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FP7-ICT-2009-5
This report presents the mechanisms and processes through which the common
assets can be made accessible, shared and reused among the different
communities and for Future Internet based innovation in the context of Smart
City strategy implementation. These include arrangements related to IPR
management, legal issues and partnership agreements to implement open
innovation approach.
Submitted 14.11.2011
Approved date
Approved by <receiving EC person>
Dissemination
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STATUS: FINAL, SAVED: 07 MAY 2012
1 INTRODUCTION 3
1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT 3
1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE DOCUMENT 4
1.3 OVERVIEW OF THIS DOCUMENT 5
2 COLLABORATION SCENARIO AMONG FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS AND SMART
CONNECTED CITIES COMMUNITIES FOR ACCESSING, SHARING AND REUSING
COMMON ASSETS 6
2.1 EXPECTED SERVICES OF THE COMMUNITIES – SCOPE OF THE COLLABORATION 6
2.2 CONTEXT OF THE COLLABORATION (INSTITUTIONAL, EU PROGRAM BASED: FI-PPP,
PCP, CIP, FIRE-ICT…) 7
3 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COMMON ASSETS FROM A BUSINESS LEGAL
PERSPECTIVE 8
3.1 TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS 8
3.2 LOCAL AND CROSS BOARDER COLLABORATION 10
3.3 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES 11
4 METHODS AND MECHANISM OF COMMON ASSETS: PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS FOR
EXPLOITATION OF COMMON ASSETS 14
4.1 LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATION 14
4.2 FIREBALL ALLIANCE COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATION 14
4.3 INITIAL WIKI-STYLE PORTAL CONCEPT 15
5 PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF COMMON ASSETS CROSS BORDER SHARING AND
SERVICES OFFERED 17
5.1 OULLABS, OULU URBAN LIVING LABS 17
5.2 IMAGES & RÉSEAUX TESTBED AND LIVING LAB MODEL 23
5.3 TEFIS – TESTBED FOR FUTURE INTERNET SERVICES 28
5.4 SMARTSANTANDER: A CITY-WIDE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY 31
5.5 ELLIOT: AN EXPERIENTAL LIVING LAB FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS 33
5.6 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS 34
6 CONCLUSIONS 37
1 INTRODUCTION
In the end and to evaluate and better characterize the content of the current
document it could be interesting discussing on “to who it can be addressed”.
From this perspective is plain that all the three communities have clearly
interests in sharing commons assets and participating in the establishment of
these assets advertisement process (so called catalogue later in this document).
This document is primarily addressed then to such community members and
their relative stakeholders participating and benefiting in this asset sharing
processes as per the advantages and mechanisms deeply described in the
following chapter.
In this global context some initiatives have already been performed and
promoted to foster and increase the utilization of the three Communities facilities
(Assets).
One example of FIRE is open calls (Future Internet Research & Experimentation).
These Open Calls are designed to stimulate the use of the facilities through new
innovative experiments. By doing this, the proposals are targeted at encouraging
the usage of the facilities and the involvement of a significant number of
additional users.
As a result the expansion and enhancement of the development of interested
infrastructure is expected in accordance with the needs of the users’ community.
TestBeds
Assets
LivingLabs
Smartcities Catalogue
Each Living Lab or City or testbed can contribute with its different assets to be
included in a single virtual recipient. These assets, suitably organized and
described in their technical and procedural characteristics can be listed in a
catalogue or a public list available for anyone interested in operating them.
The advantage of this approach is the flexibility and the freedom of contribution
that leaves the different constituencies to cooperate and share these assets
without virtually losing their independency.
The characteristics of this approach are:
- Each organization can contribute to share assets whose advertisement
will be proposed in this virtual catalogue;
- All the shared assets will be included in the catalogue together with the
information and the processes to access them;
- Each organization can decide which asset/s share and how by simply
advertise it on a public register;
- Each organization maintains its independency and the contributed
(shared) asset access mechanisms and conditions (as well as any
ownership right) are not affected by this process of virtual collaboration.
The Asset information elaborated and included with the process and the
methodology described in such catalogue (whose concrete explication will be
provided later in chapter 4 of this document) can be assimilated to Services. In
such context we can consider a Service as a combination of the Assets with its
access conditions and methods.
Hereafter in this document we will refer with the term Service of Services both
as synonymous of Asset and as Asset contextualized in the Catalogue.
