Editing Team: Markus Fiedler

and contributions of the FIA community on the important research topics that should be addressed for the Framework Programme 8 research programmes broadly grouped around three main concerns; economic and business interests; societal interests and challenges; technical disruptions and capabilities. The contents of this roadmap originate with the community of researchers working on all aspects of the Future Internet and meet to share and discuss ideas through the Future Internet Assembly through an open consultation of research projects who participate in FIA. This roadmap is primarily concerned with identifying research that can be carried out in the second half of this decade and which will have an impact in 2020 and beyond. By ‘impact ’ we mean will result in products, services, systems, capabilities, that come to market and are available and deployed in that timeframe The approach adopted in this report is to integrate contributions across the entire space of future Internet research with the aim of bringing out the vision for how and where the Internet will make a significant difference in the future and identifying the broad challenges and gaps, and identifying the solutions and research needs in the future. In this report we have summarised and grouped ideas with the aim of identifying the strong themes and consistent challenges that emerge looking acros

Services of Living Labs and Their Networks

In order to quantify the value creation of Living Labs and their networks, a set of value-adding services has been derived. During the course of CoreLabs’ project activities in co-operation with emerging and established Living Labs, some pertinent questions regarding the service benefits of Living Labs were posed. Based on experiences and requirements of Living Labs and relevant experts, a classified set of appropriate services have been identified that can be used to steer new Living Labs or inspire established Living Labs. The classification of services is as follows: Collaborative Innovation, Validation & Demonstration, Stakeholder specific and Organisational. The methodologies used and detailed results of this service study are outlined as part of the paper

FORGE: An eLearning Framework for Remote Laboratory Experimentation on FIRE Testbed Infrastructure

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) initiative provides educators and learners in higher education with access to world-class FIRE testbed infrastructure. FORGE supports experimentally driven research in an eLearning environment by complementing traditional classroom and online courses with interactive remote laboratory experiments. The project has achieved its objectives by defining and implementing a framework called FORGEBox. This framework offers the methodology, environment, tools and resources to support the creation of HTML-based online educational material capable accessing virtualized and physical FIRE testbed infrastruc- ture easily. FORGEBox also captures valuable quantitative and qualitative learning analytic information using questionnaires and Learning Analytics that can help optimise and support student learning. To date, FORGE has produced courses covering a wide range of networking and communication domains. These are freely available from FORGEBox.eu and have resulted in over 24,000 experiments undertaken by more than 1,800 students across 10 countries worldwide. This work has shown that the use of remote high- performance testbed facilities for hands-on remote experimentation can have a valuable impact on the learning experience for both educators and learners. Additionally, certain challenges in developing FIRE-based courseware have been identified, which has led to a set of recommendations in order to support the use of FIRE facilities for teaching and learning purposes

Landscape and Roadmap of Future Internet and Smart Cities

FP7 Fireball coordination Action, http://www.fireball4smartcities.eu/This final D2.1 report forms a synthesis and further extension of the previousreports D1.2 [M6] and D1.2 [M12]. The key topics addressed in this reportreflect the key priorities of the WP2 and are: * Understanding the Smart City, providing state of the art and trends .FIREBALL understands Smart Cities as innovation ecosystems for the FutureInternet. The three areas of Smart Cities, Future Internet and Living Labsare explored including their interlinkages and how they can be exploited.This results into a mapping of the new landscape of Smart Cities and theFuture Internet. * Smart City case studies . Seven cases have been elaborated as a means toexplore and examine current developments, objectives, strategies in "smartcities" and establish collaboration between Smart Cities and the Eurocitiescommunity on one side and Future Internet and Living Labs on the other. * Collaboration models for Smart Cities innovation. In particular we focuson collaboration models that are fundamental to developing andimplementing common innovation activities of the three communitiesconstituting the FIREBALL domain: Smart Cities, Future Internet and Livinglabs. * Thematic Roadmap of Future Internet and Living Labs for SmartCities . This activity forms input for WP3 activities as well as to the Horizon2020 development process supported by the FISA group of Future InternetSupport Actions. The Roadmap activities also support the development of astrategy to implement collaboration models mentioned.The work regarding collaboration models relates strongly to the companionD1.2 (M12) report on Common Assets and the D1.3 (M12) report on Accessmechanisms. The D1.2 report identifies and describes smart cities, living labsand future Internet common assets, which is fundamental to the collaborationmodels mentioned. The D1.3 develops approaches to create access to theseassets and proposes sharing mechanisms.The topics addressed should be considered in close relation to the communitybuilding and collaborative activities that we have undertaken jointly with FIAand Eurocities communities since starting this project in 2010. Our intentionhas always been not only to produce reports but to play a proactive role inchanging the research and innovation landscape as regards Future Internet,Living Labs and Smart Cities

Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems sustained by the Future Internet

FIREBALL White paperThe White Paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming "smarter cities" and the lessons we can draw for the future. Such strategies are based on an assessment of the future needs of cities and innovative usages of ICTs embodied in the broadband Internet and Internet-based applications now and foreseen for the future. These strategies are also based on a new understanding of innovation, grounded in the concept of open innovation ecosystems, global innovation chains, and on citizens' empowerment for shaping innovation and urban development. This White Paper is one of the main outcomes of the FIREBALL project (www.fireball4smartcities.eu), a Coordination Action within the 7th Framework Programme for ICT, running in the period 2010-2012. The aim of FIREBALL is to bring together communities and stakeholders who are active in three areas: (1) research and experimentation on the Future Internet (FIRE); (2) open and user-driven innovation (Living Labs); and (3) urban development. The goal is to develop a common vision and a common view on how the different approaches, methodologies, policies and technologies in these areas can be aligned to boost innovation and socio-economic development of cities. The White Paper has explored the landscape of "smart cities" as environments of open and user driven innovation sustained by Future Internet technologies and services. Smart cities are also seen as environments enabled by advanced ICT infrastructure for testing and validating current Future Internet research and experimentation. Overall, the smart city is built upon a triangle of "City" - "Open Innovation Ecosystems" - "Future Internet" components. The White Paper explores also how cities and urban areas represent a critical mass when it comes to shaping the demand for advanced Internet-based services in large-scale testing and validation. Shaping this demand informs ongoing research, experimentation and deployment activities related to Future Internet testbeds, and helps establishing a dialogue between the different communities involved in the development of the future Internet and user-driven environments, to form partnerships and assess social and economic benefits and discovery of migration paths at early stages. Based on a holistic instead of technology merely driven perspective on smart cities, we consider necessary to revisit the concept of the Smart City itself. The concept of the smart city that emerges from FIREBALL can be summarized as follows: "The smart city concept is multi-dimensional. It is a future scenario (what to achieve), even more it is an urban development strategy (how to achieve it). It focuses on how (Internet-related) technologies enhance the lives of citizens. This should not be interpreted as drawing the smart city technology scenario. Rather, the smart city is how citizens are shaping the city in using this technology, and how citizens are enabled to do so. The smart city is about how people are empowered, through using technology, for contributing to urban change and realizing their ambitions. The smart city provides the conditions and resources for change. In this sense, the smart city is an urban laboratory, an urban innovation ecosystem, a living lab, an agent of change. Much less do we see a smart city in terms of a Ranking. This ranking is a moment in time, a superficial result of underlying changes, not the mechanism of transformation. The smart city is the engine of transformation, a generator of solutions for wicked problems, it is how the city is behaving smart.

Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities – New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors\u27 Introduction

Cities are complex, networked and continuously changing social ecosystems, shaped and transformed through the interaction of different interests and ambitions. […