[Fiware-tech-help] Question about FIWARE Data Models

Rodrigo Tirapegui rtirapegui at smartmation.com
Wed Oct 21 23:10:23 CEST 2020


Hello,

My name is Rodrigo Tirapegui and I am an electronic engineer working at
Smartmation S.A., a local Argentine company dedicated to developing
solutions for public street lighting.

We have just developed a street light controller product based on NBIoT and
LoRa technologies, and a street light control cabinet, based on NBIoT
technology too (https://www.smartmation.com/).

Both products are intended to monitor and control the public lighting
infrastructure, detect irregularities in operational or consumption
malfunctions, as well as compiling consumption and saving reports.

We are currently evaluating making the products "FIWARE-Ready", by allowing
them to communicate indirectly (using an IoT Agent) with the FIWARE Context
Broker.

Since devices use a proprietary communication protocol, we think the
best approach to commit the objective is to develop our custom FIWARE IoT
Agent to deal with southbound communications from the FIWARE Context Broker
to the devices, and also translate northbound communications into NGSI
commands.This way, integrators should be able to receive measurements and
send commands from/to devices through NGSI API.

In this sense, I have had a look at "FIWARE Street Lighting Data Models" (
https://github.com/smart-data-models/dataModel.Streetlighting), which I
consider partially represent the products developed: as they are both
sensors and actuators, I consider that a greater number of data models are
necessary to be able to represent them in a complete way.

So the question that arises is whether FIWARE has a greater number of
standard data models to describe both products; for example to describe the
mandatory commands that must be supported (turn on, turn off, set dimming
level, configure switching points calendar, etc) or the way to inform
reports (consumption, alarms, switching point timestamps, etc), similarly
to other standards (for example, Zigbee through the "Zigbee Cluster
Library" document).

If the answer to the previous question is no, would it be correct to define
by myself the commands set and all the necessary data models that the
products should use, expecting them to be incorporated later as official
"FIWARE Data Models" under the
"Street Lighting domain"?

Thanks!

*Rodrigo Tirapegui · Electronic Engineer *

rtirapegui at smartmation.com <fgargiulo at smartmation.com> · Mobile: +54 911
3450 2229

Arribeños 3619 Piso 10 · (C1429BKQ) · CABA · Argentina

Phone: +54 11 5263 0307 · *www.smartmation.com
<http://www.smartmation.com/>*
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