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BIG IoT – Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the Internet of Things

Deliverable 6.2.a

Outreach, Dissemination and

Standardization Report

– first release

Date: 31.12.2016

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688038.

OUTREACH, DISSEMINATION AND STANDARDIZATION REPORT D6.2.A

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Responsible Person and Affiliation Dr. Achille Zappa (NUIG)

Due Date / Delivery Date 31 December 2016

Author(s): Claudia Simonato (CSI), Jelena Mitic

(Siemens), Sebastian Kaebisch (Sie-

mens), Achille Zappa (NUIG)

Reviewer(s): Victor Charpenay (Siemens)

Karina Rehfeldt (TU Clausthal)

State Final

Version 1.0

Confidentiality Public


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................... 5

LIST OF TABLES ...................................................................................................................... 5

ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................... 6

1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 8

1.1. SCOPE OF THIS DOCUMENT .................................................................................................. 9

1.2. STRUCTURE OF THIS DOCUMENT ........................................................................................ 10

2. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY ........................................................................................... 11

2.1. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY- OVERALL PERSPECTIVE ............................................................... 11

2.1.1. Key concepts and objectives ............................................................................... 11

2.1.2. Identification of the dissemination contents (what) .......................................... 12

2.1.3. Identification of stakeholders (to whom) ........................................................... 14

2.1.4. Dissemination throughout the project (how) ..................................................... 19

2.2. ACTION PLAN .................................................................................................................. 22

2.3. IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ................................................ 24

3. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................... 26

3.1. BIG IOT DISSEMINATION TOOLS AND CHANNELS ........................................................ 26

3.1.1. Communication and dissemination Tool List ...................................................... 26

3.1.2. Internal Communication Channels ..................................................................... 29

3.1.3. External Communication and dissemination Channels ...................................... 31

3.2. PROJECT EVENT LIST ......................................................................................................... 37

3.2.1. List of Attended events and conferences ............................................................ 37

3.2.2. BIG IoT Scientific Workshops .............................................................................. 40

3.3. PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................. 45

3.4. SYNERGIES WITH RELATED PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES ............................................................. 46

3.5. BIG IOT FUTURE DISSEMINATION VENUES .................................................................... 50


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3.5.1. BIG IoT Relevant Journals List ............................................................................. 50

3.5.2. BIG IoT Relevant Conferences & Workshops List ................................................ 50

3.6. DISSEMINATION SUPPORTING THE EXPLOITATION ACTIONS ...................................................... 52

4. STANDARDIZATION STRATEGY AND ACTIVITIES ............................................................ 53

4.1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 53

4.2. W3C WEB OF THINGS ...................................................................................................... 53

4.2.1. WoT Building Blocks ........................................................................................... 56

4.3. OGC/W3C SPATIAL DATA ON THE WEB WORKING GROUP ................................................... 62

4.4. STANDARDIZATION EVENTS ................................................................................................ 65

4.5. OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO STANDARDIZATION ................................................................ 65

5. OUTLOOK ...................................................................................................................... 67

6. REFERENCES .................................................................................................................. 68

7. ANNEX .......................................................................................................................... 69


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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1 VALUE NETWORK MODEL FOR INTEROPERABLE IOT ECOSYSTEMS .......................................................................... 16

FIGURE 2. BIG IOT STAKEHOLDERS AUDIENCE CLASSIFICATION ........................................................................................... 17

FIGURE 3 BIG IOT STAKEHOLDERS AUDIENCE AS RECIPIENT OF SOME DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES. .............................................. 18

FIGURE 4 BIG IOT LOGO ............................................................................................................................................. 26

FIGURE 5 BIG IOT WEBSITE HOME PAGE ........................................................................................................................ 31

FIGURE 6 BIG IOT WEBSITE GOOGLE ANALYTICS SNAPSHOT ................................................................................................ 33

FIGURE 7 BIG IOT TWITTER PROFILE .............................................................................................................................. 34

FIGURE 8 COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION CHART- MAPPING OF DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES (SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND

LOCAL EVENTS/ACTIVITIES EXCLUDED) ................................................................................................................... 40

FIGURE 9 CHARACTERISTICS OF A WOT SERVIENT ............................................................................................................. 55

FIGURE 10 BASIC CONTENT MODEL OF THE THING DESCRIPTION ......................................................................................... 58

FIGURE 11 WEBIDL DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................. 60

FIGURE 12 PROJECT FACTSHEET .................................................................................................................................... 69

FIGURE 13 PROJECT ROLL-UP BANNER ............................................................................................................................ 70

FIGURE 14 PROJECT FLYER ........................................................................................................................................... 71

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1 BIG IOT PROJECT OVERALL EXPLOITATION, DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY BUILDING AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY 2016 20

TABLE 2 BIG IOT PROJECT OVERALL EXPLOITATION, COMMUNITY BUILDING AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY 2017 ..................... 20

TABLE 3 BIG IOT PROJECT OVERALL EXPLOITATION, COMMUNITY BUILDING AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY 2018 ..................... 21

TABLE 4 BIG IOT KPIS ................................................................................................................................................ 24

TABLE 5 PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES OF PARTNERS ............................................................................................................. 35

TABLE 6 LIST OF ATTENDED EVENTS AND CONFERENCES ..................................................................................................... 37

TABLE 7 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RESULTED FROM THE PROJECT ............................................................................................. 46

TABLE 8 NEXT DISSEMINATION EVENTS ........................................................................................................................... 51

TABLE 9 THING DESCRIPTION SAMPLE ............................................................................................................................ 58


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ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviation Meaning AC Alternating Current (Here: Slow Charging Stations) AIOTI European Alliance of IoT Innovation API Application Programming Interface APM Advanced Parking Management BCN Barcelona (pilot) BIG IoT Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the Internet of Things CoAP Constrained Application Protocol CSA Coordination and Support Action CSI Project Partner Piedmont, Italy CSP Project Partner Piedmont, Italy DC Direct Current (Here: Fast Charging Stations) DOA Description of Action EC European Commission EPI European Platform Initiative EU European Union GSM Global System for Mobile Communications GUI Graphical User Interface HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IERC IoT European Research Cluster IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IoT Internet of Things IoT-A Internet of Things - Architecture ISO International Organization for Standardization MQTT Message Queuing Telemetry Transport OCF Open Connectivity Foundation OD Offering Description OGC Open Geospatial Consortium PIE Piedmont (pilot) RDF Resource Description Framework REST Representational State Transfer SDK Software Development Kit SDW WG W3c Spatial Data on the Web Working Group SSN Semantic Sensor Network TD W3c Things Description TUC TU Clausthal Partner Northern Germany UI User Interface


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UPC Project Partner Barcelona, Spain URI Uniform Resource Identifier VMZ Project Partner Berlin, Northern Germany W3C World Wide Web Consortium WG Working Group Wi-Fi Wireless Local Area Network WLAN Wireless Local Area Network WMS Web Map Service WoT Web of Things WP Work Package


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1. INTRODUCTION

This deliverable describes the overall dissemination and standardization strate-

gy of BIG IoT in order to make experts, stakeholders and public aware of the re-

search results that will be achieved throughout the duration of the project, and re-

ports the activities carried out to reach the dissemination objectives and the activities

regarding standardization.

Creating an effective dissemination strategy means taking into consideration the

different goals that dissemination has: from the simple delivery and receiving of a

message, to engagement in a process until the actual transfer of a knowledge, or, in

our case, of a product, i.e. its adoption.

The dissemination strategy will cover both internal and external communication

and dissemination activities. This document will present the general guidelines that

have been identified until now and that will be used for the whole project time span.

The purpose is to coordinate and plan the dissemination activities both on consortium

and partner level. All partners will contribute to the dissemination activities via the

most appropriate routes to their research areas and technology development. Aca-

demic partners and research institutes are expected to put more emphasis and time

into journal publications and conference presentations, while industrial partners will

rather focus more on presentations towards potential users and stakeholders, which

enable the project to get feedback on the concepts and achieved outcomes. All of

these activities are part of the task T6.3.

Furthermore, partners are aware that Interoperability can only work if there is an

agreement of common and established standards. To have a success story of BIG

IoT there is the effort to rely on such established standards as well as to contribute in

ongoing IoT activities and standardization consortia.

The goal of Task 6.2 is to coordinate the standardization activities and contribu-

tions and interchange to the relevant bodies. These standardization activities will be


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closely monitored during the project and the possible impact of project results will be

timely identified.

The overall objective of dissemination activities is to create awareness of the

BIG IoT project research results in the European and global research groups, organi-

zations and communities. Furthermore, it is aimed to to inform the industry and all

relative stakeholders in the IoT area, of what BIG IoT will contribute in the evolve-

ment of IoT as the next generation of interoperable solution. Another objective is the

establishment of appropriate communication channels between partners for internal

collaboration and cooperation.

1.1. Scope of this document

The outreach, dissemination and standardization report is the core document

outlining the project’s dissemination and communication activities.

Deliverable 6.2.a can be viewed not only as a report on the activities for dissem-

ination, standardization, and coordination within European and International Ecosys-

tems and with other EU initiatives that were conducted in the first year and planned

activities for the next period, but also as a first release of the strategy plan for the

dissemination of BIG IoT project in its life-cycle. The strategy plan is fundamental for

a good coordination of all initiatives and also for defining the messages which should

be targeted to different audiences.

