Internet of Things Environment for Service Creation and Testing (IoT.est)
Official Website: http://ict-iotest.eu/iotest/
Start Date: 1 October 2011
End Date: 20 September 2014
To date implementations of Internet of Things (IoT) architectures are confined to particular application areas and tailored to meet only the limited requirements of their specific applications. These silo solutions used in these individual sectors hinder the uptake and penetration of specific tailored services for Internet of Things applications, in particular for innovative business processes. Hence the provisioning of IoT enabled business services (in short IoT services) is a time- and cost extensive process. The complexity involved in data acquisition, quality control, context interpretation, decision support, and action control hinders uptake and penetration of specific tailored services for “Internet of Things” applications, in particular for innovative business processes. The challenge applies to object-to-object (O2O) and object-to-person (O2P) communication services. As a result, a lot of opportunities remain often unused in today's Internet-connected objects platforms.
To overcome technology & sector boundaries and therefore dynamically design and integrate new types of services and generate new business opportunities requires a dynamic service creation environment that gathers and exploits data and information from sensors and actuators that use different communication technologies/formats.
The EU FP7 IoT.est project develops a test-driven service creation environment for Internet of Things enabled business services. The service creation environment will enable the acquisition of data and control/actuation of sensors, objects and actuators. The project provides techniques and tools to describe, publish and instantiate IoT services that exploit data across domain boundaries and facilitate run-time monitoring which enables autonomous service adaptation to environment/context and network parameter (e.g. QoS) changes. IoT.est provides adaptable techniques and solutions for the creation and provision of IoT enabled business services by bringing together the three disciplines Internet of Things, Service Engineering and Testing.
The project consortium, that was lead by the University of Surrey, consists of 8 industry and academic partners. The main focus of the University of Surrey team in this project is on supporting goal-oriented and knowledge-driven service creation and provisioning through Semantic Web technologies. The university has contributed to the areas of knowledge representation through interoperable description models, analysis of the semantic description of the Internet of Things-enabled services, environment and platform data to create methods for publication, distributed discovery mechanisms and run-time adaptation of the services. The goal-oriented service creation enablers facilitate dynamic binding of matching services to workflow, integration of service testing in the service creation process and a dynamic deployment configuration based on semantic platform recommendation. Dealing with dynamicity and changes in the IoT environments is handled by including efficient monitoring and adaptation mechanisms in the service lifecycle.
For more information on the University's involvement in this project, please contact Dr Suparna De
For more information on the University's involvement in this project, please contact Dr Suparna De