oct. 2014, Washington, DC , http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2014.7004417 Maria Fazio and Antonio Celesti (University of Messina, Italy); Fermin Galan Marquez (Telefonica, Spain); Alex Glikson (IBM, Israel); Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy) , "Exploiting the FIWARE Cloud Platform to Develop a Remote Patient Monitoring System", Management of Cloud and Smart city systems (MoCS 2015), July 6th, 2015 ­ Larnaca, Cyprus Juan Cáceres, Luis Miguel Vaquero, Luis Rodero­Merino, Álvaro Polo, Juan José Hierro: Service Scalability Over the Cloud. Handbook of Cloud Computing 2010: 357­377 David Lizcano, Javier Soriano, Marcos Reyes, Juan José Hierro: A user­centric approach for developing and deploying service front­ends in the future internet of services. IJWGS 5(2): 155­191 (2009) Javier Soriano, David Lizcano, Juan José Hierro, Marcos Reyes, Christoph Schroth, Till Janner: Enhancing User­Service Interaction through a Global User­Centric Approach to SOA. ICNS 2008: 194­203 Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Project name: ​
FIWARE (www.fiware.org) Description of objectives: The FIWARE platform provides a set of APIs that ease the development of Smart Applications in multiple vertical sectors, among which IoT are a key element. TID is the coordinator and one of the main contributors to FIWARE platform and the FIWARE initiative Role in the project: Coordinator, Chief Architect, IoT and Data/Media Context Management architects. Leaders of Data/Media Context Management chapter. Partner No.2: FIWARE Foundation Organisation description General description​
: FIWARE is an open initiative targeted to create a sustainable ecosystem where European companies (and companies in other regions who wish to join Europe in this endeavour) capture the opportunities that will emerge with the new wave of digitalisation brought by combining the Internet of Things with information and Big Data services on the Cloud. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FIWARE technologies combine an open source standard platform integrating a number of components making it easier to develop smart applications. The FIWARE Foundation is the legal independent body providing shared resources to help to achieve the FIWARE Mission by Empowering, Promoting, Augmenting, Protecting, and Validating FIWARE technologies and the Community around them, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem. Main purposes of the FIWARE Foundation are to empower and coordinate the resources of the Community effectively, providing leadership in key areas that are required to fulfill FIWARE’s mission including Brand management, Event management, Legal affairs, Budget Management, FIWARE Lab strategy / sustainability, Coordination of augmenting projects. FIWARE Foundation is open, anybody shall be able to join the FIWARE Open Source Community, contribute to FIWARE and rise through the ranks of the Community based on merit. The inital founders,i.e. Atos, Engineering, Orange and Telefonica focus, FIWARE Foundation on the market and to further develop FIWARE for Digitising European Industry starting from three business sectors: Smart City, Industry 4.0 and Smart Agriculture. The founders announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2016 their support for the uptake of FIWARE technologies in the market through open source community which will drive the evolution of FIWARE API specifications and the development of open source reference implementations of those specifications. Given the ambition and support this will put the FIWARE Foundation at equally footing with similar initiatives such as Industrial Internet Consortium in the USA. Role in the project: FIWARE Foundation will lead Workpackages 1 (Project Management), 2 (FIWARE Open Source Community Processes Support), 4 (FIWARE Lab) and 5 (Communication and Dissemination). It will also contribute to Work Package 3 (FIWARE Evolution). CV or key personnel FIWARE Foundation is currently on a recruitment process for covering its necessary staff. Meanwhile, activities related to the FIWARE Foundation are being covered by the founding member organizations of the FIWARE Foundation. Relevant Publications and/or products The FIWARE Foundation publishes posts from FIWARE partners in relevant platform technology matters and linked to application of FIWARE technologies in multiple sectors (cf. https://www.fiware.org/blog​
). Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Project name: ​
FIWARE open source platform (http://www.fiware.org) Description of objectives: This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
The FIWARE platform provides a set of APIs that ease the development of Smart Applications in multiple vertical sectors, among which IoT are a key element. TID is the coordinator and one of the main contributors to FIWARE platform and the FIWARE initiative. Project name: ​
FIWARE Accelerator Programme (https://www.fiware.org/accelerators/) Description of objectives: The FIWARE Acceleration Programme aims at promoting the take up of FIWARE technologies among solution integrators and application developers, with special focus on SMEs and start­ups. Linked to this program, the EU launched an ambitious campaign in September 2014 mobilizing 80M€ to support SMEs and entrepreneurs who will develop innovative applications based on FIWARE. Similar programmes may be defined in other regions. Project name: ​
FIWARE Mundus (https://www.fiware.org/mundus/) Description of objectives: Although it was born in Europe, ​
FIWARE has been designed with a global ambition​
, so that benefits can spread to other regions. The FIWARE Mundus programme is designed to bring coverage to this effort ​
engaging local ICT players and domain stakeholders, and eventually liaising with local governments in different parts of the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Project name: ​
FIWARE iHubs (https://www.fiware.org/ihubs/) Description of objectives: Think globally but act locally is a distinguishing mark of the FIWARE ecosystem. The network of FIWARE iHubs will play a fundamental role in building the community of adopters as well as contributors at local level. The FIWARE iHubs Programme aims at supporting the creation and the operations of iHubs nodes worldwide. Role in the projects: The FIWARE Foundation plays the role of supporting activities in all the above mentioned FIWARE Programmes. Partner No. 3: Atos Spain SA Acronym: Atos Organisation description General description​
: Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with 2014 pro forma annual revenue of circa €11 billion and 93,000 employees in 72 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
provides Consulting & Systems Integration services, Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data & Cyber­security solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, the Group works with clients across different business sectors: Defence, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Utilities, Public Sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation. Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and Worldline. With the acquisition of BULL, Atos becomes the European leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) and becomes the largest Western European Cloud provider after Amazon. Its cybersecurity and big data portfolio was also significantly enhanced. For more information, visit: atos.net and consult the ARI booklet: http://atos.net/en­us/home/we­are/insights­innovation/research­and­innovation.html. Atos Research & Innovation (ARI) is the R&D hub for emerging technologies and a key reference for the whole Atos group. With almost 30 years of experience in running Research, Development and Innovation projects, we have become a well­known player in the EU context. Our multidisciplinary and multicultural team has the skills to cover all the activities needed to run projects successfully, from scientific leadership to partnership coordination, from development of emerging technologies to the exploitation of project outcomes, with a strong focus on dissemination, innovation adoption and commercialization. Role in the project: Atos will lead the T4.3 coordinating the FIWARE Lab nodes operation and actively participating in T4.2 by evolving monitoring and SLA tools in FI­Ops. Atos will also lead T2.3 to set up and monitoring the QA Lab to test the FIWARE GEs. Atos will significantly contribute also to the dissemination and communication WP to increase impact of FIWARE. It also participates in T3.1 for evolving context managerand T2.1 as member of TSC. CV or key personnel Clara Pezuela (female) has a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and Master in Innovation Management by CSIC­UPV. She has 17 years’ experience in R&D projects development and management. Currently, she is the Head of IT Market at Research and Innovation Group in Atos. Her main responsibilities now are the management of research projects and teams, the preparation of new research proposals and the commercialization of research assets in Atos business units. She is skilled in open business models and innovation processes, collaborative development environments, service and software engineering. Recently, she has coordinated an integrated project in FP7­ICT­ARTIST about migration of applications to the cloud. Currently she is coordinating a H2020­ICT­TANGO about a reference architecture for software in heterogeneous devices and leading an activity project (MCloudDaaS) in EIT Digital Future Cloud action about usage of multi cloud in Big Data analytics as a service. She is also the President of PLANETIC, the Spanish technology platform for the adoption and promotion of ICT in Spain. She is the FIWARE solution manager at Atos. Her current interest areas are innovation management, the improvement of software development processes and methods and the adoption of innovation assets by the industry. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Ilknur Chulan​
i (female) joined Atos as a Software Architect and Technical Coordinator in 2011. Ilknur graduated as a Computer Engineer in 1999 from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, and gained about ten years of research and development experience with IBM in the USA and Canada. She worked on the development of WebSphere Studio Device Developer, the first commercial Java IDE based on the Eclipse platform, and on the implementation of Java Class libraries and IBM’s J9 Java Virtual Machine. She took on roles like Senior Developer, Development Lead and Coordinator, and collaborated with international and cross­functional teams at IBM. In Turkey, she gained knowledge on SOA, ESB and BPEL at BEA Systems eSolutions. At Atos, Ilknur has been working on Cloud Computing Infrastructures, Cloud Application Governance and Service Level Agreement Management, Open source collaboration tools and Future Internet technologies. She has been involved in several FP7 projects including OPTIMIS, Cloud4SOA, MARKOS, ARTIST and FI­CORE. In FI­CORE, she is acting as a FIWARE coach to the accelerator project teams, providing training and mentoring services; and leading the Atos team in the coaching, development and operation of FIWARE technologies and nodes. She is also supporting the commercial team in FIWARE related offers. Nuria De Lama (female) studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She has been working for more than 17 years in Research & Development in in different IT environments. After several years managing the department of International projects in an SME specialized in wireless and mobile technologies, she joined Atos in 2005, where she first led a Research Unit on Rural and Industrial development. In 2006 she was appointed Head of the Research unit on Semantics, Software and Service Engineering and since 2010 she is Representative of Atos Research and Innovation to the European Commission and ICT program Manager. In that position she is responsible for the coordination of European research activities of Atos at EU level, contributing to the R&D strategy, partnerships and business development. This includes the participation of Atos in strategic initiatives such as Public­Private Partnerships (PPP) and European Technology Platforms (ETP), mainly in the Future Internet and Big Data domains. She is formal representative of Atos in European Technology Platform on Software and Services (NESSI), the CELTIC Plus Eureka program focused on Telecommunications, member of the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) and Vice­Secretary General of the Big Data Value Association. She is an active member of the Future Internet community, being involved in FIWARE (​
http://www.fi­ware.org/​
), among others, as Collaboration Officer and member of the Future Internet Steering Board. As part of the activities of FIWARE in the domain of Smart Cities she has contributed to OASC with a special focus on the economy of data. She has worked as independent expert for the European Commission in many occasions as proposal evaluator, project reviewer and rapporteur, and as a long track record of participation as speaker in international conferences and events. Relevant Publications and/or products ● AEON Incubated GE in FIWARE Catalogue, implementing cloud messaging features for any kind of web resource. In integration process with Orion Context Broker. ● FIWARE Node operated by Atos in Tenerife, and federated in the FIWARE Lab ● Atos Testing Factory participating in the FIWARE stress testing activities. ● FIWARE local instance at Atos research department for developing and showcase FIWARE demos to customers and other business units. Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FIWARE Fi­Core May 2011 April 2014 Sept 2015 – August 2017 XIFI​
: eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet April 2013 – March 2015 – FIWARE (​
https://www.fiware.org​
) is an open initiative targeted to create a sustainable ecosystem where European companies (and companies in other regions who wish to join Europe in this endeavour) capture the opportunities that will emerge with the new wave of digitalisation brought by combining the Internet of Things with information and Big Data services on the Cloud. Atos, the biggest IT services company in Europe, and core player in FIWARE, is a good partner for supporting in the materialization of the solution or pilots by using the FIWARE technology. Atos has been leading the exploitation, developing several GEs (only AEON is currently in the Catalogue), contributing with monitoring and SLA tools to the Fi­Ops chapter, operating a FIWARE Lab node, leading the QA task and providing coaching services to SMEs from accelerators. Atos signed the alliance of the Core Group with TEF, ENG and Orange and is part of the FIWARE foundation. The XIFI project facilitates the uptake, deployment and federation of several instances of a common platform to pave the way for a unified European marketplace that is crucial for enabling commercial exploitation of FI resources. This is achieved via FIWARE Ops (http://www.fiware.org/fiware­operations/), a collection of tools that ease the deployment, set­up and operation of FIWARE instances on infrastructures. It is designed to help expanding the infrastructure associated to a given FIWARE instance by means of federating additional nodes (datacenters) over time and allowing cooperation of multiple Platform Providers. ATOS is involved mainly on leading the WP4 Services & Tools, where it is responsible to design and implement the Resource Catalogue, the SLA Manager and the Security Dashboard. Further, ATOS is responsible to manage the integration with the Federation Layer and collaborate in the definition of the Architecture. It is also involved in some of the show case that demonstrates the use of these components This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Partner No. 3: Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. ENG Organisation description General description​