TestBeds
Experimentation
Required assets Project
LivingLab Catalogue
Smartcity
Required Experimentation
assets
Project
TestBeds
LivingLab
Catalogue
Smartcity Facilitator
Access Access
Asset types Ownership IPR
Conditions Mechanisms
Technology infrastructures
Software applications
user communities
Innovation methodologies
The elements reported in the simplified typology of Common Assets and their
characterization table are: Ownership, IPR, Access Conditions and Access
Mechanisms (divided for macro areas); the following paragraphs report the
explanation of these characterizations.
Ownership
The legal entity owning the asset can make it available to the Communities.
Ownership can be joint as often is the case in research and development
projects. In this case special access conditions are normally granted to the
project participants for the use of projects results. In research and innovation
projects, this term means licences and user rights to foreground results or
background Information and intellectual property.
Access Mechanisms
The actual access to the assets is granted trough a contractual arrangement
(typically for accessing tangible assets) or open licence mechanisms such as
Creative Commons (typically for methodologies) or General Public Licences
(typical of Open Software). For example in the case of the TEFIS federated
testbed, access to TEFIS portal general services is granted trough a Public
Licence while access to specific testbed facilities is different from each provider
and depend on the business model definition of the individual testbed providers,
their value propositions as well as payment models.
Business
Domains
4G LTE network Living Lab XY …
DVB – T2 … Test Bed XY
IMS Core Network
…
ON the left column all the Emerging available technologies are listed, as per a
quick and easy description index. These assets information, crossed at Business
Domain level, identify the relevant organizations (Living Lab, testbeds) that are
able to share such kind of technologies.
This representation allow each member interested in the domain to connect to
the Organization itself accessing its full list of services (and assets) according to
the examples provided in chapter 4.
• Intellectual Property
– Any patent, registered design, copyright, design right, database
right, topography right, trade mark, service mark, application to
register any of the aforementioned rights, trade secret, right in
unpatented know-how, right of confidence and any other intellectual
or industrial property right of any nature whatsoever in any part of
the world;
• Know-How and Intellectual Property Rights
– General
• The following provisions relate to know-how and intellectual
property rights for the Consortium.
– Definitions
The catalogue page for the FIREBALL initial experimentation will be hosted on
the project portal page in Ami-Communities at:
http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities
Policies
project
ICT Product testing services The test project Contract Hourly OULLabs or
implementation assistance based service
on a project basis + provider
Guidance for test
equipment usage
ICT, Usability and user Usability and user Contract Hourly OULLabs or
eHealth, experience consultancy experience consultancy based customers
education as an expert service services for customers in facility
their development
challenges from idea to field
testing
ICT, Usability & user Usability and user Contract Based on OULLabs or
eHealth, experience trainings experience training training customers
education arrangements by request facility
PanOULU WLAN offers an efficient short range data transfer which enables a
functioning interaction with the Ubiquitous Oulu. Available network can be used
for several purposes for upload or download services or other data. Gathered
data which can be made available could be sorted different ways.
VTT's Converging Networks Laboratory aims to create an environment where
research and companies can meet to innovate, prototype and test products in a
future convergent network infrastructure.
It can help you to prepare products for the network convergence and ALL-IP.
Specialities include development with new technologies such as IMS, testing
services in a clean and fully configurable lab 3G/HSDPA, Wi-FI and WiMAX
networks.
ICT ICT test services VTT’s Converging Contract Hourly VTT, Converging
Networks Laboratory based, Networks Laboratory
(CNL) collects new radio depends (CNL),
interfaces, novel services on service http://www.cnl.fi/
and research prototypes or
in one place, in a consulting
laboratory-scale
converged environment.
ICT Research and Specialities include Contract Hourly VTT, Converging
consulting services development with new based, Networks Laboratory
technologies such as depends (CNL)
IMS, testing services in a on service
clean and fully or
configurable lab consulting
3G/HSDPA, Wi-FI and
WiMAX networks
ICT Expert services expertise includes Contract Hourly VTT, Converging
convergence of networks based, Networks Laboratory
and services, including depends (CNL)
All-IP, mobility on service
techniques such as or
Mobile IP, HIP, mobile consulting
multimedia, network
performance
assessment,
measurement of end-to-
end network QoS, etc.
ICT Product Testing Grant4Com testing Contract hourly Grant4Com,
Services services covers wide based, www.grant4com.fi
range of needs in depends
electronics R&D. We on service
provide regular product
testing, precertification
or comprehensive
compliance testing.
ICT Consulting Services Grant4Com offers Contract hourly Grant4Com,
consultation for entire based, www.grant4com.fi
product families depends
depending on service
on each case. We offer
Testing activities,
Regulatory approvals
world-wide, Certification
services
Full list of ImaginLab Services and Assets can be identified by the following
table.
