High-level Interoperability Testing Framework for the Web of Things
F-Interop work on a high-level interoperability testing framework for the Web of Things was presented during the TPAC 2018, W3C’s week of face to face meetings for its standardization groups, which this year took place in Lyon, France. The Web of Things is an abstraction layer that seeks to simplify connecting suppliers and consumers of IoT services, shielding developers from the complexities of the myriad technologies and standards for the IoT at the network edge. F-Interop’s platform for protocol testing enables developers to verify that their software conforms to the protocol specifications. This however, isn’t by itself sufficient to guarantee interoperability as applications may use the same protocols in different ways.
The high-level interoperability testing framework focuses on testing conformance to the Web of Things independently of the underlying protocols. The framework includes a JavaScript-based toolset and application Web Hub and has been released as open source under the permissive MIT license. W3C now plans to develop the framework further with a comprehensive test suite for its Web of Things specifications for Thing Descriptions and the associated Scripting API. The Arena Web Hub is aimed at the NodeJS and Web developer communities and provides a lightweight secure platform for applications for the Web of Things.
F-Interop @ the IEEE Region Ten Symposium
In collaboration with Eurecom, Easy Global Market participed in TENSYMP 2018, the IEEE Region Ten Symposium held in Sidney from 4 to 6th of July. The paper developed on behalf of the SemTest project, funded under the first open call of the H2020 F-Interop project, received the highly commended award by the scientific panel.
Organized this year around the theme of the Impact of the Internet of Things, EGM team and its partner brought significant scientific inputs with the paper entitled “Developing and Integrating a Semantic Interoperability Testing Tool in F-Interop Platform”, presenting progress in the field applied to the connected objects field.
http://www.eglobalmark.com/recognized-iot-scientific-publication-during-ieee-tensymp-2018/
F-Interop @ the IoT Week 2018 & GIoTS 2018
F-Interop is looking forward to see you at the IoT Week 2018 in Bilbao, Spain from June 4 to 7.
The IoT Week gathers the community of stakeholders engaged in developing new Internet of Things technologies and solutions. F-Interop will present its activities and tools on a dedicate booth and is also engaged in a plenary session as well as in a workshop on "Semantic Interoperablitity in the IoT and WoT".
Come and visit us.
You will find more information at www.iotweek.org and www.globaliotsummit.org
Global IoT Summit Workshop
The Global IoT Summit (June 4-7, 2018) is organizing a dedicated workshop to present papers on scaling up the IoT, with a specific focus on large scale pilots, interoperability, end-user engagement, data protection, covering also topics such as interoperability and market development. Selected papers will be published by IEEE.
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2018
More information can be found here
Meetup: Funding opportunities in IoT
Are you an SME working on IoT solutions?
Don't miss the "Meetup: Funding opportunities in IoT"
Learn about upcoming funding opportunities for SMEs working on IoT interoperability solutions, or bringing smart products and services to market.
Eventbrite will present funding opportunities awarding up to €60k each, explain the application process and provide information on what a successful application should focus on. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to those coordinating the funding opportunities.
If you are an organisation working on IoT, data and interoperability, or smart services, this event will offer a great opportunity to receive funding to boost your activity.
20 November 2017, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meetup-funding-opportunities-in-iot-tickets-39688270686
F-Interop Open Call continues to be a runaway success
EU H2020 F-Interop is a three year European led project designed to research, develop and support online tests for emerging standards and technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to create a workable platform and realise the end goal of boosting IoT interoperability. After 6 months of publicity, the F-Interop open call closed earlier this year, on January 25th, and funding was apportioned to SMEs across four categories.
Category A – New tools
Category B – New tests
Category C – Platform evaluation and report
Category D – Plugfest events
The majority of received proposals were for Category A. This was due to the larger amount of funding available (100K EUR for 10 months of work), perceived as higher incentive for applicants to receive substantial support to develop their ideas and solutions. In addition, Category A was probably perceived as the most flexible one. In fact, due to the early stage of the F-Interop platform, more was the perceived flexibility in the creation of required additional tools.
The second most applied Category was Category B (60K EUR for 6 months of work). The reason being that already available technical information about the F-Interop platform provided enough clarity and confidence to applicants on the existing and supported tools and protocols, on which they could leverage for their proposed tests.
