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FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7,

THEME 3, OBJECTIVE 1.6


ICT – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES

COORDINATING ACTION

FP7-ICT-2009-5

D1.3 – OPERATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE


OF IPR ARRANGEMENTS FOR ACCESS,
SHARING AND REUSE OF COMMON ASSETS

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.

ABOUT FIREBALL ATTRIBUTES OF THIS OBJECT


The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project Project Type Coordinating Action
is to coordinate and align methodologies and Project name FIREBALL
approaches in the domains of Future Internet Project ID FP7-ICT-2009-5
(FI) research and experimentation testbeds Deliverable D1.3 (M18)
and user driven open innovation towards
Deliverable name Operational Infrastructure of IPR
successful innovation in smart city Arrangements for Access, Sharing
environments. and Reuse of Common Assets
Work package WP1, Task 1.3
In doing so, and in covering the whole FI
Object type
research and innovation value chain driven by
smart cities being the users of the FI, Object title
FIREBALL aims to establish effective forms of Version 1.9
cooperation across the FI innovation value Status Final
chain, creating synergies and cooperation Responsible org. ESoCE Net
practices among different research and Creators Alessandro Braccini and Roberto
innovation communities related to the FI. Santoro, ESoCE Net; Esa Posio,
Oulu; Michel Corriou, Images et
www.fireball4smartcities.eu Reseaux; Annika Sallstrom, CDT

Submitted 14.11.2011
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SECT. CONTENT PAGE

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 

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT


The objective of this deliverable is to identify the mechanisms and processes
through which the assets can be made accessible including arrangements related
to IPR management and partnership agreements.
The deliverable is framed in the work package 1; common assets (e.g. facilities,
methods, communities) that can be made available by different constituencies
related to Future Internet open innovation for potential future showcases that
are developed by Smart Cities. These common assets include technical
infrastructures, test-beds, know-how, technologies and applications,
methodologies and tools, and user communities.
The deliverable is part of task T1.3 “Arrangements for Access, Sharing and
Reuse of Common Assets”.
The task identifies the mechanisms and processes through which the common
assets can be made accessible, shared, reused and made interoperable among
the different communities and for Future Internet based innovation in the
context of Smart City strategy implementation. These mechanisms and
processes include arrangements related to IPR management, legal issues and
partnership agreements to implement open innovation approach. They also
include technical functionalities to ensure interoperability and data exchange as
required.
The final contribution of the work package is to demonstrate how configurations
of such assets, tailored to the needs and requirements of Smart City showcases,
will enable the implementation of Future Internet in Smart Cities.
The activity in this work package stems from the state of the art in projects,
methodologies and practices in the Future Internet and Living Labs
constituencies. In particular is taking advantage of results from previous projects
such as Legal IST, and from on going FIRE collaboration frameworks for handling
collaboration processes and related IPR issues.
The task 1.3 is framed in the work package 1 and based on the outcomes of the
task 1.2 whose objective is to identify and characterize the common assets
(“Repository and tool of Common assets”). This tasks is performed in
coordination with wp3 (cities) task 3.2 to ensure effective use of Common Assets
sharing mechanisms in the Roadmap. It will include a strategy and plan of
actions agreed among the Smart Cities network on how to make use of available
technical infrastructures, testbed facilities, applications and know-how regarding
Future Internet and Living Lab assets. The Smart Cities Roadmap (deliverable of
WP3) also includes a plan covering the development of partnerships for access
and exploitation of such assets.
“Repository and tool of Commons Assets” includes then a description and an
example of Assets from as many cases identified; giving the overview on how
these assets have to be configured tailored to the needs and requirements of
Smart Cities. This document starts from the Deliverable 1.2 results and identify
mechanisms and processes through which the common assets can be made
accessible, shared and reused among the different communities of Future
Internet, Smart Cities and Living Lab.

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1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE DOCUMENT


This document addresses the access of common assets among Smart Cities,
Future Internet and Living Lab Communities. The context and challenges
described in the following have been identified in the ICE 2011 paper:
Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet and Internet of Things Experimental
Platforms for Co-creating New Services within Smart-Cities.
Exploring, experimenting and evaluating Future Internet concepts, technological
artefacts and scenarios is not a trivial challenge, especially when several
research communities are involved in this process through different research
streams such as ‘Future Internet Research & Experimentation’, ‘Living Labs’,
‘Internet of Things’ and ‘smart cities’, just to cite a few. Furthermore,
researchers should engage all stakeholders for co-creating Future Internet value
and especially communities of users/citizens for solving important societal
issues. Today, involving users in research, design and innovation processes
constitutes a fast growing topic of interest as an evidence of the 212 existing
Living Labs. However, Living Labs need technology platforms such as the ones
proposed by FIRE and Internet of Things testbeds where stakeholders can
explore, experiment and evaluate new scenarios such as green services for
Smart Cities. The challenge is therefore to be able to identify how to properly
articulate Living Labs with FIRE and Internet of Things testbeds in order to make
sure that Future Internet innovative services will meet the expectations and
desires of user communities.
A city can be termed smart when “investments in human and social capital and
traditional (transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel
sustainable economic growth and a high quality of life, with a wise management
of natural resources, through participatory governance” (Caragliu a.o. 2009).
The Future Internet constitutes a key infrastructural requirement to fulfill the
promise of the smart city concept. Future Internet-enabled services provide the
foundation of applications targeting smart systems in health and care, energy
efficiency, mobility and transport, business support and e-government. However
in realizing the smart city concept there is a need to establish effective and
inclusive innovation ecosystems for stimulating open and user driven innovation.
Such innovation ecosystems will enable the effective, early and user driven
exploration, experimentation and evaluation of Future Internet technologies and
applications, as well as the co-creation of services enabled by them, in
environments that offer open innovation opportunities and early end-user
involvement. In this sense, smart Cities can be considered as very attractive
playgrounds for all stakeholders engaged in Future Internet research and
experimentation that would bring value in solving important societal issues.
A challenge therefore is to bring together the worlds of Future Internet and of
Living Labs. Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) projects are
working on setting up federated and interconnected experimental facilities and to
engage in experimentally driven research. Experimentally driven research on the
Future Internet primarily aims at investigating and validating innovative
networking architectures and service paradigms.

