Social and AR Applications Using the User’s Context and User Generated Content

The core business of Mobile Network Operators (MNO) has moved from network management and phone services to service providing. In contrast to Information Communication Technology (ICT) service providers, MNOs handle large amounts of their customers’ context data and generated content, which can be used to bring value-added services to customers and therefore, generate solid revenues. Given this scenario, this paper describes how Telecom Italia (a major Italian MNO) has prototyped such type of services after a deep research performed in the context-awareness and context management field and using its user-generated content management facilities in federation with other platforms and systems

Standard-based publish-subscribe service enabler for social applications and augmented reality services

A Publish/Subscribe mechanism based on the Open Mobile Alliance's (OMA) Next Generation Services Interface (NGSI) open standard, allows interfacing the information available from many publishers with heterogeneous customers. Pervasive devices (including mobile smartphones) publish a huge amount of real world information, which afterwards is accessed through web browsers and applications. The adoption of an open standard interface between information publishers and consumers allows to reduce the gap in the technologies used on both sides, therefore, include new actors into the services, increase the service offers and increment the world-wide and cross-domain usage of services based on the Publish/Subscribe paradigm. Major European Industrial Entities supported by the EU Research Program are deriving a cross-domain Future Internet open standard technology to be adopted and used in any application domain by any customer for any needs. The reference open standard chosen is OMA's NGSI. The open standard based technological binding created in the FI-WARE EU funded project and provided with an open reference implementation performed by Telecom Italia is demonstrated through examples of Augmented-Reality and social-impacting services that improve the quality of life for people (including those decease affected)

Pub/Sub and Semantic Annotation Enablers for Future Internet in the PPP EU Project Test-Bed

Internet has significantly grown during the last decade; also many novel services appeared, generating huge incomes and fame worldwide. This is the era of new Internet services over the top, without requiring specific changes or specific functionalities from the "old" version of Internet. This, on one side, does not pose any limitations for the creation of new services able to build and offer on top of the large Internet technological foundation. On the other side, this way of "do it (everything) by yourself" has its drawbacks, such as slow creation process, long time-to-market, deep knowledge of many technologies on top of Internet, no standardization, no interoperability, solutions created by different people, and many other typical limitations of free but complex individual development. All those aforementioned classic Internet characteristics lead to a strong fragmentation of technology and services. The Future Internet initiative instantiation by European Commission in form of Private-Public Partnership (PPP) Program has the objective to populate Internet with common conceptual components (Generic Enablers or GE) enabling faster and interoperable service creation. FI-WARE is the technological core foundation project of the PPP program that provides specifications and reference implementations of the most common generic enablers and deploys them on its test-bed for public and evaluation usage. The Publish/Subscribe and Semantic Annotation GEs that the project has provided and installed in the FI-WARE test-bed are demonstrated in this paper

Generic enablers concept and two implementations for European Future Internet test-bed

Internet has evolved and grown tremendously during the last years. We're living the rise of the “self-made” Web Services. On the one hand, this conception reduces the limitations for the creation of new Web Services capable of operating on top of the large Internet technological foundation, while on the other it has some drawbacks such as: slow creation process, long time-to-market, deep knowledge of many Internet Technologies, no standardization, no interoperability and no quality control. All the aforementioned characteristics lead to a strong fragmentation of technology and Web Services. The Future Internet initiative instantiation by European Commission in form of Private-Public Partnership (PPP) Program has the objective to populate Internet with common conceptual components (Generic Enablers or GE) to enable a faster and interoperable service creation. FI-WARE is the technological core foundation project of the PPP program that provides specifications and reference implementations of the most common generic enablers and deploys them on its test-bed for public and evaluation usage. The Publish/Subscribe and the Semantic Annotation GEs that the project has provided and installed in the FI-WARE test-bed are demonstrated in this paper

Smart Space Governing through Service Mashups

The rapid and constant evolution of Smart Spaces has introduced an increase in the complexity and quantity of its components, making the monitoring and management processes more challenging and complex. On the other hand, Service Mashups enable the design and development novel and modern Web applications based on easy-to-accomplish end-user service compositions. We introduce the concept of Smart Space "governing": managing an Smart Space with a set of monitoring processes and specific actions performed by the system when some events or behaviors occur. Our approach to this concept allows the end-user to personalize those processes and actions by creating Service Mashups that can published into the platform's marketplace in order to be reuse

A Subgraph Isomorphism Based Approach to Enable Discovery and Composition of Smart Space Elements

Nowadays, the variety of mobile services is growing together with the number of customers and the heterogeneity of their mobile de- vices, thus, monitoring the users of a mobile network has become a chal- lenge. Considering Smart Space Governing to address this issue, in which the mobile network is considered an Smart Space (due to its size and complexity) and their elements (mobile devices and network monitoring services), it is possible to create rules to monitor the output of these elements. We call those rules as Smart Space Compositions and can be created through the platform’s Visual Editor, that during the graphical creation process, provides the user with a list of similar existing composi- tions that can be reused at any time to improve the composition process. This paper describes the implementation by a Telecommunications Op- erator of this composition module supported by subgraph isomorphism techniques

Linked Data-Driven Smart Spaces

In this paper, we present an approach to exploit Linked Data in Smart Spaces, doing more than just using RDF to represent informa- tion. In particular, we rely on knowledge stored in DBpedia1, a dataset in the Web of Data. We also provide a platform to implement such an approach and a eTourism use case, both developed in collaboration with a mobile operator. Finally, we provide also a performance evaluation of the main component of the platform