: Engineering Group is a global IT player, the first at Italian level. With its 7800 employees and a share of 8% of domestic market, the Group produces IT innovation to more than 1.000 large clients, with a complete offer combining system and business integration, outsourcing, cloud services, consulting, and proprietary solutions. Revenues are 853 millions of euro and 15% of annual turnover resulting from overseas activities. Engineering operates through 7 different business units: Finance, Central Government, Local Government and Healthcare, Energy & Utilities, Industry and Telecoms, delivering innovative IT solutions to main vertical markets: Aerospace, Insurance, Automotive, Banks, Consumer Products, Defence and Aerospace, Energy & Utilities, Training, Central & Local Government, Homeland Security, Life Science, Manufacturing, Media, International Organisation, Retail, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Transports, Welfare. Since 1987, Engineering innovation capability is supported by its Central Unit of Research & Development, with around 250 researchers currently involved in over 70 research projects co­funded by national and international authorities. The R&D Unit is located across 6 different locations in Italy and in Europe, with about 33 million Euro in annual investment. Engineering holds different responsibilities within the international research community, including technical and overall coordination of large research projects and consortia: in particular Engineering is among the 15 ICT players that, together with research centers and academic institutions in Europe, gave life under the auspices of the European Commission to FIWARE. Engineering is co­founder of FIWARE Foundation, aiming at supporting FIWARE activities by protecting the FIWARE brand, and preserving the principles of openness, transparency and meritocracy which will work as the pillars of the FIWARE community. Engineering is also involved in the AIOTI initiative (http://www.aioti.eu/), in particular it is co­chiring the Working Group 8 about Smart City, to define guidelines for using key IoT technologies within city scenarios dealing with new challenges. Engineering is also active within the OASC initiative, being the organisation that supported all the Italian cities currently part of the initiative to be in. For more information see www.eng.it Role in the project: Within FI­NEXT, Engineering in agreement with is role in previous and current FIWARE projects such as FI­WARE, XIFI, FI­Core, will lead WP4, that is the work package dealing with FIWARE Lab, will manage and operate its FIWARE Lab node located in Vicenza, will greatly contribute to FIWARE QA Team in WP2 (currently Engineering is leading this activity in the FI­Core project), and will provide support and further evolution to Data Visualisation in WP3. CV of key personnel Stefano De Panfilis (male) – He is the Chief Innovation Officer at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. the leader company of Gruppo Engineering. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
He graduated cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". In 1984, he was hired in Engineering as a software engineer. In April 1986, he became Project Manager. In July 1988, he moved to the R&D department managing the "Formal Methods" unit where he started to research on architecture and implementation of complex IT systems addressing this topic from both the methodological and the technological side. Since 1993, he supported Engineering to receive the ISO­9001 compliance certificate and he is currently involved in the CMM assessment process. In April 1994, he started his involvement in European funded R&D projects where in coordinated several of them. In 2004 he became the Director of the R&D Department leading a team of about 100 researchers in Italy and Europe. He actively participated since its beginning to the creation and setting up of the NESSI ETP of which he was the Technical Director and the Coordinator of the Strategic Research Agenda Committee till spring 2010. In June 2011 he became the Chief Innovation Officer of the Engineering Group. He actively participated in the Future Internet various initiatives set­up by the European Commission having also served as Future Internet Assembly (FIA) caretakers committee, set­up by the European Commission, for several FIA editions. In this context he was one of the founders of the FIWARE initiative. Currently he is the responsible of FIWARE Lab. In this function he serves the Project Coordination Committee and, from April 2012 till its end, he was a member in the FI­PPP Architecture Board. In 2013 he was elected chair of the FI­PPP Steering Board. Author of several scientific papers appeared on international journals and in conferences proceedings, he is member of a number of international conferences Program Committees. Grazia Cazzin (female) – She is the SpagoBI Competency Center Director in the Research and Innovation Division of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica. She is the founder of the SpagoBI project (http://www.spagobi.org) and its project leader. Working in the IT field since 1992, she has been involved in enterprise application development, data modelling, data warehousing, dimensional analysis and business intelligence. She has gained valuable expertise working in several market sectors (industry, finance, public administration) and covering several thematic areas (ERP, MRP, MPS, Enterprise Portals, CRM, DWH and BI). During the last years, she followed the SpagoBI development team, the training activities and worked to start­up BI projects in many market sectors (including public administration, health, finance, industry, utilities) with a specific competence on Business Intelligence (from the data modelling to the development of ETL process and analytical dashboards for the end­user), open source software, and Web/J2EE architectures. From 2010 to 2011 she worked as an Adjunct Professor for Business Intelligence and management systems, at the University of Turin (Italy) at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, serving both degree courses and master’s degree courses in Computer Science. She is currently working in designing the SpagoBI evolutionary steps with a particular focus on BigData. She has been appointed the leader of the newly launched Big Data Initiative at OW2 Consortium. Davide Dalle Carbonare (male) ­ He has more than 10 year experience in Information Technology, with the last 5 years spent in international projects. After gaining solid skills as software developer, he focused on project­automation and team­collaboration areas, consolidating on these, an effective experience with tools and methods. About these topics, he serves as teacher for company training courses as well as for company customers. In addition he provides direct coaching. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
He started his career in Engineering Ingegneria Informatica as web developer in 2005 and became an IT solution architect in 2007. Since 2011 he is involved in the FI­PPP being employed in FI­WARE as leader and architect of the work package “Developer Community and Tools”, and in XIFI where he coordinates the technical activities of the Engineering team. Between 2007 and 2011 he participated in QualiPSo (FP6), where he worked on the evaluation of the trustworthiness of open source projects and artefacts. He was involved in a team to support the Emilia and Romagna region in its effort of publishing software projects under the EUPL (e.g. benefits and constraints, practical steps, checks for license compliance). He also participated to the license migration (form LGPL v2 to MPL v2) of the SpagoBI project. Currently he is the manager of the FIWARE Catalogue and the FIWARE Academy and the representative of Engineering within the BDVA (Big Data Value Association). Relevant Publications and/or products ● FIWARE Commercial Instance ­ This is currently the only available public FIWARE Commercial Instance. It is available at fiware.eng.it ● SpagoBI GEri ­ It is the implementation of the DataVisualisation Generic Enabler. It is available in the FIWARE Catalogue ● FIWARE Academy ­ Engineering is managing the infrastructure and the portal that contains all the FIWARE courses. Previous Projects or Activities Title Duration Funded by Comment FI­WARE 2011­2015 EU Joined FI­WARE via since the beginning. ENG coordinated the creation of the FIWARE Testbed, become responsible of FIWARE Lab since its launch, coordinated and managed the FIWARE Catalogue and Academy, Implemented the Data Visualisation GE. FI­Core 2015­2016 EU Responsible and daily manager FIWARE Lab, FIWARE Catalogue, FIWARE Academy, the FIWARE QA functional team, the Business Data Chapter. FITMAN 2011­2015 EU Managed and implemented a specific environment for alarms in product chain of whitegoods. FI­STAR 2011­2015 EU Acted as FI­WARE expert providing support in all the use cases. FI­LINKS 2014­2016 EU Actively supported the expansion of FIWARE in Brazil and Japan, as well as in some Italian Regions. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Infrastructure Engineering is managing and operating the FIWARE Lab node of Vicenza which consists of 384 cores, 3 TB RAM, 34 TB disk space, and 250 public IPs. Partner No. 5: Orange SA Acronym: Orange Organisation description General description​
: Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with annual sales of 41 billion euros and has 165,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2013, including 102,000 employees in France. Present in 30 countries, the Group has a total customer base close to 236 million customers at 31 December 2013, including 178.5 million mobile customers and 57.7 million internet (ADSL, fibre) and fixed customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies. With its industrial project, "conquests 2015", Orange is simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders, as well as the society in which the company operates, through a concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future growth; through the Group's ambition to offer a superior customer experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and through the acceleration of international development. For more information: www.orange.com, ​
www.orange­business.com Role in the project: Orange will mainly contribute to IoT Infrastructure Interoperation and federation task, capitalizing on its previous role as leader of the IoT chapter in the FI­WARE and FI­CORE projects but also on FIWARE Lab operation together with ImaginLab. Orange will also contribute to standardisation and dissemination. CV or key personnel Dr Gilles PRIVAT ​
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received engineering and doctoral degrees in systems theory from Télécom ParisTech Institute. He has been a research associate, research engineer and head of research group with CNRS and later with CNET, a public telecom research institute. He is currently a corporate senior scientist and project leader with Orange Labs. He has pioneered and contributed to establish within Orange (France Telecom R&D at the time) the research agenda of "smart devices" that has henceforth branched out into Ambient Intelligence/Smart Spaces and M2M/Internet of Things. He provides a cross­domain range of expertise to several research and development projects in this purview, with a current focus on Cyber­Physical Systems/Internet of Things/Semantic Web of Things infrastructures in their applications to smart homes, smart cities and smart energy. He has an extensive track record of leadership participation and reviewing in This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
European collaborative research projects, having initiated and led the participation of Orange (formerly France Telecom) in numerous collaborative European research projects, up to FP7­ICT and ITEA, the latest of which have been FINSENY and FI­CORE, within the FI­PPP program. He has authored or co­authored more than 90 peer­reviewed and invited publications and holds 13 patents. ● Personal corporate page :​
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http://research.orange.com/en/page­author/gilles­privat/ ● Linkedin profile :​
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/gillesprivat ● Researchgate profile :​
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gilles_Privat/ ● Google scholar page :​
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https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=c8PcTN0AAAAJ&hl=fr Joël RIGA (male) graduated in Engineering of Advanced Mathematical Applied Models from INPG ENSIMAG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) and in Engineering of Large Networks and management platforms from Telecom Sud Paris. He received also an Executive Master in Governance of Networked Information Systems from the ESSEC Management School. He has more than fifteen years of experience in large networks and service projects including engineering, deployment and change management. He designed and deployed the Orange Lab private network with a dedicated governance model to allow optimized service exchanges between Labs, Support Facilities, Internal Carriers and 3rd parties. Pierre­Yves Danet ​
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graduated from French engineering school EFREI and has joined Orange (France Telecom) in 1992 taking the responsibility of a research group on ISDN. He setup a lab on Home Automation and then move to application server research domain. In 2005, at the creation of the NEM European Technology platform, he was representing Orange at the steering board and was appointed vice­chair in charge of Strategy in 2007. Since 2007, he has been actively contributing to the NEM vision, NEM position papers, NEM strategic agenda, NEM Summit, Global NEM activities. In 2010, he received the Senior grade of SEE (Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique et des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication). In 2011, he has been appointed as administrator of the SEE in charge of international relationship, he was member of the Future Internet Assembly steering committee and now to the EuCnC organisation committee. He is now in charge of collaborative research – Europe at Orange Labs. He is also the moderator of the X­ETP group addressing the interfaces between Networks, Soft&big data and content. Also member of FIWARE Mundus which has the objective to evangelise FIWARE in and outside Europe. Relevant Publications and/or products Cross­Fertilizing Data through Web of Things APIs with JSON­LD​
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G. Privat et al, accepted at SALAD/ESWC 2016 ● Edge­of­Cloud Fast­Data Consolidation for the Internet of Things, ​
G. Privat et al, ICIN 2016 ● Capturing the Structure of Internet of Things Systems with Graph Databases for Open Bidirectional Multiscale Data Mediation, ​
G. Privat et al, DBKDA 201​
