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ClouT project was officially launched on April 1st
2013, on behalf of the European Commission and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan. High expectation from European and Japanese stakeholders is driving the project’s technical progress and achievements. ClouT, which stands for “cloud of things”, is providing infrastructure, services, tools and applications that will be used by municipalities, citizens, service developers and application integrators to create, deploy and manage applications that take advantage of the latest advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud domains. With its user-centric approach, ClouT will also offer to end-users the possibility of creating their own cloud services and share them with other citizens. The project aims at providing a reference Cloud + IoT architecture and developing its instances to be deployed in 4 pilot cities: Santander, Genova, Fujisawa and Mitaka. The ClouT project is bringing together prestigious private companies such as ST Microelectronics, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Panasonic, NTT as well as academic institutes such as CEA-LETI, University of Cantabria, Keio University and National Institute of Informatics, which are strongly committed to bring this first EU-Japan initiative to a success. This first edition of the ClouT newsletter will give you an overall view on the project’s concept and its first results. ClouT team will prepare periodic newsletters to keep you informed about significant progress achieved in the project. Enjoy!
Dr. Levent GÜRGEN (ClouT EU project coordinator) R&D Project Manager, Electronic and Information Technology Laboratory (CEA-LETI) [email protected]
Yoshio SAITO (ClouT JP project coordinator) General Manager, Public Sector Sales Division Corporate Sales Promotion Headquarters NTT East [email protected]
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# 01 • 09/2014
ClouT Concept
ClouT concept is based on the typical Cloud stratification as illustrated in the following figure:
ClouT Reference Architecture
ClouT project has provided the first version of its reference architecture within its deliverable 1.2 that can be
downloaded at the following link: http://clout-project.eu/documents/deliverables-access/
Based on the first feedbacks from several stakeholders, the project is now proceeding to the second and final version
of the architecture. The above figure gives an overall vision of the architecture which is detailed in the upcoming
deliverable 1.3, which will be available for download at the project website in October 2014 ... So stay tuned!
CPaaS: ClouT Platform layer consists of a set of specialised middleware services in particular for secure access to city data and tools for service mash-up for the stakeholders in the city ecosystem.
CSaaS: ClouT application layer is composed by sample applications developed using the CPaaS and CIaaS APIs and running over the Cloud.
CIaaS: ClouT City Infrastructure is a set of interconnected physical and logical resources (sensors, actuators, legacy devices, social networks, web applications, etc.) all made homogenous using virtualisation techniques.
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ClouT Field Trials
ClouT partners give great importance to the Field Trials, which will be launched in the 4 pilots cities by the end of 2014 (see below). Field Trials leverage on ClouT solution for the implementation of a set of applications targeting different domains of the Smart City paradigm. The applications will enable end-users (citizens, municipality technicians, tourists, policy makers, etc.) to naturally interact with the city and its services as well as with other end-users.
SANTANDER
Participatory Citizen in Santander, Spain, is designed to involve citizens in city life by encouraging them, with their mobile phones, to report events and incidents to the city hall. Officials notify the citizens when issues are resolved and other citizens can access to these events and notifications. The application will be extended to other partner cities under common ClouT solutions.
Contact: [email protected]
MITAKA
The Paw Collection application in Mitaka, Japan, aims at contributing to health improvement and prevention of isolation of elderly people, by encouraging them to go out from home and walk through suggested routes that match with their interests and abilities. The application provides Social Network Service (SNS) like interface and they can communicate among them through same interests. As characteristic feature, people can try to do same experience that someone else did before. The sensor on mobile phone automatically detects their achievement of the try. People can talk about their achievement with kind of certification. This will facilitate noiseless and open communication on SNS and contribute at building local community. Contact: [email protected]
FUJISAWA
Interactive city, Fujisawa, Japan, identifies sporting and cultural events and monitors environmental and weather data such as air quality, temperature and humidity by deploying various sensors throughout the city, and analyzing and classifying data collected from social networks, etc. This information is shared with citizens through a personalized city dashboard on the web, and via mobile applications and public displays. Contact: [email protected]
GENOVA
The “Io non rischio” (I don’t risk) application in Genova, Italy, uses environmental and weather data from weather sensors, hydrometers, webcams, etc. and provides information to the citizens and the civil-protection agency of the city. Contact: [email protected]
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Interactions with ClouT stakeholders
ClouT project regularly interacts with different stakeholders during specific meetings:
ClouT Stakeholders meeting, Tokyo, April 2014. 13 participants (IT corporations, City managers, City associations) to discuss about “Cities of the future –What do we really need?”