An effective communication will encourage interested stakeholders to actively

participate in the project and enhance the visibility of the project results.

The dissemination strategy aims to:

- Describe the main objectives of the dissemination actions;

- Identify the target audiences for each communications stream;


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- Illustrate and define the tools and channels used and the activities required to

reach targeted audiences;

- Describe how the dissemination activities will support the exploitation activity;

- Explain how the project will cooperate with other H2020, European and Inter-

national projects.

The dissemination and standardization activities which took place during the

first year of the project’s implementation are listed in detail. The materials produced

for the purpose of dissemination are described. The document estimates the quanti-

tative indicators of the dissemination results from the first year.

1.2. Structure of this Document

Section 2 outlines the dissemination strategy. We examine the key concepts

and objectives of the BIG IoT dissemination strategy and the general guidelines that

have been identified until now and that will be used for the whole project time span.

Section 3 reports all the dissemination activities that have been accomplished in the

first year and presents a view of future activities that are under consideration. The

first part (Section 3.1) illustrates the dissemination tools and channels used in the

Project. The second part (Section 3.2) reports the events and conferences that pro-

ject partners have attended and the first scientific workshop that BIG IoT has organ-

ized. The third part (Section 3.3) is the list of publications resulted from the project

work. The fourth part (Section 3.4) deal with the synergies with related projects and

initiatives. The fifth part (Section 3.5) describes the future dissemination venues. The

last part (Section 3.6) is about dissemination supporting the exploitation actions. Sec-

tion 4 represent the report about the standardization activities and contribution that

are in place in the project to interact with relevant standardization bodies. The con-

clusion and future works will be given in Section 5.


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2. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY

2.1. Dissemination Strategy- Overall Perspective

2.1.1. Key concepts and objectives

The following definitions of the key terms used in this document originates from

the European Commission participant portal website1.

Communication: “Communication on projects is a strategically planned pro-

cess, which starts at the outset of the action and continues throughout its entire life-

time, aimed at promoting the action and its results. It requires strategic and targeted

measures for communicating about (i) the action and (ii) its results to a multitude of

audiences, including the media and the public and possibly engaging in a two-way

exchange.”

Communication will therefore contribute to supporting dissemination and exploi-

tation objectives while targeting stakeholders beyond dissemination and exploitation

purposes such as the public at large comprising civil society and EU municipalities

and EU citizens at large.

Dissemination: “The public disclosure of the results by any appropriate means

(other than resulting from protecting or exploiting the results), including by scientific

publications in any medium.”

The dissemination of the project outputs to key stakeholders aims at (1) making

the knowledge (results) developed through the project available to the widest audi-

ence and (2) enhancing project exploitation potential.

1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/reference_terms.html


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To achieve the above described dissemination goals, three different kinds of

dissemination have to be considered [1]:

- Dissemination for awareness: creating awareness of the project in the target

audiences that do not require a detailed knowledge of the project achievements, just

to help „word of mouth“ type dissemination. This will allow creation of identity and a

profile within the Iot projects community.

- Dissemination for understanding: dedicated to the target audience that can

benefit from the project outcomes. These audiences have to reach a deeper under-

standing of the project’s work

- Dissemination for action: this kind of dissemination is meant to generate

adoption of project results. The targeted audiences are in a position to „influence“

and bring about change within their organizations. These audiences have the right

skills, knowledge and understanding of the project results to achieve real change. In

Big IoT this kind of communication is conveyed through community building activities

and hackathons, and definitely through the open calls.

2.1.2. Identification of the dissemination contents (what)

An effective communication strategy, is achievable if, from the outset, a shared

understanding of the object of dissemination is clear within the project team.

BIG IoT communicates project results and experience within the IoT stakehold-

ers, industrial, academic and scientific communities across Europe for the benefit of

the knowledge sharing.

BIG IoT’s activities are communicated to audiences beyond researchers in the

IoT field. In fact, the project aims also to inform the public, decision- and policy-

makers in local, regional and national governments, and other sectors who may ben-

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All project partners need to be aware of and in agreement with the overall

communication objectives of the BIG IoT project. These have been formulated by the

WP6 management team to focus the delivery of each WP6 Task, ensuring the BIG

IoT project is effectively promoted to the target audience.

All opportunities for building awareness and eventually supporting the success-

ful delivery of the project outputs are harnessed.

The BIG IoT project dissemination objectives are:

For internal communication:

• Organize communication between partners

• Organize collaborative work between partners

• Create spaces for all partners for the monitoring and assessment of the

project results

• Keep the EC informed of the actions and of the assessment reports

For external communication:

• Boost and harness awareness of BIG IoT project and outputs amongst

all interested parties, IoT providers, consumers and other stakeholders

and end users

• Promote and create collaboration/co-ordination opportunities with other

related projects and initiatives

• Boost and harness awareness of BIG IoT project and project outputs

amongst local/regional/national government, research, media and edu-

cation and training stakeholders

• Grow social media interactions to support dissemination and future ex-

ploitation of project results

• Increase interest in BIG IoT project to support future exploitation of the

BIG IoT results and key outputs

• Gather information on dissemination activities for European project re-

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• Promote the relevance of BIG IoT tools and learning materials to end

user, including their simplicity of use

• Promote interesting findings that have emerged from the ongoing re-

search and development work being carried out in the project

• Promote and coordinate standardization activities and contributions,

and facilitate the interchange of work with the relevant bodies

• Develop feasible and valuable collaboration activities which will benefit

the project’s research and development process.

2.1.3. Identification of stakeholders (to whom)

An analysis of stakeholders as recipients of dissemination and communication

actions is necessary for the dissemination strategy definition.

A stakeholder is, namely, “any group or individual who can affect, or be affect-

ed, by the achievement of the project objectives- or can influence these objectives”

[2].

The audience groups, identified as targets by the project, are composed of:

• The project partners;

• The projects selected under the calls ICT-30 (expected to discuss on

specific topics and share a set of recommendations among the projects

involved) part of the IoT EPI;

• The stakeholders involved in the project community (relevant, commit-

ted market and non-market players of various types are invited to ex-

change their views and positions on the project);

• End users involved in the pilot demonstrations (during the project, as

part of the pilots implementation and open-calls, demonstrations will be


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conducted with actual customers, covering new services and applica-

tions).

• The European Commission;

• Institutions (different institutions at European, national and regional

level have been targeted to share the project results);

• Interested stakeholders (external stakeholders who are interested on

the project developments, such as municipalities, policy makers, mar-

ket players (e.g. IoT platforms retailers, IoT aggregators, etc), industry

associations, etc.;

• Media (print, online) focusing on IoT, technology development, innova-

tion, Smart-City-related topics, etc.;

• Public opinion, citizens;

• Influencers (individuals who are active on social media and blogs and

thereby influence others’ opinions).

BIG IoT Stakeholders external to projects are well represented by the following

diagram, concerning the value network for interoperable IoT ecosystems:


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Figure 1 Value Network Model for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems

So that BIG IoT stakeholders con be classified both as internal/external and

accordingly to the dissemination strategy of whom they are recipients.


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Figure 2. BIG IoT stakeholders audience classification

Finally, stakeholders can be classified depending on the kind of dissemination

of which they are the target


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Figure 3 BIG IoT stakeholders audience as recipient of some dissemination activ-ities.


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2.1.4. Dissemination throughout the project (how)

In a nutshell, the main goal of BIG IoT project is focused on providing a solution

for interoperability of IoT platforms. The duration of the project is medium-long (three

years), if we consider the timing of evolution of software solutions in general and the

rapid growth that is foreseen in the field of Internet of Things, in particular.

For these reasons, the link between the project activities and the ecosystem in

which the project results are going be integrated is a key element to ensure the

achievement of objectives and provide the survival of the project beyond the funding

period.

Also, a successful dissemination strategy will actively engage users and deliver

what the users both want and need. It is then necessary to examine the out-

put/outcomes of the project and try to present them as benefits and solutions for us-

ers.

It is logical to assume that the communication strategy (from Task 6.3) of the

project is also based on its exploitation plan (Task 7.1), which defines some of the

targets of dissemination activities, together with community building activities (Task

6.1) and standardization activities (Task 6.2). The main aim of all activities that are

destined outward the project consortium is not only to create awareness and a solid

reputation for the project, but also to gather suggestions and inputs from stakehold-

ers to orient the on-going development of solutions. This will allow some adaptation

of the project to the variable ecosystem, during the solutions deployment and ensure

greater compliance of results to the needs of adopters in the end. Furthermore, this

will allow a real application of project findings in the realization of new services.

The following tables describe the overall strategy that will lead BIG IoT solutions

to the integration in the IoT ecosystem, providing a mean to overcome IoT platforms

hurdles and a way to better exploit Iot data heritage.


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Table 1 BIG IoT project overall exploitation, development, community building and communication strategy 2016

Action Phase Activity Description

EXPLOITATION Inception: preparation, context analysis, iden-tification of exploita-tion items.

Analysis of partners business models related to BIG IoT introduction; potential demand target-ing; market analysis both on potential demand and competitors (existing solutions with compa-rable goals). First aspects of BIG IoT business model definition. First Open call sketching. First partners statements about corporate strategy involving BIG IoT.

