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H2020-EUJ-02-2016

H2020 Grant Agreement Number 723076

NICT Management Number 18302

Deliverable D7.6

Dissemination and

Standardisation Report (V2)

Version V1.0

June 30, 2018

ABSTRACT

This report describes all activities regarding dissemination and standardisation

the CPaaS.io project has undertaken in the second year of the project. For

completeness, the overview lists show also the activities of year 1. In the second

year, the project work resulted in 12 peer-reviewed conference and 3 journal

publications, 4 demos at events, and several more project presentations to

specific interest groups including city officials. In addition, we co-organised 2

workshops with city representatives, 1 scientific workshop, and a co-creation

challenge for novel transportation solutions in Tokyo based on Open Data.

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Document Information

Editors Stephan Haller (BFH)

Authors Input from all CPaaS.io Partners

Reviewers Ernö Kovacs (NEC)

Delivery Type R

Dissemination

Level

Public

Contractual

Delivery Date

30.6.2018

Actual

Delivery Date

30.6.2018

Keywords Dissemination, Publications, Standardisation



Revision History

Rev. Date Description Contributors

0.1 11/05/2018 D7.3 as baseline for updated report Stephan Haller (BFH)

0.2 22/06/2018 Added talks from AGT to section 2.7 Martin Strohbach (AGT)

0.3 23/06/2018 Final Draft for review Stephan Haller (BFH), Toshihiko

Yamakami (ACC), Juan Antonio

Martinez (OdinS)

0.9 29/06/2018 Reviewed version Ernö Kovacs (NEC)

1.0 30/06/2018 Final edits Stephan Haller (BFH)



Table of Contents

1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Dissemination Activities ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

2.1 Public Website ................................................................................................................................................................. 6

2.2 Social Media ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7

2.3 Events ................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

2.4 Scientific papers............................................................................................................................................................ 11

2.5 Co-Creation Events ...................................................................................................................................................... 13

2.6 Other publications ....................................................................................................................................................... 14

2.7 Talks, direct meetings etc. ........................................................................................................................................ 14

2.8 Press releases ................................................................................................................................................................. 15

3 Standardisation Activities ................................................................................................................................................... 18

3.1 ETSI Industrial Specification Group Context Information Management ................................................. 18

3.2 ETSI ISG City Data Profile .......................................................................................................................................... 18

3.3 AIOTI WG3 Subworking Group “Semantic Interoperability” ....................................................................... 18

3.4 IEEE Smart Cities Technology Framework Working Group .......................................................................... 18

4 Mentions in the Press .......................................................................................................................................................... 19

5 Future Plans ............................................................................................................................................................................. 21



1 Overview

The CPaaaS.io project has continued throughout the second year the dissemination activities both

towards the scientific community as well as the general public that were successfully started in year 1. In

this report, we describe the activities of year 2; activities in year 1 were reported already in Deliverable

D7.3. However, in order to provide a complete picture, in the overview tables we also list year 1 activities.

Year 1 activities are shown on a grey background in these tables.

Table 1 summarizes the number of concrete disseminations done in the first two years compared to the

target numbers as stated in the Description of Action (DoA).

Table 1: Dissemination targets according to DoA and numbers to date.

Type of measurable communication

activity

Target number

(whole project)

Number reached by

June 2017 June 2018

Journal publications 6 0 3

Conference and workshop publications 14 7 19

Tutorials and sessions in winter/summer

schools

4 0 1

White papers 2 0 0

Deliverables (public deliverables) 33 10 22

LinkedIn discussion groups 1 0 1

Co-creation workshops 2 1 2

Demos at exhibitions 5 4 8

Demos in cities 3 1 3

Contributions to standards 2 major contributions,

4 support. contributions

0 Support:

>10 discussions,

>5 contributions

(con’t involvement)

Press reports 8 > 13 > 15

Webinars1 0 2 2

1 Webinars had not been planned in the DoA

https://cpaas.bfh.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CPaaS.io_D7.3_Dissemination_Report_V1.pdf

https://cpaas.bfh.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CPaaS.io_D7.3_Dissemination_Report_V1.pdf



2 Dissemination Activities

2.1 Public Website

The CpaaS.io website (http://www.cpaas.io/) has continuously been updated with project results reported

in the News section, as well as with Deliverables, scientific papers and project-related videos, like the

introductory video about the project, as shown below:

Figure 1: Results page on the CPaaS.io project website

Figure 2: Screenshot of CPaaS.io introductory video

http://www.cpaas.io/



Figure 3 shows the number of visitors to the website since we started tracking visitors, i.e., since mid-

September 2017. On average, the site has approx. 50 distinct visitors per day, totalling approx. 11'500

visitors over the last 9 months. The average visitors looks at about 4 pages, the site's main page, the

Results page and the Use Cases page being the most visited pages

Figure 3: Number of visitors in year 2 (as of June 16, 2016)

2.2 Social Media

We are continuing to use Twitter (@cpaasio) to promote the project, informing about new project

results, tweets from events, as well as retweeting other interesting Smart City topics. Furthermore, all

project presentations are also available via SlideShare (tagged with "cpaas.io").

