Initial requirements study [Download]

Work package 4 in the FInest project deals with the identification and design of an experimentation environment for testing, demonstrating, and evaluating the technologies developed during the project based on FInest use cases and real data, on large-scale trials. The activities are closely related to the specification of FInest use cases and provision of real-data from the Infinity project.

This document describes the initial technical, functional, and non-functional requirements of this experimentation environment. This list of requirements will be further refined as the project progresses, insights are gained, and more information becomes available.

Requirements and design of transport and logistics experimentation environment

Work package 4 in the FInest project deals with the identification and design of an experimentation environment for testing, demonstrating, and evaluating the technologies developed during the project based on FInest use cases and real data, on large-scale trials. The activities are closely related to the specification of FInest use cases and demonstrators, and inclusion of real-data and physical sites.

This document describes the initial design of this experimentation environment and assessment of existing technologies suitable for it. This document also includes a refinement of the initial requirements for such an experimentation environment as submitted in Month 6, based on the project demonstrators as presented and explained in work package 3 and work packages 5-8, and on insights obtained from the last six months activities in the project.

Interim specification for transport and logistics experimentation environment

Work package 4 in the FInest project deals with the identification and design of an experimentation environment for testing, demonstrating, and evaluating the technologies developed during the project based on FInest use cases.
This document is a straightforward continuation of D4.2 "Requirements and design of transport and logistics experimentation environment" and describes the technical specification for the conceptual design presented in D4.2. The main goal of the proposed architecture is to satisfy the conceptual design and requirements of the experimentation environment envisioned in FInest, allowing running the specified use cases scenarios in phase 2 of the project and large trials in phase 3.

Experimentation environment specification and Phase 2 implementation plan

The ultimate goal of the experimentation environment of FInest is to allow the running of the specified use cases scenarios in phase 2 of the project and large trials in phase 3. Towards this end, a specification of the required environment, an examination of possible experimentation sites, and a detailed implementation plan have been elaborated. This report summarizes the work done so far in FInest in work package 4 and paves the way to the work to be done in phase 2 to achieve the desired goal.

Requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for collaboration manager [Download]

This document contains the first deliverable of Work Package 5. The work package is responsible for the Business Collaboration Module (BCM), which aims at the introduction of an infrastructure to securely manage the end-to-end networks of transport and logistics partners. It integrates information from different external sources as well as other modules of the FInest platform and makes this available for end-users of the system. In order to ensure the non-disclosure of confidential data, the BCM enables user and access management, which provides users with specific views on the data accordingly to their individual disclosure level.

This document describes the currently applied ICT systems for collaboration in the T&L domain. Based on this, an initial draft of the BCM’s conceptual architecture is presented, which aims to solve previously determined drawbacks of current systems. This conceptual architecture is basis for a preliminary identification of technical and functional requirements and the selection of baseline technologies, which follows in the subsequent sections of the document. A final section aims at the alignment of the BCM to the FI PPP Core Platform and identifies potential Generic Enablers, which can be used to implement the envisioned features.

Consequently, this document addresses two of the tasks, defined in the Description of Work, for Work Package 5: T5.1 – Requirements Analysis and Selection of Technology Baseline – and partially T5.3 – Technological Alignment with the FI PPP Core Platform. In addition to this, it provides a description of the conceptual architecture of the BCM and partially addresses T5.2 – Conceptual Design and Technical Specification – with this.

Conceptual design of collaboration manager component

This document contains the second deliverable of Work Package 5. The work package is responsible for the Business Collaboration Module (BCM), which aims at the introduction of an infrastructure to securely manage the end-to-end networks of transport and logistics partners. It integrates information from different external sources as well as other modules of the FInest platform and makes this available for end-users of the system. In order to ensure the non-disclosure of confidential data, the BCM enables user and access management, which provides users with specific views on the data accordingly to their individual disclosure level.
In this document we focus on the refinement of previously elaborated conceptual architecture of the BCM and the previously conducted requirements analysis. Additionally, we describe a demonstrator, which was developed by joint efforts between domain and ICT partners of this work package. It considers the effective coordination of resources by the provisioning of a central portal. The demonstrator was the source for a variety of insights in the demands of the T&L domain and with this, builds an important pillar within the conducted refinement process. Furthermore, this deliverable describes the preliminary approach to realize the concept of Collaboration Objects and thereby, moves towards the technical specification of this FInest module.
Consequently, we primarily address two tasks, defined by the Description of Work for Work Package 5: T5.1 – Requirements Analysis and Selection of Technology Baseline and T5.2 – Conceptual Design and Technical Specification. Task T5.3 – Technological Alignment with the FI PPP Core Platform is not addressed again, because there is no new input from the FIWARE project that has to be considered. Additionally, we give a preview on task T5.3 – Initial technical specification of collaboration manager component.

