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#FIPPP event: Engage! Towards cross-border experimentation w/ European Stakeholders bit.ly/W39ftL Barcelona Feb28-Mar1

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ENVIROFI is already planning its Final Event on 6 March in Dublin! More info of the "ENVIROFI Day" at http://www.envirofi.eu/Enviro..

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HbbTV Second Screen Showcase at IFA 2012 and IBC

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Did you know we're already working in #6LowPAN security as part of our #FutureInternet platform? Check 'Fuzzer': bit.ly/VFdOfv #IPv6

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About the Future Internet, check out the FI-WARE video in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/wat..

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FINSENY presented at the Green eMotion Stakeholder Group Meeting, in Ehningen (Stuttgart), Germany, November 28th, 2012

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FIRE will share an exhibition booth with the FI-PPP project INFINITY at the EUREKA cluster Celtic-Plus Event and... b.me/1PpY6VSr8

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Upcoming Events: GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013. 25-28 February 2013, Barcelona

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Wrapping up a fantastic Stakeholder event in Birmingham. Thanks to Howard Potter and Amey, all the clusters and of course the SG #FIPPP

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safecity-project.eu/in.. SafeCity PoC Pictures #FIPPP @FIware

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Training course organized by the SmartAgriFood FP7 project -INVITATION - 2nd round: 06/03/2013 - 09:00 Dear... dlvr.it/2ndGLl #FIPPP

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You are kindly invited to the @FI_PPP @SmartAgriFood stakeholder event 5-March in Brussels. smartagrifood.eu/..

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FI PPP Steering Board working on the FI PPP Vision

The Steering Board (SB) met again virtually on Dec 20th, 2012, having convened physically in Brussels a month earlier. In Phase I, the SB's official mandate has been stated as follows in the Collaboration Agreement signed by all programme participants: "The Steering Board is the highest FI PPP Program governing body. The Steering Board shall however not be entitled to act or to make legally binding declarations on behalf of any Party, but shall make recommendations for implementation in respective FI PPP Projects." The SB has been a consensus-based entity, i.e. whatever decisions it has taken, those decisions have had to be unanimous.

Each project has had two (2) representatives in the SB and while people naturally come and go with time, the overall composition of the SB has remained rather stable over the whole Phase I so far. The SB has elected its chairman yearly amongst itself. Both years Mr. Patrick Gatellier of Thales has been elected. Meanwhile Concord has taken care of the practical arrangements and preparation of many agenda items.

In 2012 the work of the SB has been marked by the following topics frequently discussed in monthly meetings but also off meetings:

• Programme vision, mission and objectives; KPI's
• The Interim Assessment and recommendations by the Advisory Board
• The collaboration agreement, and indeed the mandate of the SB itself in the whole governance structure -- and how those three should evolve
• Establishment of and follow-up on working groups relating to Dissemination, Standardisation, Policy and Regulatory Issues as well as Exploitation and Business ModellingDependencies between projects using a common platformThe SB has also striven to increase information sharing between projects and more generally to the public, by encouraging sharing and publication of various project-internal documents.In 2013 and particularly in Phase II, not only the composition but most likely also the structure of the SB will change -- and perhaps even its mandate -- with an aim to make the SB more operational, relevant and capable of steering the programme, based on what the stakeholders agree in Phase II negotiations as the governance structures to be -- the SB is only one, albeit an important, part of the overall programme governance as has and will be stipulated in the ensemble of contracts (Grant Agreements, Consortium Agreements and the programme-wide Collaboration Agreement).

Mikko Riepula, CONCORD

ENVIROFI prototypes
ENVIROFI will present the major results from two intense years of research at both the large FI-PPP event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and at the ENVIROFI Day in Dublin. See more details on both in the Upcoming Events section. Two of the major results to be presented at these events are the ENVIROFI-Bio Biodiversity Survey App and the Marine Asset decision Support Tool (MAST), which we feature below.