Categories C and D received the least of submissions and funding of 10K EUR. This was due to the fact that at this stage, the current development of the F-Interop platform still left unclear the functionalities that could be tested or leveraged during the plugfests. As result, applicants were uncertain on the possible outcome of their proposals.
To distribute funding in categories C and D and provide successful bid SMEs with much needed funding, a second Open Call has launched.
Visit the Open Call page here >>>
"Lessons Learnt" from 1st Open Call
Get ready for the 2nd Open Call with Michele Nati's lessons from the 1st Open Call
https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/f-interop-open-call-lessons-learnt/
First Open Call Winners
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Name |
Category |
Start Date |
Description |
Expected impact |
Slides |
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F-LoRa Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
New test design |
1 October '17 for 12 months |
F-LoRa is an extension of the F-Interop platform to enable interoperability testing and conformance following the LoRaWAN specification. F-LoRa will implement the state machines and protocol specification to enable LoRaWAN devices to be evaluated against F-Interop or against other vendors/users using the F-Interop platform |
- New test suite in F-Interop |
F-LoRa |
|
FIRE4LIGHT |
A |
1 August '17 |
Develop remote testing tool for lightweight device management and IoT semantic interoperability, namely OMA LWM2M combined with IPSO and integrate the developed components in the F-INTEROP platform |
- Attract the attention of SMEs |
FIRE4LIGHT |
|
6LoRITT (6LoWPAN Remote online Interop Testing Tool) KEREVAL (French Testing Lab) |
A - |
7 July '17 |
Extension of F-Interop testbed with a new testing tool for 6LoWPAN interoperability testing |
- Boost 6LoWPAN RFCs adoption |
6LoRITT |
|
SORT LIST, ETSI, INRIA |
D - |
15 May '17 |
The SORT project aims to organize two 6TiSCH Interop events: a first on-site with the use of online tools, and a second fully remote |
- Promote the adoption of the F-Interop Platform and the online testing tools |
SORT |
|
PrivacyAnalyser Modio Computing |
A - |
30 August '17 for 10 months |
PrivacyAnalyser will be integrated to the F-Interop platform to allow experimenters to assess the privacy strength of their applications and/or services against confidential information disclosure |
F-Interop’s experimenter SMEs shall be able to assess and improve the privacy aspects of their applications and services |
Privacy Analyser |
|
SemTest Easy Global Market, EURECOM |
B |
1 September '17 for 10 months |
Semantic technology is argued to be a way to address the interoperability problem in IoT, a highly dynamic and heterogeneous environment. With a syntactical and semantical verifier designed and developed, we would like to bring the tool to F-interop framework to allow a larger number of market stakeholders to perform semantic interop tests in order to benefit from semantic technology |
- Increase the variety of the tests offered |
SemTest |
|
SPOTS University of Montenegro |
B |
1 October '17 for 10 months |
Secure Join, OSCOAP, EDHOC |
- Increased trust in low-power |
SPOTS |
F-Interop @ IETF99 Hackathon
F-Interop will be presented at the next Hackathon organized by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The IETF is holding a Hackathon to encourage developers to discuss, collaborate and develop utilities, ideas, sample code and solutions that show practical implementations of IETF standards.
When: Saturday July 15, 2017 and Sunday July 16, 2017
Where: Hilton Prague
Signup for the Hackathon - HERE!
View the list of Hackathon Attendees - HERE!
Keep up to date by subscribing to https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hackathon
The Hackathon is free to attend and open to the public.
F-Interop SORT:
1st 6TiSCH Online Interoperability Testing Event
ETSI, together with LIST, organizes the first Online 6TiSCH (IPv6 over the Timeslotted Channel Hopping mode of IEEE 802.15.4e) testing event, in the framework of the SORT project, funded by the H2020 F-Interop open calls. The event will be run entirely through the F-Interop platform, using the 6TiSCH online tools, provided by INRIA.
All participants must be registered for the event in order to receive their credentials to access the WIKI and be subscribed to the mailing list dedicated to this event.
The registration deadline is 30 June 2017.
14 to 15 July 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic, before the IETF99 meeting
http://www.etsi.org/news-