[Fiware-collaboration-req] Semantic Interoperability for IoT Platforms in Support of Decision Making: An Experiment on Early Wildfire Detection

[Nikos Kalatzis]

Dear FIWARE team,

I am writing to you in order to inform you about my recent article 
published in MDPI-Sensors journal. The article elaborates on the use of 
FIWARE NGSIv2 data model and API for enabling semantic interoperability 
among diverse application domains such as video processing, social media 
integration, weather data, etc.

The article is available here:

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/3/528

Abstract: One of the main obstacles towards the promotion of IoT 
adoption and innovation is data interoperability. Facilitating 
cross-domain interoperability is expected to be the core element for the 
realisation of the next generation of the IoT computing paradigm that is 
already taking shape under the name of Internet of Everything (IoE). In 
this article, an analysis of the current status on IoT semantic 
interoperability is presented that leads to the identification of a set 
of generic requirements that act as fundamental design principles for 
the specification of interoperability enabling solutions. In addition, 
an extension of NGSIv2 data model and API (de-facto) standards is 
proposed aiming to bridge the gap among IoT and social media and hence 
to integrate user communities with cyber-physical systems. These 
specifications have been utilised for the implementation of the IoT2Edge 
interoperability enabling mechanism which is evaluated within the 
context of a catastrophic wildfire incident that took place in Greece on 
July 2018. Weather data, social media activity, video recordings from 
the fire, sensor measurements and satellite data, linked to the location 
and the time of this fire incident have been collected, modeled in a 
uniform manner and fed to an early fire detection decision support 
system. The findings of the experiment certify that achieving minimum 
data interoperability with light-weight, plug-n-play mechanisms can be 
realised with significant benefits for our society.


Best Regards,
Nikos Kalatzis


-- 
Nikos Kalatzis
Senior Research Associate
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA),
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Department of Communications, Electronics and Information Engineering
Heroon Polytechneiou 9, Zographou, Athens, Greece

voice: +30 2107722425
e-mail: nikosk at cn.ntua.gr