Initial technical specification of collaboration manager component

This document contains the third deliverable of Work Package 5. The work package is responsible for the Business Collaboration Module (BCM), which aims at the introduction of an infrastructure to manage the end-to-end networks of transport and logistics partners. It integrates information from different external sources as well as other modules of the FInest platform and makes this available for end-users of the system. In order to ensure the non-disclosure of confidential data, the BCM enables user and access management, which provides users with specific views on the data accordingly to their individual disclosure level.
In this document we focus on the presentation of the elaborated technical design for the BCM. This is based on the previously presented conceptual design and insights we gained from the FInest demonstrator development process. We also present a detailed concept for the modeling of Collaboration Objects and show a preliminary version of the corresponding meta-model. At the end we briefly discuss the used Generic Enablers within the technical architecture.
Consequently, we primarily address task T5.2 – Conceptual Design and Technical Specification – as defined by the Description of Work for Work Package 5. Additionally, we present our work on Task T5.3 – Technological Alignment with the FI PPP Core Platform, while we present our investigation on suitable Generic Enables of the FIWARE Core Platform for a realization of architectural work.

Prototypical implementation of collaboration manager component

This document accompanies Deliverable D5.4 - Prototypical implementation of collaboration manager component and provides additional documentation. Deliverable D5.4 is of type Prototype and it describes the basic information associated with the prototypical proof-of-concept developed for the BCM module. For details about the overall functionalities and technical specification of the BCM, refer to D5.5.
Deliverable D5.4 completely implements the Task T5.4 - Prototypical Implementation of Collaboration Manager Component and together with all the other deliverables of type report (Deliverable D5.1, D5.2, D5.3 and D5.5) all tasks of Work Package 5 are implemented successfully.

Final technical specification and Phase 2 implementation plan for the collaboration manager

This document contains the fifth deliverable of Work Package 5. The work package is responsible for the Business Collaboration Module (BCM), which aims at the introduction of an infrastructure to manage and support the execution of collaborative business services among transport and logistics partners. In order to ensure the non-disclosure of confidential data, the BCM enables user and access management, which provides users with specific views on the data accordingly to their individual disclosure level. It also integrates information from different external sources as well as other modules of the FInest platform and makes this available for end-users of the system.

Requirements Analysis and Selection of Technology Baseline for Event Processing Component [Download]

This report presents the first Deliverable of work package WP6 “Proactive Event Driven Moni-toring”. Work Package 6 is responsible for the Event Processing Module (EPM), one of the four core technical components of FInest. The role of this module within FInest is to provide event-driven monitoring across domain and transport modality, with three goals: obtaining end-to-end visibility of logistics processes, monitoring the achievement of contract terms, and trigger-ing replanning of the scenario when needed.

The document describes initial results of the “requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for the event processing component” (T6.1); the task includes: identifying the relevant business requirements provided by domain experts, an initial conceptual architecture which is stating the boundaries of the event processing component within the overall archietecture of FInest, and a functional and technical requirements anaylsis. In addition, the task includes a state of the art analysis of event driven technology from which a technology baseline is selected.

The document refers to additional work done in this deliverable: the initial identification of ge-neric enablers, which is part of T6.3, “Technological Alignment with FI PPP Core Platform”. The actual results of this work are provided at D3.1 along with the rest of the project.

This document has two main facets: functional and technical. The functional aspect, as de-scribed above, deals with the functionality provided by the EPM within Finest. The document provides a functional overview of the EPM, review of some existing software products that pro-vide event-driven monitoring functionality for logistics processes, and mainly a list of initial functional requirements of the EPM.

