The project defined 6 innovation tracks, the first 4 representing domains of innovation, the last 2 horizontal activities to make impact though these innovations, (see figure 3)
For each one of the domain innovation tracks, the advance over the existing SoA, is now updated according to progress in P2:
1. IoT technology: innovation in interoperability, security and standardization. AIOTES designed and versioning strategy, in terms of progressive delivery of architectural elements and security and privacy components (WP3), developers and deployment tools (WP4), aligned with the development and deployment roadmap (WP5) to support interoperability between DS and with Open Callers, aligned with the exploitation plan and consolidated as a key “Project Asset”. Evaluation activities are confirming and will demonstrate the potential and timely need of AIOTES in the IoT-AHA market.
2. Generation of evidence and value. The evaluation framework is composed of standard methods and instruments that allow to gather and measure the results of the evaluation activities and share them with communities. The protocol and the GLOCAL approach both represent a clear innovation. WP6 partners are currently preparing research manuscripts to validate them with the scientific community.
3. The user bound co-creation: acceptance, ethical and legal user needs. The common framework to define user needs, requirements and use cases. A new version of requirements has been released (now defined as Reference Use Cases) allowing seamless exchange of services among DS. All the experience gained during the co-creation phases has been turned into a set of Good Practices, in the list of project assets.
4. Interconnected Deployment Sites, Use cases and Business Cases for AHA. Pilot activities are running in all the nine DSs. Recruitments are almost completed and interchange of services and elements between DS and with OpenCallers is in place. This means that the project is in the position to assess the value of the ACTIVAGE LSP and take strategic decisions towards market uptake of the ACTIVAGE solutions .
4 horizontal activities are currently being defined to support, guide and coordinate the realization of these innovations, mainly in WP8 and WP7:
1. The definition of an AHA-IoT ecosystem
2. The definition of the Impact Attainment Strategy. Focused the impact in five pillars corresponding to areas of activity in the project: ecosystem creation, acceptance and co-creation, standardisation, business & exploitation and dissemination.
3. The definition of the communication and dissemination plan. The 2 open calls are the backbone of this approach to engage more relevant actors in the ACTIVAGE European ecosystem.
4. The definition of the exploitation plan. All the above and more will have a real and persistent impact if the project defines a consistent and realistic business plan of exploitation within a time horizon of 5 years.