5 ● Towards a Shared Software Infrastructure for Smart Homes, Smart Buildings and Smart Cities​
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G. Privat et al, EITEC 201​
4 ● Extending the Internet of Things ​
G. Privat , UAIS, 2012​ Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities ●
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Title FI­CORE Duration 2 years Description Core project of the FI­PPP program, Orange has been leader of the IoT chapter and the “sustainability Working Group FI­LINKS FINSENY/FINESCE 2 years 2 years Successive Smart grid /smart energy projects within the FI­PPP OUTSMART 2 years Orange has been coordinating partner of this key Smart City project within the FI­PPP XIFI 2 years Partner No. 6: Tikal Technologies S.L. Acronym: NAEVATEC Organisation description General description​
: Naevatec is a young start­up created in 2010 by 3 professors of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. Professionals at Naevatec have a wide expertise in software based on telecommunications infrastructure, including messaging systems, communication protocols and particularly the management of real time multimedia contents on mobile technologies. The company is currently leading the exploitation of the Kurento initiative (http://www.kurento.com), a software platform enabling developers to incorporate multimedia capabilities to Web and Mobile applications. The current core business of the company is focused on offering services and applications based on Kurento. Naevatec’s management team has more than 20 years of professional experience within the ICT and R&D sectors both: as entrepreneurs and in large companies and academia, carrying out R&D activities. Along this period, the team members have participated and managed projects sponsored by Spanish national R&D programs, This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
like: AFICUS or RAUDOS, and recently is also participating in projects FI­WARE, FI­CORE and NUBOMEDIA of the seventh Framework Program. Role in the project: The main role of Naevatec in the project is contributing to maintain, extend, improve and promote the Stream Oriented GEri, taking advantage of all that experience to promote Kurento as a worldwide reference in the area of Future Internet multimedia technologies. ● Naevatec participates in Task 3.1 integrating media streams information into the context so multimedia content becomes part of the Linked Data. ● Naevatec participates in Task 3.3 implementing a framework that provides the basic infrastructure to convert the Stream­oriented enabler in a IoT device able to extract information from the multimedia content and insert it to the context. CV or key personnel Javier Lopez Fernandez (M) ​
is a Telecommunications Engineer from Polytechnic University of Madrid. It has more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications and IT, working for multinational companies like Lucent Technologies and Motorola, where he has always worked in R&D teams in Europe, Asia and USA. He has participated in numerous R&D projects playing researcher and coordinator roles. These projects include AFICUS and RAUDOS aimed to establish the foundations of new media distribution networks. SUPERIMS aimed at designing a superscalar media distribution network. CONVOX, which aims to build a User Generation Content voice network capable of automatic content labelling through voice recognition techniques, NEOTEC project to develop a COMBINATIONAL SERVICE platform for mobile devices, etc. Javier is currently part­time professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in the area of multimedia communications. Javier participates regularly as project evaluator within the FP VII program. Relevant Publications and/or products 1. Kurento.org​
: Kurento is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs facilitating the development of advanced multimedia applications. Kurento provides state­of­the­art capabilities (i.e. group communications, transcoding, recording, mixing, etc.) but, as a differential feature, also offers advanced media processing capabilities (i.e. computer vision, video indexing, augmented reality, etc.) NAEVATEC contributions to Kurento consist on transforming it into an exploitable media server. For this, NAEVATEC has evolved its architecture to be modular and to enable third party modules to be plugged into it in a direct and seamless manner. NAEVATEC is also responsible of the optimization of Kurento Media Server internal workings and of its corrective maintenance. 2. KHC: Kurento Health Communication is an Android application (available in Android market) providing instant messaging an video conferencing for medical environments involving Patient­to­Doctor and Doctor­to­Doctor communications. It is currently under validation at several hospital in the Madrid area including Hospital Niño Jesus de Madrid and Hospital de Fuenlabrada. 3. Lopez­Fernandez, L.; Gallego, M. ; Garcia, B. ; Fernandez­Lopez, D. ; Lopez, F.J. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting in WebRTC PaaS Infrastructures: The Case of Kurento. IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, vol. 18 (6), pp. 34­40, 2014. 4. Lopez Fernandez, L., Miguel Paris Diaz, R. Benitez Mejias, Francisco Javier Lopez, and Jose Antonio Santos. "Catalysing the success of WebRTC for the provision of advanced multimedia real­time communication services." In Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), 2013 17th International Conference on, pp. 23­30. IEEE, 2013. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description FI­WARE 2 years (http://www.fiware.org): FIWARE is the technological project of the FI­PPP (​
http://www.fi­ppp.eu​
). NAEVATEC participates contributing to the creation of the Stream Oriented Generic Enabler: a media server providing advanced multimedia transport, delivery and processing capabilities which include WebRTC for real­time communications, RTSP for IP camera connectivity, computer vision for smart­city applications, augmented reality, archiving. FIWARE budget is 40M€ and comprises 43 partners including Telefonica, Orange, IBM, Siemens, Fraunhofer, etc FI­CORE 2 years NUBOMEDIA 3 years FI­WARE continuation project in the third phase of the FI­PPP. Its budget is over 15M€ and comprised of more than 25 partners for maintaining and evolving the most relevant FIWARE capabilities. Among them, NAEVATEC has assuming the leading role on the Stream Oriented GE implementation and maintenance. (http://www.nubomedia.eu): is a FP7 STREP started on 2014 which has the objective of creating an elastic scalable cloud infrastructure specifically designed and optimized for providing real­time multimedia services. NAEVATEC leads WP4 on this project, which is devoted to creating the multimedia capabilities of NUBOMEDIA by evolving and extending Kurento Media Server. Partner No. 7: MARTEL GMBH (MARTEL) Organisation description General description​
: Martel is an innovative and dynamic SME specialized in the management, innovation and promotion of international Research and Innovation projects with focus on Next Generation Internet technologies, such as 5G, IoT and Cloud. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Martel’s team has more than 20 years of experience in the Internet technologies R&D&I scene, with strong connections with many key European and Global ICT players. Martel includes three departments that work side by side to deliver the best quality to its customers: • Martel Consulting, a department specialised in R&D Project and Innovation Management and Strategic Consultancy; • Martel Media, a division rapidly grown in the last few years, offering a set of services and tools helping innovative ICT organisations and projects to define and implement effective dissemination, communication and media strategies. • Martel Lab, launched in January 2016, a R&D department specialized in cloud native architectures, spanning from cloud computing infrastructures to cloud computing as an enabler in different application fields such as: Big Data, IoT, NFVI and Smart Cities. In the last five years, Martel has been strongly involved in a number of FIWARE/FI­PPP, FIRE, H2020 and FP7 projects whose scope and activities are directly relevant to the challenges CITADEL aims to address, as detailed below. NOTICE: As Swiss­based SME, Martel participates to H2020 proposal as non­Associated Country meaning that all Martel’s claimed costs will be entirely covered by the Swiss authorities. Role in the project: Martel will contribute to the R&D activities to support the Labs operations. In particular, within task 4.2, the main focus of Martel work will be the introduction of deep log inspection in the Lab to facilitate diagnostic by Node operators. CV or key personnel Dr. Federico Facca (male), ​
Head of Martel Lab, joined Martel in January 2016. Dr. Facca has a wide experience as Technical Manager and Chief Architect in large ICT projects: COIN, Infinity, SemanticGov, SUperhub and XIFI. He is among the core technical figures in the FIWARE programme, within which he successfully supervised a heterogeneous team of more than 60 engineers from different ICT companies and major European research centers (e.g. Telefonica, Thales, Engineering, etc.) contributing to the FIWARE Lab activities. Dr. Facca is a strong advocate of Open Source solutions (e.g. OpenStack, Apache Hadoop, Kubernates, Docker, ...) and his expertise covers Cloud computing architectures and their application to different fields, e.g. Big data, Internet of Things, Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure. Previously, he worked as Area Head in CREATE­NET focusing on Cloud computing management solutions; before that he was Area Head and Institute Manager at STI Innsbruck, focusing on service­oriented architectures and service middlewares. Dr. Facca obtained his Ph.D. in Information Technology and his M.Sc in Computer Science at the Politecnico di Milano. Dr. Monique Calisti (female), Executive Director and Partner of Martel. In the last few years, she has been the leader of dissemination and communication activities in various EC funded projects, including two FIWARE­focused ones, i.e., XIFI and FI­LINKS. In particular, within FI­LINKS, Monique is responsible for the promotional activities of the FIWARE Mundus initiative, which is fostering adoption of FIWARE internationally. Monique is also contributing to the promotion and positioning of the 5G PPP activities as leader of the “Cooperation with other European R&D Programmes” the “Events organisation” tasks within the EURO­5G project. Monique also contributes to coordination, business modelling and exploitation tasks in a number of other projects, including the H2020 RIFE and SSICLOPS projects. Before joining Martel in 2010 as Senior Consultant and Project Manager, she worked for Whitestein Technologies as Vice President This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
of R&D being responsible for enterprise software products’ innovation, corporate research activities as well as business development, consulting, scientific editing and publishing. Since 2007, Monique has been regularly serving the EC as expert proposals’ evaluator and projects’ reviewer in several domains (FIRE, Big Data, Smart Cities). In the last 15 years, Monique has also been serving as a PC member of many international scientific events and she has worked on more than 50 publications. In the past, she has been member of the Board of Directors for the Autonomic Communication Forum and she has been actively involved in the activity of the IEEE FIPA standardization body. Monique holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of Bologna, Italy. Relevant Publications and/or products List of up to 5 relevant publications, and/or products or other achievements relevant to the call content 1.
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(service). FIWARE Lab is an OpenStack­based federated cloud including more than 16 Regions that is hosting the FIWARE platform for experimental purposes. The Martel Lab is taking part to the management and operation of FIWARE Lab. Federico was as well responsible for the design of the cloud and coordinating its deployment. Learn by Examples How to Link the Internet of Things and the Cloud Computing Paradigms: A Fully Working Proof of Concept​
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Antonio Marsico, Attilio Broglio, Massimo Vecchio, Federico Michele Facca, FiCloud 2015: 806­810 (Publication). The paper presents a research on using cloud based infrastructures to develop IoT applications. FIWARE Lab: Managing Resources and Services in a Cloud Federation Supporting Future Internet Applications​
, Theodore B. Zahariadis, Andreas Papadakis, Federico Alvarez, Jose Gonzalez, Fernando Lopez, Federico M. Facca, Yahya Al­Hazmi, UCC 2014: 792­799 (Publication). The paper describes the FIWARE lab architecture that was driven by Federico as Technical Manger of XIFI project. NetIDE: First Steps towards an Integrated Development Environment for Portable Network Apps​
Federico M. Facca, Elio Salvadori, Holger Karl, Diego R. Lopez, Pedro Andrés Aranda­Gutiérrez, Dejan Kostic, Roberto Riggio, EWSDN 2013: 105­110 (Publication). The paper describes a cloud­based approach to develop and distribute cloud network applications. A Future Internet Roadmap for the FIWARE ecosystem: Cloud Computing,​
Federico M. Facca et al. (Publication). A white paper discussing the evolution of Cloud Computing technologies following the analysis of FIWARE ecosystem. Previous Projects or Activities Title Duration Funded by Comment This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FI­CORE 2014­2016 EC FI­LINKS 2014­2016 EC FUSION 2013­2015 EC RIFE 2015­2018 EC FI­CORE is a project part of the FI­PPP programme that is driving FIWARE initiative. FIWARE is a public­private initiative aiming at creating an open ecosystem based on Internet technologies to stimulate the innovation in the European industry. At the core of the FIWARE initiative there is the FIWARE platform (Generic Enablers): a set of cloud­based components with well­defined APIs that ease the development of applications for Smart Cities and Smart Business. The platform is Open Source and is based on state­of­the­art solutions such as OpenStack and Apache Hadoop. Martel supports the coordination of FIWARE Lab building on its industrial expertise on OpenStack. FI­LINKS is evangelising the FI­PPP programme and adoption of the FIWARE platform to the European Regions and related international activities. Martel is leading the dissemination and communication activities, including promotion of project work and results in several forms: from organization of events, workshops, promotional material (in the form of videos, brochures, etc.) and the management of various communications channels (social media, web site, etc.). Martel also works on the Business Models for the FI­PPP programme, where specific focused and substantial efforts are being dedicated to promotion of FIWARE as a technology foundation for innovative SMEs in the European ICT arena. Within this context, Martel has gained important connections to many European innovative SMEs, but also policy makers in several European regions. FUSION is the FIRE CSA, which focused especially on encouraging SMEs to exploit the FIRE testbeds for their product validation. Martel had a key role in identifying SMEs needs and how the FIRE offering can meet those needs and lead to concrete business benefits. Martel has organised several SMEs­dedicated events and has established connections to several SMEs Incubators and Accelerators across Europe. RIFE addresses the major societal challenge of providing affordable Internet access to those who cannot afford it by solving the technological challenge to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. Martel is the prime coordinator of RIFE and via this experience it has This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