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The FIRE community estimates of high importance to assess the impact of


technological changes to the Internet in socioeconomic terms, and for that
purpose it is necessary to involve user communities on a large scale at an early
stage of development. Whereas FIRE stakeholders have been mainly targeting
experimentation services to the R&D community, they have observed a need to
enhance end-user support and end-user involvement, which is considered as a
relatively new and untested concept. They are investigating in how far they can
benefit from the methodologies of mature living labs, for example as developed
and applied within the European Network of Living Labs
(www.openlivinglabs.eu). In a Living Lab, relevant actors are integrated in a
flexible service and technology innovation ecosystem. Bringing the user at an
early stage into the innovation process allows all actors, including businesses
and industry, to better discover new scenarios and emerging behaviours and
user patterns and to assess the socioeconomic implications of next technological
solutions. In turn, Living labs may benefit from the available technical facilities
provided by FIRE experimentally driven research projects.

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.

1.3 OVERVIEW OF THIS DOCUMENT


This document is divided in four different sessions plus this introduction chapter.
The firs part (chapter 2) describes the scenario of the arrangements for access,
sharing and reuse of common assets. It includes in fact the point of view of the
three different communities and their related stakeholders’ interests in sharing
and accessing all these common elements.
The second part (chapter 3) describes all the common elements these
communities can share together and how these common elements are organized
and made public through specific instruments (i.e. catalogue).
Chapter 4 present the subsequent methods and mechanism of accessing such
catalogue of elements and the benefits of this kind of organization for all the
community members interested in sharing assets.
Finally some examples derived from real case applying the methods and
mechanisms described (to share and make these commons available) are
provided in the last chapter (chapter 5).

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2 COLLABORATION SCENARIO AMONG FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS


AND SMART CONNECTED CITIES COMMUNITIES FOR ACCESSING,
SHARING AND REUSING COMMON ASSETS

2.1 EXPECTED SERVICES OF THE COMMUNITIES – SCOPE OF THE


COLLABORATION

This paragraph describes the collaboration framework around the three


Communities of Living Labs, Future Internet and Smart Cities, whose envisaged
way and common cooperation have already been underlined in Community
Report (and the initiatives and events described) and in the Vision of Future
Internet Emerging Landscape.
Living Labs are connected through ENoLL: the European Network of Living Labs
as international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide.
The network of Living Lab can be classified per thematic domains or Domain
Networks: Living Labs that dialog on specific sectors such as Wellbeing, Health,
Inclusion, Energy & Environment, Media & Creativity etc.
Future Internet is based on the collaboration between projects that have
recognized the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to
maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace, and is concretized
through the organization of dedicated assemblies and symposiums initiatives.
Finally on November 2010 the launch of “Connected Smart Cities Network”
(namely Amsterdam, Manchester, Lisbon, Barcelona and Helsinki) has registered
one of the first connections among Smart Cities to closely work with the
EUROCITIES network and the European Network of Living Labs.
The Collaboration among these Communities 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. Methods and procedures for these
Assets advertisement and share are explained in the following two chapters of
this document.
From the point of view of the three communities of Living Lab, Smart Cities and
Future Internet the scope of the collaboration is then to make available these
assets and let them identifiable and searchable (in a broad way) mainly for
project experimentation purposes. This objective will allow these assets to
increase their potential utilization rate and also to create synergies and share
practices.
To go deeply in the scenario evaluation we can distinguish and make specific
examples of the three community members and describe the objective that
move the process of participating in these sharing mechanisms and the potential
advantages deriving from such participation.
A test bed can be interested in having its technology structure advertised and
utilized: it will make the specific asset available in order to find other
organizations or projects interested in taking advantage of it.
The access mechanisms and conditions necessary to request the specific assets
are case to case specific and depending on the testbed related organization;
these mechanisms and conditions, together with the type of asset’s ownership,
are external to this ground level as explained also later in chapter 3.
The specific organization related testbed will have in our example its benefit in
advertising and sharing its asset/s.

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A city could be interested in proposing experimentations (pilot testing projects)


to exploit and test its infrastructure or services (i.e. public wifi network, sensors
but also public transport network etc). His benefit will be related to the increased
chance to launch suck kind of experimentation projects. The city will have then
its convenience of advertising its infrastructure and services by proposing them
as Assets following the processes and mechanisms reported in the following
chapters of this document.
Finally in the Living Lab case with its related user base (potentially considered as
an asset similar to the infrastructure) and the potential interest in launching
experimentations aimed at testing and validating new services make this specific
case twice as interested in the common asset sharing and participation process.

2.2 CONTEXT OF THE COLLABORATION (INSTITUTIONAL, EU PROGRAM


BASED: FI-PPP, PCP, CIP, FIRE-ICT…)

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.

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3 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COMMON ASSETS FROM A BUSINESS


LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
In general the assets/resources available in the communities can be seen as
divided into social capital, human capital and financial capital. The different types
of capital can also be further characterized in terms of tangible and intangible
capital. Examples of soft intangible resources are the network of key actors
involved in generating and maintaining values in the FIREBALL networks, i.e. the
social capital (TEFIS contribution). Another example is MyFIRE1, which develops
an understanding of the role of testbeds and standardised processes for Future
Internet research. Standards are regarded as intangible assets.

3.1 TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS


As introduced in the previous chapter the identification of these assets can be
addressed in parallel with the processes adopted to make them available to the
other interested communities. This paragraph explains then the origin and the
identification of these assets together with the principles of their sharing
processes.
Example of assets can be an IT infrastructures (available from testbeds); users
(from Living Labs), Environment and environmental networks (typically available
in cities), Methodologies (again related to Living Labs); Policies (intended as the
regulation drawn by Cities to control the access to the infrastructures).
These assets can in addition be divided in tangible and intangible. The former
type of asset is characterized by physical resources while the second type is
characterized by non physical resources or rights that have a value for the
related organization and some kind of advantage in the marketplace.
Each one of the three communities (ENoLL, Future Internet and Smart Cities)
includes a large number of organizations or cities or testbeds, more or less
independent, that have these assets available on their own and utilize these
assets for projects or experimentations or other objectives in a way not
necessarily interrelated.
As anticipated also in the introduction of this document, the methodology applied
can be represented with the catalogue metaphor as per the below schema.

TestBeds

Assets
LivingLabs

Smartcities Catalogue

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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.