DEVELOPMENT Design: architecture design and proof of concept.

Big IoT API and pilots use cases definition.

COMMUNICATION Aware-ness/reputation: crea-tion of awareness about the project and project goals, building consensus and trust on the validity of its approach.

Creation of the project website, social network-ing (LinkedIn and Twitter account) and internal collaboration platform (WIKI) for project part-ners. Realization of a promotional video illustrating project goals. Identification of relevant channels for communication (journals, relevant confer-ences, workshops) and identification of stand-ardization bodies to approach. Participation to workshops /presentation of the project. As for reputation creation, participation to scientific workshops and presentation/publication of scientific articles about the project solutions /research findings.

COMMUNITY BUILDING Audience Mapping of existing communities related to BIG IoT fields (already connected and easy to reach), definition of a Contact database, defini-tion of guidelines for events organization, gen-eral workshops.

STANDARDIZATION Inception: prepara-tion, context analysis, identification of standardization re-quirements.

Analysis of partners business models related to BIG IoT introduction; potential demand target-ing.

Table 2 BIG IoT project overall exploitation, community building and communica-

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EXPLOITATION Growth: shaping the business logic of the project.

Going open source; definition of standardiza-tion process; first Open call to start testing po-tential usages, increase awareness. Drafting of corporate strategy of BIG IoT consortium for project continuity after funded period.

DEVELOPMENT First release: first re-lease of architectural components (BIG IoT API- marketplace).

1st release of architecture and 1st release of pilot implementations (e.g. services and appli-cations).

COMMUNICATION Involve-ment/engagement

Participation to workshops, scientific confer-ences, challenges and events attended by the targeted audience, also exploiting EPI events

COMMUNITY BUILD-ING

Seed/engage Start of community activities related to Open Source availability of the project solutions and standardization. Partners’ involvement in en-gaging stakeholders. Hackathons to test poten-tial usages, increase awareness and derive les-sons learnt.

STANDARDIZATION Growth: shaping the injection and inter-change of standards from/to the results of the project.

Participation to standardization working groups and activities. Promote and interchange project solutions related to standards to standardiza-tion bodies.

Table 3 BIG IoT project overall exploitation, community building and communica-

tion strategy 2018


EXPLOITATION Maturity: supporting the final release.

Second Open call and gathering lessons learnt and results from Open Calls. Definition of oper-ational steps to ensure solutions continuity after the end of the project. Refinement of pro-ject documentation/APIs to improve adoption and usability/usage.

DEVELOPMENT Finalization: final re-lease of architecture and pilots.

Refinement of first architecture release, ac-knowledgment of indications obtained in the first period of utilization, improvement of solu-tions and final release both of architecture and pilots.

COMMUNICATION Dissemination of re-sults.

Participation to conferences and workshops to create awareness/disseminate project results, also exploiting EPI events

COMMUNITY BUILD-ING

Promote/give value Strengthening and consolidation of existing communities through information activities,


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mailings, question-answering, management of operations within the open source and stand-ardization communities related to the project

STANDARDIZATION Maturity: supporting the specifications work.

Support the realization of standard specifica-tions based on collaboration with standardiza-tion working groups with injections of results from on BIG IoT work

The overall strategy that has been described above merges with the dissemina-

tion strategy perfectly: it has to be clear that each phase of the project enables a

specific kind of dissemination action, linked to the project achievements, but it does

not exclude dissemination activities of the previous phase. For example, dissemina-

tion creating awareness can continue while communication for involvement is opera-

tional, since the target of communication activities is different.

2.2. Action Plan

A dissemination action plan has been prepared and should be referred to for a

full list of WP6 activities planned for the forthcoming months. It is intended to be a

living document that is continually referred to and updated as the project progresses

and new material is disseminated to the target groups identified in section above.

The internal tools for the dissemination include the creation of a dedicated pri-

vate space for partners and the creation of the mailing lists. This text will present the

general guidelines that have been identified until now and they will be used for the

whole project time span. The purpose is to coordinate and plan the dissemination

activities both on consortium and partner level. All partners will contribute to the dis-

semination activities via the most appropriate routes to their research areas and

technology development. Academic partners and research institutes are expected to

put more emphasis and time into journal publications and conference presentations,

while industrial partners will rather focus more on presentations towards potential

users and stakeholders, which enable the project to get feedback on the concepts

and achieved outcomes. All of these activities are part of the task T6.3.


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The dissemination action plan organises dissemination activity mainly under

four categories, as follow:

1. Print Dissemination – this category might include fact sheets, banners,

posters, flyers, press releases etc. or any other print based material de-

signed to promote the BIG IoT project.

2. Online Dissemination – this includes all material posted online related

to the BIG IoT project. Most online activities will be focused on the BIG

IoT project website, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. Other social media

channels may be used as the project progresses. Also included as part

of online dissemination are the BIG IoT videos. The bulk of these dis-

semination activities will be in the English language in order to ensure

broad usability in a wide range of cultures. However, consortium partners

may also publish in their national languages in order to reach audiences

without English language skills or wider local audience and media.

3. Networking activities – this may include the following activities:

Attendance at conferences, events, workshops etc. Promotion could be

on a formal basis, through a presentation at the conference/event, par-

ticipation in a workshop panel discussion etc., or it could be by exhibition

with BIG IoT print material on display as well as possible demonstration

of BIG IoT tool prototypes (if available). It is also relevant to track confer-

ences or events where BIG IoT was mentioned informally by way of net-

working discussions or IoT EPI promotion.

4. Scientific Dissemination – where possible, partners will seek to publish

the findings of BIG IoT research in leading international journals span-

ning the fields of resilience and crisis management. Partners are re-

quested to give prior notice of any planned paper submission or publica-

tion according to the rules set out in the Consortium Agreement. Objec-


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tions will be handled according to the conflict resolution process and

background knowledge must not be published. The bulk of these publica-

tions will be in the English language in order to ensure broad usability in

a wide range of cultures and it will demonstrate scientific excellence at

the highest academic level. However, consortium partners may also pub-

lish in their national languages in order to reach audiences without Eng-

lish language skills.

Co-operation with other research projects.

A collaborative strategy, in cooperation with Task Forces and Communication

Group of the IoT EPI cluster, has been prepared for example to coordinate collabora-

tive activities with other European research projects.

A realistic and achievable set of actions has been and will be planned for each

year to ensure a steady, consistent and high quality dissemination flow from the pro-

ject. Progress on achieving the actions set out on the plan will be monitored carefully

by the WP leader, and on a formal basis once every 3 months (quarterly). Dissemina-

tion brainstorming sessions will also be held at the end of each quarter with a view to

generating fresh ideas for the forthcoming quarter. While most activity actions will be

set a target date of completion within each quarter period, it is also appropriate to set

longer target dates for some actions, and so it is possible that some actions will fol-

low through from one quarterly update of the plan to the issue of the plan.

2.3. Impact of communication and dissemination activities

Some KPIs are monitored to dimension communication activities impact with

reference to planned effects.

Table 4 BIG IoT KPIs


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ID Indicator Computing Criteria expected for Y1

Actual y1

1 Interest for the project public events

Audience/participants record-ing

To be moni-tored starting with Y2

To be monitored starting with Y2

2 Dissemination: to the public at large and scientific dis-semination

Number of published articles by consortium members= number of newspaper articles, blog posts, press clippings, and the like

<=10 5 scientific, 7 posts on the web, 3 newspapers, 1 videos=16

3 Contribution to local and interna-tional events pre-senting the project

Number of participations 2 local, 5 inter-nationals

2 local, 9 interna-tionals

4 Organization of workshops and session in scientific conferences

Number of scientific events organized

<=1 1 scientific work-shop

Events and publications referred to are the ones detailed in the dedicated sec-

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3. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

3.1. BIG IoT DISSEMINATION TOOLS AND CHANNELS

With the aim of responding specifically to the target recipient groups, and in or-

der to perform an effective and efficient dissemination plan, a variety of tools has

been created and used appropriately. The communication actions and the materials

and tools produced for their dissemination are indicated in the following sections

3.1.1. Communication and dissemination Tool List

The first communications activity deployed, necessary for coherent and effec-

tive communication, was the creation of a dedicated project identity composed of:

- a project logo;

- guidelines for the graphical layout of all project documents;

- A toolkit (documents, presentations, etc.) useful to spread the knowledge of

the project.

Logo

For ease of identification, the project has adopted a logo and guidelines for its

use.

Figure 4 BIG IoT logo


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A project logo was designed at the beginning of the project in order to establish

a corporate image for BIG IoT. The selected logo was selected after a voting proce-

dure has taken place, among all partners between a list of candidate logos proposed

by the partners. The chosen logo is used in the website, presentation templates, de-

liverables and all other promotional material.

Graphical layout guidelines

To strengthen the project image and achieve effective communication, a set of

templates for the main project documents have been developed, such as:

1. Deliverables

2. Presentations

3. Banners and Posters

Video

A promotional video has been created to contribute to the promotion of the Pro-

ject and has been made available on the BIG IoT website and social media channels.