become familiar with recent H2020 rules applying to report, admin and management of the projects. SSICLOPS 2015­2018 EC SSICLOPS aims to empower enterprises to create and operate high­performance private cloud infrastructure that allows flexible scaling through federation with other private clouds without compromising on their service level and security requirements. Martel supports Aalto in the coordination of the project and is responsible for ensuring smooth coordination of partners across a quite large international consortium. Infrastructure N/A Partner No. 8: CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTATION FOR NETWORKED COMMUNITIES Acronym: CREATE­NET Organisation description General description​
: CREATE­NET is an international research consortium based in northern Italy and founded in 2003 by some of the most prestigious universities and research centers in Europe (Technion, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler), which employs around 100 people. By bringing together major academic institutions, corporations and research actors from around the world, CREATE­NET is engaged in combining highest quality research, addressing telecommunications and advanced services challenges, with experimentation on a unique real life testing and infrastructure in Trentino. CREATE­NET objective is to sponsor the highest quality research and innovation, and help convert talent and human capital into patents and start­ups for promoting European high­tech competitiveness. CREATE­NET has a relevant experience in the role of Technical Coordinator and Chief Architect of many EU projects in FP6, FP7 and H2020 as well as in design, deployment and management of research and experimentation infrastructures. In particular CREATE­NET has been extensively involved in FI­PPP context, as one of the main contributor and leader in key projects like INFINITY, XIFI, FI­LINKS, CreatiFI and FI­CORE. The most recent and relevant experiences from CREATE­NET include: ●
Leadership of the FIWARE Lab (a distributed cloud computing environment based on OpenStack and, more generally, a “meeting point” for entrepreneurs, developers, This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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technology providers and data providers) in XIFI project and support to the FIWARE Lab coordination in FI­CORE project; Leadership of FIWARE OPS tools development in both XIFI and FI­CORE projects focusing on automated cloud deployment, cloud architectures and cloud monitoring; Leadership of the road mapping activities within FI­LINKS project Technical FIWARE coaching in CreatiFI project Official partner of Mirantis (​
www.mirantis.com​
) for OpenStack training; Role in the project: CREATE­NET is involved in tasks 4.1 and 4.2 for contributing to the coordination of the FIWARE Lab and for the development of OPS tools respectively. In particular in T4.1, given its knowledge and experience in Cloud Computing and OpenStack, CREATE­NET is supporting the FIWARE Lab help desk and the process of onboarding new nodes. In T4.2 CREATE­NET is following up the implementation of OPS tools already carried out in FI­CORE project. CV of key personnel Silvio Cretti (male)​
is head of the DIStributed Computing and InfOrmation Processing (DISCO) Area at CREATE­NET. He obtained his M.Sc in Physics at University of Trento. Before joining CREATE­NET in 2010, he worked as software engineer, architect and technical leader for Telecom Italia gaining a wealth of knowledge in the software development and software architecture fields. He has been involved in several European projects as Architect and Work Package Leader in the FI­PPP context. Currently he is leading the OPS Chapter in FI­CORE with the objective of easing the operations of FIWARE Lab through the development of tools for the automated deployment and for the monitoring of distributed cloud computing environments based on OpenStack. He is also playing the role of FIWARE coach and evangelist for some of the A16 (FIWARE accelerators) projects. Dr. Elio Salvadori (male) ​
graduated in Telecommunications Engineering (Laurea) at the Politecnico di Milano in 1997 and then worked as network planner and systems engineer in Nokia Networks and Lucent Technologies until November 2001, when he moved to the University of Trento to pursue his Ph.D. degree on Information and Communication Technologies. He joined CREATE­NET in May 2005. He has been leading the Engineering and Fast Prototyping (ENGINE) area from January 2008 to June 2012, when it was involved in the Trentino NGN ultra­broadband project as CEO till February 2014. In March 2014 he moved back to CREATE­NET, acting as Research Director. He has been involved in several European projects like OFELIA, ALIEN, DICONET, CHRON on SDN and optical technologies, and on FI­PPP Infinity, XIFI and EIT Digital projects on Future Internet testbeds as well as on a number of locally­funded projects in the area of networking. In January 2016 Dr. Salvadori has been appointed Managing Director of CREATE­NET. Relevant Publications and/or products This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
1. FIWARE Lab Use Cases, Requirements and Architecture defined in the context of XIFI project (deliverables D1.1,D1.2, D1.3, D1.4, D1.5, D1.6) 2. Software components related with the monitoring of a distributed and federated cloud environment (FIWARE Lab); 3. Automatic cloud deployment tools, based on Mirantis Fuel but enhanced through the development of custom plugins for Nagios, Ceph and Swift (some of the code developed has been contributed back to the OpenStack Community). 4. Deliverables related with the Future Internet roadmap in the context of FI­LINKS 5. Component of the team set up for selecting the best proposals, submitted by SMEs to CreatiFi accelerator project, in terms of technical excellence in the adoption of FIWARE GEs. Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description XIFI (​
www.xifi.eu​
) 2013 ­ 2015 It aimed at building a multi­region and federated cloud based on OpenStack, called FIWARE Lab FI­CORE (​
www.fiware.org​
) 2014 ­ 2016 FI­LINKS (http://fi­links.eu/) 2014 ­ 2016 CreatiFI (​
www.creatifi.eu​
) 2014 ­ 2016 The main contribution of CREATE­NET is focused on building tools for easing the operations of a multi­region cloud based on OpenStack (FIWARE Lab) It support the process of evolving FI­PPP to a worldwide champion of Internet innovation. CREATE­NET is mainly involved in the definition of the Future Internet roadmap. CreatiFI is one of the 16 FIWARE Accelerators projects in the context of Creative Industry. CREATE_NET is playing the role of technical FIWARE advisor. Partner No. 9: Images & Réseaux I&R Organisation description General description​
: The Images & Reseaux Cluster is a non­profit association of organisations in Brittany and Pays–de­Loire French economic regions having the objectives : This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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To set­up projects in the different areas of Networked Electronic Media and Broadband, including Image chain services, Image on the move, Content distribution, Network, content and data security, Virtual reality and augmented networks. ● To integrate and operate the testbeds generated by the R&D projects the cluster is organising. The services of the testbeds are diverse: ● Integration of the technologies generated by the R&D project and project results assessment ● Interoperability tests for the installed technologies ● Experimentations through users at home or in mobility connected to cluster platforms The main organisations composing the cluster are large companies like Technicolor, Nokia, Orange, Thales, more than 180 SMEs, and main research centres, like INRIA, Telecom Bretagne. It is funded by the French government and both the economic Regions and the fees of its 262 stake­holders. Role in the project: I&R will setup and manage ImaginLab one of the FIWARELab Node WP4 CV or key personnel Gael MAUGIS joined the Images & Réseaux cluster as European Project Manager in 2013. Before he spent 15 years in Alcatel­Lucent and held various positions during. During the last 9 years in Alcatel­Lucent he acted as Project and Programme Manager, leading the deployment of telecom equipment in Middle East and Africa regions. His skills encompass various expertise in telecom, project management and finance. Since September 2014 G. Maugis is the coordinator of FI­C3 one of the 16 FIWARE accelerators selected by the European Commission to foster the innovation using and spread the FIWARE technology. Pierre FRANCOIS is project manager within the Images & Réseaux cluster. He is a graduate of a French High engineer school. Before joining Images & Réseaux in 2008, he spent more than 20 years with Orange where he held various positions in project management. During the last years, he acted as coordinator of Images & Réseaux deliveries in some FP7 collaborative projects (Panlab II, Fireball, FutureNem). More recently, he was in charge of the Brittany experimentation site of the FI­CONTENT 2 project and managed the team which operated the FIC2 Lab. Anthony Balan joined the Images et Reseaux cluster as Technician in 2011. M. Balan is bachelor in administration and security of networks. He took his degree at the IUT of Saint­Malo in 2010. He started his career at Images et Reseaux to work on the Imaginlab plaform and Fiware platform. Relevant Publications and/or products ● Strongly involved in the FIWARE Programme since the beginning of the Phase2 (FP7) and mainly in the deployment of the FIWARE Node, Images & Reseaux operates ImaginLab a unique Testbed and Living Lab service. ● Thanks to its close relationship with partner from the Industry (Orange, Alcatel­Lucent and now Nokia, Technicolor…) Images et Réseaux has deployed and welcomed end­users or suppliers on several techologies as 4G Networks, IMS and DVB­T2 over the experiment sites Images et Réseaux managed from 2011 to 2015. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description FI­CONTENT2 2013­2015 Experimentation site for Smart City Guide and Social Connected TV use cases Hosting and management of the FI­C2 Lab XIFI 2013­2015 FI­CORE 2014­2016 FI­C3 2014­2016 Operation of the Brittany XIFI Node and Task Leader “XIFI Node operation and assistance” Operation of the Brittany FIWARE­Lab Node (one of the three at the beginning) FI­C3 is one of the 16 Fiware Accelerator. We are the coordinator of the consortium Partner No. 10: Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften/Zurich University of Applied Sciences Acronym: ZHAW Organisation description General description​
: With almost 11,000 students, 26 bachelor degree programs, 13 consecutive Master’s programs and a broad range of continuing education courses, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) is the largest multidisciplinary university of applied sciences in Switzerland. ZHAW has a long This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
engineering pedigree and it is no coincidence that School of Engineering is the largest faculty in the institution. The Service Engineering Research Area (http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab) is the largest reseach group within the School of Engineeing comprising of 25 people (4 faculty, 4 Senior Researchers, 15 Researchers at different levels and 2 support staff). The group itself is organized into two laboratories, the Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab) and the Service Prototyping Lab (SPLab) Both labs are at the forefront of cloud computing research and perform applied research across the entire Cloud Computing technology stack and value proposition. The ICClab is focused on infrastructure and platform services (IaaS/PaaS) while the SPLab is devoted to design, prototyping, and operations of service­oriented applications built natively for the cloud (e.g. based on IaaS and/or PaaS) and offered as a service (SaaS). Both follow Research Approach based on Strong Scientific Research, Impact via Software and Publications and Knowledge Transfer to local industry. The lab has very strong international profile both in terms of its constitution (15+ nationalities in 25 people) and its connection throughout both Europe and further afield. It has a very extensive network of connections at both national level, European level and intercontinental level, having concrete nationally funded projects with Swiss partners (eg CloudSigma, Exoscale, SafeSwissCloud and others) as well as large EU­funded projects (FP7 FI­WARE, FP7 FICORE, FP7 MCN, FP7 T­Nova, FP7 GEYSER, H2020 SESAME etc). Role in the project: ZHAW will continue to operate the Zurich Filab node within task T4.3; specifically, this will mean upgrading to the new version of the Filab in a timely manner and providing maintenance to the filab users as appropriate. ZHAW will also contribute to the development of new tools for understanding the performance of Filab in terms of network, disk and compute capabilities in T4.2. ZHAW will also contribute to the dissemincation activities in T5.2, in particular by communicating their experience running a Filab node as well as on tools to determine performance of the system. CV or key personnel Prof­Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert​
(male) is a Professor at ZHAW where he heads the Research Area Service Engineering that comprises the Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab) and the Service Prototyping Lab (SPLab). Prof. Bohnert will act as main supervisor of the research staff involved from the Service Engineering Research Area. Thomas Michael Bohnert interests are focused on enabling ICT infrastructures and service platforms, coarsely ranging across mobile, cloud, and web computing. Prior to being appointed by ZHAW he was with SAP Research, SIEMENS Corporate Technology, and ran his own ICT consultancy. He was a visiting scholar at NEC Network Research Labs, Tampere University of Technology, VTT Technical Research Centre, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications during his PhD studies at the University of Coimbra. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
His works have been published in several books, journals, and conferences (citations: 320, H­Index: 9, RG­Score: 16.8). He serves as regional correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Communication Magazine’s news section (GCN). He is the founder of the IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop (www.bwaws.org) and holds several project and conference chairs. From 2009­1011 he was on the steering board of the European Technology Platform Net!Works and co­chairs the EC DG NET FUTURES Future Internet Cluster. He acts as president of the Cloud Computing SIG of the Swiss Association of Computer Science. Deep involvement in the design of the Future Internet Public­Private­Partnership (www.fi­ppp.eu) led to the appointment as Deputy Chief Architect, presiding the FI­PPP Architecture Board and the FI­WARE project. He is the technical coordinator of the Mobile Cloud Networking project. Thomas contributes his expertise to several expert groups of the European Commission on the future of ICT research. The same applies to his role as regular proposal evaluator and project reviewer for the European Commission, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the DAAD in Germany. Dr. Seán Murphy​
