Presentation by Norio Uchida NEC Corporation FIWARE Global Summit 27-28 November 2018 Malaga, Spain

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Exploring a New Opportunity
in Data Economy
FIWARE Global Summit, Malaga
Norio Uchida, NEC Corporation
28th
Nov, 2018
– A Case of a Field Experiment Ongoing in Japan –

3. Table of Contents
❑ Project Overview
❑ System Setup and Challenges
❑ Summary

4. ❑ Project Overview
❑ System Setup and Challenges
❑ Summary

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Backgrounds (in Japan)
Open Data
Initiatives by Governments
20k+ Data Sets on DATA.GO.JP
•Hardly Machine-readable
•File-based, No APIs
Potential Opportunities
Enterprise Data
•No/Little Intercompany Exchange
file
file

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Backgrounds (in Japan)
Open Data
Initiatives by Governments
20k+ Data Sets on DATA.GO.JP
•No Machine-readable
•Inaccessible via API
Potential Opportunities
Enterprise Data
•No/Little Intercompany Exchange
file
file
$
● Laws, Acts, Guidelines in place
● Data Trading Alliance (DTA)
Data Trading Market

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Project Planning
To Identify Needs for Data Trading
To Clarify Issues in Monetizing Data
Data
Providers
Key Objectives
Sensed Data
Config Details
Apps
(Big) Data Analysis
Data
Consumers
End User
Loop to Build
an Ecosystem
Data Exchange
Platform
Sakura Internet
& NEC
Attention
Findings
Suggestions
! Sense-of-Wonder

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Source Fukuoka City
Key Figures
16 Registered Users
from 7 Organizations
9 GEs Deployed
20+ Data Sets
in the Marketplace
Why Fukuoka?
o A Population-growing City
o The Mayor's Strong Initiative to
Foster Innovation
o Opportunities of Inbound
Tourism. Meetup,
May 2018
Web Portal

9. ❑ Project Overview
❑ System Setup and Challenges
❑ Summary

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IoT Agent
System Components
Orion
Context Broker
Biz Framework
Wilma
PEP Proxy
nginx
STH Comet
IoT Agent
Keyrock
ID Management
ExtensionsCKAN
Data Consumer
Data Provider
Wirecloud
Cygnus
AuthZForce
PDP/PAP
All Containers

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IoT Agent
System Components
Orion
Context Broker
Biz Framework
Wilma
PEP Proxy
nginx
STH Comet
IoT Agent
Keyrock
ID Management
ExtensionsCKAN
Data Consumer
Data Provider
Wirecloud
Cygnus
AuthZForce
PDP/PAP
All Containers
Identity Management
Data Catalogue
Data Trade
NGSI: Context Management
UL2.0
Device Protocols
Data Visualization
App Mashup

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Data Purchase Example
Biz Framework
Add to cart
then
Check out
CKAN
The API endpoint
Service-Path, etc.
Orion
Context Broker
NGSI (HTTP GET)
Data Consumer

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IoT Agent
Challenges
Orion
Context Broker
Biz Framework
Wilma
PEP Proxy
nginx
STH Comet
IoT Agent
Keyrock
ID Management
ExtensionsCKAN
Data Consumer
Data Provider
Wirecloud
Cygnus
AuthZForce
PDP/PAP
a) Integration of GEs

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a) Integration of GEs
No Design Patterns (No Reference Models,
in Particular for Data Protection, Data Trade Use Case )
● Which / How FIWRE GEs
can interwork each other??
● AWS Reference Architectures
● AWS Cloud Design Patterns (CDP)
● Azure Cloud Design Patterns
Biz Fram
ework
AuthZForce
PDP/PAP
Wilma
PEPProxy
Keyrock
IDManagement
Orion
Context Broker
Extensions
CKAN
Source:
http://aws.clouddesignpat
tern.org/
Web App Scale Out
NFS Sharing

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IoT Agent
Challenges
Orion
Context Broker
Biz Framework
Wilma
PEP Proxy
nginx
STH Comet
IoT Agent
Keyrock
ID Management
ExtensionsCKAN
Data Consumer
Data Provider
Wirecloud
Cygnus
AuthZForce
PDP/PAP
Open Data
b) Data Conversion
to NGSI

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b) Data Conversion to NGSI Data Models
Diversity of Existing Data Formats
– Need to manually convert existing data
▌ CSV
● e.g. Fukuoka Air Quality
▌ XML
▌ PDF
▌ XLSX
▌ Plain Text
▌ RDF
▌ FIWARE Data Models (JSON)
● Type: AirQualityObserved
{
"id": "AQ-9073-kashii",
"type": "AirQualityObserved",
"DateObserved": { …… },
"NO": {
"type": "Number",
"value": 112,
"metadata": {
"unit": {
"type": "Text",
"value": "ppm"
}
}
}
"Location": {
Open Data Formats in Japan
(Source: Cabinet Secretariat)

17. ❑ Project Overview
❑ System Setup and Challenges
❑ Summary

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Summary
Sakura Internet and NEC jointly launched the testbed
for proof of data trading concept.
● A data marketplace now works there.
Challenges Faced
❖ Integration of GEs
× Time Intensive Trial & Error
❖ Data Conversion to FIWARE
NGSI Data Models
× Dedicated Script for a Source Data Set
Biz Framework

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A Way forward
▌ Technical Enhancement
● Right time IoT Data Input
•Via IoT Agents
● Tools for Data Conversion
•Web-based Data Converter (Prototype)
▌ Developer Advocate
● Outreach to Local Developer
Communities
● Ideathon, Hackathon
Data, Data, Data

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A Prototype: Web-based Data Converter
Conversion Rule
(YAML)
Output
NGSI JSON
Log
HTTP NGSI
Export
Orion
Context Broker
file
file

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https://www.fiware-testbed.jp