Figure 4: Slides available on SlideShare

Furthermore, we have opened a CPaaS.io LinkedIn group. However, this group has failed so far to get

much attention.



2.3 Events

Also in year two the CPaaS.io project has made active contributions in several events, as shown in Table 2.

Below follows a short description of the CPaaS.io contributions at these events, in chronological order.

In November, NEC's FogFlow was announced as a new FIWARE Generic Enabler at the FIWARE Tech

Summit in Malaga. At the event, NEC also presented about this component that has partially been

developed as part of the CPaaS.io project. NEC made tutorials of the FogFlow at the summit and also

available at the FIWARE web site. The tutorial was repeated during the FIWARE Summit 2018 in Porto.In

addition, OdinS presented about MiMurcia.

At the TRON Symposium 2017 in Tokyo the CPaaS.io project was

highly visible. The project was featured both at the booth of YRP and

the one of the University of Tokyo, where the digital signage demo

was showcased that has been developed in the CPaaS.io context. This

demo was shown also to the Minister of Internal Affairs and

Communications of Japan, Ms. Seiko Noda (Figure 5: Ken Sakamura

showing the digital signage demo to Minister NodaFigure 5). In

addition, we held the first public city stakeholder workshop with

representatives of Amsterdam, Murcia, Sapporo, Tokyo and Yokosuka

on the panel, and a representative of Zurich presenting via video.

Results from that workshop have already been reported in deliverable

D7.5. Having that many city representatives on location then also

made a short meeting possible with Tokyo Governor Koike, as shown

in Figure 6.

BFH is regularly organizing a so-called eGov Lunch: This public event

targets people working in the public sector and interested in e-

Government issues. It is regulary attended by both people from

federal, cantonal and communal administrations, as well as by solution

providers. The CPaaS.io provided the content for the February 2018

event about the Smart City challenges, solutions and value for public administrations.2 We could win

Laurent Horvath from the city of Carouge – one of the most active cities in Switzerland regarding Smart

City and also a member of the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative.

Also in February, the kokosil visitor app was used by visitors to the yearly Sapporo Snow Festival (Yuki

Matsur, 雪まつり). Taking advantage of being at the festival, we also collected some data about visitor

activity for analysis purposes with the help of student volunteers carrying sensor devices provided by

AGT.

At the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona at the end of February, NEC demonstrated FogFlow

with a set of edge computing use cases, such as finding a lost child from stadiums, enabling

automatically controlled awning devices for retail shops. The FogFlow booth attracted visits of over 200

guests from more than 100 companies and around 36 countries. FogFlow was also demonstrated at the

FIWARE Global Summit 2018 in Porto in May, this time showcasing three use cases to illustrate the

value of sharing and exchanging contextual data across data sources, applications, and domains in a

2 For details, see https://www.wirtschaft.bfh.ch/de/forschung/e_government_institut/veranstaltungen/egov_lunch_2018_1.html

Figure 5: Ken Sakamura showing the

digital signage demo to Minister Noda

https://www.wirtschaft.bfh.ch/de/forschung/e_government_institut/veranstaltungen/egov_lunch_2018_1.html



federated smart city data infrastructure. By taking advantages of Edge Computing and LoRaWAN

networks, we demonstrated how smart city services like smart parking can be realized with open and

secure data from different sources and providers to improve the efficiency of our society. The CPaaS.io

booth and the use cases demos was a collborative effort by NEC, TTN and OdinS.