The catalogue approach is related to the principal reason and convenience in


advertising and sharing these assets: for example a project of experimentation
or a pilot.
A City, for example, that is interested in launching an experimentation to test its
specific infrastructure (i.e. wifi public network) can request users and specific
testbed facilities to launch and conduct this experimentation project.
A testbed that has the objective of make its infrastructure available and
operated can, again with this described sharing process based on open
catalogue, be requested from a pilot project to participate and have its testbed
active role in the experimentation.
Finally a Living Lab can either share its user resources for anyone interested in
involving them in specific experimentations or launch itself a pilot testing project
by finding and requesting the specific missing resources accessing the public
catalogue (with the same process illustrated for a City or a testbed).
The flexibility of the described approach can be extended and made more
adherent to the reality with the inclusion of a Moderator or Facilitator role. An
organization interested in launching a specific project can address directly this
actor that will interface all the retrieving and asset requesting processes suitable
for the specific experimentation (including also any contractual aspect).

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The logic described can be illustrated as per the below schemas:

TestBeds

Experimentation
Required assets Project
LivingLab Catalogue

Smartcity

Required Experimentation
assets
Project
TestBeds

LivingLab

Catalogue

Smartcity Facilitator

3.2 LOCAL AND CROSS BOARDER COLLABORATION


The sharing process and the consequent collaboration among the organizations
related to the interested Assets in the experimentation can in addition be based
on a local or cross border cooperation.
For a cross border cooperation the Methodology developed in the APOLLON
project can be adopted to address this further aspect where majour emphasis is
required for managing supporting partners and networks and strategies &
concepts for cooperation can assume an important role.

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3.3 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES


The common assets, as described in the previous paragraph and potentially
interested in the sharing process (to be made available to the member of the
communities) are of a different nature ranging from know-how, to software, to
user communities, to tangible assets and require different business and legal
arrangements and access mechanisms.
The following table provides a simplified typology of Common Assets and their
characterization scheme.

Access  Access 
Asset types Ownership IPR
Conditions Mechanisms

Technology  infrastructures

Software applications

user communities

Innovation methodologies

The table can be interpreted also as a template to circulate among the


Communities to collect the relevant and necessary information for the Assets to
be included in the catalogue (and base for the consequent sharing processes).
The example provided in the chapter 5, with the information on the assets
collected on real testbed and Living Lab (namely Oullabs, Oulu Urban Living
Labs, Images & Réseaux Testbed and TEFIS Testbed for Future Internet
Services) are based on an elaborated version of the previous template, as
included in the below table.

Protection Mechanisms Access Conditions Ownership


Access
Copyrigh Trademar Licens PP
Resource Type Patent Free Preferential Market EU R&D results Private Public Mechanism
t k e P
Methods,
Guidelines
SW and
Technologies
Business
Models
Network
Infrastructure
Lab Facilities
Collaboration
Platforms
User
Communities
Professional
Communities
Public Data
Policies

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.

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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.

IPR Intellectual Property Rights


Legal rights, regardless of whether they are based on registration, that aim to
protect creations and inventions resulting from intellectual activity in the
industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields. It includes Copyright, Trade Marks,
Patents, Know-how…
Know-how
A package of non-patented practical information resulting from experience and
testing that is secret (not generally known or easily accessible), substantial
(significant and useful for the production of the contract products), and identified
(described in a sufficiently comprehensive manner so as to make it possible to
verify that it fulfils the criteria of secrecy and substantiality).
Patent
Intellectual property rights that protect 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 authorisation
Trade mark
Intellectual property right on a commercial sign that serves in business to
distinguish the goods and/or services of one undertaking from those of other
undertakings
Access Conditions
Access conditions can be Free, Preferential or at Market value.
Licence
Permission granted by the owner of an intellectual property right (the licensor)
to a party (the licensee) to do something restricted by that right, often within a
defined time, context, market line, and/or territory. Non-exclusive licences
enable the licensor to grant further licences, whereas with an exclusive licence
the licensee enjoys the user rights to the exclusion of any other party, thus
limiting the licensor's rights to grant the licence to other parties.

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.

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A Knowledge transfer Process is typically performed for exchanging know-how.


This processes for capturing, collecting and sharing explicit and tacit knowledge,
including skills and competence includes both commercial and non-commercial
activities such as Future Internet experimentation-research collaborations,
consultancy, licensing, spin-off creation, researcher mobility, publication, etc.
3.3.1 Assets and services over Business Domain a representation model
The common assets interested by the sharing process and collected with the
methods and circulating the template described in the previous paragraph can be
represented also with a “Technology – Business Domain” matrix approach as per
the following schema:

Main Emerging Multimedia Domain Energy / Efficiency iHealth Domain Domain


Technologies Domain …

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.

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4 METHODS AND MECHANISM OF COMMON ASSETS:PARTNERSHIP


AGREEMENTS FOR EXPLOITATION OF COMMON ASSETS

4.1 LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATION


In the previous chapter we have described the approach and the interpretation
for the sharing of common assets among the three communities of Living Lab,
Smart Cities and Future Internet. We have described the catalogue approach as
interpretation of the processes necessary to make these assets available, known
and public accessible. This chapter introduce instead the Legal framework and
how the access to this catalogue can be translated into reality with specific
partnership agreements.

4.2 FIREBALL ALLIANCE COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATION


The Future Internet, Living Labs and Smart Cities Communities have created a
large amount of Common Assets, which they wish to make available to all
communities. The proposed collaborative framework and governance structure is
based on the well-established organizational forms of Collaborative Networked
Organizations (CNO), as described in the book by Springer 2008: Methods and
Tools for CNO.
In particular we propose to establish an Open Association of Legal Entities
(Virtual Organization Breeding Environment,VBE – FIREBALL Alliance) which
intend to favour the launch of future Internet Experimentations projects (VO –
Virtual Organizations) in real life environments (i.e. pilots). Each member would
provide the description and access mechanisms for its owned assets. The legal
nature of the Association will be an “Unincorporated Association”. The
Sustainability of the Association is based on membership fees and by
contributions of voluntary work by the members.
The main body of the association is a Steering Committee, composed by one
member from each of the founding members, in charge of keeping the
information on available Common Assets up-to-date. The Steering Committee
also facilitates the creation of the specific Experimentation Projects (VOs) for the
projects to be launched, governed by a separate agreement. Below is a proposed
scheme for the Legal Framework and IPR management of the proposed
Association.

