The document summarizes the SOFIA project, which aims to create smart environments through interoperable platforms and devices. It discusses key concepts like personal spaces that allow users to access services across changing environments. It also outlines scenarios and use cases being demonstrated, like media following users and smart navigation. The document summarizes the project structure, outcomes relating to interaction paradigms and common interoperability solutions, and dissemination activities of the consortium.

1. SOFIA: Artemis project 100017
PERSONAL SPACES
SOFIA personal spaces concept
One of the guiding principles for a The resulting implementations the scenarios, providing additional
user value in a smart demonstrate the SOFIA benefit of value. We also expect what we are
environment is that she can seam- multiple active loosely coupled able to mix use cases between sce-
lessly access the best available use cases on platforms with different narios within WP1 as well as other
services and resources in the market cycle lengths. work packages.
changing enviroment she currently
resides in. As platform components we provide Our scenarios are:
Smart-M3 based implementations
In order to reach this goal, Personal which make information of the un- • "Media follows user scenario", with
Spaces work package (WP1) derlying platforms available to the the following use cases:
builds its work on key scenarios on Personal Space and provide semantic
two underlying platforms: level services so that several use ca- • "Follow me music"
mobile device and automobile. ses can be operating on the same • "Speak out message"
time. These implentations operate
both on information level as well as • "Smart Navigation scenario", with
on the level of existing legacy servi- the following use cases:
ces on the platforms.
For key scenarios we have derived a
• "Basic navigation" Smart Objects
• "Voice command location tagging"
set of use cases, which we are
demonstrating. New use case imple- • "Voice command location querying" for Intelligent Applications
mentations can later be added to
2009 Artemis Awarded Project
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES WITHIN SOFIA www.sofia-project.eu
The SOFIA consortium acknowled- SOFIA MAIN EVENTS
ges the importance of dissemination •First International Workshop on Se-
and exploitation of the project re-
SOFIA Large Pilots
mantic Interoperability for Smart Spaces Coming Soon!
sults and is placing a high priority (SISS 2010), in association with the IEEE
focus on publicity and technology Symposium on Computers and Commu- SOFIA is a three-year ARTEMIS The structure of the project consists A work package (WP7) creating
transfers. Large scale pilots are the large scale pilot demonstrating all
nications (ISCC 2010), Riccione, Italy project involving nineteen of:
(22.06.2010)
currently being organised partners from four EU different Three vertical work packages aspects related to the three
SOFIA is having a consistent visibility in various European countries. This research project application areas and the three
(WP1-3) representing three different
in media as well as academic and •Eighth International Conference on seeks to make physical world kind of applications areas with a com- technical domains. Last work package
scientific forums from the early sta- locations in order to
Pervasive Computing, Helsinki, Finland “information” available for smart plete set of solutions to demonstrate (WP8) concerns the management of
ges of the project. Workshops and demonstrate the wide services - connecting physical and pilot smart environment the project.
(20.05.2010)
seminars are constantly hold in asso- range of SOFIA platform
ç
world with information world. applications and services in contexts The SOFIA project key outcomes
ciation with major conferences. • ARTEMIS & ITEA CO-SUMMIT AU- capabilities. The common target is to enable of personal smart space, smart relate to user interaction
TUMN event, Madrid, Spain (30.10.2009) and maintain cross-industry housing and smart city. paradigms for interacting within
Ten months after the project was interoperability, to foster Three horizontal work packages smart environments, the common
launched, SOFIA was presented to • Smart-M3 open source launch in innovation while maintaining (WP4-6) representing the key interpretability solution among
the European Commission Members sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/ value of existing legacy, and to technical solutions needed to create many heterogeneous devices and
at the ARTEMIS & ITEA Co- projects/smart-m3/ (01.10.2009) create new user interaction and common base for user interaction in embedded systems, and
SUMMIT 2009. In this occasion, interface concepts to enable smart environments, systems development schemes that are
SOFIA received the Artemis • NoTA Conference, San Jose, USA users to benefit from smart architecture and application able to mobilise new developers
Contact Information environments. development. for smart environments.
exhibition Award assigned by the (30.09.2009)
public after a live demonstration of
an Interoperable Smart Application • Project co-operations (2009-2010): SOFIA: Artemis project 100017 Partners
www.sofia-project.eu
“concept” (Madrid, Artemis Autumn • DIEM, Finnish co-operation.
Event, October 29 2009).
• OPUTE, Japanese co-operation. For more information, please contact
SOFIA is continouosly producing • POBICOS, HYDRA, SMEPP, Evolve, the project coordinator:
press releases, articles, demos, scien- CAM4Home, Osami Commons, (EU Petri Liuha (petri.liuha@nokia.com)
tific papers … under the coordina- and ITEA2 projects related to quality,
Nokia Research Center
tion of work package seven (WP7). interoperability and semantics model-
ing).