The video was produced by CSI in February-March 2016 and was presented at vari-

ous events, the video is available at the following youtube link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4Vjjvva4X8

A second professional video will be produced to present intermediary results of

the project. Besides its usefulness for general outreach, this video will be particularly

useful to promote the 2nd Open Call. Hence the video will be available for the publi-

cation of the 2nd Open Call.

Flyer

While the project will privilege electronic communications, motivated by a better

scalability (ease-of-update) and respecting the environment, off-the-shelf flyers and

other printed material will be used as well. In this context, a project brochure has

been produced and in case will be updated at different stages of the project.


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It was designed for mass circulation at fairs, conferences and workshops. The

second version of the project flyer will be released towards the end of the project and

will contain an outline of the project achievements to date. (Picture in Annex)

Roll-up

A roll-up (2 meters high and 85 centimeters wide) has been designed according

to the project style (Picture in Annex). The dimensions of these roll-ups can be ad-

justed, if required, and they can be used for displays at press conferences, work-

shops and similar events. In addition, a refreshed version will be created in the sec-

ond year and a different project roll-up might be created to be displayed during spe-

cific type of events.

Poster

Two Posters were already created e.g. for presentation at the Connected Con-

ference in Paris, one more promotional style, the second more scientific oriented. In

addition to the above, a variety of posters will be created for specific events following

the project corporate identity standard, but including details specific to each event

(i.e. event title, location, date, logos of partners or organisations involved), as well as

a relevant tag to link the event with BIG IoT and attract people’s interest in the pro-

ject. The graphical layout and a set of key messages will be prepared and agreed

among the members of the consortium.

Factsheet

The project factsheet is a 2-side paper sheet that contain a summary of all the

main information related to the BIG IoT project in a structured way. It is used as pro-

motional informative material to be distributed physically during the various events

and meetings and digitally via BIG IoT and IoT EPI web channels and IoT EPI news-

letters. A second version of the project brochure will be released towards the end of

the project and will contain an outline of the project achievements to date. (Picture in

Annex)


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3.1.2. Internal Communication Channels

Siemens Confluence (Wiki)

This is the main Project internal communication tool. The Siemens Confluence

(Wiki) system is used within the BIG IoT project. Every partner has access to it. Its

content is constantly updated during the implementation of the project. All the part-

ners agreed on using the wiki for all these internal duties

• Sharing of administrative information and Project plans.

• Creation of project documents: deliverables, reports.

• Storage of other documents: dissemination material, templates, meeting

minutes, contact details of all the participants.

The wiki has also two further advantages:

• It allows relying on a common work-space for those activities in which dif-

ferent partners work simultaneously.

• It is useful to share draft documents, references, images and any type of

information of interest.

Mailing-lists

Internal mailing lists, with specific working packages and tasks lists, have been

created in order to facilitate internal communications derived from the day‐to‐day co-

ordination of the project and to transmit other relevant information to all members of

the consortium.

Gitlab

A gitlab.com project repository has been created not only for the purpose of col-

lecting the code and software developed within the project but also for discussing the

related technical issues among the partners and for storing the technical documents.


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Furthermore, in the future it will be used as the main interaction and engagement

channel with external developers especially when the project will be open-sourced.

HipChat

For fast and direct instant messaging communication among the partners.

Telcos and Web meetings

Aimed and regular tele‐conferences have been scheduled for periodical interex-

change of information, synchronization of work, discussion and agreement on man-

agement and technical topics with all partners, since the beginning of the reporting

period.

Internal Project meetings and workshops

Multiple targeted meetings as well as two larger plenary meetings listed below

have been held within the reporting period.

• 20th-21st January, Munich Kickoff Meeting – 1st consortium meeting,

Kickoff of WP1, WP2, WP6 and WP7

• 12th April, Munich, Technical workshop with the focus on high-level ar-

chitecture

• 26th-28th April, Vienna, 2nd consortium meeting, Kickoff of WP3, WP4,

and WP5

• 13th-14th June, Munich, Technical workshop with focus on BIG IoT API

specification

• 21st -22nd July, Barcelona, WP3, WP4 and WP5 Joint Workshop

• 7th September, Milan, Business Modeling Workshop of Task 7.1

• 11th -12th October, Vienna, First Technical Review Meeting

• 13th October, Vienna, 3rd Project Meeting


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3.1.3. External Communication and dissemination Channels

3.1.3.1. Online Channels List

Project website

The website is one of the key methods for dissemination due to the fact that

anyone can get information about the project –the general public is the target audi-

ence. NUIG/Insight, the WP6 Lead, is hosting the website www.big-iot.eu from Janu-

ary 2016, the first month of execution.

Users can access it at the following link: http://big-iot.eu/

The purpose of the website is also to keep the developer communities, project

participants and the European Commission informed about the project. The consor-

tium will continuously measure the number of public website visitors and post the

latest news.

Figure 5 BIG IoT Website home page


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On the main page (“Home”), the visitor can find the abstract of the project, the

slide-show with the links to the last news and the twitter section on the right column

(see Figure 15). On top, a navigation bar gives access to other contents:

• “Project”: description of the project and list of the objectives and sum-

mary of the work packages and activities to be performed.

• “About us”: a brief description of the partners together with their roles and

contact details.

• “News”: information about meetings, events, conferences and others.

• “Media and Docs”: this is created to offer access to "Video", "Presenta-

tions", “Public deliverables”, “Publications”, and “Dissemination material”.

• “Contact Us”: location of the project management office and how to get in

touch with the project.

• “Members Area”: access to the restricted spaces of the Content Man-

agement System.

o that give also access to a "Wiki" space and

o "Forum" to registered stakeholders for dissemination and en-

gagement with the community of the BIG IoT Ecosystem

• "Pilots & Use Cases": to give information about the project use cases

that are grouped in three large-scale regional pilots.

• "Open Call": information about the Open Call that will be run during the

project

All the texts are written in English and are regularly updated.

Goals and achievements of the project will also be posted on the website, in

plain non-technical language, suitable for the general public. Conveying information

about the BIG IoT project and understanding of its potential benefits to end-users is

an important part of the dissemination process. Showing how research funded by the


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EC leads to innovations that benefit consumers also contributes importantly to the

public’s understanding and appreciation of European research.

Figure 6 BIG IoT website google analytics snapshot

3.1.3.2. Social media

Twitter

Main channel for news and updates.

The BIG IoT project account will be used to inform the broader European and

IoT community about both technical and less technical information. Extensive use of

Twitter was made since the official launch of the project as it served as main com-

munication channel with the target audience.

The BIG IoT Twitter account, at the moment of writing, has more than 370 fol-

lowers.

Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/BIG_IoT @BIG_IoT


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Figure 7 BIG IoT Twitter profile

Youtube (channel)

A channel has been created to disseminate the project videos, not only the in-

fographic ones but also videos taken at the several events organised by the project.

Videos are available at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQ3H0plkNgOoANrirB9FMw.

The objective is to further utilize the video capabilities in order to effectively

promote project activities and outputs. For example, we are going to upload some

webinars from Partners Experts to explain and show the different technological as-

pects, implementation and use of projects results (e.g. infrastructure/architecture

overview, technical solutions, use of Marketplace...).

LinkedIn Profile & Group


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The BiG IoT project account will continue to serve as a platform for formal dis-

cussions, interaction, collection of information, and communication of the project out-

puts, to experts. Project Profile www.linkedin.com/in/BIGIoT

Partners will share informative Posts in the related LinkedIn Group

(https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8448903)

SlideShare

We also use the slide hosting service on Slideshare to upload our Project slide-

shows and presentations. In this way Slide decks can then be easily viewed on the

site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites, with an exposure at

world-wide level (http://www.slideshare.net/BIGIoTProject).

3.1.3.3. Others

Record of specific promotional activities carried out by single partners to pro-

mote the BIG IoT project at Local level.

Table 5 Promotional activities of partners

Type of Dissemi-nation & Out-reach At Local Level

Link Notes

CSP web SITE http://www.csp.it/csp-partecipa-al-kick-off-meeting-del-progetto-big-iot-finanziato-su-horizon-2020-dedicato-linteroperabilita-delle-piattaforme-per-linternet-of-things/

Article about kickoff meeting

CSI web site http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/en/documentazione/documentation-en/international-activities/1261-big-iot-

Fiche describing BIG IoT pro-ject (in Italian and in English)

http://www.csp.it/csp-partecipa-al-kick-off-meeting-del-progetto-big-iot-finanziato-su-horizon-2020-dedicato-linteroperabilita-delle-piattaforme-per-linternet-of-things/





http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/en/documentazione/documentation-en/international-activities/1261-big-iot-en-new




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en-new

CSI web site http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/it/magazine/news/1159-le-citta-intelligenti-oggi-si-parlano-con-big-iot-api

Csi's magazine, article de-scribing BIG IoT project (in Italian)

inLab FIB web site and social networks profiles

https://inlab.fib.upc.es/en/h2020-big-iot

Fiche describing BIG IoT pro-ject (in Catalan, Spanish and in English)

CIT UPC web site and newsletter

http://cit.upc.edu/en/featured/bigiot Article about kickoff meeting

CSI web site http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/it/magazine/approfondimenti/1177-biella-e-vercelli-pronte-a-diventare-smart-city-con-big-iot