The technical aspect is the event-driven technology that will be used to provide this functionali-ty. The document provides an overview of what event-driven technology is, a list of require-ments from a generic event processing technical component, and an assessment of existing sys-tems that provide generic event processing functionality, including a selection of technology baseline for FInest EPM.

Requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for event processing component

This report presents the second Deliverable of work package WP6 “Proactive Event Driven Monitoring”. Work Package 6 is responsible for the Event Processing Module (EPM), one of the four core technical components of FInest. The role of this module within FInest is to provide event-driven monitoring across domain and transport modality, providing, for instance, FIn-est’s Business Collaboration Module (BCM) with the runtime information required to achieve three goals: end-to-end visibility of logistics processes, monitoring the achievement of contract terms, and triggering replanning of the scenario when needed.
The document describes the second stage of results of the “requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for the event processing component” (T6.1). This includes a refinement of the results presented in D6.1 in the area of identifying the relevant business requirements provided by domain experts, mainly through the use of functionality demonstrators. The document details the main demonstrator used for extracting EPM requirements: “Real-Time Booking Update Cycle”.
The second part of this deliverable is a conceptual design for the Event Processing Module (T6.2) done on the basis of the initial conceptual design described in D6.1, and on the basis of the refined requirements.
The document does not describe additional work done in this deliverable: the refinement of ge-neric enablers, which is part of T6.3, “Technological Alignment with FI PPP Core Platform”. The actual results of this work are provided at D9.2 along with the rest of the project.

Conceptual design of event processing component

This report presents the third deliverable of work package 6 “Proactive Event Driven Monitoring”. Work package 6 is accountable for the Event Processing Module (EPM), one of the four core technical modules of the FInest platform. The role of this module within FInest is to provide event-driven monitoring capabilities to facilitate the end-to-end visibility of logistics processes and real-time information regarding actual execution.
This document describes the initial technical specification of the EPM module in FInest and its interactions (in terms of interfaces) with other modules in the platform as well as with generic enablers offered by FI-WARE. FInest EPM can act in both reactive and proactive modes. FInest EPM proactive capabilities differentiate its run-time engine from currently available complex event processing engines, and position it in the technological and research frontage of event processing systems.

Prototypical implementation of event processing component

This report presents the forth deliverable of work package 6 “Proactive Event Driven Monitoring”. The aim of this module within FInest is to provide event-driven monitoring capabilities to facilitate the end-to-end visibility of logistics processes and real-time information regarding actual execution. To this end, a proof-of-concept application has been built based on the FISH use case.
This document is complementary to the proof-of-concept demo and provides additional information to form a comprehensive understanding of how the event processing module works, its capabilities, and the results obtained.
The use case selected applies a wide range of rules operators and demonstrates the potential benefits of applying event processing techniques to logistic processes. The applied rules have been validated by the domain partners in terms of their relevance and correctness.

Final technical specification and phase 2 implementation plan for the event processing component

This report presents the fifth and last deliverable of work package 6 “Proactive Event Driven Monitoring” accountable for the definition and implementation of the event processing module in FInest. It describes the final technical specification of the Event Processing Module in FInest along with the implementation plan of this module in phase 2 of the FI PPP Programme.
The event processing module will be one of the two core modules in the envisioned cSpace follow up project platform. This fact stresses the importance and the generic nature of the event processing module, positioning it at the heart of the envisioned cSpace platform.

Requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for transport planning component

This document gives the initial analysis of the requirements to the Transport Planning Module (TPM). The purpose of the TPM is to create an overall, operational transport execution plan for a multimodal transport chain handling goods by utilizing highly relevant and recent information at planning time. By doing this, other FInest modules will be able to support third party transport provider systems with updated status information during execution of their transport plans. The transport execution plan contains a description of both transported items and transport services being used during the transport. Several transport execution plans are assembled to form the plan for a complete door-to-door transport chain.