4.2.1 Legal Framework for the governance of the Common Assets

• 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

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• This Agreement envisages two main categories of know-how


and intellectual property rights:
– “Independent IPR” means: (1) any know-how or
Intellectual Property owned or held by a “Association
of Legal Entities” Member prior to signing this
Agreement; and (2) any know-how or Intellectual
Property generated or acquired by a “Association of
Legal Entities” Member after signing this Agreement
but in a manner independent of any work undertaken
within any Experimentation Project.
– “Experimentation projects IPR” means any know-how
or Intellectual Property generated or acquired by an
Experimentation project Participant as part of any
Experimentation project.
– Ownership
• Ownership of Independent IPR remains the property of the
“Association of Legal Entities” Member(s) in question. This is
so even if the Independent IPR is later used as part of a
Experimentation project activity.
• Ownership of Experimentation project IPR remains the
property of the Experimentation project Participant(s) that
generated or acquired it. In cases where the Experimentation
project IPR has been a joint effort among two or more
Experimentation project Participants those Participants should
endeavour to agree on the ownership of the IPR either in the
Experimentation project Agreement or elsewhere in ad hoc
agreements. The “Association of Legal Entities” Members
acknowledge that, if no agreement is reached on joint
Experimentation Project IPR, the ownership of the joint
Experimentation Project IPR will be determined by applicable
national law.
– Sharing
• Any sharing or licensing of Independent IPR or
Experimentation Project IPR among the “Association of Legal
Entities” Members and Experimentation Project Participants
shall be a matter of negotiation. This Agreement is not
intended and should not be interpreted to create any IPR
licenses or assignments between or among the Association
Members or Project Participants. Therefore, the Association
Members are encouraged to provide for appropriate license or
assignment provisions in the Project agreement(s) or
elsewhere in ad hoc agreements.
– Protection and Maintenance
• “Association of Legal Entities” Members are responsible for
ensuring the protection or maintenance of their own
Independent IPR and Project IPR. This includes bearing the
costs for any and all applications, registrations and renewals,
and any related legal fees and expenses.

4.3 INITIAL WIKI-STYLE PORTAL CONCEPT


In this paragraph a concrete description on how the catalogue (with the list of
Services for the Asset sharing process) is provided and exemplified.

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The characteristics of this catalogues, as analyzed in chapter 3, are reinforced by


the flexibility and the freedom of contribution that leave the different
constituencies the cooperation and sharing activities virtually free of any bind
and duty.
To this extent a wiki was selected as suitable tool to host the catalogue
information; the Ami-Communities portal (based on MediaWiki 1.9.3) was
adopted to conduct the initial experimentation within the FIREBALL project.
A wiki is a website where the creation and editing of any number of interlinked
web pages via a web browser is allowed for all the visiting users with a simplified
markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor and is used for creating
collaborative works. Some permit control over different functions (level of
access) and the tracking of the article modifications allow the content of the
pages to be created on a collaborative model and based over supervision
performed by the community itself.
All the FIREBALL alliances and virtual association members are then responsible
for the description and the update of the information provided in these pages
thus assuring the quality and the effectiveness of this tool as closest as possible
with the real panorama of these assets.
In such context the role of the moderator supports the below described functions
by:
- Maintaining the wiki tool and the database with its accesses;
- Providing standard guidelines and content style on how the information
have to be included and organized in the catalogue;
- Give support to association members for the employment of the wiki tool
and the content submission and revision process.
In addition it keeps the original role of giving guidelines and information to
anyone interested in specific Services and in accessing the catalogue tool and
the relative Services.

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

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5 PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF COMMON ASSETS CROSS BORDER SHARING


ANDSERVICES OFFERED
This chapter report some contributions from Living Labs and two testbeds with
the information on the assets, their conditions and access mechanisms, collected
by circulating the template described in chapter 3.3.

5.1 OULLABS, OULU URBAN LIVING LABS


The Centre for Internet Excellence (CIE) and its founder organizations; the
technical Research Center of Finland (VTT), the University of Oulu, the Oulu
University of Applied Sciences, Technopolis, Nokia and City of Oulu have
established OULLabs to help customers to expedite growth of their business by
helping them to utilize the infrastructures and networks for co-creation of user-
centric appliances, services and solutions.
OULLabs acts as host organization for local service providers and test
environments. OULLabs offers services to all R&D development phases. OULLabs
acts as a service provider or finds a suitable service provider from its wide
network to fulfill customer needs.

OULLabs services are an inventory of resources associated Future Internet,


Living Labs and City of Oulu. The inventory focuses on the relations and
synergies between these resources and how resources can be combined and
used for cities’ and urban development and innovation. Assets are listed in
couple of thematic groups; ICT, eHealth, Learning & interaction, Smart City,
Research and Enablers
ICT; Convergence Laboratory, MultiMedia Studio, panOULU wlan network, UBi-
displays, Type Approval services, Octopus Network etc.
eHealth; HYTKE (Usability lab), Oulu Wellness Institute, Technology Health Care
Center
Learning & interaction; Future School of Finland concept = several learning
environments (schools), Future Virtual Learning environment (3D environment),
LearnLab
Recearch and Smart City; Ubiqutious OULU, a vide range of ubiqutious
computing and communication set ups from panOULU wlan network and sensor
network to UBI programs
Enablers; City of Oulu, BusinessOulu, Center for Internet Excellence, OULLabs,
NorthRULL, OWELA, MediaTeam Oulu, Bioforum Oulu

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Protection Mechanisms Access Conditions Ownership Access Mechanisms


Resource Type Copyright Trademark Patent License Free Preferential Market EU R&D result Private Public PPP
Methods, Guidelines The method is There is no The method is
currently free consortium IP on this currently private,
but restricted part. even if not
to partners. confidential
SW and Test User A Teagle Group
Technologies Community SW tool owns the source
(patiolla.fi) has been code.
developed in Future
Service society
project. Owned by
city of Oulu.
Business Models The Business OULLabs business Service
Model, The model is Private. Offer is
Business Plan, the public.
Marketing Plan are
not public
Network For OULLabs For OULLabs For others access Some of the Majority of the
Infrastructure partners members is available for infrastructure has infrastructure is
mentioned market price been developed with owned by City of
above. conditions EU funded project Oulu or
educational
institutes
Lab Facilities For OULLabs For OULLabs For others access Owned by
partners members is available for company or
mentioned market price educational
above. conditions institute
Collaboration
Platforms
User Communities www.patioll For OULLabs For OULLabs For others access PATIO is owned by
a.fi is partners members is available for OULLabs
owned by mentioned market price
OULLabs above. conditions
Professional . For OULLabs For OULLabs For others access .
Communities partners members is available for
mentioned market price
above. conditions
Public Data Yes Yes