Figure 6: CPaaS.io City Stakeholders and Coordinators meet with Tokyo Governor Koike. From left to right: José Guillén

(Murcia), Stephen D. Dukes (Chair of the New Standards Committee, IEEE SA, unrelated to CPaaS.io), Stephan Haller

(Coordinator, BFH), Tokyo Yuriko Koike (Tokyo Governor), Joshua Serrão (Amsterdam), Ken Sakamura (Coordinator,

YRP), Antonio Skarmeta (Murcia)

Figure 7: Impressions from MWC 2018 (left) and FIWARE Global Summit 2018 (right)

In June finally, the CPaaS.io project was responsible for organizing the Workshop on User Centric Smart

Cities Services (UCSC 2018), held during the Global IoT Summit 2018 in Bilbao, co-located with the IoT

Week 2018, where CPaaS.io arranged that representatives its partner cities joined the OASC-organised

Joint Workshop on IoT for Smart Cities & Communities Platform Convergence (IOT4SCC) as speakers.

The results of that workshop are detailed in Deliverable D7.8. In the two UCSC sessions, about 25



participants discussed the 6 research papers that were presented, as can be seen from the impressions

below.

Table 2: Events with CPaaS.io contributions.

Event Place Date Contribution Partners

Fragments of

Wisdom

Tokyo Oct. 11-28, 2016 Augmented services for photo

exhibition based on CPaaS.io

architecture

UoT

Resilient City

Summit Toyama

Toyama Nov 2-3, 2016 Presentation of Sapporo Use Case MSJ, YRP

2016 TRON

Symposium

Tokyo Dec. 14-16, 2016 Several sessions and panel discussion YRP, MSJ, ACC,

UCT, UoT

2017 CeBIT Hannover March 21-24, 2017 CpaaS.io representation at NEC both

and Smart City Forum by AGT

AGT, NEC

2017 Global IoT

Summit

Geneva June 6-9, 2017 Workshop on user-centric security,

privacy and data governancen in smart

cities (USP4SC)

OdinS, BFH

FIWARE Tech

Summit

Malaga Nov. 28-29, 2017 Presentations by NEC (FogFlow) and

OdinS (MiMurcia); announcement of

FogFlow as FIWARE GE.

NEC, OdinS

2017 TRON

Symposium

Tokyo Dec. 13-15, 2017 Demo booths, several sessions incl.

video, panel discussion (city

stakeholder workshop I)

YRP, MSJ, ACC,

UCT, UoT, BFH,

OdinS

Bürgerfest

Heidelberg

H’berg Jan 14th, 2018 FIWARE + Beacon App (similar to

Kokosil)

NEC

eGov Lunch Bern Feb. 1, 2018 Topic Smart City. Introduction by S.

Haller (BFH), keynote by L. Horvath

(City of Carouge)

BFH

Sapporo Snow

Festival

Sapporo Feb. 1-12, 2018 kokosil visitor app YRP, MSJ, UoT

Mobile World

Congress (MWC

2018)

Barcelona Feb. 26 – March 1,

2018

Demo booth showcasing edge-

computing using FogFlow

NEC

FIWARE Global

Summit

Porto May 8-9, 2018 Demo booth showing federated Smart

City use cases using FogFlow and

LoRaWAN

NEC, OdinS,

TTN

2018 Global IoT

Summit

Bilbao June 4-8, 2018 Workshop on User Centric Smart Cities

Services (UCSC 2018)

OdinS, BFH,

UoT, NEC, UoS

2018 IoT Week Bilbao June 4-8, 2018 Participation of CPaaS.io cities in Joint

Workshop on IoT for Smart Cities &

Communities Platform Convergence

(City stakeholder workshop II)

BFH, OdinS

Figure 8: Impressions from UCSC 2018



2.4 Scientific papers

As shown in Table 3 and Table 4Table 4: Journal publications to date., the scientific work has so far

resulted in 19 peer-reviewed conference papers and 2 journal articles, with one additional journal article

currently being under review.

Table 3: Conference publications to date.

Authors Paper Title Conference Conference

Date

Location

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A 4-stage Mental Model of

Conversion: An Approach to

Capture Transition of

Customer Mind

19th IEEE International

Conference on Advanced

Communications Technology

(ICACT)

Feb. 19-22,

2017

PyeongChang,

Korea

V. Beltran, J. A.

Martinez (OdinS),

A. F. Skarmeta

(OdinS)

User-Centric Access Control

for Efficient Security in Smart

Cities

2nd Workshop on User

centric security, privacy and

data governance in smart

cities (USP4SC)

June 9,

2017

Geneva,

Switzerland

J. Frecè (BFH) The Challenge of OwnData

Service Features

2nd Workshop on User

centric security, privacy and

data governance in smart

cities (USP4SC)