Conceptual design of the transport planning component

This report is the second deliverable from FInest work package 7, "Transport Planning and Replanning", and contains updated requirements and a conceptual architecture for the Transport Planning Module (TPM). The requirements to the TPM and the architecture of the TPM have been defined to enable easy access to real time information of transport services and transport demands during operational transport planning, and to improve information sharing between actors. Focus for the work has been to describe how the TPM can contribute to the collaboration platform to achieve more efficient planning processes and also increased opportunities for utilizing and combining resources and service capacities with transport demand descriptions. The planning module demonstrates how this is made possible by offering capabilities as transport execution plan creation and maintenance for a door-to-door transport, booking based on transport execution plans, utilization of marketplace functionality including match making, adaption of existing 3rd party systems for instance for optimization, presentation of transport execution plans, and handling of replanning.
The opportunities that Future Internet can bring to the field of operational transport planning for the main actors is discussed with respect to simpler exchange of information between actors, new possibilities for collaboration between actors, as well as the benefits of real-time information on transport resources' capacities.

Initial technical specification for he transport planning component

This report is the third deliverable from FInest work package 7, "Transport Planning and Replanning", and contains updated requirements and the initial technical specification for a Future Internet Transport Planning Module that shall work together with other modules on the FInest platform.
The module shall support the generation of a transport chain plan consisting of several transport execution plans, where each transport execution plan documents the agreement between a logistics service client and a logistics service provider. The building of the plan is based on the transport demand that the planner describes in the module and the contract details and transport service descriptions retrieved from the E-Contracting Module and the logistics service providers' systems. The module shall support the use of the demand, contract and service information in order to generate transport execution plans, control that the individual execution plans match each other in a way that makes the total transport chain executable, and support the negotiation and booking process between the client and provider.
The technical specification documented in this deliverable consists of a component model, an interface model and an information model. The component model describes the components that the Transport Planning Module consists of and the intended functionality of each component. The interface model documents the interfaces and message data types of the Transport Planning Module that are used for communication with other FInest modules, the user front-end and the service provider systems. The information model describes the main information elements used in the Transport Planning Module as well as the relations between the elements.
The specification will serve as a base for prototype implementation and further design refinements in the last quarter of the FInest project.

Prototypical implementation of the transport planning component

This report from FInest work package 7, "Transport Planning and Replanning" contains the description of the prototypical implementation of the Transport Planning Module. It is the fourth deliverable from this work package.
This report completes the task T7.4 – "Prototypical Implementation of the Transport Planning Component" together with the provided prototype implementation.
The intention of the prototype is to show some of the main ideas for the "Transport Planning and Replanning" work, and demonstrate how the proposed Transport Planning Module is intended to work together with the other parts of the FInest project. Together with the prototypes from other work packages in FInest, the prototype has been used in a demonstrator showing how planning, execution and replanning of a fish transport can be done in a Future Internet environment.
The report contains a description of the prototype and its main functionality. The report also includes the technical specifications for the system needed to run the prototype, and a description of the demonstrator setup.

Final technical specification and Phase 2 implementation plan for transport planning component

This report is the fifth deliverable from FInest work package 7, "Transport Planning and Replanning", and contains the final version of the specification of the Transport Planning Module developed in the FInest project, in addition to the plans for further development of the Module concept as the "Logistics Planning app" in the Phase 2 cSpace project.
The final specification of the module is based on the initial specification described in the third deliverable from this work package, "Initial Technical Specification of the Transport Planning Component", with corrections and clarifications based on lessons learned with the work on the prototype implementation of the Module.
The specification consists of models describing the component structure of the Transport Planning Module, the description of the interfaces both for use by other FInest modules and external users and systems, an information model describing the system's internal database structure, as well as data types used in the interfaces, including the Module's use of the UBL common framework structures for transport execution plans and transport service descriptions.
With this document, we complete task T7.2 "Conceptual Design and Technical Specification of the Transport Planning Component" and task T7.5 "Phase 2 Implementation Plan of the Transport Planning Component". Task T7.1 "Requirements Analysis and Selection of Technology Baseline for the Transport Planning Component" and task T7.3 "Technological Alignment with FI PPP Core Platform" are reported in Deliverables D7.1, D7.2 and D7.3.
Task T7.4 "Prototypical Implementation of the Transport Planning Component" is reported in Deliverable D7.4.

Requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for logistics contract manager [Download]

The FInest envisioned technical solution is divided in three major parts: (i) Front-end layer, which is related to user access issues; (ii) Back-end layer, associated with access to, and integration with, legacy systems, third party services and any Internet of Things (IoT) devices that may provide information during the transport lifecycle; and (iii) the Core Modules layer, which is composed of Business Collaboration Module (BCM), E-Contracting Module (ECM), Transport Planning Module (TPM), Event Processing Module (EPM).

This document focuses in the E-Contracting Module (ECM) and is submitted as specified in the FInest Description of Work (DoW) as part of deliverable D8.1 – “Requirements analysis and selection of technology baseline for logistics contract manager” – associated with Work Package 8 (WP8).

The objectives of WP8 are: Conduct a detailed analysis of the state-of-the-art techniques and solutions to select the technology baseline to build upon (task T8.1); Provide a conceptual design and detailed specification for the E-Contracting Logistics Module and its integration within the overall envisioned technical solution (task T8.2); Identify Generic Enablers required from the Core Platform to realize the E-Contracting Logistics Module, and clearly define the additional components (“domain-specific enablers”) that need to be realized on top of this (task T.8.3); Develop a conceptual prototype for demonstrating the planned features (task T8.4). Define a detailed Implementation Plan for the follow-up project in Phase 2 (task T8.5).

The objectives of this document are:
a) identification of initial requirements for the Logistics Contract Manager (task 8.1);
b) selection of existing R&D results to build upon (task 8.1);
c) initial identification of the required Generic Enablers(task 8.3).

The first two objectives are addressed in detail by this document, once the following topics are here discussed: an overview of the current state of contracting related topics in T&L domain; an analysis the state-of-the-art related to contracting processes in ICT, and the identification of the technological baseline that can be exploited by the ECM module. The last objective is addressed in this deliverable but the details are part of D3.1. In addition, this document also introduces an initial high level architecture of the logistics contract manager, i.e., ECM, and an initial set of technical requirements for designing the ECM module.

Conceptual design of logistics contract manager

This document is associated with the E-Contracting Module (ECM) and is submitted as specified in the FInest Description of Work (DoW) as deliverable D8.2 – “Conceptual design of logistics contract manager” – associated with Work Package 8 (WP8). The role of this module within FInest is to provide online and semi-automatic contract establishment and management. The FInest core modules using the services offered by ECM are TPM (Transport Planning Module – associated with WP7) and BCM (Business Collaboration Module – associated with WP5).
The objectives of WP8 are: Conduct a detailed analysis of the state-of-the-art techniques and solutions to select the technology baseline to build upon (task T8.1); Provide a conceptual design and detailed specification for the E-Contracting Module and its integration within the overall envisioned technical solution (task T8.2); Identify Generic Enablers required from the Core Platform to realize the E-Contracting Logistics Module, and clearly define the additional components (“domain-specific enablers”) that need to be realized on top of this (task T.8.3); Develop a conceptual prototype for demonstrating the planned features (task T8.4); Define a detailed Implementation Plan for the follow-up project in Phase 2 (task T8.5).

Initial technical specification of logistics contract manager

This document is associated with the E-Contracting Module (ECM) and is submitted as specified in the FInest Description of Work (DoW) as deliverable D8.3 – “Initial Technical Specification of Logistics Contract Manager” – associated with Work Package 8 (WP8). The role of this module within FInest is to provide online and semi-automatic contract establishment and management. The FInest core modules using the services offered by ECM are TPM (Transport Planning Module – associated with WP7) and BCM (Business Collaboration Module – associated with WP5).
The objectives of WP8 are: Conduct a detailed analysis of the state-of-the-art techniques and solutions to select the technology baseline to build upon (task T8.1); Provide a conceptual design and detailed specification for the E-Contracting Module and its integration within the overall envisioned technical solution (task T8.2); Identify Generic Enablers required from the Core Platform to realize the E-Contracting Logistics Module, and clearly define the additional components (“domain-specific enablers”) that need to be realized on top of this (task T.8.3); Develop a conceptual prototype for demonstrating the planned features (task T8.4); Define a detailed Implementation Plan for the follow-up project in Phase 2 (task T8.5).

