Pasquale VitaleEngineering Ingegneria Informatica

Overview of Generic Enablers

Introduction

The FIWARE Platform comprises a set of technological “Generic Enablers” which are considered general purpose and independent from any “usage area”

Generic Enablers provide open interfaces:

to Application Developers (APIs)

to support interoperability with other GEs

FIWARE Reference Architecture

Build with other Generic Enablers

Introduction

FIWARE assembles a set of building blocks that ease creation of smart Internet Applications

These blocks are called Generic Enablers

They offer reusable and common shared functions serving multiple use cases in various sectors

FIWARE GE Specifications are open (public and royalty free)

FIWARE GE Implementation (FIWARE GEi)

platform product that implements a given GE Open Spec

there might be multiple compliant GEis of each GE Open Spec

available FIWARE GEis published on the FIWARE Catalogue

The 7 Technical Chapters

FIWARE GEs are divided into 7 technical chapters:

1. Cloud Hosting

2. Data/Context Management

3. Interfaces to Network and Devices (I2ND)

4. Advanced Web-based User Interface

5. Security

6. Internet of Things

7. Applications/Services and Data Delivery

1. Cloud Hosting

IaaS Resource Management - to provision VMs (associate compute, storage and network resources)

Monitoring - to allow incorporating monitoring and metering mechanisms

Object Storage - to provide robust, scalable object storage functionality

PaaS Manager - to enable multiple deployment architectures (tiers)

Policy Manager - to provide the basic management of cloud resources based on rules

Self-Service Interfaces - to support for the users of cloud to manage their services and resources

Software Deployment & Configuration - to support automated deployment of software

2. Data/Context Management

BigData Analysis - to allow the deployment of private computing clusters based on Hadoop ecosystem

Complex Event Processing - to analyze event data in real-time, generate immediate insight and enable instant response to changing conditions

Publish/Subscribe Context Broker - to manage the context information

Stream-oriented - to provide an abstraction layer for multimedia capabilities, allowing non-expert developers to include interactive media components to their applications

Network Information and Control – to enable the abstraction and virtualization of network resources and functionalities

3. Interfaces to Network and Devices

4. Advanced Web-based User Interface (1 of 2)

2D-UI - handles generic web user interface

2D/3D Capture - capture contextual information related a 2D 3D scene

3D-UI-XML3D - an extension to HTML5 for declarative 3D content represented as a scene graph

3DUI-WebTundra - Web client for taking realXtend 3D virtual worlds into modern web browsers

Augmented Reality - a high-level API for HTML5 Augmented Reality applications

Cloud Rendering - to provide a generic way to request, receive and control a video stream of a remote 3D application

4. Advanced Web-based User Interface (2 of 2)

GIS Data Provider - to host geographical data and serve it in 3D

POI Data Provider - to make easy the search, the store by location

Interface Designer - to provide an easy-to-use full manipulator / editor of 3D objects within a scene

Real Virtual Interaction - to provide means for connecting real world devices consisting of sensors and actuators in to augmented or virtual reality applications

Synchronization - presents a lightweight and generic network-synchronized dynamic scene data model

Virtual Characters - consists of an open standard and reference implementation for virtual characters on the Web (to create, display and animate virtual characters)

5. Security

Authorization PDP - provides an API to get authorization decisions based on authorization policies, and authorization requests from PEPs

Identity Management - covers a number of aspects involving users' access to networks, services and applications, including secure and private authentication from users to devices, networks and services, authorization & trust management, user profile management, privacy-preserving disposition of personal data, Single Sign-On (SSO) to service domains and Identity Federation towards applications

PEP Proxy - together with Identity Management and Authorization PDP GEs, add authentication and authorization security to your backend applications

Security Monitoring - to manage the Security Management System

6. Internet of Things

Backend Device Management - IDAS - to provide API for M2M application

Configuration Manager - IoT Discovery - to register the availability of Things and Sensor devices

Configuration Manager - Orion Context Broker - to provide the NGSI9 interfaces

Gateway Data Handling GE - EspR4FastData - to process data in real time

Protocol Adapter - MR CoAP - to allow to plug devices

IoT Broker - lightweight and scalable middleware component that separates IoT applications from the underlying device installations

7. Applications/Services and Data Delivery

Application Mashup - Wirecloud - to build on cutting-edge end-user development, RIA

Marketplace - to provide functionality necessary for bringing together offering and demand for making business

Repository - to provide a consistent uniform API to USDL service descriptions

Revenue Settlement and Sharing System - is in charge of distributing the revenues originated by the usage of a given service among the involved stakeholders

Store - WStore - to sell services to both consumers and developers of Future Internet applications and services and for end-to-end managing of offerings and sales

Specific Enablers (SEs)

A Specific Enabler (SE) is a component similar to a GE which offers functions relevant to domainsspecific, for example manufacturing, media, eHealth, energy and agrifood.

FIWARE GEs

Domain specific enablers

SMART CityApps

SMART Factory Apps

SMART Agrifood Apps

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