Policies

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5.1.1 Oulu UbanLiving Labs - Productized services of OULLabs


OULLabs offer is based on the integration of testbed and living lab assets for
the Future Internet products and services development cycle. All services are
available via OULLabs “One stop shop” service

Type of Service offered Service description Access Pricing Facility


service mechanism

enabler Project management Planning, organizing and Contract Hourly OULLabs,


service running customers test- based www.oullabs.f
and pilot -projects i
enabler Project management Data collection, analysis Contract Hourly OULLabs
service and reporting based
enabler Project initiation and To help companies to Contract Hourly OULLabs
coordination submit and participate based
national and international
projects
enabler Test user recruitment Recruiting of test users for Contract Based on OULLabs
customer projects amount of
users
enabler Virtual Tests in PATIO Customer can get own License/ Fixed price Test User
(www.patiolla.fi) project into PATIO virtual Contract per project community
test environment tool, PATIO
(patiolla.fi)
enabler User studies Recruiting of test users and Contract Based on patiolla.fi
organizing user studies amount of
users
enabler User polls Recruiting of test users and Contract Based on patiolla.fi
organizing user polls amount of
users
enabler Moderation of virtual Moderation service for Contract Hourly patiolla.fi
tests virtual tests and discussions based
in PATIO
enabler Access to moderate Customer (3rd party) can License Fixed price patiolla.fi
virtual tests get access to PATIO tool to per license
moderate virtual tests and
discussions
ICT Product testing services To help companies, Contract Hourly OULLabs or
research and educational based customers
institutions and facility
communities who need help
with practical testing of
product development
ICT Product testing services Test equipment and facility License/ Based on OULLabs or
rents Contract service service
provider provider
pricing
ICT Product testing services Find and book needed test Contract Hourly OULLabs
equipment or facilities based
ICT Product testing services Arrange needed licenses Contract Hourly OULLabs
and assist or run the test based

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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

enabler Seminar services OULLabs offers organizing Contract Based on TBD


services for thematic Seminar
seminars
enabler Access to test OULLabs offers a channel to Contract or Fixed price Innovation
environments get access to real test License per environments
environments, test labs and environment and test beds
facilities
enabler Analysis & reports of Analysis and reports out of Contract Hourly OULLabs
test data gathered test data based
expert
service
enabler Visits to innovation OULLabs arranges guided Scheduled Based on Innovation
environments visits to the innovation visits environment environments
environments, test labs, and size of and test beds
future school environments the visitor
and innovation & group
technology showroom

Examples and Description of some of the numerious services provided

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.

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Research and Development Center of Wellness technology (HYTKE). The


equipment, facilities and software of the center can be used for different stages
of development or research, such as rapid prototyping, usability evaluation,
measurement and evaluation of the reliability of the developed equipment. The
center's hardware and software implementations allows experiments either in
the laboratory or in a real life environment. Instruments are also suitable for
analysis of other types of human-machine interaction and different observational
studies.
Technology Health Care Center Oulu offers product testing and analyzing
services to companies and research institutes. This service is called TT Kaakkuri,
product testing service. Testing is conducted by healthcare professionals in real
healthcare environment with real patients.
In product testing service professional health care personnel and product test
specialist creates an individual test packages tailored for customers' needs.
UBI-Hotspot (display) is a large public display, which combines features of
information content and commercial use in a unique way. A hotspot alternates
between a passive broadcast mode and an interactive mode.
In the broadcast mode the entire 57 inch display is allocated for digital signage
advertisement broadcast, the UBI-channel. In the interactive mode the display is
divided between the UBI-channel and touch screen service portal, the UBI-
portal. The transition in between passive and interactive modes is triggered by
either touching the display of by face detection from the video feed of the two
overhead cameras.
Commercial use in UBI-hotspots is available via both services, UBI-channel and
UBI-portal.

Type of Service offered Service description Access Pricing Facility


service mechanism
ICT ICT test services The panOULU offers an Contract Based on City of Oulu,
open and free Internet test run MediaTeam University
connection within its and of Oulu, WLAN-
coverage area. PanOULU analysis of network,
WLAN network has ca gathered www.ubioulu.fi
1300 WLAN access data
points in Oulu and eight
nearby towns. They offer
an efficient short range
data transfer which
enables a functioning
interaction with the
Ubiquitous Oulu.
ICT ICT test services UBI-hotspot is a large Contract Based on MediaTeam at
public display, which which University of Oulu,
combines features of service is UBi-Displays,
information content and used www.ubioulu.fi
commercial use in a
unique way. A hotspot
alternates between a
passive broadcast mode
and an interactive mode.
Advertisement broadcast
via the UBI-channel or
touch screen service
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are available for 3rd


parties.

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

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ICT Approval & Regulatory approvals Contract hourly Grant4Com,


Certification worldwide and based, www.grant4com.fi
Services additional certificates depends
on service
eHealth Product testing and Technology Healthcare Contract hourly City of Oulu,
analyzing services Center Oulu provides based, Technology Health
to companies and product testing services depends Care Center Kaakkuri,
research institutes enabling improvements on service www.ouka.fi/ttkaakkur
to product’s i
functionality. Testing is
conducted by healthcare
professionals in real
healthcare environment
with real patients
eHealth Usability test Wellness technology R&D Contract hourly Oulu University of
services for center (HYTKE) offers its based, Applied Sciences,
eHealth and Well services to wellness depends HYTKE,
beeing companies. HYTKE on service www.oamk.fi/hankkee
provides the newest t/hytke
technology devices and
software for the R&D
and testing purposes.

5.2 IMAGES & RÉSEAUX TESTBED AND LIVING LAB MODEL


The table hereunder is filled for ImaginLab which is both a testbed and living lab.
ImaginLab is technically and « commercially » operated by Images & Réseaux
cluster, which is the only legal entity in charge of ImaginLab. According to the
French law, Images & Réseaux has non-profit association status, like many
French clusters that have been founded in 2005 (they are more than 70 official
clusters in France, at the cross-connection of a region and a business domain).
What’s a French cluster? It’s an association gathering academics, large
companies and SMEs in order to promote collaborative projects. It is a
mandatory gate to get public funding for collaborative R&D (a project has to be
selected by a cluster before being subsidized by government and/or region).