(male) is a Senior Research in the ZHAW’s InIT Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab). There he leads themes of Green Cloud Computing. As well as being responsible for defining the direction of energy efficient computing activities within the lab, he is responsible for delivering on the GEYSER project on energy efficient Data Centres and running the FiCore node in Zurich. Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow in University College Dublin Ireland during which time he took a lead role in the partner contribution to many projects both national and international including FP7 CARMEN (wireless mesh networking), VIDAS (national project focused on p2p video delivery), CARMESH (advanced networking and application delivery in an automotive context). Prior to that, he worked with Ericsson research labs in Dublin and completed his PhD in Engineering in Dublin City University, Ireland. Relevant Publications and/or products 1. T. M. Bohnert, A. Edmonds, C. Marti, “Notes on the Future Internet” (​
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), 4th EuropeanFuture Internet Summit, Jun 2013, Aveiro, Portugal 2. T. M. Bohnert, A. Edmonds, P. Aeschlimann, C. Marti, T. Zehnder, L. Graf, “Cloud Computing and the Future Internet” (​
slides​
), IEEE VTC Spring, May 2013, Dresden 3. S. Murphy, V. Cima, T.M. Bohnert, B. Grazioli, “Adding Energy Efficiency to OpenStack”, ​
The 4th IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability​
, Madrid, Spain, April 2015. 4. A. Cimmino, P. Harsh, T. Pecorella, R. Fantacci, F. Granelli, Talha Faizur Rahman, C. Sacchi, C. Carlini – Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies – Special Issue Article – ​
The role of Small Cell Technology in Future Smart City ,2013 5. Edmonds, A., Metsch, T., Papaspyrou, A., and Richardson, A., “​
Toward an Open Cloud Standard.​
” IEEE Internet Computing 16, 4 (July 2012), 15–25. Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Title FIWARE FI­CORE XIFI T­Nova Duration May 2011 – April 2014 Sept 2015 – August 2017 April 2013­Sept 2015 (ZHAW participated from April 2014) Jan 2014 – December 2016 Mobile Cloud Networking Nov 2012­Apr 2016 SESAME July 2015­June 2018 Description ZHAW is Architect for the I2ND chapter of FIWARE, leading the design and development work on the Interfaces to Networked Devices. ZHAW is also responsible for running the Filab Zurich node. In the XIFI project, ZHAW deployed and operated the Zurich Filab node based on the Filab operations manuals. It also contributed to best practices for bringing up and operating Filab nodes. TNova focuses on developing innovative NFV solutions for telecomms sector. ZHAW’s role is to develop Service Function Chaining mechanisms which enable multiple network functions to be aggregated. ZHAW is technical lead on the Mobile Cloud Networking, driving the technical vision of the project and has also been responsible for developing the deployment solution which deploys cloud based telecommunications infrastructure components. The Sesame project focuses on developing small cell solutions for network operators to enable them to deliver next generation services with significant data requirements. ZHAW is developing storage solutions which can enable the small cells to perform advanced edge caching to deliver high performance services. Partner No. 11: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI) Organisation description General description​
: Founded in 1988, DFKI today is one of the largest non­profit research institutes in the field of innovative software technology. DFKI is focusing on the complete cycle of innovation – from world­class basic research and technology development through leading­edge demonstrators and prototypes to product functions and commercialization. Based in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Osnabrück, and Berlin the DFKI ranks among the important "Centers of Excellence" worldwide. DFKI maintains an extensive network of industry partners through its shareholders and its many project partners. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
The participating research area “Agents and Simulated Reality (ASR)” has a long­standing experience to conduct systems­ and application­oriented research and integrated development at the intersection of graphics, artificial intelligence, high­performance computing, and security, funded by the national government, industry, and the European Commission. ASR has a long track record of successful projects in related areas at the EU (Verve, Interact, CREMA, etc.) and national level (ARVIDA, Collaborate3D, Inversiv, etc.). Of particular interest here is the EU Future Internet PPP program, where ASR participated in the FI­WARE/CORE, FI­CONTENT (1 & 2), and the FITMAN projects. Prof. Slusallek has been a member of the FI­PPP Architecture Board from its beginning, is now co­chair of the FIWARE Technical Committee, and ASR provide both the elected leader and architect for the FIWARE WebUI chapter. For more information see ​
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. Role in the project: Within this project, DFKI will focus on the Linked­Data as an upcoming mechanism for more capable and universal APIs and explore this technology for easy design and deployment of distributed applications in the context of FIWARE. This work is based on research within the German ARVIDA project as well as extending work on the novel Synchronization GE (FiVES) and related work within the WebUI chapter of FIWARE. The goal is to make it easy to develop vertical, end­to­end application that go all the way from IoT sensors to interactive visualization in apps including the design and deployment of the necessary service infrastructure. DFKI also plans to continue engaging as leader and architect for the WebUI chapter and co­chair for the Technical Committee, depending on election results within the open Source community. CV of key personnel Prof. Dr.­Ing. Philipp Slusallek ​
is Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area “Agents and Simulated Reality” since 2008. He is also Director for Research at the "Intel Visual Computing Institute”, a central research institute at Saarland University founded in 2009 in collaboration with Intel, DFKI, and the two local Max­Planck­Institutes. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999 and a Principle Investigator at the German Excellence­Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” since 2007. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, USA. He studied physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen (Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in Computer Science from Erlangen University. He has published over 200 peer­reviewed scientific papers with more than 550 citations individually, over 6200 citations total, and an h­index of 39. His general research interest is in creating distributed, immersive, collaborative, and interactive 3D environments for simulation, analysis, visualization, training, and decision making for various application areas. Towards this goal his research covers a wide range of topics including real­time realistic graphics, novel rendering and lighting simulation algorithms, motion synthesis, artificial intelligence and multi­agent technology, high­performance computing, computational 3D imaging, service­oriented architectures and 3D­Internet technology, fast & low­latency semantic communication infrastructures, smart systems security, and others. René Schubotz (male) is a Senior Consultant and Team Lead at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Before coming to DFKI, he worked several years as a Research Scientist in Aerospace industry developing a cross­domain expertise in Linked Data/Semantic Web technologies and virtual technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. He graduated in This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Computer Science (Diploma/M.Sc.) from Saarland University. He participated and contributed to several German­national and European funded projects, such as: AVILUS, ARVIDA, VISION, i­VISION, and Guided­AL. His general research interest is in distributed and web­based systems, micro services, resource­oriented architectures, Linked Data/Semantic Web technologies and cyber­physical systems. Relevant Publications and/or products ● Kristian, Sons, Felix Klein, Jan Sutter, and Philipp Slusallek, ​
shade.js: Adaptive Material Descriptions, ​
Computer Graphics Forum​
, 33(7):51­60, DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12473, 2014. ● Felix Klein, Kristian Sons, Dmitri Rubinstein, and Philipp Slusallek, ​
XML3D and Xflow: Combining Declarative 3D for the Web with Generic Data Flows​
, ​
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications​
, 33(5):38­47, DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2013.67, 2013. ● Felix Klein, Dmitri Rubinstein, Kristian Sons, Farshad Einabadi, Stephan Herhut, and Philipp Slusallek, ​
Declarative AR and Image Processing on the Web with Xflow​
, in Proceedings of the 18th​
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International Conference on Web 3D Technology (Web3D '13)​
, page 157­165, DOI: 10.1145/2466533.2466544, 2013 (​
Best paper Award​
). ● Kristian Sons, Christian Schlinkmann, Felix Klein, Dmitri Rubinstein, and Philipp Slusallek, ​
xml3d.js: Architecture of a Polyfill Implementation of XML3D, ​
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Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS 2013)​
, page 17­24, DOI: 10.1109/SEARIS.2013.6798104, 2013. ● Stefan Nesbigall; Stefan Warwas; Patrick Kapahnke; René Schubotz; Matthias Klusch; Klaus Fischer; Philipp Slusallek, ​
Intelligent Agents for Semantic Simulated Realities ­ The ISReal Platform, ​
In ​
Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART­2010)​
, pages 72­79, ISBN 978­989­674­022­1, 2010. ● Felix Leif Keppmann, Tobias Käfer, Steffen Stadtmüller, René Schubotz, Andreas Harth, Integrating highly dynamic RESTful linked data APIs in a virtual reality environment​
. ISMAR​
, 2014. ● Schubotz, René, and Andreas Harth, "​
Towards Networked Linked Data­Driven Web3D Applications.​
" ​
WWW­Dec3D​
, 2012. ● Schreiber, Werner, and Peter Zimmermann, eds. ​
Virtuelle Techniken im industriellen Umfeld: Das AVILUS­Projekt­Technologien und Anwendungen​
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, 2011. Previous Projects or Activities Title Duration Funded by Comment FI­WARE/­CORE 2011­2016 EU Joined FI­WARE via OpenCall, initial partner in FI­CORE, focus on advanced middleware and Web­based UI FI­Content (1 & 2) 2011­2015 EU Focus on basic technology for Pervasive Games and Smart City Services FITMAN 2011­2015 EU Joined via OpenCall (2x), focus on web­based visualization and interaction with extended FIWARE Ges This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
ARVIDA 2012­2016 BMBF (Germany) Co­Editor, leader of architectural chapter, focus on linked data and data communication Collaborate3D 2011­2014 BMBF (Germany) Coordinator, development of collaborative technology for Industrie­4.0 Partner No. 12: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Acronym:UPM Organisation description Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) ­ Technical University of Madrid is the largest Spanish technological university. With two recognitions as Campus of International Excellence, it is outstanding in its research activity together with its training of highly­qualified professionals, competitive at an international level. More than 2,400 researchers carry out their activity at the UPM, grouped in 204 Research Groups, 19 Research Centers or Institutes and 55 Laboratories, all of them committed to transform the knowledge generated into innovation advances applied to the production sector, contributing to solve the challenges of the European citizens. UPM signs annually around 600 contracts with private businesses, due to its traditional and close relationship with the industrial and business sector, which supports and back its research and technology development in all Engineering fields, Aeronautics, Agronomy, Architecture, Energy, Forestry, Industrial, Mining, Naval and Informatics and Telecommunication. Moreover, every year, UPM applies for around 40 patents and receives a similar number of concessions demonstrating a high commitment to innovation. One of the main UPM technology transfer driver is the business creation, such as ActúaUPM internal program that has generated 140 businesses in the last 10 years, 80% of which still exists.As for the experience in coordinating projects, during FP7 UPM has been involved in the coordination of over 80 FP7 projects (23% of the projects participated by UPM). There will be participating two different research groups in the project: ∙ The Internet Next Generation (UPM­ING) research group, with about 20 full time researchers, including 2 full & 3 associate Professors, has an extensive experience in European and National research projects, as well as in the technical areas of the project including cloud computing, OpenStack & FIWARE, identity management, Blockchain, as well as in cloud infrastructures, platform design and deployment, social graphs and recommendation. ∙ The ICT Research Group (CETTICO) of the UPM School of Computer Science, through its Computer Networks and Web Technologies Laboratory (CoNWeT Lab), carries out research on Future Internet and Web technologies. CETTICO has been ranked in the 13rd position out of 169 research groups officially recognized by UPM. Recent research efforts in the lab are fully aligned This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
