Motivation

The interconnection of different sectors like energy, traffic, information- and communication technologies in future smart cities offers a great innovation potential. Many devices and technologies already offer their own service functionalities; nevertheless, due to their incompatible and inflexible solutions, their use by other providers require further developments. Providers who want to establish cross-sectional services are facing the challenge of interconnecting fast-growing technologies with increasing complexity in a heterogeneous landscape that hinders composition of new services.

Solution

The goal of the project ISCO is to develop an open and extendable platform that provides all users with access to varying city objects (in the form of physical devices and/or digital services) and flexible use of them. Main challenges of such a development are the scalability of the platform and providing easy discoverability of devices. For instance, if a bus is supposed to drive through the city with phased traffic lights, the traffic control system needs to know which traffic light is to be passed next by the bus, i.e., both the bus and traffic light have to be identified fast and accurately. ISCO enables stakeholders of different domains to develop and provide novel, efficient and dynamic services, optionally composed of existing services in the smart city. In addition, ISCO offers solutions for self-protection of devices, services and their runtime environment as well as data and legal security of the users.

RUN-TIME

from 01.06.2016 to 31.07.2018

KEYWORDS

Smart Cities, Smart City Objects, Internet Of Things, Autonomous Systems, Wireless Mesh Networks, Semantic Services, Service Discovery, Service Orchestration

CONTACT

Dr. Fikret Sivrikaya
E-MAIL fikret.sivrikaya@gt-arc.com