Imaginlab has established partnership with:


- Telecom Bretagne, academic, has lead the public Request For Quotation
in order to equip the testbed platform;
- M@rsouin (a GIS status, GIS meaning in French “Groupement d’Intérêt
Scientifique”), which a group of research lab. M@rsouin brings the user
panel management know-how in ImaginLab. It is considered as a sub-
contractor of Images & Réseaux in the proposal carried on by Images &
Réseaux;
- Lannion Tregor Agglomération: Smart City, partner of ImaginLab
(provides the optical fiber network, involved in user database building in
Lannion);
- Brest Métropole Océane: Smart City, partner of ImaginLab (provides
optical fiber network and buildings for LTE antennas, involved in user
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Protection Mechanisms Access Conditions Ownership Access


Mechanisms
Resource Type Copyright Trademark Patent License Free Preferential Market EU R&D result Private Public PPP
Methods, Guidelines No (*) No (*) No (*) No (*) The method is No (*) No (*) ImaginLab methodology The method is currently No No
currently free but was inspired by private, even if not
restricted to Images&Réseaux confidential
partners. contribution in EU FP7
project. Images&Réseaux
contributes UDI (User
Driven Innovation)
deliverables with methods
to be applied versus the
phase of the R&D process.
There is no consortium IP
on this part.
SW & Technologies N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A. (**) N.A.
(**)
Business Models No No No No No Provided to partners No ImaginLab Business Model Detailed prices are Service Offer is No
when required (see was provided to PanLab private. More than that, public.
PanLab project). The project under confidentiality ImaginLab is an on-
Business Model, the agreement demand answer to a
Business Plan, the customer request. So,
Marketing Plan. Business even if the building
Model relies on market blocks are public,
surveys that are not ImaginLab has to provide
public and are not a customized technical
provided to any partner. and commercial
proposal.
Network Infrastructure N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. For ImaginLab For I&R cluster members For others. ImaginLab is N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
partners mentioned an open platform so its
above. access is available for
any entity (private or
public, national or
international) at market
price conditions
Lab Facilities N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. For ImaginLab For I&R cluster members For others. ImaginLab is N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
partners mentioned an open platform so its
above. access is available for
any entity (private or
public, national or
international) at market
price conditions
Collab. Platforms N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. (***) N.A. (***) N.A. (***) N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
User Communities N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. For ImaginLab For I&R cluster members For others. ImaginLab is No Access the user panel is No No
partners mentioned an open platform so its only granted thru
above. access is available for M@rsouin. This is a legal
any entity (private or issue (CNIL in France–
public, national or Commission National
international) at market Informatique et Liberté)
price conditions as M@rsouin is charge
to guarantee data privacy
fulfillment.
Professional N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. For ImaginLab For I&R cluster members For others. ImaginLab is No Access the user panel No No
Communities partners mentioned an open platform so its (including professional) is
above. access is available for only granted thru
any entity (private or M@rsouin.
public, national or
international) at market
price conditions
Public Data No No No No Yes (by definition) No No No No Yes (by No
definition)
Policies Not in the scope Not in the scope of Not in the Not in the scope Not in the scope of Not in the scope of I&R Not in the scope of I&R Not in the scope of I&R Not in the scope of I&R Not in the scope Not in
of I&R (****) I&R (****) scope of I&R of I&R (****) I&R (****) (****) (****) (****) (****) of I&R (****) the
(****) scope
of I&R
(****)
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N.A.: Not Applicable


I&R: Images & Réseaux
(*) Images & Réseau would have liked to implement this. Not refused by
M@rsouin but not done. Has been done by other living labs. The name
“ImaginLab” is registered a trademark in France and Images & Réseaux belongs
imaginlab.fr, imaginlab.eu and imaginlab.org domains.
(**) ImaginLab is not an R&D entity, meaning it is not developing software or
other technologies. It is providing technical building blocks (testbed) and user
panels (living lab) in order to perform experimentations. The Intellectual
Properties, the potential royalties or licensing issues about project outputs are
handled inside the project consortium between project partners. As a testbed
and living lab, ImaginLab has no view on the IPR agreement. As a cluster,
Images & Réseaux has no view on the content of the IPR agreement but Images
& Réseaux urges the consortium to have an established IPR agreement from Day
1. IPR agreement MUST be established at mid-term review. The policy has been
derived from the lessons learned at the cluster creation (2005) and first projects
post-assessment.
(***) The definition of collaboration platform is unclear for I&R. In France,
platform is closely linked with testbed. At European level, a platform like NEM
initiative is something like a think-tank. With testbed meaning, ImaginLab as a
whole can be considered as collaboration platform: it was build by various
partners (mentioned above), with public funding (co-financed by government
and Bretagne region). The target of ImaginLab is to share common resources
between different public/private entities thru a service offer, which is operated
by the cluster. Even if it is not mandatory, it is highly recommended to use
ImaginLab for the collaborative projects, which are selected by I&R. With think-
tank meaning, I&R in itself is a collaboration platform (gathering different type of
entities, with more than 200 members. Membership and associated fees are
public information (available on I&R web site).
(****) Global policies are not in the scope of Images & Réseaux cluster. Global
policies are written by politics at various levels (national, regional, local). For
example, about public data openness, Rennes Métropole is a leader in France
(before Paris). But it is not obvious that this policy can be applied to other.

5.2.1 ImaginLab – Living Lab/TestBed Services


ImaginLab offer relies on a accurate User Driven Innovation methodology,
where the end-user is implied as soon as possible in the Future Internet
products and services development cycle.
Imaginlab is a telco grade Next Generation Network which is dedicated to
experimentation. All the technologies involved in imaginlab are the pillars of
Future Internet for telecommunication operators, broadcasters, content
providers and application developers . The access networks which are located
in different cities in Brittany (Brest, Lannion and Rennes) are interconnected
through a very high bandwidth backbone with an IMS (IP Multi-media
Subsystem) core network.