with the EC vision of the Internet of Future. In particular, CETTICO has leaded the architecture of FIWARE’s Apps and Data Delivery Chapter. Role in the project: UPM will contribute to Work Package 3 (FIWARE Evolution) and Work Package 5 (Communication and Dissemination). CV or key personnel ● Dr. Juan Quemada (Male) is Full Professor in Telematics Engineering at DIT ­ ETSIT ­ UPM since 1991. He is the leader of the UPM­ING research Group and of the CyberAula Educational Innovation Group. He holds the Telefónica Chair for Next Generation Internet at UPM since 2001. He is responsible for the design of next generation Internet services, with special emphasis on collaborative and social systems, technology enhanced learning, cloud computing and the new Web architecture. Coordinates the 5 MOOC program, which is being used for blended delivery of Telecom Engineering Degree courses. Strongly involved in European and Spanish research projects, has authored a long list of publications in those areas and has leaded the development of a variety of services, hubs and platforms. ● Dr. Javier Soriano (Male) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UPM School of Computer Science, with a focus on Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, and Internet/Web technologies. He leads the Computer Networks and Web Technologies Lab (CoNWeT Lab), where he is the UPM principal investigator in charge of a number of relevant European research projects dealing with Future Internet –Fi­CORE and FI­WARE FP7 Project, Application Mashup –FAST FP7 Project, EzWeb NESSI Strategic Project, cloud computing –4CaaSt FP7 Project, and Mobile Web –MyMobileWeb Eureka CELTIC flagship Project. Javier participates in the European Technology Platform NESSI (UPM is member of its Steering Committee) and its Spanish counterpart, INES (now integrated into PLANETIC). He has also been involved in the Future Internet Assembly as the UPM representative for FAST, as well as in the work being done by the Service Front­End Collaboration Working Group (EC FP7). Javier has over 60 publications on top conferences, scientific journals and book chapters. He has also served as organising committee member and refereed­track chair of the WWW Conference, and participates regularly in the programme committees of a number of relevant conferences. He has been recently supervisor of 4 PhDs on context­aware mobile Web services, composite applications and the EUD computing paradigm, and elastic cloud middleware. Javier is Senior Member of the IEEE. ● Dr.Joaquín Salvachúa (Male) is Associate Professor in Telematics Engineering at DIT ­ ETSIT ­ UPM since 1995. He holds the Orange Chair for the “Science of Complex Networks” at UPM and is a member of the UPM­ING and CyberAula groups. His research focuses today on social graphs and recommendation, cloud infrastructures, P2P, DHT (Distributed HashTables), Non SQL Data Bases, IaaS, PaaS, Identity Management and BlockChain. He is responsible for cloud services, including the This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FILAB hub with unified access, as well as the development group related to identity and user management, authentication and authorisation, IaaS & PaaS cloud portal, organization and user models. Relevant Publications and/or products Publications: o D. Lizcano, F. Alonso, J. Soriano, G. Lopez, Web­centred end­user component modelling, Future Generation Computer Systems (2016), Elsevier, (JCR IF 2014: 2.786, Q1). DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.07.002​
. o D. Lizcano, G. López, J. Soriano, J. Lloret, Implementation of end­user development success factors in mashup development environments, Computer Standards & Interfaces (2016), Elsevier, (JCR IF 2014: 0,879, Q2). DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2016.02.006 o Lizcano, D., Alonso, F., Soriano, J. and López, G. A Web­Centred Approach to End­User Software Engineering, in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (2013), ACM, New York, NY, USA (JCR IF 2013: 1,472, Q1) o Álvaro Alonso, Pedro Rodríguez, Ignacio Aguado, and Joaquín Salvachúa scheduling in cloud distributed videoconferencing systems. CLOUD COMPUTING 2016, The Seventh International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, 2016. o Javier Cerviño, Pedro Rodríguez, Irena Trajkovska, Fernando Escribano, and Joaquín Salvachúa. 2013. A Cost­Effective Methodology Applied to Videoconference Services over Hybrid Clouds. Mob. Netw. Appl. 18, 1 (February 2013) Products: o​
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FIWARE Business Ecosystem API GE/GEi ­ Marketplace, Store, Repository, Revenue Settlement and Sharing System (​
http://catalogue.fiware.org/chapter/applicationsservices­and­data­delivery​
) o FIWARE Application Mashup GE/GEi ­ Wirecloud (​
http://catalogue.fiware.org/chapter/applicationsservices­and­data­delivery​
) o FIWARE Portals: Accounts, Cloud, Store, Mashup and Data portals, AAA, IaaS & PaaS, roles, models and community management (​
https://account.lab.fiware.org/​
) o ​
FIWARE Identity Management​
,IDM (Keyrock): http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers/identity­management­keyrock Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FI­CORE: Future Internet Core FROM: 1/9/2014 REFERENCE: FP7­ICT­632893 FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission. 7th TO: 30/9/2016 ­ Framework Programme, Future Internet Public­Private (25 months) Partnership (FI­PPP) Programme. Collaborative Project. Grant Agreement nº: 632893 PARTICIPANTS: Alcatel­Lucent, Atos, Telecom Italia, Universitat Duisburg­Essen, Engineering, France Telecom, Fraunhofer Fokus, IBM, INRIA, Intel, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sapienza Università di Roma, SAP, Siemens, Technicolor, University of Surrey, Telefónica I+D, Thales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Grant:23.000.000,00 € (Consortium total funding).DESCRIPTION: FICORE – has materialized the foundation for the Future Internet by deploying an innovative, open cloud­based infrastructure based on the FIWARE platform for cost­effective and large scale creation and delivery of services. UPM is responsible of core parts of the architecture and the platform. UPM­ING is responsible of the cloud portal, identity management, AAA, IaaS & PaaS, roles, models and community management. UPM­CETTICO is responsible of the Business Framework and the Application Mashup, as well as of their respective FIWARE­LAB portals. All software components have been published in GITHUB (https://github.com/ging) as open software and deployed in FI­Lab (https://www.fiware.org/lab/) e­infrastructure. FI­WARE: FROM: 1/5/2011 REFERENCE: FP7­ICT­285248 Future FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission. Seventh TO: 30/4/2014 Internet Core Framework Programme. 7th Framework Programme, (36 months) Platform Future Internet Public­Private Partnership (FI­PPP) Programme, Call 1, Obj. 1.7 (FP7­2011­ICT­FI, 20 July – 2 December 2010). Collaborative Project. Grant Agreement nº: 285248 PARTICIPANTS: Alcatel­Lucent, Atos, Telecom Italia, Universitat Duisburg­Essen, Engineering, France Telecom, Fraunhofer Fokus, IBM, INRIA, Intel, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sapienza Università di Roma, SAP, Siemens, Technicolor, University of Surrey, Telefónica I+D, Thales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Grant: 28.698.999,00 € (Consortium total funding) DESCRIPTION: FIWARE was the core project of the FI­PPP (Future Internet Public­Private­Partnership), This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
which defined the architecture and the software for the Future Internet European cloud e­Infrastructure. UPM was responsible in it of core parts of the architecture and the platform. UPM­ING is responsible of the cloud portal, identity management, AAA, IaaS & PaaS, roles, models and community management. UPM­CETTICO is responsible of the Business Framework and the Application Mashup, as well as of their respective FIWARE­LAB portals. All software components have been published in GITHUB (https://github.com/ging) as open software and deployed in FI­Lab (https://www.fiware.org/lab/) e­Infrastructure. XIFI FROM: 1/6/2010 FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission. 7th Framework Programme, Future Internet Public­Private TO: 31/8/2013 Partnership (FI­PPP) Programme. (39 months) DESCRIPTION: XIFI – has created a federation of FI­Lab (https://www.fiware.org/lab/) nodes across Europe using the GEANT e­Infrastructure. It has deployed generic enablers to be used by SMEs for Smart Application development, such as Smart­Cities, Smart­Learning Environments, Internet of Things, Open Data Applications, etc. UPM­ING is responsible in FIWARE LAB (https://www.fiware.org/lab/) for integrating all nodes into a hub with unified access, including federation protocols, distributed identity management, distributed data bases. 4CaaSt: FROM: 1/6/2010 REFERENCE: FP7­ICT­258862 Building the FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission. Seventh TO: 31/8/2013 PaaS Cloud of Framework Programme. ICT, Call 5 (October 2009) (39 months) the Future Collaborative Project. Grant Agreement nº: 258862 (IP) PARTICIPANTS: Telefónica I+D, SAP AG, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universitaet Stuttgart, Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant / Universiteit Van Tilburg, Universitat St. Gallen, Bull SAS, 2nd Quadrant, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Konrad­Zuse­Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems NTUA, Bonitasoft. Grant: 8.884.920 € (Consortium total funding) Global Excursion FROM: 1/9/2011 REFERENCE: FP7­ICT­258862 This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
TO: 28/02/2014 FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission. Seventh (30 months) Framework Grant: 800.000 € (Consortium total funding) UPM­ING has been partner and technical coordinator of the project. The project created a Learning Hub e­Infrastructure providing for participatory experiments across Europe, involving teachers and pupils in European Schools, together with scientists in science hubs and Research Labs. The project created the Virtual Sciensce Hub platform (ViSH ­ ​
http://vishub.org/​
) to support participatory events and collaborative science learning resources for the science curriculum at schools. Partner No. 13: Fraunhofer­Gesellschaft e. V Organisation description General description​
: Fraunhofer­Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer) is an autonomous research organization with a decentralized organizational structure, which currently maintains about 60 research institutes in locations throughout Germany. Whilst the administrative headquarters are in Munich, the legally non­independent research institutes operate from different locations in 15 of the German states. A staff of approximately 21.000 people works with an annual research budget of about 1.8 billion Euro. Of this sum, 1.4 billion Euro is generated through contract research. The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (FRAUNHOFER) focuses on research and development on innovative systems for data analysis and information extraction, in software and in hardware. From sensor data to business intelligence, from media analysis to visual information systems: our research allows companies to do more with data. The department NetMedia of Fraunhofer IAIS employs about 20 staff members and performs research and development of technologies and solutions for organizing and indexing multimedia data. This is achieved using innovative pattern recognition techniques to develop automated metadata generation systems and services tailored to the customers’ requirements. The NetMedia portfolio ranges from building up web­based multimedia search engines to the automated analysis of audio­visual content. The necessary scientific skills and competences in speech processing and document analysis have been acquired in many years of research activities. These skills were applied in several EU research projects under the 7th European Framework Program (e.g. IP­AXES, IP­LinkedTV, FI­PPP FI­Content2, FI­PPP European Pioneers) to develop new kinds of high­performance speech and multimedia analysis techniques. Fraunhofer IAIS transfers speech search applications to German media companies, like ARD or ProSiebenSat.1. Role in the project: This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
QA expert involved in QA Lab team CV of key personnel Peter Muryshkin ​
studied M.Sc. in Applied Computer Science and works in management consulting roles focusing on complex analysis and customer satisfaction, including IT Business Analyst and Change Manager. His current scientific research focus is digital transformation applied to the field of software engineering in large distributed organizations. He worked as employee and freelance business partner in multi­national projects for Vodafone, Allianz and Siemens. Boris Otto (m) is Professor for Supply Chain and Information Management, Audi­Endowed Chair of Supply Net Order Management, TU Dortmund University, and Director Information Management & Engineering, Fraunhofer IML. His research fields are: Supply Chain Management and Logistics, Information Management & Engineering, Enterprise Data Quality Management, Business Engineering, and Electronic Business and Enterprise Systems. Previously, he has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (USA), Assistant Professor, School of Management, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Head of Competence Center Corporate Data Quality, Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Head of Competence Center Electronic Business Integration, Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, and Research Project Manager, Institute for Technology Management and Human Factors, University of Stuttgart (Germany). As part of his professional Engagement in Business or Management Practice, he has been Partner at Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Business Consultant, SAP, Walldorf (Germany), and Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hamburg (Germany). Sören Auer (m) is head of the “Enterprise Information Systems” department at Fraunhofer IAIS and professor for “Enterprise Information Systems” at the University of Bonn. His research interests include social and semantic web technologies, knowledge representation, engineering & management, usability, agile methodologies as well as databases and information systems. Sören was a founding chair of the European Data Forum and now leads its steering committee. Sören coordinated the FP7 flagship project “LOD2 ­ Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data” till 2014 and is now serving as coordinator of the H2020 CSA BigDataEurope and the H2020 MCSA ITN “WDAqua – Answering Questions using Web Data”. He is active in the organisation of conferences and events in the field of semantic technologies and big data (e.g. WWW, ESWC, ISWC, SEMANTiCS) and serves on the board of directors of the Big Data Value Association. Apart from a multitude of citations of scientific articles (>7,000 since 2010) Sören’s research group has gained world­wide reputation with projects like DBpedia, SlideWiki, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki. Technologies developed in his department are in use by notable companies (e.g. Deutsche Telekom, Daimler, Samsung, Wolters Kluwer, Volkswagen). Complementing the scientific and economic dimension of smart and big data Sören is concerned with its societal implications (e.g. in the management and on the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation). Relevant Publications and/or products ● M. Aizatulin, A.D. Gordon, J. Jürjens. Computational Verification of C Protocol Implementations by Symbolic Execution. In 19th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2012), ACM 2012. ●
S. Auer, J. Lehmann, A.­C. Ngonga Ngomo: Introduction to Linked Data and Its Lifecycle on the Web. In: Reasoning Web ­ Semantic Technologies for the Web of Data, Springer LNCS 6848, 2011, pp 1­75. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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F. Dupressoir, A.D. Gordon, J. Jürjens, D. Naumann. Guiding a General­Purpose C Verifier to Prove Cryptographic Protocols. Journal of Computer Security 2014. Special issue with best papers from the 24th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2011), 2014. ●
M. Felderer, B. Katt, P. Kalb, J. Jürjens, M. Ochoa, F. Paci, L.M.S. Tran, T.T. Tun, K. Yskout, R. Scandariato, F. Piessens, D. Vanoverberghe, E. Fourneret, M. Gander, B. Solhaug, R. Breu: Evolution of Security Engineering Artifacts: A State of the Art Survey in International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE) 2014 Vol. 5. ●
M. Galkin, S. Auer, H. L. Kim, S. Scerri: Integration Strategies for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs. IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2016. ●
