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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SynchroniCity (SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond)

Teaser

Summary

The first 18 months marks the end of the first period in the SynchroniCity Large Scale Pilot (LSP) project, part of the European Large Scale Pilot Programme of, so far, five LSPs. The ambition remains strong to create a global market for IoT-enabled urban services and to be an example of this emerging market characterised by standards-based innovation and procurement of data-driven services for IoT and Smart Cities & Communities based on citizen needs and local priorities. This first period has validated that this ambition resonates with many cities and communities in Europe and beyond, but also that is it not easy to achieve progress and convergence necessary â€“ as foreseen.

Work performed

SynchroniCity is now half-way. The consortium has become a community, with the Cities Forum at the centre, and the foundations have been laid and built, both in terms of city engagement and of the technical side in the SynchroniCity Architectural Framework. The framework is being provisioned, initial services are rolling out, and the data is becoming available, all in very different cities, with different priorities and technical legacy, but on a common, vendor-neutral, technology-agnostic technical ground: the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs).
The open call launched on time in June and now has one month to go until the deadline. A strong communication and engagement effort is peaking, with online webinars, helpdesk, match-making and documentation, and with local so-called â€œclinicsâ€ happening in each city. The interest is great, and the partners are making great effort to manage the expectation of the SME-led candidate Pilot Groups. The target is very clear: to validate the SynchroniCity instantiation of the OASC vision of a thriving market delivering choice and flexibility to cities.

Final results

The key is the consensus-based establishment of free and open specifications and eventually formal standards that can be used in procurement as well as in innovation. SynchroniCity offers a validation of such key frameworks and mechanisms in a technology-agnostic and vendor-neutral way, especially instantiating the three key OASC interoperability points: (1) context information management, (2) common data models and (3) transaction management (â€œmarketplaceâ€ with terms and conditions, with or without monetisation).
This periodic report accounts for the status of these achievements and looks ahead for the next phase which is dominated by the execution and evaluation of the large-scale piloting by the open call pilot groups.