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Future Internet, Multimedia Technology and aplication development Service schema

Service Asset Access Condition


Access to testbed environment • Antennas Rental
• Terminals
• 3d TV set
Access to network • FTT Rental
(testbed technology / • 4G LTE
Infrastructure) • Sensor Network
• DVB – T2
• IMS Core Network
User Engagement • User Groups On Demand
• Group Constitution • User Community
• Experimentation protocol
• Feedback
User Experimentation • Methods (focus groups, On Demand / consulting
(Analysis / study) brainstorming, mockups)

Access to collaborative • Meeting room Rental


environment • Facility
• Collaborative suite (sw)
Experiment setup / support • Manpower On demand
Access to Media Content • Media content On demand
• Videos

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5.3 TEFIS – TESTBED FOR FUTURE INTERNET SERVICES


TEFIS (TEstbed for Future Internet Services) is a large-scale integrating project
addressing the FP7 work programme objective ICT-2009.1.6: Experimental
Facilities. ITEFIS will support 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 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.

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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.

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This specific Future Internet experiment is combining experimental resources


from two different testbeds; the SQS IMS testbed in Spain and the Botnia Living
Lab in Sweden.
The experiment is focused on a mobile application over IMS, and is divided into
three different phases of the service development life-cycle:
- Concept development
- Prototype development
- Business model definition

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.

The experimenter has an idea of developing an application for content sharing


over IMS. The first step of the experiment is to get further insights from
potential end-users via Botnia Living Lab before starting the development and to
be able to prioritize their development efforts, they will then continue through to
the second phase where the experimenter has a first prototype available of the
application and is performing system acceptance testing (including functional
and non-functional) via the IMS testbed and usefulness and usabilty evaluation
with end-users via resources from Botnia Living Lab. In the third phase before
roll-out the experimenter will involve their potential business partner to work on
the business model definition and to elaborate on the business partnership. In
this third phase both end-users feedback and network usage is monitored and
analysed. The phase involves resources from both Botnia Living Lab and from
the IMS testbed.

Fig. 1: Picture 1: Overview experimental procedure

The TEFIS platform is offering the following to support Future Internet


experiments:
- Designing
- Planning
- Management of experimental workflow

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- Configuration assistance
- Experimental data management
- Reporting
- Knowledge sharing with other exeprimenters

And Access to different testbed facilities and service offers independent of


geographical location.

5.4 SMARTSANTANDER: A CITY-WIDE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY


The SmartSantander research facility will be sufficiently large, open and flexible
to enable horizontal and vertical federation with other experimental facilities and
to stimulate the development of new applications by different types of users,
including experimental advanced research on IoT technologies, and realistic
impact assessment based on users’ acceptability tests. The facility will comprise
more than 20,000 sensors and will be based on a real life IoT deployment in a
urban setting. The core of the facility will be located in the city of Santander and
its surroundings, on the north coast of Spain. SmartSantander embraces the
idea of enabling the Future Internet of Things to become a reality applying a
living labs approach.
Although the main target of SmartSantander is research oriented to create a
large-scale testbed allowing open experimentation with key enabling IoT device
technologies, it is obvious that such a kind of realistic setting grants the
potential of involving real end-users in the experimentation process. There is a
long list of potential applications identified by SmartSantander, in close
cooperation with the City Council and the Regional Government of Cantabria, as
suitable to be supported by the infrastructure being deployed. Most of them offer
a big environmental and social potential: parking spaces and traffic control,
environmental management and monitoring (pollution, CO2, noise, etc.), public
installations management (heating, A/C, lighting, etc.), public transportation,
parks and gardens control (irrigation, etc), social assistance (elderly, disabled,
etc.), etc. Due to time and budget limitations, during the execution of the
project just some concret services will be deployed in order to validate the asset
deployed. Other interesting services are expected to come up later on as a result
of parallel initiatives linked to the project at the regional level, as the project is
commited to ensure the availability of the infrastructure beyond the end of the
project.
The asset will be operated and maintained by the consortium during the
execution of the project. After that period, several solutions are being
considered. Among the choices that are being currently envisaged, and will be
further analizyed, are the creation of a new legal entity for its exploitation,
and/or the tranfer of both maintainance obligations and ownership to a third
party. In both cases, the use of the asset would have to be bound to legal and
financial conditions.
The benefits of the infrastructure addressed by the SmartSantander project are
two-fold:
- Deployed facility will enable a wide range of experimentations, supporting
different technology aspects and catering for different user groups
(researchers, service providers, and end users). Furthermore, through
FIRESTATION CA, the project is collaborating with other FIRE projects to
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- SmartSantander aims at optimizing the societal benefits of investing to


build up such a city-scale infrastructure, so its been designed to support
real life services, useful to the citizen, at the same time it copes with its
primary target of providing an ambitious experimentation platform for the
research community. E.g. first cycle deployment will consist of a big
number of parking sensors able to provide support for experimentation of
multi-hop techniques on different topologies, and will also provide the
City Council means to control the proper use of the parking slots reserved
to disabled people.

Asset type Specification of the asset Shareable asset?


Network Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor It will be available under specific
infrastructure Network, with specific experimentation conditions: experiments to be carried out
capabilities allowing remote on top of it should pass a ‘sanity test’ to
configuration of the different types of ensure they do not compromise the
nodes (sensors, repeaters, and infrastructure itself. Deep technological
gateways). At the same time, it will knowledge would be required.
provide real services for the
municipality of the city.
Software Basic applications for node Access to basic applications would be
applications configuration and management in order granted for experimentation purposes in
to be able to validate the operation of case it is required. Applications for
the system. Initial approach of first set specific services being competence of the
of service oriented applications related municipality not within the scope.
to the management of the parking
spaces.
Innovation Currently not available. They will be Will be available in the future, based on
environments addressed during the execution of the a Living Labs approach. The access will
user communities project, once the infrastructure is be limited to non-sensitive information to
available, to involve third parties and guarantee personal data protection, and
end-users in the creation of services prevent misuse of the information
based on the sensors’ data. provided.
Innovation and Will be described as outcomes of the They will be available in due time in the
testing project, including the processes project web-site:
methodologies followed up to select most relevant use www.smartsantander.eu
cases, best practices, etc.

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.