Csi's magazine, article descri-bing Piedmont pilot

La Stampa news-paper

https://www.ctwiki.siemens.com/download/attachments/58426528/LASTAMPA_%20ed.%20BIELLA_20_06_2016.pdf?api=v2

Article describing BIG IoT project National newspaper, local edition, in Italian

La Sesia newspa-per


Article describing BIG IoT benefits for Vercelli munici-pality, In Italian

Euritas-Assinter Workshop "Going Deep into Horizon 2020"

Presentations Participation of CSI to the EURITAS-ASSINTER Workshop "Going Deep into Horizon 2020"

CSI Agenda digitale web site (online journal) http://www.agendadigitale.eu/infrastrutture/l-internet-delle-cose-e-pubblica-e-open-il-caso-pioniere-del-piemonte_2529.htm

BOSCH http://blog.bosch-si.com/categories/projects/2016/12/bridge-interoperability-gap-smart-city-big-iot/

Blog special on „How to bridge the interoperability gap in a smart city“. The Bosch ConnectedWorld Blog is hosted by Bosch Software Innovations to share a com-mon vision: to make the In-ternet of Things come true.

http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/it/magazine/news/1159-le-citta-intelligenti-oggi-si-parlano-con-big-iot-api



https://inlab.fib.upc.es/en/h2020-big-iot

http://cit.upc.edu/en/featured/bigiot

http://www.csipiemonte.it/web/it/magazine/approfondimenti/1177-biella-e-vercelli-pronte-a-diventare-smart-city-con-big-iot











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http://blog.bosch-si.com/categories/projects/2016/12/bridge-interoperability-gap-smart-city-big-iot/

3.2. Project Event List

The main objectives of the high-level conference are to present the project’s

outputs to a broad community of stakeholders and offer direct interaction between

experts and key stakeholders in the field in order to harness the vast opportunities

offered by BIG IoT technologies, infrastructures and related services for socio-

economic growth and consolidation of an IoT Ecosystem.

3.2.1. List of Attended events and conferences

Table 6 List of attended events and conferences

Events When & Where

At-tendee

Type (talk, pa-per, key-note, exhi-bition,..)

Notes

Mobile World Congress

22-25 February 2016 Barcelona

(UPC) Exhibition & brokerage event. Net-working.

2 CSA's (Be-IoT and UNIFY-IoT) will repre-sent all ICT30 projects and AIOTI (http://www.aioti.eu) in one booth. https://www.mobileworldcongress.com

IOTConnect

15-16 March 2016 London

(Bosch SI) Panel "The Cornerstone of Smarter Cities – The Cloud and Big Data"

http://www.wearabletechnologyshow.net/iot-connect-main-stage

www2016 13-14 April

(Siemens) Talk about WoT and BIG

https://www.w3.org/2016/04/w3c-track.html

http://www.aioti.eu/

https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/






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Events When & Where

At-tendee


Notes

2016 IoT involve-ment, in W3C Track

Net Fu-tures 2016

20-21 April 2016 Brussel

(Siemens) (NUIG)

Exhibition booth. Net-working.

www.netfutures2016.eu

Connected Confer-ence

25-27 May 2016 Paris

(NUIG) (Siemens)

Exhibition booth, poster presentation. Networking.

WHERE INDUSTRY & INTERNET MEET, 3-Day conference & expo highlighting the intersection of Industrial & Internet sec-tors. http://connectedconference.co/

INTERNET OF THINGS WEEK

May 31st to June 2nd Belgrade

(Siemens) (CSP)

Presentation, exhibition booth with IoT-EPI. Net-working, Communities engagements.

http://iot-week.eu/

IoT Global Innovation Forum

15-16 June 2016 Barcelona

(UPC) ?? Envisioning and Achieving the Internet of Things Potential an Executive-Focused, Cross-Stakeholder Event. http://www.iotglobalforum.com/index.htm

Open IoT Summer School 2016

7 – 13 Septem-ber 2016, Galway City, Ire-land

(NUIG) Presentation Open Internet of Things Summer School is an international event for the different stakeholders involved in the IoT ecosys-tem, scientific researcher(s) across Europe and other parts of the world, open Source communities and developers and to any large enterprise or entrepreneurs (SME) / individuals interested to participate, con-tribute, develop and acquire the know-how about Internet of Things technology, Middleware platforms and services and

http://www.netfutures2016.eu/

http://connectedconference.co/

http://iot-week.eu/

http://www.iotglobalforum.com/index.htm

http://www.iotglobalforum.com/index.htm


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Events When & Where

At-tendee


Notes

Applications based on the Open source IoT middlewares. http://www.openiot.eu/?p=239

W3C TPAC 19-23 Septem-ber 2016 Lisbon

(NUIG) (Siemens)

W3C Stand-ardization Meetings

W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Commit-tee Meetings Week and W3C WGs F2F meetings (WOT, SDW) https://www.w3.org/2016/09/TPAC/

IOT Solu-tions World Congress

25-27 Oct 2016 Barcelona

(UPC) (CSI) (Siemens) (CSP)

Booth, presentation. Networking.

IOTSWC is the first global event dedicated exclusively to joining IoT providers with industry. http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/

Symposi-um on Urban Mobility Challenges

14 No-vember 2016, Barcelona

(UPC) (AAU)

Talk. Net-working.

Symposium on URBAN MOBILITY CHAL-LENGES. This is the second edition of con-ferences based on urban mobility jointly organized by the UPC and TU-Braunschweig and coordinated by CARNETand NFF. Internationally well-known experts will present their views on the global challenge of improving mobility in our cities. http://cit.upc.edu/symposium2016/

http://www.openiot.eu/?p=239

https://www.w3.org/2016/09/TPAC/

http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/

http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/index.html

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/index.html

http://www.carnetbarcelona.com/

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/forschung/zentren/nff

http://cit.upc.edu/symposium2016/


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Figure 8 Communication and Dissemination chart- Mapping of dissemination ac-tivities (scientific publications and local events/activities excluded)

.

3.2.2. BIG IoT Scientific Workshops

2nd International Workshop on Interoperability and Open Source Solu-tions for the Internet of Things (InterOSS-IoT)

• Workshop Scope and Structure


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The workshop was co-organized by H2020 symbIoTe2 and BIG IoT projects,

which are part of the Internet of Things European Platform Initiative (IoT-EPI) working

on relevant aspects for enabling and bridging the gaps on IoT interoperability.

The Workshop was co-located with the 6th International Conference on the

Internet of Things (IoT 2016) IOT 2016, 07 Nov 2016 – 09 Nov 2016, Stuttgart, Ger-

man.

A summary and a copy of a detailed workshop report is provided in the next

Sections.

The following table includes a summary of the workshop:

Date 07 November 2016

Attendees (Other) 25

Attendees (Project Consortium) 6 (Siemens, NUIG, Bosch-CR, Bosch-SI)

Venue KURSAAL Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany

• Agenda

Time Paper authors / presenters Title Chair

09:00 – 09:15

Arrivals and presentation arrange-ments

09:15 – 09:30

Ivana Podnar Žarko Opening and Logistics

09:30 – 10:30

Session 1: Semantic interoperability

2 https://www.symbiote-h2020.eu/


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09:30 – 09:50

Michael Jacoby, Aleksandar Antonic, Karl Kreiner, Roman Lapacz and Jasmin Pielorz

Semantic Interoperability as Key to IoT Platform Federation

Arne

09:50 – 10:10

Aqeel Kazmi, Zeeshan Jan and Martin Serrano / Achille Zappa

Overcoming the heterogeneity in the Internet of Things for Smart Cities

10:10 – 10:30

Tobias Käfer, Sebastian Bader, Lars Heling, Raphael Manke and Andreas Harth

Exposing Internet of Things Devices on REST and Linked Data Interfaces

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 2: Interoperable architectures and platforms

11:00 – 11:20

Arne Bröring and Sergios Soursos IoT-EPI (BIG IoT & symbIoTe) Achille

11:20 – 11:40

Stefan Schmid, Arne Bröring, Denis Kramer, Sebastian Käbisch, Achille Zappa, Martin Lorenz, Yong Wang, Andreas Rausch and Luca Gioppo

An Architecture for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems

11:40 – 12:00

Argyris Samourkasidis and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

A Sensor Observation Service exten-sion for Internet of Things

12:00 – 12:20

Ola Angelsmark and Per Persson Requirement-based Deployment of Applications in Calvin

12:20 – 12:30

Backup time

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 –

Ralph Mueller Invited Talk – Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH

Ivana


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14:30

14:30 – 15:30

Session 3: Business models and security

14:30 – 14:50

Werner Schladofsky, Jelena Mitic, Al-fred Paul Megner, Claudia Simonato, Luca Gioppo, Dimitris Leonardos and Arne Bröring

Business Models for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems

14:50 – 15:10

Juan Hernández-Serrano, Jose L. Muñoz, Arne Bröring, Oscar Esparza, Lars Mikkelsen, Wolfgang Schwarzott, Olga León and Jan Zibuschka

On the Road to Secure and Privacy-preserving IoT Ecosystems

15:10 – 15:30

Savio Sciancalepore, Michal Pilc, Svenja Schröder, Giuseppe Bianchi, Gennaro Boggia, Marek Pawlowski, Giuseppe Piro, Marcin Plociennik and Hannes Weisgrab

Attribute-Based Access Control scheme in federated IoT platforms

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

Session 4: Platform performance and applications

16:00 – 16:20

Alexey Medvedev, Alireza Hassani, Arkady Zaslavsky, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Maria Indrawan-Santiago, Pari Delir Haghighi and Sea Ling (Petr Fedchenkov)

Ingestion and Storage Performance of IoT Platforms: Study of OpenIoT

Sergios

16:20 – 16:40

Thomas Kubitza Apps for Environments: Running Interoperable Apps in Smart Envi-ronments with the meSchup IoT Plat-form

16:40 – 17:00

Nenad Stojanovic and Aleksandar Stojadinovic

Using semantics and open standards for personal real-time big data pro-cessing: Experience from a case study in Remote Patient Monitoring

17:00 Julius Pfrommer Semantic Interoperability at Big-Data


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– 17:20

Scale for the Industrial Internet of Things with the open62541 OPC UA Implementation

17:20 – 17:30

Workshop Closing

17:30 End of Workshop

• Expectation and Background

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the emergence of various

IoT platforms that provide access to a broad range of virtual and physical “things”.