I. Grangel­González, L. Halilaj, G. Coskun, S. Auer, D. Collarana, M. Hoffmeister: Towards a Semantic Administrative Shell for Industry 4.0 Components. IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2016. ●
T. Humberg, C. Wessel, D. Poggenpohl, S. Wenzel, T. Ruhroth, J. Jürjens: Using Ontologies to Analyze Compliance Requirements of Cloud­Based Processes in "Cloud Computing and Services Science (selected best papers)". Springer LNCS. 2014 ●
S. Wenzel, D. Warzecha, J. Jürjens, M. Ochoa: UMLchange ­­ Specifying Model Changes to Support Security Verification of Potential Evolution in Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces 2014 Vol. 36 pp.776­­791 Special Issue on Security in Information Systems. ●
Leveling, Jens; Edelbrock, Matthias; Otto, Boris, "Big data analytics for supply chain management" Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2014 IEEE International Conference on , pp. 918­922, 9­12 Dec. 2014 ●
Leveling, Jens; Schier, Arkadius; Luciano, Francesco; Otto, Boris, “Concept of a proactive risk management in logistics networks”, Logistics Journal : Proceedings, Vol. 2014. ●
B. Otto, S. Auer, J. Cirullies, J. Jürjens, N. Menz, J. Schon, S. Wenzel: Industrial Data Space: Digital Souvereignity Over Data. Fraunhofer Society, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2673.0649 ●
Otto, Boris; Folmer, Erwin; Ebner, Verena, “A characteristics framework for Semantic Information Systems Standards”, Information Systems and e­Business Management 10, Volume. 4, pp. 571–602, 2012 ●
Otto, Boris, “How to design the master data architecture: Findings from a case study at Bosch”, International Journal of Information Management 32, Volume. 4, pp. 337–346, 2012 ●
Otto, Boris, “Managing the business benefits of product data management: the case of Festo”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 25, Volume. 3, pp.272­297, 2012 Previous Projects or Activities Title Duration Funded by Comment European Pioneers EU Technical audit / acceptance testing of FIWARE integration, advanced scenarios with a set of Generic Enablers JUNE 2015 – MAY 2016 This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
FI­Content 2 DEC 2014 – MAY 2015 EU Technical audit / acceptance testing of about 15 heterogeneous software components – Specific Enablers Partner No.14 Full name: Grassroots Arts and Research Acronym: GAR Organisation description General description​
: Grassroots Arts and Research​
(GAR) is a strategic media company led by the directors Carmen Mac Williams and Tilman Veltjens. The company is offering creative concepts, interactive media design, software, app and service development and software quality assurance and project management for ICT research and innovation projects. The assets are vision, know­how, talent and a network of experienced Inhouse consultants of Media and Software Experts. Grassroots Arts and Research was founded by Carmen Mac Williams as Spin Off Company from the Interactive Lab 3 of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) in 2006. Role in the project: GAR will contribute with IAIS as new partners to the FI­NEXT consortium to the FI­NEXT Software Quality Assurance Task. CVs of key personnel in the project ❖ Carmen Mac Williams ​
has studied Computer Technology at the New York City University and Law at the NY Law School and worked for Digital Equipment Corp. until 1990. From 1990 until 2002 she worked as creative media director for Prokoda AG, MetaTV AG and as CEO for the TransContent AG. In 2002 she joined the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and initiated, managed and participated in the European ICT­ Research Projects MECiTV, LIVE and CITIZEN MEDIA. In 2006 she founded the spin off media company Grassroots Arts and Research. ❖ Pieter van der Linden, ​
an entrepreneurial minded engineer with solid experience in product and service development, software engineering and project management.Pieter has been researcher at INRIA, has participated in several startups (GIPSI S.A., GC Tech, GlobeID software) and has been R&I lab manager at Technicolor. Pieter van der Linden graduated from Polytechnique and ENST. led the FIC2Lab effort (branded as FIWARE Media and Content Enablers) aiming at valorising and promoting the results of the FI­Content1 and 2 projects. Relevant Publications and/or products This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Grassroots was leading the research of the Work Package 7 Experimentation Sites in FI­CONTENT 2 and has performed the following large scale Smart City Services experiments and evaluations around cultural events to improve the active experience of the users and to evaluate the users’ interest in the Smart City Services. ● In February 2014, during Carnival in Cologne, Grassroots deployed a “Social Network Enabler” allowing real time sharing of media between participants including dynamic Point of Interests with audio­visual map, timeline and mashup view. ● Early December 2014, a large scale deployment of an application offering assistance to 1
participants to the 2014 edition of the Transmusicales ​
festival. ● In March 2015, partners from FI­Content2 led by GAR as Experimentation Site leader have .
conducted a large scale deployment in Valencia Fallas​
The partners tested the dynamic creation of points of interest and the monitoring of activity of these points of interest via the social networks. Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Since 2002 GAR research expertise has been developed in R&D projects such as the European ICT Research Projects Fi­CONTENT, FI­C2 and FI­C3 (FP7), LIVE (IP FP6), CITIZEN MEDIA (IP FP6), MECiTV (STREP FP5) and the national research projects GAME (German American Media Exchange) and TLC (Teaching and Learning Centre). Title Duration Description Fi­C3 2014 – 2016 Future Internet Accelerator FI­CONTENT 2 2013 – 2015 Fututure Internet Content Experimentation FI­CONTENT 2011 – 2013 Content Use Case for the Future Internet LIVE 2006 – 2009 LIVE Staging of Olympic Games Citizen Media 2006 ­ 20010 Citizen Media, Participatory Media 1
A 5 day musical festival aiming at discovering the main musical artists of tomorrow. More details on the web site here: http://lestrans.com/. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Partner No. 15: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Acronym: ITESM Organisation description General description​
: The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM, is one of the largest private and coeducational multi­campus universities in Latin America with over 90,000 students at the high school, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. Based in Monterrey, Mexico, the Institute has 31 campuses in 25 cities throughout the country and is known for having one of the top graduate business schools in the region and being one of the leaders in patent applications among Mexican universities. Since 2004 ITESM fostered Research and Innova­tion with specific programs and strategies, and presently it is the private university with the highest number of research professors who are members of the Mexican National System of Researchers and patent registrations. The research groups related to ICT focus on solving national priorities related to the development of solutions for security, business intelligence, education, logistics and bioinformat­ics. Technology transfer is supported through a network of TTOs located at the 13 different campi. The entrepreneurial attitude and competences area is developed through a network of business incubators, accelerators, mentors network and technology parks. ITESM´s research, consulting and development centers conduct liaison activities with national and international companies and organizations. Role in the project: ITESM will contribute in activities related to establish a community­based approach to engage the relevant stakeholders within the established Roadmap, adapting it to the Mexican Context. ITESM will support in the definition of the processes and tools needed to set up, operate and monitor the set of nodes belonging to the FIWARE Federation. ITESM will be also involved in dissemination activities in the Mexican FIWARE Ecosystem, and extending it, to relevant stake holder in LATAM. CV or key personnel Dr. Miguel González Mendoza (Male), head of the Graduate Programs on Computer Sciences. Miguel González Mendoza’s research activities are focused on Machine Learning, Human–Machine interaction. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Toulouse, France. From 2001 to 2004 he was the responsible and representative of the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS­CNRS), during its participation in the European research project AWAKE and the French research project PREDIT, as research assistant, then as post­doctorate. Since 2005, he works as professor–researcher at the ITESM, Mexico. He has been local coordinator of 7 European research projects FP6 and FP7, responsible of 3 national research projects (CONACYT), 2005­2013 and responsible of 4 projects INNOVAPYME (CONACYT) and Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE), 2011­2015. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Dr. Gonzalez Mendoza is awarded as member of the Mexican Research System (SNI), rank II (Jan 2016), member since 2006, and he is Vicepresident of the Mexican Societty for Artificial Intelligence (2015­2016), Secretary (2011­2014), member of the board since 2005. Dr. Gonzalez Mendoza has supervised 9 PhD Theses, 21 MSc. Theses, Author of 2 books, editor of 17 books, author of 18 book chapters, 21 Journals JCR indexed and 60 research papers in international congresses. Dr. González Mendoza was invited as Young Scientist at the World Economic Forum for New Champions in Tianjin China in September 2012. Dr. Neil Hernández Gress (Male), VicePrebost for Research at Tecnológico de Monterrey BS´93, MSc ´95 and PhD ´98, Dr. Hernández Gress has worked in machine learning methodologies for diagnosis and supervision. He has developed, evaluated and applied (to a list of different innovation projects) machine learning methodologies based on Artificial Neural Networks and Statistics. He is the author and co­author of more than 40 journal and conference papers and 10 research reports. He has worked in several national, European and North­American projects. He has been the tutor of 8 MSc theses and 3 PhD theses. He has scientific collaborations with several European and North­American laboratories as well as participations in European and French projects. Dr. Hernández is a full time professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, in which he has been: is head of the Computer Science Graduate School. Head of the Graduate School in Engineering and Science (EGIC) 2004. Since 2005, Dean of the Graduate and Research Division (DPI) and he has been appointed as the National Contact Point for EU founded projects in Mexico. Dr. Raúl Monroy (male), Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Science, at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Raúl Monroy obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1998 from Edinburgh University, under the supervision of Prof. Alan Bundy. He has been in Computing at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Estado de México, since 1985. In 2010, he was promoted to (full) Professor in Computer Science. Since 1998, he is a member of the CONACYT­SNI National Research System, currently rank 2. Since 2011, he is a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visitor to both the University of Edinburgh and the DFKI, Saarbrücken, on his sabbatical leave. Dr. Monroy's research focuses on automating the application of theorem proving to formal methods of system development. He is also interested in issues of computer security. Currently, his research concerns: the discovery an application of general search control strategies for uncovering and correcting errors in either a system or its specification; the discovery of novel methods for anomaly detection in computer security; and motion planning. Dr Luis A. Trejo (male) is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Information Technology and Computer Science Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico. He obtained the Master in Science in computer science in 1989 at the CINVESTAV del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, and the Ph.D. in computer science (Parallel Processing) in 1993 at the Université Claude­Bernard de Lyon, France. His topics of interest are internetworking, Internet of Things, information security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Big Data and Parallel Processing. Trejo is currently a member of the research group in network security and machine learning at the ITESM. He has more than 35 national and international publications and several industry certifications. He has been invited as a speaker in more than 40 fora. He leads the Cisco Training Center in CCNA Security for Mexico and Latin America. Trejo and was main coordinator of the CUDI Grid and high performance computing community from 2007 to 2013. Trejo led from 2007 to 2009 the project WINDS­LA in Mexico, funded by the European th
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Framework Programme to foster cooperation in ICT research between Europe and Latin America. He also participated (2010 ­ 2011) in GISELA programme (Grid Initiatives for This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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e­Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America), funded by the EC 7​
FP to develop GRID computing infrastructure spanned over Europe and Latin America, to support e­science applications. Currently, Trejo is responsible of the ELISA Project (elisa­tec.mx) that aims to increase in a significant way the possibility that a person can be quickly located and assisted in case of an emergency situation, such as kidnapping, automobile accident or health crisis. ELISA is a system based on mobile devices, and a network of micro­sensors which automatically (or manually) generates an alarm signal in case of imminent risk. ELISA received a grant from CUDI­CONACyT. Dr Trejo is member of the National Research System in Mexico, Level I, since January 2015. Relevant Publications and/or products Information and Communication Technologies – ICT, National contact point in Mexico Designers of the National program for Technology Transfer Offices (TTO) in Mexico for CONACYT and the Mexican Secretary (Ministry) of Economy. An Enhanced Process of Concept Alignment for Dealing with Overweight and Obesity. J. UCS 19(9): 1315­1333 (2013). María de Lourdes Martinez­Villaseñor, Miguel Gonzalez­Mendoza. ​
EMRlog Method for Computer Security for Electronic Medical Records with Logic and Data Mining. Biomed Research International Volume 2015, Article ID 542016, May 2015, 12 pages. Martínez­Monterrubio, S., Fraustro­Solís, J., and Monroy, R. ​
Hardware implementation of a real­time computer vision statistical background and foreground classifier. Design Automation for Embedded Systems. Submitted September 2014. Ricardo Acevedo, Miguel Gonzalez, Andres Garcia. Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description LEADERSHIP 2013­2015 Support Action. DG CONNECT. European Commission. 611099 AMERICAS 2011­2013 Support Action. DG CONNECT. European Commission. 287805. OASIS 2008­2012 Research Action. European Commission. Information Society Technologies. ICT­2007.7.1. Future Internet Mexican National Laboratory to host the FIWARE Platform 2014 – to date INFOTEC, CONACYT This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