Prototypical implementation of logistics contract manager

This document describes the Proof of Concept (POC) Implementation of the E-Contracting Module (ECM), which is a core module from the FInest platform. The role of this module is to support the online and real-time establishment and management of T&L contracts and operation in marketplaces. This document is a technical documentation of the existing POC implementation so of the current situation but not of the full features intended for the final version.
The document contains a fact sheet which includes the list of key features, technical details about the technologies used, details about how to access the POC prototype, as well as, steps for the deployment of a new version of the ECM.
Additionally the document contains descriptions of the main screens of the proof of concept prototype which shall serve as a simple manual giving an idea about the capabilities of the prototype.

Final technical specification and Phase 2 implementation plan for logistics contract manager

This document is associated with the E-Contracting Module (ECM) and is submitted as specified in the FInest Description of Work (DoW) as deliverable D8.5 – “Final Technical Specification and Phase 2 Implementation Plan for Logistics Contract Manager” – associated with Work Package 8 (WP8). The role of this module within FInest is to provide online and semi-automatic contract establishment and management. The FInest core modules using the services offered by ECM are TPM (Transport Planning Module – associated with WP7) and BCM (Business Collaboration Module – associated with WP5).
In this document, we present the work conducted to achieve the following objectives associated with deliverable D8.5:
a) provide the final technical specification of the ECM (task T8.2);
b) provide domain-specific capabilities of the ECM module using GE (Generic Enablers) offered by FI-WARE (task T8.3);
c) technical realization of ECM aligned with concrete technical realization of GEs (task T8.4);
d) implementation of the proof-of-concept of the ECM module (task T8.4);and
e) detailed implementation plan for the follow up of the ECM module in Phase II (task T8.5).
It is important to notice that D8.5 complements the information in the previous report D8.3, which introduced the initial technical specification of the ECM module. The deliverable D8.5 updates the content of the previous deliverable with the final specification and final data models.
In addition, it is important to notice that the details about the prototype implementation are reported in the deliverable D8.4.

FI PPP alignment plan [Download]

This deliverable provides the initial plan for aligning the FInest project with the activities of the overall FI PPP program along with a report on the relevant activities undertaken within the first three months of the project providing the first report on Task T9.1 – T9.4 of the DoW.

As a Use Case Project on Transport and Logistics, FInest is one of the eleven projects that constitute Phase 1 of the Future Internet PPP. In order to warrant the overall success of the FI PPP and, as a consequence, of the FInest project as a part of it, it is necessary to properly align R&D activities among the projects and foster information exchange and constructive collaboration. Alignment and collaboration will facilitate the achievement of both the program-level objectives of the FI PPP as well as the specific objectives of the FInest project.

In full awareness of this, and with the goal of pro-actively contributing to the success of the program, the FInest project includes a dedicated work package (WP9) that manages all activities concerned with the alignment of the project with the FI PPP.

A major part of these activities relate to the ‘FI PPP Governance Model’ that defines the bodies and structures for program-wide collaboration and coordination and is facilitated by the CONCORD Support Action. The program governance model encompasses the Advisory Board that shall provide advice for the future directions of the FI PPP, the Steering Board as the central body for program-level directions and activities, the Architecture Board that is mainly concerned with defining the technical architecture and Generic Enablers in a collaborative manner between FI-WARE and the Use Case Projects, and a set of Working Groups that shall address specific topics of the FI PPP on a program-wide level.

In addition to participating in these governance activities, the FInest project will conduct the following alignment activities: (1) close interaction with the INFINITY Support Action in order to determine suitable Future Internet experimentation environments for conducting large-scale trials that are planned for the follow-up project in phase 2 of the FI PPP, and (2) direct collaboration with other Use Case Projects that address Future Internet application domains related to Transport and Logistics in order to identify commonalities and cooperate towards complementary R&D. Moreover, the fact that several partners of the FInest consortium are also involved in other FI PPP projects will allow for a close and direct collaboration between projects. Most notably, three of the ICT partners (IBM, SAP, UDE) are also involved in the FI-WARE project, which allows for a closer and more direct interaction and alignment for the technology design and development.