IoT platforms typically promote their own, specific interfaces and information models.

This generates technology fragmentation, non-standard solutions, and proprietary

protocols to interact with things. The result is missing interoperability among IoT plat-

forms that prevents the emergence of cooperative IoT ecosystems.

The previous successful edition of this workshop focused on understanding the

landscape on IoT open source and emerging IoT interoperability platforms. This

year’s “2nd Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet

of Things (InterOSS-IoT 2016)” focuses on the challenges of achieving IoT platform

interoperability and to promote the uptake by industry from emerging open source

solutions and best practices from IoT deployment experiences. The workshop’s ob-

jective is to foster the exchange of practical experiences within the IoT community, to

contribute solutions for open issues on the IoT, as well as architectural principles and

standardization efforts to bridge the gap of IoT interoperability. We invite authors to

submit scientific papers reporting on the advances in state of the art and practical

experiences on interoperable IoT solutions, as well as solutions relying on open

source software, emerging concepts, or visionary papers.

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The workshop was organized around a short introductory session and discus-

sion sessions, on projects, on technologies, on community, on Open Calls.

Ralph Müller was the keynote speaker of the InterOSS-IoT 2016 workshop.

Ralph Müller is currently the Managing Director of the Eclipse Foundation Eu-

rope GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Eclipse Foundation Inc., responsible

for supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem in Eu-

rope.

Submitted papers has been reviewed by three independent experts in the field.

Post-workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in

Computer Science (LNCS).

3.3. Publications

Results and technical achievements will be disseminated towards the scientific

community through presentations in international and national conferences relevant

to the project and through scientific publications in high impact journals and books. In

particular, for the visibility of the network, all BIG IoT partners will be pushed to at-

tend at least one international meeting in the IoT field, where they will make oral or

poster presentations. Before the consortium or its members publish any result, this

will be analyzed in order to assess patentability. As stated in the Consortium Agree-

ment, if this is the case the publication will be postponed for a reasonable period until

the results are protected.

Utilizing existing dissemination channels - such as peer-reviewed journals, con-

ference proceedings, specialized workshops, etc. – makes it possible to build on pre-

existing communities and is often more effective than creating project-specific media.

A strong focus will be put on regularly publishing papers and articles in those existing

media.


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Over the project duration: project partners commit to release at least ?? publica-

tions. All publications based on work (partly or fully) funded by the EC within the ac-

tivities of the BIG IoT Project will acknowledge the EU funding.

List of Publications:

Table 7 List of publications resulted from the project

Type Title Venue

Poster/Abstract BIG IoT - Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the Internet of Things

Connected Conference 2016

Article

Public Transport Occupancy Estima-tion Using WLAN Probing

Net4Cars 2016

Article

Enabling IoT Ecosystems through Platform Interoperability

IEEE Software, special issue on: Software Engineering for the Internet of Things

Article

An Architecture for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems

InterOSS 2016 Workshop

Article

On the Road to Secure and Privacy-preserving IoT Ecosystems


Article Business Models for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems


3.4. Synergies with related projects and initiatives

During the three-years duration of the project, cooperation with other EC-funded

projects is foreseen.

According to the Call H2020-ICT-30, the BIG IoT project is required to cooper-

ate with all of the selected proposals. The cooperation has been achieved through


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the organization of dedicated cluster called IoT-EPI (European Platform Initiative),

useful to discuss the activities progress and potential synergies, through the ex-

change of non-confidential reports and through the participation in the workshops

organized by the other projects on the same topics.

The collaboration with IoT-EPI cover many areas:

• Participation in Task Forces dissemination and outreach activities

• Contributing to & organizing mutual events

• Providing information for dissemination in IoT-EPI channels (Website,

Twitter)

• Promote project via IoT-EPI newsletters, factsheets, flyers

• Preparation of reports, articles and white-papers

•

Objectives of cooperation:

• Foster connections with other communities that would be difficult to

reach otherwise;

• Create long-term research collaboration;

• Increase BIG IoT project visibility;

• Maximize BIG IoT project impact;

• Share knowledge on e-Infrastructure related topics;

• Share experience on technical challenges encountered;

• Avoid work duplication;

• Networking;

• Support and enhance participation to European IoT Cluster.

Types of cooperation:

• Mutual promotion of events and news by exchange of announcements

published on project website or newsletters;


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• Logo inclusion on project materials like event flyers, banners, etc.;

• Mutual invitations to participate in and speak at project workshops and

conferences;

• Joint organization of events;

• Joint applications for external events: booths, networking sessions,

workshops, conferences;

• Exchange of feedback on project publications and deliverables.

The IoT-EPI structure is organized in 5 Task Forces and 1 Working Group.

The BIG IoT project is participating in each of them and especially, in relation to

the dissemination and outreach activities, the BIG IoT WP6 is very active in:

The Task Force Community Building

aims to fosters stakeholder engagement between the EPI-projects and IoT-

community members, such as developers, entrepreneurs and tech startups. The goal

is to build a sustainable and vibrant innovation ecosystem for the IoT-EPI.

Objectives:

a) Community building strategies (e.g. strategies regarding the improve-

ment of open calls and how to leverage local communities, how to position own

platform ecosystem, how to develop a successful developer programme)

b) Community building activities (e.g. organizing IoT-Meetups, Challenges

and further EPI-community events)

Communication is a crucial element in Community Building.

While more specific work in this Task Force related with the engagement

and interaction with the Communities is part of the BIG IoT T6.1 and part of the

reported activities in D6.1.a.


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The IoT-EPI Communication Working Group

is a communication and dissemination group that includes mainly the WP lead-

ers for Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation from all the IoT-EPI projects

Objectives:

a) coordinate, align the communication and dissemination strategy,

b) optimize the costs and effort,

c) collaborate and synchronize the efforts for the participation to different

events.

While supporting all the dissemination and promotion of work and results of the

other technical Task Forces.

BIG IoT representatives participated to all the EPI Meetings & Workshops that

were organized this year and the first of 2017 has been already planned:

• June 2016: Meeting, Valencia

• October 2016: Meeting, Review and Workshop, Vienna

• March 2017: Meeting, Berlin

Further to the above, synergies with other projects, within similar thematic

fields under Horizon 2020, IoT and Smart City, will be actively sought after.

Once projects with cooperation potential have been identified, the possible for-

mats of cooperation will be explored with the final objective being to increase the

visibility and raise awareness about both projects. The aim would be to ensure that

future events of these projects shall capitalise on the knowledge accumulated within

BIG IoT, while their own networks of contacts will be informed. Links to the Websites

of other relevant projects will be added to the BIG IoT Web portal and other projects

will be asked to include links to BIG IoT on their respective website. In addition, mu-

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3.5. BIG IOT Future DISSEMINATION VENUES

3.5.1. BIG IoT Relevant Journals List

Here a preliminary list of possible journals that Partners might target as venues

for publication of BIG IoT results in the next 2 years.

• IEEE IoT Journal (IoT-J)

• Journal IEEE Communications & Surveys

• IEEE Intelligent Systems - Special IoT session

• Journal of Internet Services and Applications

• Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal of Web and Grid Services

• Journal on selected areas in communications

• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

• Journal of Systems and Software

• Journal of research and practice in information and technology

• Sensors Journal

• ACM Surveys

• Semantic Web Journal

• Systems Journal

3.5.2. BIG IoT Relevant Conferences & Workshops List

All partners will look for major events in the field in order to contribute to the pro-

ject and will report their contributions to BIG IoT. A shared internal document has

been set up in order to list the relevant events and follow partners’ contribution. All

partners will fill our internal lists of events, that is part of the dissemination plan, regu-

larly and timely.