The TEFIS Integrated Project supports research on various future large-scale and
resource-hungry Internet service technologies. It offers an open platform to
access heterogeneous and complementary experimental facilities, including living
lab facility, and testing tools to be used by service developers supporting the
service development life-cycle. TEFIS explores a scenario where experimenters
start a service development cycle in a living lab, developing a service concept
with end-users.
Thereafter TEFIS includes service development and testing starts, using
experimental facilities to test technologies. Finally the business model and
business concept can be co-developed with interested stakeholders including
end-users.
TEFIS supports Future Internet of Services research by offering a single access
point to different testing and experimental facilities for communities of software
and business developers to test, experiment, and collaboratively elaborate
knowledge. The project develops an open platform to access heterogeneous and
complementary experimental facilities addressing the full development lifecycle
of innovative services with the appropriate tools and testing methodologies.
Through the TEFIS platform users will be supported throughout the whole
experiment lifecycle by access to different testing tools covering most of the
software development-cycle activities such as software build and packaging,
compliance tests, system integration, SLA dimensioning, large-scale deployment,
and user evaluation of run-time services. The platform provides the necessary
services that will allow the management of underlying testbeds resources. In
particular, it handles generic resource management, resource access scheduling,
software deployment, matching and identification of resources that can be
activated, and measurement services for a variety of testbeds.
TEFIS is selected as example of bringing together Future Internet / IoT and
living labs resources for the purpose of smart city innovations or other desired
outcomes of the project because of the following:
- an experimental platform for Smart Cities development empowered by
Future Internet technologies
- an open framework that will allow efficient combination of various
experimental facilities to support the heterogeneity aspects of Future
internet experiments including the end-user involvement
- a platform to share expertise and best practices for higher “smartness”
by shared intelligence and experiences
Two main types of assets are available via TEFIS for future Smart Cities
experimentations: the TEFIS platform and the TEFIS testbed facilities provided
by testbed partners of TEFIS.
The TEFIS platform is organized into four main functional blocks: TEFIS Portal,
TEFIS Middleware, TEFIS testbed connectors and TEFIS User tools.
The TEFIS portal offers a user interface to assist experimenters in the definition
of the experiments, their submission and execution, their and completion of an
experiment. The portal will allow testbeds to be searched for, the definition of
test plans, and the sharing of experimental data with other experimenters in the
community. The Core services (TEFIS Middleware), used by the portal, provides
the internal services to support the execution of experimentations. The TEFIS
system relies on the concept of connector to manage the interaction with the
different testbeds. The User tools will be external tools, which could not be free,
that the TEFIS platform can embed in a future next step.
The TEFIS Testbed facilities provided by the Testbed partners of TEFIS include
the following:
- Planetlab. Service offers include the evaluation of network protocols and
large-scale distributed systems. Assets are a powerful infrastructure
consisting of 1018 nodes for testing and evaluation of network protocols
and distributed systems on a large scale.
- PACA Grid: Service offers include computational resources for applications
such as simulations, financial computations, image processing, etc.
Assets: a computing infrastructure for large-scale computations and a
number of tools to automatically deploy and execute distributed
applications and to monitor the progress of the computation and retrieve
the results.
- ETICS: Service offers include testing quality, reliability and
interoperability of distributed complex systems. Assets: a build and test
job execution system based on the Metronome software and an
integrated set of web services and software engineering tools to design,
maintain and control build and test scenarios.
- SQS IMS: Service offers include conformance validation and
interoperability testing of applications over IMS (IP Multimedia
Subsystem). Assets: The emulated IMS platform with IMS Core services,
Presence and Group management, Push-to-talk, IMS Messaging, Instant
messaging and Instant Multimedia Messaging, GSMA video/image share
and enhanced VoIP and IMS Core Network emulator. Wizards and
templates included in the tools are used for testing purposes.
- Botnia Living Lab: Service offers: Products and services experimentally
developed in real-life contexts with real users. Assets: Research expertise
in end-user evaluation and testing, the FormIt methodology for end-user
involvement, a databes of 6000 creative end-users in Sweden and access
to end-users around the world via 3rd parties.
- KyaTera: Service offers: network performance evaluation to evaluate the
quality of the network, transmitting multimedia data to a specific Quality
of service level. Assets: A high speed network of over 266 km of optical
cables with 8 to 144 fibres and a network measurement tool to measure
network status as bandwith, jitter, delay, ping between two nodes,
packet loss etc.
For sharing outside the TEFIS CA of the above mentioned assets each Testbed
facility provider has its own regulation. For the TEFIS platform it is being
developed under the conditions of the Open License Terms.
The following project case illustrates how in TEFIS resources are combined and
shared.