June 9,

2017

Geneva,

Switzerland

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Dimensional Framework to

Evaluate Coverage of IoT

Services in City Platform as a

Service

14th International

Conference on Service

Systems and Service

Management (ICSSSM)

June 16-18,

2017

Dalian, China

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Gap Analysis Framework of

IoT-empowered City Platform

as a Service

14th International

Conference on Service

Systems and Service

Management (ICSSSM)

June 16-18,

2017

Dalian, China

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

Horizontal Requirement

Engineering in Integration of

Multiple IoT Use Cases of City

Platform as a Service

IEEE International Workshop

on Secure and Resource-

Efficient Edge Computing

2017 (SecureEdge 2017)

Aug. 21-23,

2017

Helsinki, Finland

M. Fraefel (BFH),

S. Haller (BFH), A.

Gschwend (BFH)

Big Data in the Public sector.

Linking Cities to Sensors

16th IFIP Electronic

Government (EGOV) and 9th

Electronic Participation

(ePart) Conference 2017

Sept. 4-7,

2017

St. Petersberg,

Russia

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Migration-oriented Partial

Adaptation Architecture for

IoT-empowered City Platform

as a Service

13th International

Conference on Data

Information Management

(ICDIM2017)

Sept. 12-14,

2017

Fukuoka, Japan

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

Toward Positioning IoT-

empowered Service

Engineering in City Platform as

a Service

13th International

Conference on Data

Information Management

(ICDIM2017)

Sept. 12-14,

2017

Fukuoka, Japan

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

An Organizational

Coordination Model for IoT: A

Case Study of Requirement

Engineering of City-

Government in Tokyo in City


8th International Conference

on ICT Convergence

(ICTC2017)

Oct 18-20,

2017

Jeju, Korea



Authors Paper Title Conference Conference

Date

Location

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

An Evolution-by-design

Approach: Toward Multi-

disciplinary Life-cycle

Management of IoT in City



on ICT Convergence

(ICTC2017)

Oct 18-20,

2017

Jeju, Korea

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A View Model of API Economy

in City Platform as a Service


on Software Engineering and

Service Science ICSESS2017)

Nov 24-26,

2017

Beijing, China

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

Unconventional Service

Engineering: Toward a New

Paradigm of Service

Engineering for Empowering

Senior Citizens in City Platform

as a Service




Nov 24-26,

2017

Beijing, China

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Dimensional Model of

Service Design Toward

Utilizing Public Transportation

Open Data




Nov 24-26,

2017

Beijing, China

S. Haller (BFH), A.

Neuroni (BFH), M.

Fraefel (BFH), K.

Sakamura (YRP)

Perspectives on Smart Cities

Strategies: Sketching a

Framework and Testing First

Uses

19th Annual International

Conference on Digital

Government Research

(dg.o 2018)

May 30 -

June 01,

2018

Delft, the

Netherlands

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

Device Stand-by Management

of IoT: A Framework for

Dealing with Real-world

Device Fault in City Platform

as a Service

The 12th International

Conference on Innovative

Mobile and Internet Services

in Ubiquitous Computing

(IMIS-2018)

Jul 4-6,

2018 (to

appear)

Matsue, Japan

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Social-Dimension View

Model of Divergence of IoT

Standardization

The 12th International

Conference on Innovative

Mobile and Internet Services

in Ubiquitous Computing

(IMIS-2018)

Jul 4-6,

2018 (to

appear)

Matsue, Japan

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

Lessons Learned in Tokyo

Public Transportation Open

Data APIs

The 21st International

Conference on Network-

Based Information Systems

(NBiS2018)

Sep 5-7,

2018 (to

appear)

Bratislava,

Slovakia

T. Yamakami

(ACC)

A Dynamism View Model of

Convergence and Divergence

of IoT Standardization

The 21st International

Conference on Network-

Based Information Systems

(NBiS2018)

Sep 5-7,

2018 (to

appear)

Bratislava,

Slovakia

Table 4: Journal publications to date.

Authors Paper Title Journal

B. Cheng, G. Solmaz, F. Cirillo,

E. Kovacs, K. Terasawa, A.

Kitazawa (all NEC)

FogFlow: Easy Programming of IoT Services

Over Cloud and Edges for Smart Cities

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol.

5, No. 2, April 2018

A. Akbar (UoS), G. Kousiouris,

H. Pervaiz (UoS), J. Sancho, P.

Ta-Shma, F. Carrez (UoS), K.