Here a list of main events, that are considered by dissemination events, that are

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Table 8 Next dissemination events

Events When & Where

4th Connected Cities Conference 12 January 2017

Mobile World Congress 27 February - 02 March 2017 Bar-celona

IOTConnect 07-08 March 2017 London

Bosch Connected World 2017 15 - 16 March 2017 Berlin

SIDO The Connected Business 5 - 6 of April Lyon 2017

ITNG 2017 10 - 11 April 2017 Las Vegas

Hannover Fair 2017 24 - 28 April Hannover 2017

www2017 2017

Net Futures 2017 2017 Brussel

Connected Conference May 2017 Paris

INTERNET OF THINGS WEEK 06-09 June 2017 Geneva

IoT Global Innovation Forum 2017 Barcelona

EuCNC European Conference on Networks and Communica-tions

Oulu, Finland, June 12-15, 2017

IEEE Technically Sponsored SAI Computing Conference 2017 London

Industry of Things World 2017 Berlin

W3C TPAC November Burlingame, CA, USA 2017

IOT Solutions World Congress 2017 Barcelona

The 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2017)

Smart City World Congress Nov 2017


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3.6. Dissemination supporting the exploitation actions

The Dissemination activities will also support the project Exploitation and Open

Calls promotion. Starting from the Deliverable 7.1a: Exploitation Plan, the following

information is identified:

- The exploitation objectives;

- The exploitable results;

- The main targets of exploitation;

It thus will be possible to define:

- The tools, channels and activities that will be used to reach the audience

identified;

It has been already planned to organise an annual workshop dedicated to Ex-

ploitation (with the participation of all the project partners) aiming at:

- Characterise the exploitable results;

- Identify the main risks and barriers to the exploitation of the results;

- Gather recommendations for the exploitation phase.


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4. STANDARDIZATION STRATEGY AND ACTIVITIES

4.1. Introduction

Interoperability can only work if there is an agreement of common and estab-

lished standards. To have a success story of BIG IoT there is the effort to rely on

such established standards as well as to contribute in ongoing IoT activities and

standardization consortiums. Regarding the latter mentioned intention, BIG IoT has

active members that are involved in prominent standardization group that includes

the W3C3 Web of Things and W3C Spatial Data. Both groups are introduced in more

detail in the next few sub-sections.

The coordination of the standardization activities and contributions to the rele-

vant bodies is the goal of the Task 6.2 (Contribution to Standardization) that started

officially at M9 and will continue until month M36.

4.2. W3C Web of Things

In spring 2015, the W3C Web of Things (WoT) (W3C, Web of Things at W3C)

group was founded4. The motivation for initiating this group was identical as for the

BIG IoT project, namely that the Internet of Things (IoT) suffers from a lack of inter-

operability across platforms. As a result of this fact, developers are faced with data

silos, high costs, and limited market potential. There was the same situation when it

came to the formation of the world wide web and its evaluation to the Web 2.0.

Nowadays, the Web is that successful story in the Internet since it makes it easy to

develop networked applications independently of those technologies. W3C is seeking

to do the same for the Internet of Things.

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The W3C WoT group is based on more than 210 members and has collabora-

tions as well as liaisons with IETF/IRTF5, oneM2M6, OPC Foundation7, OCF8, IIC9,

Platform Industry 4.0, and AIOTI10. Mainly, the W3C WoT group works on different

use cases, requirements, and makes proposals of a set of WoT technology building

blocks. Currently, three main building blocks are considered: Scripting API, Thing

Description (TD), and Protocol Binding. Security considerations is done within these

building blocks.

Current working assumptions are evaluated by the 3 month face-to-face meet-

ings based on different plugfest tasks. Experiences and valuable findings are used to

improve the building blocks.

Currently, the W3C WoT group has the "Interest Group" status and initiate in

addition a "Working Group" which is the path to get a W3C Recommendation stan-

dard. In the following, an overview of the WoT is given based on the current version

of the WoT charter (W3C, Web of Things Working Group Charter) as well as some

working assumptions that is reflected by the WoT current practice document (W3C,

WoT Current Practices).

WoT Concept

Things in the WoT architecture are represented by so-called servients, which

are usually hosted directly on the physical thing. Yet servients can also represent

virtual Things, for instance a collection of Things (e.g., all parking slots in a city) or a

WoT gateway for legacy devices (e.g., a Bluetooth device connected to a smart-

5 https://www.ietf.org/ 6 http://www.onem2m.org/ 7 https://opcfoundation.org/ 8 https://openconnectivity.org/ 9 http://www.iiconsortium.org/ 10 http://www.aioti.org/


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phone). In this latter case, servients are hosted anywhere, a smartphone, local gate-

way, or the platform/cloud.

Figure 9 Characteristics of a WoT Servient

Servients communicate with each other through the so-called WoT Interface, a

Web API that follows the recommendations of the WoT. Servients can be in client

role (i.e., they only consume other Things), server role (i.e., they only provide capa-

bilities), or both (i.e., they use other Things, but also provide capabilities). Each Thing

is described by a WoT Thing Description (TD). The TD must be acquired to use and

interact with the Thing, since it describes the semantics of a Thing as well as its WoT

Interface with its resources. Usually, Things directly provide their own TD, but the TD

can also be hosted externally if there is not enough space on the device or when a

WoT-compatible legacy device is retrofitted with a TD. To ease discovery, TDs can

be registered with a well-known TD repository, where Things of interest can be que-

ried, for instance using SPARQL. The application logic of a Thing (or technically a

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expected to be common for very resource-constrained Things. Following the patterns

in the Web, however, application logic should also be provided by scripts. This is

supported through a scripting runtime environment—similar to the Web browser—

that may be provided by a servient. Portability of such scripts is ensured through a

common Scripting API that allows access to discovery, the client and server func-

tionality of the servient, and the hardware physically attached to the servient (W3C,

WoT Current Practices).

In the following, we are going in more detail about the different WoT building

blocks. Some of them will have some impact for BIG IoT for building or relying on as

starting points for some approaches.

4.2.1. WoT Building Blocks

Mainly, three building blocks are currently defined: Thing Description, Scripting

API, and Protocol Bindings.

Thing Description

The idea of the Thing Description (TD) is to provide information about the capa-

bilities and its communication interfaces of a Thing or a virtual Thing that can reflect a

IoT platform and cloud. This work includes the definition of a core machine-

understandable vocabulary set and serialization formats of such a Thing Description.

In addition, the core set of this Thing Description shall be extendable with existing

vocabularies (e.g., from schema.org) and compatible with existing common tools

(e.g., JSON parser). In general, the TD relays on the Resource Description Frame-

work (RDF) as an underlying data model this also enable to be extendable, e.g., to

involve domain or vendor specific information. As a current serialization format,

JSON-LD has been proposed in order to benefit from both the widely used JSON-

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JSON to an RDF model). Since JSON-LD is a text-based representation, a TD may

be a burden for resource constrained devices. Based on this, additional binary RDF

encoding formats that handle string redundancies well will be also considered in the

future.

Figure 10 shows the basic content model of the TD that can be involved:

• Interaction Resources: A common vocabulary for describing Things in

terms of the data and interaction models they expose to applications

(e.g., interaction patterns such as Properties, Actions, and Events.

• Semantic metadata: A common vocabulary for describing Things basic

metadata (e.g., name of the Thing) and if wanted or needed additional in-

tegration of existing of external vocabularies.

• Communication: A common vocabulary for communications metadata.

This will enable platforms to determine how to interoperate given a

choice of protocols, data formats, and encodings, as well as different

communication patterns, e.g., push, pull, pub-sub, and peer-to-peer.

• Security: A common vocabulary for security and privacy metadata as a

basis for platforms to determine how to securely interoperate. This will

build upon emerging standards and best practices for securing ex-

changes, and includes metadata relating to authentication, authorization,

secure communication, and privacy policies.


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Figure 10 Basic content model of the Thing Description

In the following, a TD sample is provided in JSON-LD serialization format that

describes a parking slot description with the name Parking Spot Availability Service. Table 9 Thing Description Sample

Thing Description Sample

{ "@context": ["http://w3c.github.io/wot/w3c-wot-td-context.jsonld", { "datex": "http://vocab.datex.org/terms#" } ], "@type": "Thing",

http://w3c.github.io/wot/w3c-wot-td-context.jsonld

http://vocab.datex.org/terms


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"name": "Parking Spot Availability Service", "interactions": [ { "@type": ["Property","datex:parkingSpaceAvailable"], "name": "available", "outputType": {"valueType": { "type": "boolean" }}, "writable": false, "links": [{ "href" : "http://mytemp.example.com/available", "mediaType": "application/json" }] } ] }

Based on this content, we know there exists one Property interaction resource

with the name available (= is parking slot available or not). In addition, information is

provided such as that this Property is accessible over the HTTP protocol with a GET

method (see sub-section about protocol binding on next page) at

http://parking.example.com/available (announced within the links structure by the href

key), which will return a boolean inside a JSON structure (JSON as payload format is

announced by the mediaType field). This TD sample also shows the integration of

the datex namespace and the resulting semantic enrichment of the parking spot

availability Property with an additional entry within the @type.

Scripting API

Another outcome of the WoT standardization will be a scripting API. This shall

cover the interactions with Things and handlers to provide the functionality of a

Thing. This includes APIs both for applications acting in the client role as well as

APIs for applications in the server role, exposing a Thing. In the combination with the

Thing Description the API can guide and provide the full and valid opportunities of a

consumed Thing. Where practical, the API will be defined in ways that are independ-

ent of programming languages. The scope includes APIs for User Agents/browsers

as well as APIs for faceless applications in a runtime environment such as node.js.