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Apart form this, SmartSantander is aware of its potential to reduce time to


market for new services, by shortening required R&D cycles, providing a fast
end-user feedback for the assessment on socio-economic impact to the
European researchers and service developers, and helping to make technology
benefits more visible to the EU citizens. This will be facilitated by the deployment
of novel IoT solutions and application pilots on a realistic target environment
involving real end-users. Besides, and early exposure to the first applications
and services of IoT technologies can encourage its adoption and lower the
boundaries of social acceptance by the public, which often acts as an inhibitor of
technological advance.
By the time this paper was prepared, the first deployment phase was being
carried out by the SmartSantander project. By June 2011, most part of the first
2,000 sensors corresponding to the first phase of the project will have been
deployed across the city. Using this preliminary approach to the final testbed,
the project will issue the first Open Call to select experiments to be funded in
order to run experimental research on top of it. At the same time, end-user
perception with regard to the first services will be analyzed by means of surveys
among the citizenship, and some services related to specific urban mobility use-
cases will be further improved under a Customer Driven Innovation approach
(CDI). These methodologies are also common to most Living Labs experiences.
In the future stages of the project, and once the assets become progressively
and publicly available, it is expected to involve wider communities in the usage
of the infrastructure.

5.5 ELLIOT: AN EXPERIENTAL LIVING LAB FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS


The ELLIOT project aims to develop an IoT experiential platform where
users/citizens are directly involved in co-creating, exploring, experimenting and
evaluating new ideas, concepts and technological artefacts related to IOT
applications and services. It is intended to allow studying the potential impact of
IoT and the Future Internet in the context of the Open User Centred Innovation
paradigm and of the Living Lab approach within three different use cases. In this
paper the focus is on the green services use case that constitute a building block
of environment monitoring in the Smart City. The green services use case has its
origin in the ICT Usage Lab, which is located in the South East of France and is
run in the urban community of Nice Cote d’Azur (NCA). The green services use
case is supported by local authorities and involves the local stakeholders such as
the local institution (ATMOPACA) for the measurement of air quality.
Citizens do not seem to feel so much concerned about air quality despite the
availability of advanced models (ATMOPACA) which can produce reliable
indicators as well as portals providing access to such measures. The main use of
such data seems to be limited to population alert (elderly people, children and
people with cardio-respiratory problems). The working hypothesis is that a
citizen may better engage in the use (if not even in the creation) of green
services (services using environmental data, in this case air quality and/or noise
level) when being given the opportunity to learn and use IoT set-ups that will
allow a better appropriation of the environmental data.
The Green Services @ ICT-UL (ICT Usage Lab) is supported by INRIA (Sophia
Antipolis), FING and VU Log (France). The objectives of this use case are:
- To define within an open participative innovation process "green services"
for citizens and city administrators in charge of air quality and noise
disturbance. These green services will be based on the collection and
processing of collected pollution data and will allow users to tailor their
own information space about local pollution;

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- To study the feasibility of a distributed mobile network of pollution


sensors to collect environmental data;
- To study the impacts on citizens’ behaviour and recommendations related
to environment monitoring (e.g. pollution level).
Green Services are based on both fixed and mobile sensors (green watches and
electrical vehicles) and supported by a green services portal. Types of mobile
sensors used are the Green Watch (watch-embedded environmental sensors and
noise sensors to collect environmental data), and the Sensor Vehicle (electric
vehicles equipped with proper sensors to collect environmental data). Users
involved in this Green Services testbed are citizen (citizen from a given
neighbourhood, citizens with cardio-respiratory problems or sportsmen) and
other environment monitoring stakeholders (such as local policy makers,
environmental specialists, urban architects, etc.). In Fig. 3, ELLIOT common
assets are described (Green Services use case).

Asset types Specification of assets Shareable assets


Technologies Distributed mobile network of pollution It is intended to open the access to
and sensors to collect environmental data. collected environmental data to citizens
infrastructures The Green Watch: watch-embedded and other stakeholders that they could
environmental sensors and noise sensors co-create their own services.
to collect environmental data;
The Sensor Vehicle: electric vehicles
equipped with proper sensors to collect
environmental data.
Software Environmental data website such as Both websites are intended to be publicly
applications AtmoPaca website for air quality in the accessible.
PACA region.
Green services website for supporting
citizens driven services such as mobility
services and wellbeing services.
Innovation The ICT Usage Lab constitutes the
environments innovation environment operating as a
user multidisciplinary research and innovation
communities platform. The ERIC local structure
provides the user communities.
Innovation and Participative Requirements techniques
testing and serious gaming will be used for
methodologies supporting the creativity and
requirements workshops. Ethnography
studies and usage mining techniques will
be used as well.

5.6 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS


In this paragraph we report additional contributions from Living Labs and
testbeds for FIREBALL commons asset catalogue.

Service type Ownership IPR Access Conditions Assets


Living Lab Future Care - Wallscreen, touch
Lab at Humtec and feel user
interface
- The sensing floor
(Future Care Floor)

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- 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.

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GLOSSARY (IPR HELPDESK)


Access rights
In research and innovation projects, this term means licences and user rights to
foreground or background.
Background
Information and intellectual property rights (granted or applied) held by the
participants prior to their accession to the grant agreement and which are
needed to carry out the project or to use foreground.
Fair and reasonable conditions
Appropriate conditions according to FP7 rules, including possible financial terms
that take into account the specific circumstances of the request for access, for
example, the actual or potential value of the foreground or background to which
access is requested and/or the scope, duration or other characteristics of the use
envisaged.
Foreground
All the results, whether or not they can be protected, that are generated under a
project. Such results include information and related intellectual property rights
(see also background).
Intellectual Property Rights
Legal rights, regardless of whether they are based on registration, that aim to
protect creations and inventions resulting from intellectual activity in the
industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.
Know-how
A package of non-patented practical information resulting from experience and
testing that is secret (not generally known or easily accessible), substantial
(significant and useful for the production of the contract products), and identified
(described in a sufficiently comprehensive manner so as to make it possible to
verify that it fulfils the criteria of secrecy and substantiality). [Definition under
article 1(i) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 772/2004 of 27 April 2004 on the
application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of technology transfer
agreements].
Knowledge transfer
Processes aimed at capturing, collecting and sharing explicit and tacit
knowledge, including skills and competence. It includes both commercial and
non-commercial activities such as research collaborations, consultancy, licensing,
spin-off creation, researcher mobility, publication, etc. [Communication from the
Commission, Improving knowledge transfer between research institutions and
industry across Europe: embracing open innovation. Implementing the Lisbon
agenda, April 2007].
License
Permission granted by the owner of an intellectual property right (the licensor)
to a party (the licensee) to do something restricted by that right, often within a
defined time, context, market line, and/or territory. Non-exclusive licences
enable the licensor to grant further licences, whereas with an exclusive licence
the licensee enjoys the user rights to the exclusion of any other party, thus
limiting the licensor's rights to grant the licence to other parties.
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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.

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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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