2009 Artemis Awarded Project www.sofia-project.eu Copyright © SOFIA 2009 Sponsored by

2. ARCHITECTURE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
SOFIA IOP ADK: Great benefits for developers
The main objective of SOFIA work the basic concepts and rules for are adaptable and extensible for The Application Development Kit • Eclipse as the base IDE. Benefits
package five (WP5) is to define the the interoperability platform. the different types of smart spaces. (ADK) within SOFIA WP6 is based • Open Innovation Platform. The main benefit is to allow deve-
principles and key on Eclipse and integrates several lopers program new solutions very
concepts as the logi- Moreover, novel tools that easy the development of fast based on a new Ontology
cal reference archi- management services will smart applications based on the Driven Software Engineering.
tecture of a generic be developed for energy SOFIA architecture (Smart M3). Indeed we are pusing this concept
interoperability plat- management, quality The ADK is extensible for future to the limit permitting end users to
form (IOP) for smart management and enforce- domains, applications and create their own smart applica-
spaces and implement ment of smart spaces. ontologies. tions. We can sumarise the bene-
IOP core services. The interoperability fits as following:
platform is integrated Approach
The principles define with the results from • Fast curve learning.
The approach is based on:
what the interopera- WP4, harmonized with • Cross domain.
• ODD (Ontology Driven develop-
bility platform is the results from WP6 and ment), ontologies as the driver for • Content developers access to
intended for and how validated in collaboration creating smart applications. larger markets.
the platform is enfor- with WP1-WP3. • Open source technologies.
ced. The feasibility of SOFIA Development Cycle
the platform is evaluated against
the criteria that the applications of
SOFIA Logical Reference Architecture The openly licensed implementa-
tions and documentation are
SMART CITY
different smart spaces (WP1-WP3) These concepts and rules together intended to introduce a new SOFIA Smart City concept
set for it. The primitives that are with the reasoning mechanisms standard for the architecture of
When an ecosystem of interacting smart environment around public increasingly participate in the city
common to all smart spaces define form the IOP core services which smart environments.
sensors and devices is spread over places, usually for public interest life, and making urban information
a wide public area and is open to purposes like surveillance and available to city managers.
USER INTERACTION the monitoring.
SMART M3. Revolution in Application Development interaction SOFIA WP3 proposes an open
with other Urban areas are currently infrastructural solution which
SOFIA work package four (WP4) • A Family Bonding Device: this is RFID-based device, valuable in similar eco- monitored via stand-alone systems makes easier the information
is about the interplay between the a communication device able to creating smart environments. systems, we (transportation, pollution, etc.) interchange among the different
interoperability platform and the capture human presence and can start to which only cover some of the actors we can find in an urban
interaction entities - devices and activity and to render this at a • A Visual Object Recognizer: this call it as part citizens’ and municipalities’ needs. context and wants to improve the
sensing elements - spread in the remote location in order to esta- is a computer vision based device, of a Smart Extending smart environments to current monitoring capabilities by
environment. The purpose of blish a feeling of social connected- valuable to automatically classify City. the context and the scale of a city exploiting the broad range of
WP4 is to contribute to SOFIA ness between remote parties. and register objects in the smart gives the chance of integrating urban information that can be
assets with interaction models, space. In the Smart both private and public devices obtained by integrating mostly
ontology extensions, KP´s for • A Context Sensitive Digital Sign- City on-the- into a common smart environ- monitoring systems via
age Display called LumEnActive: • A Smart object with gestural
semantic transformation of inter- fly systems are able to organize a ment, so allowing the citizen to heterogeneous wireless devices.
this is an adaptable, animated and human interface to query and/or
action events and smart objects.
steerable projector, valuable update the status of the
environment, which may be stored
SMART INDOOR SPACES
prominently to display relevant/
The challenge taken by WP4 is to
critical environment related in the smart space or in the SOFIA Smart Indoor Spaces concept
create innovative smart objects environment itself.
that – thanks to their interaction information. SOFIA WP2 defines interoperability complex building to speed-up a feeling of social
with the smart space – provide • An Interaction Tile: this is a While having their own func- mechanisms for managing maintenance interventions, and to connectedness.
“smart services” with tile-like interactive object to tional specificity, all of these resources and enabling innovative improve end-user comfort.
unprecedented levels of usability explore and manipulate smart objects share the same services in indoor spaces. Pilots A final use-case
and effectiveness. Services adapt connections between devices enabling factor: Smart M3. based on specific use-cases will In the home, use-cases include involves smart
to the user’s situation and profile, which exchange information/data demonstrate how interoperable novel interaction mechanisms to lighting, where
which are dynamically changing streams (semantic connections). smart indoor spaces can improve explore a smart space in terms of multiple lighting
particularly when mobile. Multimo-
Smart
safety, productivity and quality of connections between devices in the fixtures and
dality and semantic transformation • Spotlight Navigation: this is a life. space, and the manipulation of sensors cooperate
techniques are widely used within generic user interface to configure these connections and their data to provide lighting
WP4. smart environments based on In the facility management domain, streams. Another use-case involves strategies
mobile projection and the a use-case involves an integrated capturing, interpreting and sharing automatically based on user
Within SOFIA, several prototypes flashlight metaphor. Smart M3: key component of the SOFIA system capable of monitoring the contextual information such as preferences and context, while
for smart objects are co- interoperability platform architecture
physical elements and presence and activity between adhering to resource constraints
developed by partners, including: • A Portable Smartifier: this is an http://sourceforge.net/projects/smart-m3/ environmental characteristics of a people at two locations, to provide and focusing on energy savings.