In the first three months of the project, the FInest consortium has elaborated a detailed plan for realizing the planned alignment with the FI PPP program, nominated the project representatives for the global coordination activities as well as for the additional alignment activities, and has participated and pro-actively contributed to various meetings (both physical and virtual), which have taken place since the project start.

Intermediate report and revised plan for FI PPP alignment

This report presents the second Deliverable of work package WP9 “FI PPP Alignment”, providing the intermediate report of the various activities concerned with contributions to and the alignment of the FInest Project with the FI PPP program conducted in the period M4-M12,
and an outlook on the planned FI PPP alignment activities for the remaining duration of the project. Following the comprehensive strategy presented in the preceding report (see Deliverable D9.1), this provides the progress reports and achievements on tasks T9.1 – T9.4 as defined in the DoW of the FInest project.
FInest is the use case project on Transport and Logistics in the Future Internet PPP, as one of the eleven projects that constitute Phase I of the program. To warrant the overall success of the FI PPP as a whole, and – in consequence – of the FInest project, it is necessary to properly align the R&D activities among the projects and foster constructive collaboration. In full awareness of this, and with the goal of pro-actively contributing to the success of FI PPP, the FInest project includes a dedicated work package (WP9) that manages all activities concerned with the alignment of the project with the FI PPP. This shall facilitate achievement of both program-level objectives of the FI PPP as well as the specific objectives of the FInest project.

This deliverable reports on the each of the mentioned activities for FI PPP alignment with respect to the main results and the relevance for FInest, including risk assessments and mitigation plans where appropriate. Overall – despite the fact that these activities require a substantial part of the project resources and travel budget in particular – the alignment activities are considered to be beneficial for achieving the project goals.

Report and Phase 2 plan for FI PPP alignment

This report presents the third and final Deliverable of work package WP9 “FI PPP Alignment”, providing the final report of the various activities concerned with contributions to and the alignment of the FInest Project with the FI PPP program conducted in the period M13-M24, and an outlook on the activities planned for continued and improved alignment of the program alignment in Phase 2 of the FI PPP. In accordance to the comprehensive strategy presented in the beginning of the project (see Deliverable D9.1), this provides the progress reports and achievements on tasks T9.1 – T9.4 as defined in the Description of Work (DoW).
The FI PPP is a program involving several projects, where FInest is the Phase 1 use case project on Transport and Logistics. To warrant the overall success of the FI PPP as a whole, and – in consequence – of the FInest project, it is necessary to properly align the R&D activities among the projects and foster constructive collaboration. In full awareness of this, and with the goal of pro-actively contributing to the success of FI PPP, work package WP9 in FInest is dedicated to the coordination of the several activities for prosperously aligning the project with the FI PPP, therewith facilitating achievement of both the program-level objectives of the FI PPP as well as the specific objectives of the FInest project.
The overall strategy for FI PPP alignment as defined in the beginning did not need to be changed, merely been amended with specific activities in accordance to the activities and procedures defined within the FI PPP. The main results on FI PPP alignment in the second year of the project (M13-M24) that are presented here in detail are:
• The continued pro-active participation with the FI PPP global coordination activities (i.e.: Steering Board, Architecture Board, and the FI PPP Working Groups for program-wide Dissemination, Exploitation and Business Modelling)
• The coordinated assessment and validation of 24 out of the 30 Generic Enablers provided by FIWARE, conducted in the context of GE-enabled proof-of-concept implementations and detailed technical specifications in compliance to the procedures defined by FIWARE and the FI PPP Architecture Board
• The continued direct interaction with other FI PPP projects, which has resulted in the successful preparation of the Phase 2 use case project ‘cSpace’ as a merger of the Phase 1 UC-projects FInest and SmartAgriFood and defines detailed plans for implementation and experimentation in alignment with the FI PPP Core Platform project as well as the FI PPP support actions for program-level facilitation and capacity building
• An plan for continued FI PPP alignment in Phase 2, including and outlook towards the program-level coordination and cross-project interaction that appears to be necessary to reach the FI PPP objectives along with insights and lessons learned for this from the FInest project.

