COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT: Planning, coordination and management of the project, including the open call.
REQUIREMENTS AND USE CASES: Performing the stakeholders and market analysis, definition of the business models, requirements, scenarios and use cases, and legal requirements. The main results during the period have been the market watch; preliminary business models; requirements gathering and prioritization; definition of interoperability use cases and scenarios and the review of main legislation affecting IoT interoperability.
LAYER INTEROPERABILITY: Development and documentation of each interoperability layered solution. Main results: (i) Software development of modules of a fully functional gateway with separation of physical and virtual parts; (ii) NFV/SDN solution to provide seamless integration between virtual networked elements; (iii) abstract middleware layer using bridges, to connect heterogeneous IoT platforms; (iv) a solution based on Flow-Based Programming as processes, which exchange data through predefined connections; (v) semantic translation mechanism based on ontology alignments as the Inter Platform Semantic Mediator and (vi) Cross-layers functionalities.
INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK API: A framework for interoperability allowing development of services and applications. Main results : (i) design of a Reference Meta-Architecture for Interoperable IoT Platforms; (ii) Reference Data Model for Interoperable IoT Platforms, based in an OWL ontology; (iii) Design of tools to manage the INTER-LAYER mechanisms; (iv) design of the IoT Interoperable Framework Engine and (v) INTER-API to access the interoperability layers and building connectors for devices, objects and communication services.
METHODOLOGY FOR IOT SYSTEMS INTEGRATION: A full-fledged methodology (INTER-METH) for the integration of heterogeneous IoT platforms along with a CASE tool driving its application. Main results: (i) INTER-IoT Layer-oriented Design patterns through the elicitation of micro-patterns for the integration of heterogeneous IoT systems, organised according to the identified layers of WP3; (ii) INTER-METH with two different versions one denominated “abstract” and a specific-one strongly related to INTER-IoT and (iii) INTER-CASE Specification on the basis of the INTER-METH definition.
IMPACT CREATION: Organized in a coherent way all the activities related to generate the maximum possible impact for the project: (i) scientific and industrial dissemination; (ii) communication; (iii) business modelling and (iv) exploitation either individual and joint. Main results are: papers in journals and conferences, talks, PhD and MSc thesis, courses, presentations at industrial events, identification of products, collaboration with OS SW organizations and SDOs, business models and exploitation strategies.