Moessner (UoS)

Real-Time Probabilistic Data Fusion for Large-

Scale IoT Applications

IEEE Access, February 9, 2018

N. Koshizuka (UoT), S. Haller

(BFH), K. Sakamura (YRP)

CPaaS.io: Open Smart City Platforms with EU-

Japan Collaboration

IEEE Computer (submitted for Dec.

2018 issue)



2.5 Co-Creation Events

Through YRP and UoT, CPaaS.io helped organize the first Open Data Challenge for Public

Transportation in Tokyo3. Entries could be made from December 7, 2017, until March 15, 2018. The

winners were finally announced on May 15 at the Toyo University Akabanedai Campus INIAD Hall. This

co-creation event had the intention to identify and prototypically implementing Smart City use cases in

the transportation domain, using both static and dynamic data from various transport companies in the

Tokyo area and combining this with other open data sources, e.g., governmental data, weather data and

geospatial data. About 100 entries were made, ranging from a navigation app combining the data of all

major Tokyo train operators, an augemented reality app showing the way to the nearest train station, a

4D-visualisation (3D plus time) of the status of trains and buses, to a mashup with Spotify that would

select songs that take exactly as long as the user's train ride, so that the last song is finished exactly when

the user arrives.

Figure 9: Examples from the contest (from top left, clockwise): Tokyo Trains (Grand Prize Winner), Transpotify (Judges'

Special Award), 最寄り駅 AR表示アプリ (Nearest Station AR Display App, Judges' Special Award), Heay 4D Tokyo

(Grand-Prize Runner-up)

3 See https://tokyochallenge.odpt.org/en/index.html

https://tokyochallenge.odpt.org/en/index.html



Table 5: Co-Creation events to date.

Date Event Name Location Partners

June 13.-14., 2017 Düsseldorf 2020 – Creating a Smart City Düsseldorf NEC

Dec. 7, 2017 –

March 15, 2018

Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo Tokyo YRP, UoT

2.6 Other publications

Table 6 lists other publications targeting more the general public.

Table 6: Other publications to date.

Authors Title Medium Date

S. Haller (BFH) Daten als Innovationstreiber der intelligenten

Stadt

SocietyByte Oct. 1, 2016

S. Haller, K. Walser

(all BFH)

Governance einer erfolgreichen Smart City – Ein

Multi-Stakeholder-Ansatz ist entscheidend

SocietyByte April 1, 2017

Rishabh Chauhan (TTN) Building a decentralized Global Network for the

Internet of Things


M. Strohbach, M. Görtz,

M. Schlattmann (all AGT)

IoT Data Analytics – A key enabler for the Growth

of Smart Cities


2.7 Talks, direct meetings etc.

The project has also been presented in various talks and direct meetings with city officials, as shown in

Table 7. In addition, specific exploitation-oriented meetings have taken place as well; these are listed in

deliverable D7.7.

Table 7: Talks and direct meetings

Date Presenters Title Event Location

June 24,

2016

Alexander

Overtoom (TTN)

Waterproof Amsterdam &

CPaaS.io

Amsterdam Economic Board

presentation, led by mayor of

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Oct. 6, 2016 K. Shindo (YRP) CPaas.io:City Platform as a

Service – Integrated and

Open

6th Japan – EU Symposium on

ICT Research and Innovation

Tokyo

Oct. 28, 2016 Alexander

Overtoom (TTN)

Waterproof Amsterdam &

CPaaS.io

Meeting with Municipality of

Amsterdam - smart city

representatives

Amsterdam

Nov. 28,

2016

S. Haller (BFH) CPaaS.io – Ein Horizon

2o2o Projekt zur

Entwicklung einer

städtischen

Innovationsplattform

Steering Group Meeting of Smart

Capital Region Switzerland

Bern

Dec. 20, 2016 Alexander

Overtoom (TTN)

TTN webinar - what can you

do with LoRaWAN

Online Webinar Online

Webinar



Date Presenters Title Event Location

Jan. 10, 2017 M. Strohbach

(AGT)

CPaas.io:City Platform as a

Service – Integrated and

Open

VaVeL consortium plenary

meeting

Darmstadt

April 11,

2017

S. Haller (BFH),

M. Strohbach

(AGT), C.

Ishikawa (YRP)

What role does an open

city platform play in

creating smart city

innovation?

Webinar series by the EU-Japan

Centre for Industrial

Collaboration

Online

Webinar

May 2, 2017 S. Haller (BFH) CPaaS.io – Ein Horizon

2o2o Projekt zur

Entwicklung einer

städtischen

Innovationsplattform

12. Workshop of IG Smart Cities

Schweiz

Bern

June 13&14 E. Kovacs, S.