This experiment addresses the three main issues facing mobile applications
today. First, this experiment will explore end-user feedback to check if the
application is suitable for them. In the second step, they will use testbed
facilities as a validation tool, and in the third step, to find out the correct
business model for long-term sustainability.
- Configuration assistance
- Experimental data management
- Reporting
- Knowledge sharing with other exeprimenters
Sustainability and Information of the outmost importance The report analyzing potential
exploitation plan to describe the models being exploitation models will be also publicly
considered within the project, with available.
emphasis on those more suitable to
guarantee the sustainability of the
infrastructure.
Other assets Implementation and deployment Public documentation will be also
(policy, funding, constraints will be documented in order released and published through the
partnerships etc) to make this practical and useful project web-site.
information to other initiatives.
Public data / A number of different information Open APIs for accessing data will be
information categories will be opened up to the made available at three different levels:
public, to enable the use of research and developers’ community,
applications, and the development of Service Providers (ISPs), and end-user.
new ones.
Capability to After the execution of the project, it is Not apply. In this case, it is not the asset
develop and run expected to be able to have the which is being provided, but the
pilots capability to initiate and develop Future capability.
Internet and Living Labs projects to
support smart city objectives on top of
the asset.
- Examples of science
services for an
empirical study
Living Lab Homokháti - Online living lab
Rural project management
Livinglab tool for tracking
tasks and users
- Conducting and
managing clinical
trials for
telemedicine
solutions
Living Lab ICT Usage Lab - infrastructure for 3D
experiments
- a platform of mobile
devices for
simulated
environment
(Ubiquarium)
- a fully instru-mented
apartment (Gerhome
lab) to design and
develop smart
building services
such as AAL digital
services supporting
ageing at home
Living Lab VuLog - Technologies and
infrastructures
(Fixed and mobile
network of pollution
sensors to collect
environmental data)
- Software
applications
(Environmental data
website such as
ATMOPACA for air
quality in the PACA
region, Green
services web portal)
- Innovation
environments user
communities (ICT
Usage Lab, ERIC -
Internet Regional
Spaces for Citizen-)
- Innovation and
testing
methodologies
- policy, funding,
partnerships
- public data
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6 CONCLUSIONS
This document reports mechanisms and principles for task D1.3 “Arrangement of
Access, sharing and re-use of Common Assets” in FIREBALL.
Mechanisms and processes on how to make these common assets accessible
among different communities are firstly identified (as per objective of the project
task) and then described starting from the framework in which Living Lab,
Future Internet and Smart Cities are collaborating and their scope (i.e. ENoLL,
Future Internet projects and Smart City network).
The document reported then how the process of building such common synergy
stems from the opportunity to put together specific and dedicated Assets, each
community (and each member of the communities) detains, and then promotes
this mix-up to give a result much wider than the single sum of its components.
The characterization of common assets by a legal perspective passed trough the
definition of:
- services as combination of assets and their access conditions (including
market conditions) and mechanisms;
- a catalogue approach (related to the best convenient way of advertising
the assets/services and sharing them in a project/pilot experimentation
way)
- way of collecting the assets (with specific schemas and a wiki style
approach)
A legal framework (describing how the access to this catalogue can be translated
into reality with an Association of Legal Entities - Virtual Organization Breeding
Environment,VBE – FIREBALL Alliance) was consequently identified to address
also IPR management and partnership agreements.
Finally, as validation of the approach described and the mechanisms identified
for Common Assets sharing and re-use, “practical examples of common assets
cross border sharing and services offered” were collected (and included in this
document) both from project major partners, from relevant projects (i.e. TEFIS,
SmartSantander) but also other contributions external to FIREBALL project.
Intellectual property right that protects inventions that are new, have an
inventive step and are capable of industrial application. It grants the holder the
exclusive right, for a limited period of time (generally 20 years), to stop others
from making, using or selling the patented invention without authorization.
Trade mark
Intellectual property right on a commercial signs that serves in business to
distinguish the goods and/or services of one undertaking from those of other
undertakings.
Use
The direct or indirect utilisation of FP6 and FP7 project results in research
activities other than those covered by the project or to develop, create and
market a product or process, or to create and provide a service.
REFERENCES
[1] FIREBALL DOW_(257291)_2010-04-26;
[2] FIREBAL D2.1 - ”Vision document on the Future Internet Emerging landscape for
Smart cities”;
[3] FIREBAL D2.2 – ”Community Workshop Report”
[4] http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities - Ami-Communities
FIREBALL Project page
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http://www.my-fire.eu/documents/11433/cc16f322-dac9-45a8-8704-fd21fa468244