ClouT meeting with the Genova’s Civil Protection, Sept. 2014. 12 participants to discuss the ClouT field trial based on “IoNonRischio” application and future challenge and synergies in IoT for Genova.
SUCRE / ClouT / OCEAN projects jointly organized workshop about EU-Japan common research challenges on IoT and Cloud Computing. Brussels, May 2014.
ClouT – Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) meeting, April 2014. Exchanging experiences
and lessons learnt in Smart Cities projects in Europe and in Japan.
Furthermore, two surveys have been prepared to gather more inputs from citizens and technological stakeholders
such as ICT companies, research centers and city municipalities.
Please feel free to participate, it takes about 5 minutes!
CITIZENS SURVEY
Europe Japan
Citizens survey (also available in Spanish and Italian)
Survey for Santander Citizens (also available in Spanish)
Survey for Genova Citizens (also available in Italian)
Citizens survey (available in Japanese)
STAKEHOLDERS SURVEY
Europe Japan
Stakeholders survey (also available in Spanish and Italian) Stakeholders survey (available in Japanese)
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ClouT in the press
Dealing with two key technologies in the ICT domain, which are Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, ClouT project
has attracted many attention from various communities, press, blogs, projects, etc.:
Healthcare related applications of ClouT described in the Cloud Source Magazine #3
ClouT article in May newsletter of the International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW)
Newsletter @Micronews - The disruptive semiconductors website: A European-Japanese Collaboration to Leverage the ‘Internet of Things’
Journal Le Monde – web technological magazine « Les clés de demain » : Le projet ClouT place le citoyen au coeur de la ville intelligente
Pan European Networks - Science & Technology, Issue 9: Set of technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds to improve the quality of life
Press conference with ClouT Partners and the Mayor of Santander, a 5 minutes TV report is available on telecantabria (check at 15:30 mins)
An interview at EETimes on Internet of Things and interoperability: Internet of Things Need Glue
Major events Europe / Asia in Cloud, Internet of Things and Smart Cities
ClouT Partners were actively involved in the organization of the IWWISS (1st International
Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing) and gave an invited talk on smart cities,
Saint-Etienne, France, Sept. 2014
ClouT / SUCRE / OCEAN workshop on Cloud Computing Research, Tokyo, July 2014
ClouT booth at the IoT Week 2014, June 2014, demonstration of the first project results
ClouT Partners organized a special session on “IoT and Cloud Computing” regarding
emerging topics in the fields of Internet of Things during WF-IoT: IEEE World Forum on
Internet of Things event, Seoul, March 2014
ClouT concept presented during a guest talk given during Cloud Asia Conference, Singapore,
in November 2013.
ClouT Partners chaired a workshop in Smart cities: The reality of IoT services in Small-
Medium Cities, Living bits and Things Conference, Bled, Nov. 2013, to discuss about “How can
IoT and M2M help cities to be more energy efficient and nicer place to live?”
Next events, come and meet ClouT
Bergamo 2.(035) Workshop, Bergamo, Italy, 29 Sept. 2014, to present ClouT field trials as basis for sharing different urban experiences from cross-disciplinary perspectives
Special EU-US workshop on Promoting Global IoT Success Stories: ClouT project will be presented at the IoT conference, MIT, USA, 6-8 October 2014
EU-Japan symposium organized in Brussels on 16-17 October 2014: EU-JP projects achievements and future research topics between Europe and Japan
Participation to IoT.360 and Urb-IoT events, Roma, 28-29 October 2014
Organization of the SOSC workshop (Service Oriented Smart Cities) in conjunction with the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Matsue, Japan, 17 November 2014