Gessler (NEC)

Umweltbewusstes

Handeln...

... wie können Apps und

Stadtdaten unser Verhalten

ändern und die Ökobilanz

der Stadt verbessern.

Düsseldorf 2020 – Creating a

Smart City

http://www.digihub.de/smartcity/

Düsseldorf

June 28,

2017

S. Haller (BFH) Wann ist eine City „smart“? 3rd OGD Round Table, Swiss

Federal Archives

Bern

Sept. 18,

2017

A. Neuroni, S.

Haller (all BFH)

Erfolgsfaktoren für Smart

City Ansätze

Hauptstadtregion Schweiz –

Open und Smart!

organised by ICT Cluster Bern,

tcbe.ch

Bern

Nov. 20,

2017

M. Strohbach

(AGT)

Tutorial on IoT Streaming

Applications

Dagstuhl Seminar 17441 on Big

Stream Processing

Dagstuhl

January 16-

17, 2018

M. Strohbach

(AGT)

Keynote: Understanding

Complex Physical

Environments In Real time –

IoT Applications in Sports,

Entertainment, and Industry

4.0

Stream Reasoning Workshop

2018

Zurich

May 22,

20187

S. Haller (BFH) Smart Cities – Was macht

eine City smart?

BIT4 TechTalk Zollikofen

June 5, 2018 M. Strohbach

(AGT)

IoT is a kNow Show Panel Talk at Business Model

Innovation as Driver for Change

Panel at IoT Week 2018

Bilbao

June 25th,

2018

E. Kovacs, D.

Straeten (NEC)

Smart City

Referenzarchitektur

Work Group „Smart City

Heidelberg Referenzarchitektur“

Heidelberg

2.8 Press releases

One additional press release announcing the winners of the Open Data Challenge for Public

Transportation in Tokyo was published on May 15, 2018 (see Figure 10). In addition, the FIWARE

4 Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication

http://www.digihub.de/smartcity/



foundation announced the recognition of FogFlow as a new FIWARE Generic Enabler on November 27,

20175.

Table 8: Press Releases

Date Title Link

Aug. 24,

2016

An open platform for the Smart City https://www.bfh.ch/en/aktuell/press_releases/detail/a

rticle/eine-offene-plattform-fuer-die-smart-

city.html?no_cache=1

May 15,

2018

「東京公共交通オープンデータチャレンジ」入

賞作品決定

(Winners of the Open Data Challenge for Public

Transportation in Tokyo selected)

http://www.odpt.org/wp-

content/uploads/2018/05/ODPT180515.pdf

Further press releases relevant for CPaaS.io activities:

1. FogFlow announced as new Generic Enabler in FIWARE

NEC announced the FogFlow system as new GE in FIWARE

https://uk.nec.com/en_GB/press/201711/20171127_01.html

2. TWO CITIES IN JAPAN, TAKAMATSU AND KAKOGAWA, NOW MOVING FORWARD WITH

FIWARE

https://www.fiware.org/2018/03/09/two-cities-in-japan-takamatsu-and-kakogawa-have-adopted-

fiware/

5 See https://www.fiware.org/news/nec-develops-a-fiware-based-fog-computing-framework-for-edge-based-iot-services/

https://www.bfh.ch/en/aktuell/press_releases/detail/article/eine-offene-plattform-fuer-die-smart-city.html?no_cache=1



http://www.odpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ODPT180515.pdf

http://www.odpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ODPT180515.pdf

https://uk.nec.com/en_GB/press/201711/20171127_01.html

https://www.fiware.org/2018/03/09/two-cities-in-japan-takamatsu-and-kakogawa-have-adopted-fiware/

https://www.fiware.org/2018/03/09/two-cities-in-japan-takamatsu-and-kakogawa-have-adopted-fiware/

https://www.fiware.org/news/nec-develops-a-fiware-based-fog-computing-framework-for-edge-based-iot-services/



Figure 10: First page of the press release announcing the winners of the Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation

in Tokyo.



3 Standardisation Activities

3.1 ETSI Industrial Specification Group Context Information Management

Beginning of 2017 ETSI formed a new Industrial Specification Group on Context Information

Management. The target of the group is to specify the new version of the OMA NGSI API. NGSI is the

core API of the FIWARE platform and therefor of CPaaS.io. NEC is founding member of the ISG and very

active contributor. L- Frost from NEC is chair of the group, M. Bauer and E. Kovacs active contributor.