Public project website [Download]

The FInest website provides the single point of entry for access to all relevant public information concerning the project, including general information about the project, news and events concerning the project as well as public project results.

Dissemination and standardization plan [Download]

Work package WP10 covers all activities that are necessary for achieving the impact that is planned for the FInest project. The aim is to present and promote the uptake of the project results by various stakeholders (internal and external to the project) and interest groups. To this end, WP10 will present the project and work results to the broader public and research communities (dissemination), prepare for the usage and industrial uptake of the project results by the consortium partners as well as by other interested parties (exploitation), and prepare for a substantial and long-term impact by promoting the project results for standardization.

To achieve maximal impact of the project, the specific objectives for dissemination and standardisation are:

• Setup and maintain a public website of the project
• Define and continuously update the dissemination plan for the project, prepare dissemination material, and identify targets for the publication of scientific results
• Organize and participate in industrial as well as in scientific events to present the project
• Identify standardization opportunities and promoting the project results to international and business-relevant standardization bodies

This deliverable reports on the progress achieved for what concerns the above objectives, specifically presenting a plan for dissemination and standardization, which will be continuously updated throughout the project’s lifetime.

Exploitation plan [Download]

This document provides the initial exploitation plan of FInest project. It will be revised and extended with an interim report at the end of the first year of the project. All exploitation activities carried out during the whole period will be reported at the end of project and it will include FI-PPP Phase 2 plan for exploitation of project results.

Introduction part of the document gives short information about transport and logistics industry in the European Union and provides the FInest project description and its expected results. The FInest project exploitation strategy is explained in the following section. Finally, the different strategies for different FInest partners; industrial, academic and stakeholder, are provided.

Interim report and revised plan for dissemitiation and standardization

Work package WP10 covers all activities that are necessary for achieving the impact that is planned for the FInest project. The aim is to present and promote the uptake of the project results by various stakeholders (internal and external to the project) and interest groups. To this end, WP10 will present the project and work results to the broader public and research communities (dissemination), prepare for the usage and industrial uptake of the project results by the consortium partners as well as by other interested parties (exploitation), and prepare for a substantial and long-term impact by promoting the project results for standardization.
To achieve maximal impact of the project, the specific objectives for dissemination and standardisation are:

• Setup and maintain a public website of the project,
• Define and continuously update the dissemination plan for the project, prepare dissemination material, and identify targets for the publication of scientific results,
• Organize and participate in industrial as well as in scientific events to present the project,
• Identify standardization opportunities and promoting the project results to international and business-relevant standardization bodies.

Interim report and revised plan for exploitation

This document provides the Interim Report and Revised Plan for Exploitation of FInest project. All exploitation activities carried out during the whole period will be reported at the end of project and it will include FI-PPP Phase 2 plan for exploitation of project results.
Introduction part of the document gives short information about transport and logistics industry in the European Union and provides the FInest project description and its expected results. The FInest project exploitation strategy is explained in the following section. In addition to these, the different strategies for different FInest partners; industrial, academic and stakeholder, are provided. Finally, annual exploitation activities are summarized before the conclusion and future work section.

Final report and Phase 2 plan for dissemination and standarization

Work package WP10 covers all activities that are necessary for achieving the impact that is planned for the FInest project. The aim is to present and promote the uptake of the project results by various stakeholders (internal and external to the project) and interest groups. To this end, WP10 will present the project and work results to the broader public and research communities (dissemination), prepare for the usage and industrial uptake of the project results by the consortium partners as well as by other interested parties (exploitation), and prepare for a substantial and long-term impact by promoting the project results for standardization.
This deliverable summarizes the dissemination and standardization activities carried out in the second year of the project and it includes also the phase 2 plan for dissemination and standardization.

Final report and Phase 2 plan for exploitation of project results

This document provides the Final Report and Phase 2 Plan for Exploitation of FInest Project Results. All exploitation activities carried out during the second year is reported and it includes FI-PPP Phase 2 plan for exploitation of project results.
Introduction part of the document gives short information about transport and logistics industry in the European Union and provides the FInest project description and its expected results. In the next section, annual exploitation activities for the second year are summarized before the Phase 2 Plan for Exploitation of Project Results. Finally, the conclusion and future work section is provided.