ITESM participates in CSA and RIA 2016 – to date DG CONNECT. European Commission. ICT­38­2016 Partner No.16: Fondo de Información y Documentación para la Industria Organisation description General description​
: INFOTEC is a public center for innovation and technological development attached to the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico, which contributes to competitiveness projects of the government and institutions involved in the raid of Mexico in the information society and knowledge, through the strategic use of Information Technology and Communications (ICT). INFOTEC has nearly 4 decades serving the ICT development in México. The mission of INFOTEC is to enable organizations and individuals to improve its processes through the appropriation of information and communication technologies. While the vision is enable the implementation of key projects to accelerating the incursion of Mexico in the information society and knowledge projects. INFOTEC has been devoted to promote the use of the internet and its applications in the Mexican context: at infrastructure level (clusters and communications) and at application level (semantic web applications, cloud computing, Big Data, etc.). In this context, as a strategic alliance, we promote an association with the FI‐PPP program with the objective of using the FIWARE Platform to capture new opportunities derived from Future Internet technology trends by increasing the effectiveness of business processes and infrastructures to support areas such as security, logistic, transport, health, and energy in order to produce smart cities. As a result of negotiations with European Commission and CONACYT, INFOTEC created the Mexico FIWARE Lab node, which is part of the FIWARE Federation. In order to develop this node, a National Future Internet Laboratory was created which hold the FIWARE­Lab node. The objective of the Laboratory is providing an open and common space where universities, research centers, cities, companies, entrepreneurs and other organizations can freely experiment with Future Internet technologies such as BigData, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things. The design of the Mexico FIWARE Lab node has been completely based on the FIWARE nodes in Europe. This design was obtained in collaboration with Telefonica experts in FIWARE. The goal of our FIWARE­Lab is to operate as any other node of the federation of nodes in Europe, in this sense, the European partners can use the Mexican infrastructure for doing business with application in our country and also, Mexican entrepreneurs can make business using the infrastructure and data from the European nodes. The Mexico FIWARE Lab node is located in the Data Center of INFOTEC Aguascalientes which has the Tier III Certification, which offers 99.98% availability. It is important to point out that Mexican node is the second and most important FIWARE Lab node in the world. INFOTEC will be in charge of enhancing, maintaining and supporting key components of the platform, by creating the necessary teams and hosting training sessions. INFOTEC offers masters This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
in ICT: Management; innovation; laws and embedded systems. Also, it offers ICT specialization and certification programs. Furthermore, INFOTEC has an Office of Knowledge Transfer: license, consulting, spin­out. INFOTEC offers service of consulting in the areas: networking security, systems and applications, and ICT consulting. The main comprehensive services in ICT are: modeling of business and processes, cloud computing, big data and business intelligence, and semantic tools. Role in the project: INFOTEC will bring the project its experience in the design and implementation of Linked Data Applications to connect the data produced by services and IoT devices. INFOTEC has been devoted to produce open source projects for several year. The experience will be used in the process to support the FIWARE Open Source Community. The INFOTEC will participate in the definition of the processes and tools needed to set up, operate and monitor the set of nodes belonging to the FIWARE Federation, ensuring the proper level of service for FIWARE users. This is a very relevant objective for INFOTEC, which is the owner of the infrastructure that host the Mexican FIWARE­Lab Node. INFOTEC will be also involved in the activities for dissemination of project outcomes in Mexican FIWARE Ecosystem. CV or key personnel Hugo Estrada ​
(male), Leader of the National Future Internet Laboratory. This Laboratory holds the FIWARE­Lab node. He holds a PhD in Informatics by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain and also a PhD in Informatics and Telecommunications by the Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy. Currently is Information Technology researcher of INFOTEC. He is member of the Open Data Commission in order to build the National Open Data Policy and its implementation a national level by all the government institutions. His appointment was by the Presidency of Republic of Mexico. He contributed to create the FIWARE­Lab Node and he achieved that INFOTEC is the owner of FIWARE in Mexico. He leaded the first training of FIWARE in Mexico with the participation of the Juan Jose Hierro (Coordinator and Chief Architect of FIWARE) and the developer’s team of the Generic Enablers by Telefónica. He has several research publications and he has participated as speaker in different conferences at national and international level. His research interests include software engineering, organizational modeling, semantic web, Open Data, Big Data, Internet of Things, Future Internet, and Ambient Intelligent. He has an extensive experience as project manager and coordinator of more than 15 ICT projects. He has published over 13 papers in Journals and 40 papers in International Conferences. Also, he has written 2 book chapters. He has lead 25 master thesis and 2 thesis of Phd. He has participated as member of Informatics Technology Management Journal and the International Congress of Science Computing and Artificial Intelligent. Blanca Vazquez ​
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, Information Technology researcher of INFOTEC. She holds a master in computer science by the CENIDET (National Center for Research and Technological Development in Morelos, Mexico). Also, she holds in a Computing Bachelor by the ITTG (Technological Institute of Tuxtla Gutierrez). She has held a stay in the Software Engineering unit of the FBK­ICT (Center for Information and Communication Technology of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy), where she developed research work in topics related with organizational modeling and ontologies. Also, she holds a stay in the BUAP (Autonomous University of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico) and the Technology University of the Mixtec in Oaxaca, Mexico). She has several research publications and she has participated as speaker in different conferences at national and This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
international level. Her research interests include organizational modeling, Linked Open Data, Open Data, Big Data and semantic web. She has published papers in International conference and a Journal. Her current research work is focused on FIWARE, Future Internet and Internet of Things. She joined INFOTEC in 2012, developing an approach for Open Government Data by Mexican Government. She has participated in the creation of projects to improve services and products focusing in ICT. Additionally, she collaborated in the creation of the National Future Internet Laboratory, which hosts the FIWARE­Lab Node, and also she is participating in the creation of an ecosystem to extend the capabilities of the Laboratory with sensors in order to develop applications to Smart Cities. Additionally, she collaborated in projects for the generation of statistical information for the Mexican statistical office (INEGI) from Big Data. Karen Najera (female), Information Technology researcher of INFOTEC. She is a computer science engineer by the BUAP (Autonomous University of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico) and she holds a master in computer science by the CENIDET (National Center for Research and Technological Development in Morelos, Mexico). She has held a stay in the Software Engineering unit of the FBK­ICT (Center for Information and Communication Technology of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy), where she developed research work in topics related with organizational modeling and ontologies. She has several research publications and she has participated as speaker in different conferences at national and international level. Her research interests include Model Driven Engineering, Model Driven Development, organizational modeling, software engineering, semantic web, Open Data, Big Data and Internet of Things. She has collaborated in INFOTEC since 2012 in different roles related with the development of applied research, by generating new knowledge applied to the development of new products and services that boost the competitiveness of the government and institutions involved in the incursion of Mexico in the information and knowledge society. Currently, as part of the INFOTEC innovation and knowledge office, she collaborates in projects for the generation of statistical information for the Mexican statistical office (INEGI) from Big Data and she is part of the group that leads the National Future Internet Laboratory, which hosts the Mexican FIWARE node. Angel Garcia (male), Big Data architect of INFOTEC. BSc in Physics and Ms­c in computer engineering at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). He has more than five years’ experience working as leader and architect in Big Data projects, and he holds more than 15 years leading software projects. He has worked with academic and commercial developments featuring a wide experience developing applications with Spring Framework and languages like Python, C, C++, Scheme, Scala, Perl, PHP, Javascript, and Tcl. Moreover, he has in­depth technical understanding of NOSQL technologies and he manages several Open Source technology over Linux OS. He has led the software development of different Business Intelligence systems and he led and managed a Big Data project for PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) in the area of Exploration. The project consisted of analyzing the seismic data through of Wavelets and Neural Networks using Hadoop, Java, and Python. Currently, as part of the INFOTEC innovation and knowledge office, he collaborates as Big Data architect for the generation of statistical information for the Mexican statistical office (INEGI) from big data. Relevant Publications and/or products 1. A FIWARE case study to develop services for smart cities using context data from weather stations. 2. A Big Data Platform to use Web data to automatically generate statistical information 3. A Model­Driven Development Framework, called SemanticWebBuilder (SWB) for semi­automatic development of semantic Web Applications. 4. An Open Data management platform for Mexican Institutions. This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
5. A Datacenter with certification Tier III by the Uptime Institute located at INFOTEC, Aguascalientes, Mexico. This holds the FIWARE­Lab Node. 6. The creation of an Embedded Systems Laboratory in order to training technical and academic personal in the design and building of embedded systems (hardware and software) Relevant Previous/Ongoing Projects or Activities Title Duration Description The proyect involves the National Future Internet Laboratory 2014 – to date creation of the National (LaNIF) Future Internet Laboratory to host the FIWARE Platform INFOTEC creates the Mexico FIWARE­Lab Node 2014 to date FIWARE­Lab Node of México as the first intance of FIWARE in Latin America http://eeas.europa.eu/deleg
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elan_es.htm Cloudino project 2015 – to date Cloudino project development, which is the first “Hardware Generic Enabler” (Hardware FIWARE GE) under the FIWARE initiative of integrating IoT/M2M devices to the FIWARE platform FIWARE Dissemination 2014 – to date INFOTEC promotes the FI­PPP programme and adoption of the FIWARE platform Mexican entities and Latin America Participation in FIWARE RIA and CSA call of the H2020 2016 – to date INFOTEC participates in CSA and RIA projects for the specific ICT call for FIWARE (ICT­38­2016) This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
4.2. Third parties involved in the project (including use of third party resources) Does the participant plan to subcontract certain tasks (please note that core tasks of the action should not be sub­contracted) N If yes, please describe and justify the tasks to be subcontracted Does the participant envisage that part of its work is performed by linked third parties[1] N If yes, please describe the third party, the link of the participant to the third party, and describe and justify the foreseen tasks to be performed by the third party Does the participant envisage the use of contributions in kind provided by third parties (Articles 11 and 12 of the General Model Grant Agreement) N If yes, please describe the third party and their contributions This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
Section 5: Ethics and security Ethics Not applicable. 2
Security Please indicate if your project will involve: ●
activities or results raising security issues: NO ●
'EU­classified information' as background or results: NO [1] ​
A third party that is an affiliated entity or has a legal link to a participant implying a collaboration not limited to the action (Article 14 of the Model Grant Agreement). [2] Article 37.1 of Model Grant Agreement. ​
Before disclosing results of activities raising security issues to a third party (including affiliated entities), a beneficiary must inform the coordinator — which must request written approval from the Commission/Agency; ​
Article 37. ​
Activities related to ‘classified deliverables’ ​
must comply with the ‘security ​
requirements’ until they are declassified; Action tasks related to classified deliverables may not be subcontracted without prior explicit written approval from the Commission/Agency.; The beneficiaries must inform the coordinator — which must immediately inform the Commission/Agency — of any changes in the security context and — if necessary —request for Annex 1 to be amended (see Article 55) 2
Article 37.1 of Model Grant Agreement. ​
Before disclosing results of activities raising security issues to a third party (including affiliated entities), a beneficiary must inform the coordinator — which must request written approval from the Commission/Agency; ​
Article 37. ​
Activities related to ‘classified deliverables’ must comply with the ‘security requirements’ until they are declassified; Action tasks related to classified deliverables may not be subcontracted without prior explicit written approval from the Commission/Agency.; The beneficiaries must inform the coordinator — which must immediately inform the Commission/Agency — of any changes in the security context and — if necessary —request for Annex 1 to be amended (see Article 55) This proposal version was submitted by Santiago MARTINEZ GARCIA on 12/04/2016 16:53:28 Brussels Local Time. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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