The goal of the ISG is as follows

• enable semantic annotations and links to ontologies use of JSON-LD as basic data structure

• semantic queries and subscriptions

• formally introduced properties of properties (meata-data) and relationships – concepts that were

not in the original standard, but needed for smart cities

• refinement of the API

• improvement of the query language

• improvement of the handling of geo-data

The result of the specification group is the new standard, shortname NGSI-LD. CPaaS.io is planning to

upgrade the IoT Broker as well as FogFlow to the new standard and run experiments and trials.

3.2 ETSI ISG City Data Profile

ETIS has established a new ISG createing a so-called City Data Profile. The idea is that the specification

should give cities a cookbook-like receipt for creating their city platform. The goals fo the ISG are very

much aligned to CPaaS.io. NEC is active contributor to the work.

3.3 AIOTI WG3 Subworking Group “Semantic Interoperability”

Semantic Interoperabiltiy is a core working topic in CPaaS.io. AIOTI WG 3 (Standards) has a sub-working

group on “Semantic Interoperability” which is lead by Martin Bauer, NEC. The working group is studying

topics on how to achieve semantic interoperability in IoT. During the IoT week, the working group met to

discuss the further work programm. An important topic is the creation of an second white paper on

Semantic Interoperability. Several members from standardisation organizations like oneM2M, ETIS ISG

CIM, W3C Web-of-Things, PEE P2413, OASC, and others were participating. For CPaaS.io is semantic

interoperability and important topic which will be tackled by the project through extending the FIWARE

platform with means to achive semantic annotations using the JSON-LD approach. Respective

standardization activities in ETIS ISG CIM are closely monitored by CPaaS.io and will be included in their

next paltfrom release.

3.4 IEEE Smart Cities Technology Framework Working Group

In addition, Stephan Haller (BFH) has joined the IEEE Smart Cities Technology Framework Working Group

responsible for the IEEE P2748 project. The group is developing a "Guide for the Technology and Process



Framework for Planning a Smart City". The purpose of this guideline is according to the group's charter

as follows: "The proposed guideline takes into consideration both technology standards and protocols as

well as process andplanning guidelines as a part of the overall framework. This guideline provides a process

that allows for deployments to be reflective of theneeds of constituents in a given area and enable data to

drive best practices decisions that use technology as a tool to improve outcomes forpeople. This framework

will provide a methodology for municipalities and technology integrators to plan for innovative and

emergingsolutions to seamlessly connect from city to city, state to state, and region to region." Several task

forces have been established, and CPaaS.io is contributing currently to the "Platforms" task force, but will

likely also contribute to issues about governance, blueprinting and processes.

4 Mentions in the Press

Table 9 shows all press listings of CPaaS.io that we are aware of. Reports about the project have been

published in regional and local newspapers, technical journals, as well as online ICT news portals.

In December 2017 the EU-Japan Newsletter #606, published by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial

Collaboration, had two short items about CPaaS.io. And in February 2018, the Japanese TRONWARE

magazine published a feature about the city stakeholder workshop in Tokyo (Figure 11).

Table 9: CPaaS.io in the press.

Date Magazine/Paper/… Lang

.

Article Title and URL

24.08.2016 Inside-it.ch DE Fachhochschule Bern baut die "City-Platform-as-a-Service"

http://www.inside-it.ch/articles/44780

25.08.2016 CE today DE Berner Fachhochschule kooperiert für Smart-City-Projekt

http://www.cetoday.ch/de-CH/News/2016/08/25/Berner-

Fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-Smart-City-Projekt.aspx

01.09.2016 Smart Mobility Summit

Blog

EN Who will be responsible for leading and co-ordinating future

smart city projects?

http://www.smartmobilitysummit.com/blog/who-will-be-

responsible-for-leading-and-co-ordinating-future-smart-city-

projects?utm_source=newsletter%201st%20september%202016&

utm_medium=email&utm_content=Who%20will%20be%20resp

onsible%20for%20leading%20and%20co-

ordinating%20future%20smart%20city%20projects?

