[Fiware-pcc] oil and smartcities

[Alex Glikson]

> Of course happy to receive an ack "we want to be in the game" from alex 
as well!

Let me check.
Can you, please, elaborate how the allocated budget is supposed to be 
used?

Regards,
Alex

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From:   stefano de panfilis <stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>
To:     "fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu" <fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu>, 
Date:   30/05/2013 09:41 PM
Subject:        [Fiware-pcc] oil and smartcities
Sent by:        fiware-pcc-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu



dear all,
 
as you migth remember i was assigned the coordination of a task force to 
select and than link a set smartcities as initial stakeholders of future 
interent applications (fi-apps)  in the context of oil.
 
this initial idea and plan was reinforced during the pre-fia workshop 
organised by nuria on the matter. people there realised and agreed that 
technologies per se are useless if we do not make available with them 
data, i.e. with what the fi-apps are meant to deal with. of course such 
data cannot be just experimental data-sets, but live data coming from the 
real world.
 
this was also agreed in a pcc meeting when we agreed to create such task 
force and we agreed also to have the smartcity as the first attempt core 
topic.
 
unfortunately after i sent you the charter for this data set i followed 
not too closely this task due to the many things around oil and overal 
suistaability of the fi-ppp inlcuding a more closer link with eit ict 
labs.
 
now is time to resume actions without any further delay as the launch of 
oil and testbed v2 is just ahead all of us!
 
together we juanjo we elaborated a pragmatic proposal to shortening as 
much as possible such delay. here it follows.
 
Instead of going for a preliminary set of interviews with all the 
cities that some of you listed to me, which is going  to be time-consuming 
(a time that we may have before, but not now) just decide to split the 
budget identified for this mission into the several
countries where there are cities that have expressed their interest to be 
involved: France, Italy, amd Spain. In addition i'd propose to give a last 
chance to Germany to be in the loop as it will host a node in XiFi and 
clearly Germany  is a country i believe should not be kept aside.
 
Thus, including Germany, this would mean devoting a 250 K? budget per 
country
(may be a bit more, Juanjo still to have a final check)

The proposal is to designate a "mentor" per country among the existing 
partners starting from those belonging to the pcc. Its responsibility 
would be to find out whom the 250 K? of budget should be assigned to.
For such mentors the proposal is:
- Engineering and Telecom Italia for Italy
- Orange and Thales for France
- ATOS and Telefonica, most likely supported by Red.es, for Spain
- SAP (eventually supported by DT and Fraunhofer given the strong link 
they have with Berlin from the OUTSMART use case project - of course up to 
SAP to decide) for Germany.
Of course happy to receive an ack "we want to be in the game" from alex as 
well!
 
On 28 June we should have a pcc phc on the matter where well defined plans 
of cities involvement are shared, discussed and agreed. such plans to be 
circulated on 26 June for reading.

At that meeting we do agree to assign them (one partner per country, to 
decide among the ones proposed above) the designated budget per country 
as subcontracting or leave it assigned to TID as subcontracting. Actually 
Juanjo and me  would go for option 1 which should go with assuming the 
responsibility to achieve  the goal of getting that connection 
establishedand operational by the end of October. If at the meeting plans 
are too weak or fuzzy the budget for that country should be re-assigned to 
other more promising countries.
Then, it would be a matter of booking the budget that way in amendment 5 
(the new one that is currently under negotiation to incorporate partners 
from the Open Calls 2 and 3).
 
The committment should be:
- to have higly representative of the selected cities at the campus party 
event where a contest with awards in money (50-70KEUR) for fi-apps will be 
launched.
- to have the cities infrastructure linked to oil operational by the end 
of October as i said before.
 
As an example i like to laid down what i have agreed so far with Trento. I 
made this exercise, not to be first, but to understand the feasibility of 
the plan and of the idea to liìnk stakeholders such as cities to oil.
 
In trento they have a data center managed by terntino networks which is 
the public company dedicated to ict services. deployed in that data 
centers, among other applications, there is SmartCampus, which is already 
an application very close to fi-apps principles which deliver services to 
students not as such but as digital natives. services available from 
SmartCampus are public transportation time schedule and ticketing, social 
networking, and so on. in addition innovative students can implement new 
services on top of it.
SmartCampus takes benefit from the Abou 140 open data sets managed by the 
province of trento.
However SmartCampus is not meant to be scalable.
 
The draft agreement so far for the trento link to oli is the following:
- trentoRise (the association between the University of Trento and the FBK 
research center) to be the main contractor. this is due to the fact that 
first of all a city in italy cannot be subcontracted as such, secodn 
becouse is a precise requirement from the city to have trentoRise as the 
technology provider for them
- the consortium to be formed by:
-- Province of Trento
-- Municipality of Trento
-- Municipality of Rovereto
-- the Associtaion of Mucipalities of the Province of Trento
- SmartCampus will be linked to oil through a set connectors allowing oil 
to take benefit of the 140 open data sets
- SmartCampus to be extended by taking into consideration geis from 
chapter 3, 4, and 6 at a first attempt. most likely in a second phase also 
geis from chapter 5 will be considered.
 
i think this is a good example of what we migth achieve in this task to 
engagé smartcities stakeholders in oil.
of course things can be different for the other cities, but at least this 
example shoes that our, fi-ware, idea of oil is viable and well accepted 
by cities.
 
it would be also nice to present some other draft examples during the 
review.
 
happy to help you all and also to have your comments on the matter.
 
ciao,
stefano


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