1. Biodiversity Survey Application

ENVIROFI has developed an app in support of the preservation of biodiversity. It focuses on the use of Future Internet technology for survey, analysis, quality assurance, persistence and dissemination of biodiversity data. This enables users from a wide variety of backgrounds to: obtain information on interesting biodiversity occurrences recorded directly at their current location provide information on biodiversity occurrences they are currently observing provide feedback on the correctness of existing biodiversity occurrence records in the system.

As an example of the first aspect of the ENVIROFIBio Biodiversity Survey App, a user going on a hike may query the system as to interesting aspects of biodiversity in their immediate surrounds. The system provides the user with a map of their current location with all individual occurrence records available for this area displayed.

ENVIROFI Bio app shows trees in the vicinity and details of the records.

The user may obtain detailed information on the individual plant or animal occurrence records by clicking on the symbols for the individuals on the
map. This includes information on the species of the individual plant or animal, various further observations as well as measurements and an image
of each specimen.

In order to allow data provisioning by users, they may either add information to existing entries on individual plants or animals, or provide information on specimen currently not contained within the sys-tem.

By engaging interested citizens in the biodiversity survey process, we can not only utilise the users’ interest in nature to glean new relevant data about the state of biodiversity in the world around us, but we can also improve the users’ understanding of biodiversity as well as fostering their interest by providing a way to make a change.

2. Marine Asset decision Support Tool (MAST)

ENVIROFI has released the first prototype of the Marine Asset decision Support Tool (MAST). The MAST portal is being hosted by the Marine Institute, Ireland, (www.marine.ie) and is available at http://apps.marine.ie/envirofi-fi

The Real Time Conditions tab of the MAST portal

MAST mashes together a number of freely available information and data feeds to provide information on operational conditions within Galway Bay. The figure above shows the Real Time Conditions tab of the MAST portal containing real time information on wave height coming from the wave buoy
situated in Galway bay and from the ocean weather buoy located 200 km west of Galway in the Atlantic Ocean. By clicking on the Predicted Conditions tab the user can see the Wave Forecast for the west coast of Ireland.

Forecast of wave conditions for the west coast of Ireland

The data for the wave forecast comes from the Marine Institute’s operational ocean forecast models. These models are run once a day on the Marine Institute’s high performance computer (HPC). Boundary conditions for the model come from a number of sources such as deployed sensors and
global weather models. The following sensor feeds are being displayed in the MAST prototype at the moment:

• Galway Port Tide Gauge
• Water Height
• Galway Wave Buoy
• Wave Height
• Sea Temperature
• Deep Sea Weather Buoy
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Air Temperature
• Wind Speed and Direction
• Wave Height
• Sea Temperature

Additional data comes from third party data aggregators of freely available data. The output from a personal weather station in Galway is available on the website via a private weather forecasting service called the Weather Underground™. Data on ship traffic is relayed via a plug-in made vailable by through a commercial website, MarineTraffic.com™.

The forecasts from various models run in the Marine Institute that are displayed on MAST include:

• Astronomical Tide Prediction: In this case MAST is getting the prediction for Galway Port. The user will be able to get the prediction for a number of years in advance.
• Wave Forecast: This is a forecast of the significant wave height and wave period up to five days in advance.
• Wind Forecast: This is a forecast of the wind speed and direction up to five days in advance.

This information is useful to citizens with recreational and professional interest in the bay: surfers and sailors, the fishing industry, both aquaculture and wild harvesting, the marine research community and the Galway Port harbour master. The launch of the portal has been low key. An awareness campaign among potential users will be started in January, however, information about the existence of the portal has reached some members of marine user community via word of mouth. The kite surfing community of Galway Bay have already requested a more representative weather station be used for MAST.

ON THE MOVE

FInest at the Innovation Week in Istanbul

FInest was present at the Arçelik stand in the exhibition area of the Innovation Week organized by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TEA) from 6-8 December at the Istanbul Congress Centre. The programme featured distinguished national and international speakers, including Sir Tim Berners Lee and Kenneth P. Morse.

