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The OpenIoT project is continuing its trajectory of high-profile contributions with its very successful participation in IoT Week held in London June 16-20. OpenIoT is now seen as an absolute core flagship project in the IoT space in the EU and world-wide. OpenIoT organised two sessions (IERC Activity Chains 2 and 4), contributed to three more including the Architectural Reference Model session and co-organized the Hackathon.
In the Hackathon, OpenIoT scooped three prestigious prizes including the Semantic Interoperability award. They also had an information booth, distributing the OpenIoT-VDK (a ready to use virtual machine image for developing of IoT Services) and interacted with many visitors interested in OpenIoT’s technologies and evolution of the project. The Virtual Development Kit enables any developer to quickly get a complete development environment up and running.
The IoT Week is the pre-eminent IoT-related event together industry and academia from around the world. This time at London and as every year IoT Week 2014 brought focus to the emerging opportunities; for connecting the global business and research communities innovating at the boundaries of IoT and also promoting international collaboration and addressing societal and market issues. This year, for the first time, a hackathon with a series of challenges was organised and OpenIoT sponsored one of the offered prices. The participation was a complete success, with more than 20 participants, 6 development teams were created to work on the most relevant challenges addressing IoT interoperability.
The IoT week hackathon was a tremendous success for the OpenIoT teams winning 3 awards including the grand challenge of Semantic Interoperability.
The OpenIoT members including Prem Jayaraman (CSIRO), Aleksandar Antonic (University of Zagreb) and Hoan Nguyen (INSIGHT) successfully collaborated with David Fernández Ros and Jose Felix Castillo Moya from HOPU (www.hopu.eu) and David Guillén Jiménez, Marcio Mateus from EAR-IT project (www.ear-it.eu)
Projects Summary:
Noise makes the Difference (Hoan, Aleksandar, Marcio Mateus) – A service that can be created on the fly to discover ambulances in the vicinity using the EAR-IT and OpenIoT platform. Noise Makes the Difference has the objective of creating services for emergency that take advantage of noise sensors installed in the environment. These Noise and Mobility-enhanced Vehicular Emergency Services (NoMeVES) discover emergency service vehicles and help them to travel efficiently travel crowded areas combining technologies provided by the OpenIoT platform and EAR-IT noise sensors.
The key features of Noise Makes the Difference system are:
- Linked sensor data – OpenIoT will annotate and store the data sensed by each sensor, keeping not only the data values acquired but also information related with the physical properties that such values represent, as well as, time and localisation characteristics.This behaviour allows to a user to browse historical data/events in specific areas (e.g. in a street, in a city district), in specific periods of time without the need of the knowledge about the localisation of specific sensors.
- Notification system – Noise can be used to several applications, such detection of outstanding situations like crashes and nearby emergency vehicles. The notification system, except using it to alert nearby users can be also used for to notify public services about events that are occurring in a real-time.
- Streaming publish/subscribe system – The developed system can receive data streams from multiple sensors, where users can subscribe to a specific data or event, receiving filtered data from different data streams with the set up of only one connection.
The Noise makes the Difference team won the following awards:
Spark Prize:
Sensors Go Social (Prem, David, Hose, David) – Ubiquitous IoT Integrator to Break the Silos Our objective was interconnecting IoT based hardware platforms using OpenIoT middleware to develop an Interoperable environment getting rid of information and system architecture silos. This will allow users to develop applications and services based on integration of heterogeneous sensor platforms.
Applications:
- Social Finder: Locate users and friends that are within a given vicinity using specific user preferences e.g. country, topic of interest etc.
- IoT Big Brother: Further to locating users nearby, locating nearby audio sensors (EAR-IT) and listen to live feeds from the chosen location.
Key Features
- The ability to integrate 3 platforms namely OpenIoT, HOPU and EAR-IT to develop joint applications with minimal efforts.
- Breaking the Silos based information architectures
- Promoting open data and ability to share data among user’s Joint efforts from team members representing 3 organisations namely CSIRO, HOPU and EGM.
The Sensors Go Social team won the following awards:
- The semantic interoperability grand challenge
- HOPU Prize
