Irish Future Internet Forum, 2011, The Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet. Dr Z.A.Sabeur.

1. The Environmental Observation Web and its
Service Applications within the Future Internet
Irish Future Internet Forum Conference 2011
Dr Z. A. Sabeur, University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre
Kilkenny, Ireland.
June 1st
2011
“ENVIROfying” the Future Internet

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Contents
1. FI-PPP “The European and global dimensions”
2. FI-PPP programme architecture
3. ENVIROFI project vision
4. ENVIROFI work programme
5. ENVIROFI Consortium
6. ENVIROFI Scenarios
7. The FI stakeholder communities
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FI-PPP “The European and Global Dimensions”
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• International Council for Science (ICSU)
• Grand Challenges of Global Sustainable Research
• The delivery of knowledge and information which are
necessary for the world to assess and adapt to global
changes in the 21st
Century
• World climate, finance, economies, societal
changes …..
• Europe 2020 Strategy
• Smart and sustainable socio-economic growth
• Innovation Union of Member States to implement
cross-border FI service space
• FI Generic and Specific domain enablers
• A catalyst of a multi-dimensional growth of Europe’s
Digital Economies
See http://www.icsu.org/ ICSU World Data System
Conference, Kyoto, 3-6 September 2011 .

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FI-PPP Programme architecture (2010-2015)
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Project Vision(1)
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• Information and Communication Technology has progressed very fast in the last
decade
• Environmental sensing is now affordable and has become Web Enabled
• Internet, media and social networking are globally used by people
• Model-based technologies are successfully addressing systems interoperability
• The management of the generated large volume of
observation data and information from
heterogeneous sources across diverse geographic
scales and contexts has now become very
challenging.
• All of this information should be managed intelligently
to make sense to large communities (scientists, the
public, industries, research organizations….)
• These communities also want to participate and be
part in the “FI Living labs for environment”

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Project Vision (2)
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ENVIROFI
• Deployment of FI specific enablers in the
environmental usage area
• The enablers can be deployed on demand for
multiple specific environmental applications
• The environmental enablers will meet the
scalability and resilience challenges
• The enablers will be deployed for systems
validation in three environmental sectors
(Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Marine)

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Project Vision (3)
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Project Vision (4)
1. Heterogeneous sources/large volumes of data handling
• Intelligent context-aware information retrieval
• Structured generic data fusion and modelling
2. Services interoperability and standards
• Multi-Style Service Oriented Architecture
• SWE standards for sensor capabilities description
3. Future internet for environment
• Internet of things, services, content and people
4. Individualized experimentations
• Enabled biodiversity surveys with advanced ontologies
• Atmospheric conditions and pollution in “the palm of your hand”
• Sustainable Marine Assets in the Future Internet
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Project work programme
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Consortium of partners
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Scenario 1
Bringing Biodiversity into the Future Internet
• Biodiversity surveying
• Use mobile devises for data entry of Biodiversity
occurances
• Prototype for:
• Scientists
• Amateurs/volunteers
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Future
Internet

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Scenario 2
Personal Atmospheric Information System
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• The Information System will provide data directly to the
individual via Smartphones
• Data will be tailored to the specific user’s need
• User tracks the components most relevant to them
• Data will be Geo-specific by using the actual coordinates of the
user
• The user can set threshold alerts when relevant data is over a
certain limit
• Typical atmospheric components are:
• Pollen
• UV
• PM10
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Air pressure
• NO2
Weather
Alert!
Quick
changes in
air pressure
can cause
headaches.

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• Harvest data from heterogeneous sources to develop decision
support tools for marine stakeholder communities
Scenario 3
Collaborative Usage of Marine Data Assets

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FI Stakeholder communities
1. Envirofi encourages the dialogue and consultations
with the stakeholder communities from industries,
non-governmental organizations, agencies,
government authorities and other public
organizations.
2. Strong dialogue platform is available in the project
and also the overall programme of the FI-PPP
3. ENVIROFI project has an ambitious geographic
scaling across Europe and beyond in the years to
come
4. 2nd
phase trials will be largely participative for the FI
usage areas.
5. Large business opportunities for industries in multiple
segments of the market sectors.
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Thank you for your attention
Dr Z. A. Sabeur
zas@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 8866
www.envirofi.eu
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement Number 284898
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