27.09.2016 JDN - Journal du Net FR L'Europe et le Japon créent une plateforme open data pour la

smart city

http://www.journaldunet.com/economie/services/1185199-l-

europe-et-le-japon-creent-une-plateforme-open-data-pour-la-

smart-city/

25.08.2016 C36daily ICT News DE Schweiz: Fachhochschule Bern baut die «City-Platform-as-a-

Service»

https://twitter.com/C36daily

25.08.2016 Der Bund DE Mit EU-Projekt den urbanen Raum besser planen

6 See https://www.eu-japan.eu/sites/default/files/publications/docs/december17.pdf

http://www.inside-it.ch/articles/44780

http://www.cetoday.ch/de-CH/News/2016/08/25/Berner-Fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-Smart-City-Projekt.aspx

http://www.cetoday.ch/de-CH/News/2016/08/25/Berner-Fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-Smart-City-Projekt.aspx

http://www.smartmobilitysummit.com/blog/who-will-be-responsible-for-leading-and-co-ordinating-future-smart-city-projects?utm_source=newsletter%201st%20september%202016&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Who%20will%20be%20responsible%20for%20leading%20and%20co-ordinating%20future%20smart%20city%20projects






http://www.journaldunet.com/economie/services/1185199-l-europe-et-le-japon-creent-une-plateforme-open-data-pour-la-smart-city/



https://twitter.com/C36daily

https://www.eu-japan.eu/sites/default/files/publications/docs/december17.pdf



Date Magazine/Paper/… Lang

.

Article Title and URL

25.08.2016 IT Markt Online DE Berner Fachhochschule kooperiert für Smart-City-Projekt

http://www.it-markt.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-

fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

25.08.2016 Kommunalmagazin

Online

DE Berner Fachhochschule baut Plattform für die Smart City

http://www.kommunalmagazin.ch/berner-fachhochschule-baut-

plattform-fuer-die-smart-city

25.08.2016 Netzwoche Online DE Berner Fachhochschule kooperiert für Smart-City-Projekt

http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-

fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

05.10.2016 TRONWARE, Vol. 161 JP CPaaS.ioプロジェクト (Special Feature about CPaaS.io)

http://www.tron.org/ja/2016/10/post-2169/

05.12.2016 Murcia Economia ES la-murciana-odins-participa-en-una-plataforma-euro-japonesa

http://murciaeconomia.com/not/47471/la-murciana-odins-

participa-en-una-plataforma-euro-japonesa

30.09.2016 Cities Today EN Europe and Japan collaborate on smart cities

https://cities-today.com/europe-japan-collaborate-smart-cities

09.09.2016 ITUblog EN Europe and Japan collaborate on smart cities with cloud-based

‘CPaaS.io’

https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/europe-and-japan-

collaborate-on-smart-cities-with-cloud-based-cpaas-io/

Dec. 2017 EU-Japan Centre for

Industrial Cooperation

Newsletter

EN Items on first project review and announcement of City

Stakeholder Workshop in Tokyo

15.02.2018 TRONWARE, Vol. 169 JP Feature about the City Stakeholder Workshop in Tokyo

http://www.it-markt.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

http://www.it-markt.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

http://www.kommunalmagazin.ch/berner-fachhochschule-baut-plattform-fuer-die-smart-city

http://www.kommunalmagazin.ch/berner-fachhochschule-baut-plattform-fuer-die-smart-city

http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2016-08-25/berner-fachhochschule-kooperiert-fuer-smart-city-projekt

http://www.tron.org/ja/2016/10/post-2169/

http://murciaeconomia.com/not/47471/la-murciana-odins-participa-en-una-plataforma-euro-japonesa

http://murciaeconomia.com/not/47471/la-murciana-odins-participa-en-una-plataforma-euro-japonesa

https://cities-today.com/europe-japan-collaborate-smart-cities

https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/europe-and-japan-collaborate-on-smart-cities-with-cloud-based-cpaas-io/

https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/europe-and-japan-collaborate-on-smart-cities-with-cloud-based-cpaas-io/



Figure 11: Excerpt from TRONWARE report about CPaaS.io City Stakeholder Workshop (Source: TRONWARE magazine)

5 Future Plans

No significant changes are required in the general dissemination strategy. We will continue to publish

scientific papers at relevant conferences, to talk to city officials and other interested parties and interest

groups, and to regularly update the project web site. Noteworthy are the activities to define the “Smart

City Heidelberg Referenzarchitektur” to which CPaaS will actively contribute. Trials using CPaaS.io

technology are in preparation for Heidelberg. Also, the work in the mentioned standardisation groups is

continuing.

Regarding events, two major events for the project will take place in December. First we are planning for

a CPaaS.io booth showing federated demos between EU and Japan at the ICT 2018 in Vienna (Dec. 4-6),

and thereafter we will have the last city stakeholder workshop as well as presence at project partners'

booths at the TRON Symposium in Tokyo (Dec. 12-14).

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