Arçelik A.Ş., the strategic partner of the Innovation Week, has been awarded as “The Most Innovative Company” by the Turkish Exporters Assembly. Levent Çakıroğlu, President of Koç Holding Durable Goods Group and General Manager of Arçelik A.Ş., received the award from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Speaking at the opening of the Innovation Week, Mr. Çakıroğlu expressed his pleasure for receiving this award and stated that “The Most Innovative Company” award was also a concrete indication of the appreciation towards the innovations realized by Arçelik.

Information about the FI-PPP program and specifically the FInest project have been disseminated together with marketing brochures. Evrim Özgül from Arçelik has participated in the event and was available at the stand to inform visitors during the event.

FInest at the 11th Industry Congress and Innovation Exhibition in Istanbul

FInest was present at the Arçelik stand as part of the innovation exhibition of the 11th Industry Congress in Istanbul. Arçelik was one of the main sponsors of the event and FInest project brochures have been distributed to visitors of the event.

ENVIROFI at 4th Annual IoT conference
Thomas Usländer (IOSB-Fraunhofer) showed a  presentation on “IoT Business Models” in the 4th  Annual Internet of Things conference (12 - 13 November 2012, Brussels) on behalf of the OpenIoT project (http://openiot.eu/ ) which is in-close relationship with ENVIROFI and the FI-PPP. There is a need to overcome the gap between the  FI-PPP and the Internet of Things community. Major aspects addressed were:

• business environment and market preparedness
• privacy and data protection concerns
• IoT system architecture

The FI-WARE platform, the FI-PPP generic enablers and the ENVIROFI specific enablers contribute to the IoT system architecture by integrating environmental sensors.
More information: http://www.eu-ems.com/summary.asp?event_id=124&page_id=991

ENVIROFI Workshopping and presenting at Tuscany, Italy
Various researchers from the Biodiversity work package of the ENVIROFI project convened in the Farma Valley, Southern Tuscany, as a part of their periodic interactions (1-2 October 2012). In addition to the typical agenda of discussions and  elaborations on various project tasks and issues, the meeting was extended with a two-hour open  event in the community centre of Torniella (one of  the villages in the Valley, which represented the  starting point of the idea for the Tuscan pilot on  biodiversity).

The ENVIROFI Workshop in Southern Tuscany was also the  opportunity to bring ENVIROFI researchers out of  their traditional "work and meet" seating, and put  them in contact with stakeholders, and test sites, of  peculiar interest. The event was attended by citizens of various  categories, including environmental guides, managers from the Grosset tourism board, administrators from the local municipality (Roccastrada).

During the Tuscany tour Andrea Giacomelli (CNR) was invited to provide a  presentation of the project, with specific reference  to the "Citizens in Tuscany" pilot (26-28 October  2012, Monticiano, Italy). The presentation was in the context of a two-day conference on "The forest as a resource", with  presentations by various professionals operating in  the Tuscan area.

More information: http://www.provincia.siena.it/News/A-Monticiano-al-via-la-Festa-dei-saperi-e-dei-sapori-dell-Alta-Val-di-Merse .

INFINITY at EUREKA CelticPlus Event and Proposers' Day

INFINITY will share a booth with the FIRE Support Action project FIRESTATION at the EUREKA CelticPlus Event and Proposers' Day in Kayseri, Turkey on 6th and 7th March, 2013 http://www.celticplus.eu/Events/Event-Kayseri-2013/

The event will be attended by around 200 experts and decision makers from industry and politics.

Demonstrations will be given of the XiPi repository (www.xipi.eu). This repository currently contains the details of more than 120 testbed infrastructures available in Europe for experimentation in the area of future internet technologies and services.

The XiPi search functionalities will be shown, as well as ways in which other infrastructure owners can enter details of their offerings. In addition, INFINITY will get in contact with new potential experimenters and infrastructures key players.