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The following WebIDL description shows the current working assumption from

the current practices document (W3C, WoT Current Practices).

Figure 11 WebIDL description

Based on the TD sample above the developer would mainly work with the get-

Property function to request the availability status of the parking slot.

Protocol Binding

To enable interoperability on communication level, the WoT working group will

define standard bindings to common platforms and protocols in close collaboration

with the industry alliances and standards development organizations responsible for

these (e.g. OCF, OneM2M, OPC UA, …). This includes definition of mappings of

communication patterns such as push, pull, pub-sub, and bi-directional messaging as

well as pointing concrete protocols such as REST-based protocols (e.g., HTTP and

CoAP), pub-sub protocols (e.g., MQTT), and raw channel-based protocols (e.g.,

WebSockets).

In the following, the protocol binding for HTTP is shown:


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Impact for BIG IoT and vice versa

The W3C Web of Things activities brings many aspects and working assump-

tions that are relevant for BIG IoT. This is based on the fact, that the W3C WoT ac-

tivities are similar motivated as is in BIG IoT: reach interoperability between different

IoT systems/platforms. Regarding this, BIG IoT take the inputs of the working as-

sumptions of WoT for the development of technology aspects within the BIG IoT eco-

system. This will mainly address the work regarding the W3C Thing Description and

Scripting API. BIG IoT project has active members which are involved in WoT. These

members also provide feedbacks and change requests to the WoT community based

on the experiences and prototyping in BIG IoT. Based on this collaboration it is a de-

sired goal to have a BIG IoT ecosystem that relay on a prominent standard at the

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4.3. OGC/W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group

In 2014 the OGC11 and the W3C joined forces to make it easier to publish and

use spatial data on the worldwide web. The Spatial Data on the Web Working Group

was formed12 to improve and clarify the necessary standards, something that is very

much needed. The Spatial Data on the Web WG is part of the Data Activity and is

explicitly chartered to work in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium

(OGC), in particular, the Spatial Data on the Web Task Force of the Geosemantics

Domain Working Group. Formally, each standards body has established its own

group with its own charter and operates under the respective organization's rules of

membership, however, the 'two groups' will work together very closely and create a

set of common outputs that are expected to be adopted as standards by both W3C

and OGC and to be jointly branded.

The SDW WG is based on more than 70 members and 18 invited experts and in

addition to the strict collaboration with OGC and related groups it has liaisons with

other W3C groups, like Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, Data Activity

Coordination Group, Annotations WG, RDF Stream Processing, and external groups

and projects like INSPIRE13, SmartOpenData14, GeoKnow15, MELODIES16, Da-

Paas17, InGeoCloudS18 and stSPARQL19. Mainly, the W3C WoT group is working on

different use cases, requirements, best practices and makes proposals of the SDW

technologies building blocks.

11 http://www.opengeospatial.org/ 12 https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/charter 13 http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ 14 http://www.smartopendata.eu/ 15 http://geoknow.eu/ 16 http://www.melodiesproject.eu/ 17 http://project.dapaas.eu/ 18 https://www.ingeoclouds.eu/ 19 http://www.strabon.di.uoa.gr/stSPARQL


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Currently the Working Group is working on a new document for Spatial Data on

the Web Best Practices that will contain recommendations on how to publish, find

and use spatial data on the web. As much as possible, the recommendations will be

based on evidence found in the field and on general practices for handling web data.

The Working Group will therefore inventory current standards, find the gaps and in

those case try to offer a solution, which could take the shape of extending existing

web semantics in cooperation with other communities that have shared goals.

The SDW WG is also composed by three task forces that are dedicated to spe-

cific topics related to the main domain with specific deliverables.

1. OWL Time Ontology

At first sight it may seem strange that a working group about spatial data will

occupy itself with the subject of temporal data. The WG worked with the authors of

the existing Time Ontology in OWL to complete the development of this widely used

ontology through to Recommendation status. Further requirements already identified

in the geospatial community will be taken into account.

2. Coverage in Linked Data

A coverage is a collection of data that describe a phenomenon that is variable in

time and/or space. It can cover one to four dimensions. Examples are satellite im-

ages, tomograms, time series and point clouds. As such, it is an important class of

spatial data, especially in research. Think of climate or environmental research for

example. The WG will develop a formal Recommendation for expressing discrete

coverage data conformant to the ISO 19123 abstract model.

3. Semantic Sensor Network Vocabulary

Sensors, devices that measure something in their environment, have two spatial

aspects. Firstly, they have a location (which can be fixed or variable). Secondly, sen-

sors often measure a spatial phenomenon, like air pollution or the location of people

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of standards for sensor data. And, since 2011, there is a standard for the data web,

the Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) [3]. The WG is working with the members of the

former Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group to develop its ontology into a for-

mal Recommendation, noting the work to split the ontology into smaller sections of

flexible modules to offer simplified access.

The main contributions and interactions

Main interactions from BIG IoT project are done in the context of the work that is

in progress around the Semantic Sensor Network Vocabulary and its implications

around devices, sensors, measurements related to the IoT and WoT domains.

NUIG is member of the WG and has representatives that has been active in the

development of Semantic Sensor Network Vocabulary since before the start of the

Task 6.2.

The communications and interactions with the group are maintained through

• Group Telcos

• Mailing Lists discussions

• Face to face meetings

• W3C events participation

The contributions to the group are directed to the enhancement of the evolution

of the specification for the Semantic Sensor Network vocabularies.

Especially now that the WoT and the SDW groups have started a closer col-

laboration to align the common parts under a unified view. We can think about the

definitions and specifications at devices and sensors level that are represented in the

Thing Description. This work will be eventually reflected into the BIG IoT Offering De-

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4.4. Standardization events

In respect to standardization activities Siemens and NUIG representatives par-

ticipated to the W3C event:

TPAC 2016, the Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings

Week that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 19 to 23 of September 2016.

The event brought together W3C Technical Groups, the Advisory Board, the

Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and the Advisory Committee together with members

of many of the W3C Working Groups, Interest Groups and Community Groups, for an

exciting week of coordinated standardization work.

BIG IoT partners were able to participate at different sessions and in particular,

they attended the face to face meetings of the Web of Things group and the Spatial

Data on the Web group.

4.5. Other Activities Related to Standardization

As stated in our DOW and DOA the BIG IoT project standardization activities

and contributions are focused to W3C as Standards Developing Organization (SDO)

of reference for our direct involvements.

Nevertheless, in the course of our project development there could be some in-

teractions also with other Standards Communities.

Furthermore, considering our intention to implement and deploy our vocabular-

ies/models as part of schema.org extensions, as explained in the D4.2.a, there will

be actual interaction with schema.org community and association.

Schema.org is not officially related to any specific Standards Developing Or-

ganization but at world-wide level it is almost considered a de-facto standard in its

domain and now the official schema.org community has created W3c Community

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addition, at the moment various W3c Groups, e.g. WOT and SDW, are interacting

with schema.org about some official integration of part of its schemas in their specifi-

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5. OUTLOOK

Dissemination is a very important aspect of the BIG IoT project. In order to bet-

ter promote the project results the consortium has compiled this deliverable from the

first stages of the project. The dissemination plan provides a description of the tools

and activities that will be used in order to ensure the better promotion of BIG IoT

achievements. The consortium will use this plan as a basic guideline for their own

dissemination activities and the activities of the project as a whole.

The target audience for BIG IoT dissemination is broad in terms of geography;

occupational background; organizational nature; their role with regards resilience in

critical infra-structure; and their knowledge and understanding of the resilience con-

cept. As such, our dissemination strategy is multi-channel and tailored to meet the

needs of our diverse audience. Within the Work Package 6, we will continue to moni-

tor and evaluate the effectiveness of the communication channels and dissemination

we are using; ensuring it remains fit for purpose and results in steady growth.

The website, social media and the other channels of the project will continu-

ously reflect the latest news of dissemination activities.

Another goal of our efforts is to coordinate the standardization activities and

contributions and interchange of results between BIG IoT project and the relevant

standardization bodies. These standardization activities will be monitored during the

project and the possible impact of project results will be timely identified.

This dissemination and standardization report is meant to be a living document

and will be internally updated as the project evolves, serving as a reference tracking

mechanism and to add initially unforeseen dissemination events. New revised ver-

sions of this document will be prepared at M24 and M36 and delivered as D6.2.b and

D6.2.c.


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6. References

[1] S. Harmsworth e S. Turpin, „Creating an effective dissemination strategy”,

TQEF National Co-ordination team, 2000.

[2] M. Jones, “getting the message across”, dissemination seminar- Bridging the

gap.

[3] M. Compton, P. Barnaghi, L. Bermudez, R. Garca Castro, O. Corcho, S.

Cox, J. Graybeal, M. Hauswirth, C. Henson, A. Herzog, V. Huang, K. Janowicz, W.

D. Kelsey, D. Le Phouc, L. Lefort, M. Leggieri, H. Neuhaus, A. Nikolov, K. Page, A.

Passant, A. Sheth und K. Taylor, „The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor

network incubator group,“ JWS, 2012.


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7. ANNEX

Factsheet

Figure 12 Project factsheet


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Banner

Figure 13 Project roll-up banner


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Flyer

Figure 14 Project flyer