The Role of RDF Stream Processing in an Smart City ICT Infrastructure - The Aspern Smart City Use Case
In this paper we discuss the opportunities of adopting RDF stream processing in the context of smart cities. As a concrete example we take the Aspern Smart City Research project – one of the largest smart city projects in Europe – which aims at overcoming
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Abstract. In this paper we discuss the opportunities of adopting RDF stream processing in the context of smart cities. As a concrete example we take the Aspern Smart City Research project – one of the largest smart city projects in Europe – which aims at overcoming silos in smart grid and smart building domains. We present the envisioned smart ICT infrastructure and identify how RDF Stream processing can be explored in the different interactions among data sources, storage centers and applications/services. Keywords: RDF stream processing Aspern urban lakeside district
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The Aspern Smart City Research (ASCR)1 , is a joint initiative between Siemens ¨ AG Osterreich, Wiener Netze (a Power Grid operator), Wien Energie (an energy supplier), Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, and Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG. Started in October 2013, with an expected duration of 5 years and a budget of almost 40 million Euros, the project will have as testbed a “living laboratory” which is being created in the urban-lake-side district of Aspern, one of the largest urban development projects in Europe2 . This area will include apartments, offices, and a business, science, research, and education quarter. Altogether, it will cover around 240 hectares. Fifty percent of the space is reserved for public areas – plazas, parks, and recreation areas. Step by step, between now and 2030, the district will evolve into an intelligent city of the future, with 20,000 residents and 20,000 additional jobs. The Aspern project represents an opportunity to develop a long-term integrated concept for an energy-optimized city district, using appropriate technologies, products, and solutions in a real-world infrastructure. The overall goal is to make the whole system “smarter”, by having power supplies, building systems, 1 2
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intelligent power grids, and information and communication technologies (ICT) interacting in an optimal manner. For example, part of the project involves connecting buildings that have different functions, i.e. offices and apartments, to the low-voltage distribution network. This will allow efficient management of the energy exchange between buildings and optimization of the local energy consumption. This offers building operators the possibility to participate actively on the energy markets. To this end, data from the different domains will be combined and used by different applications and services. The project envisions a Smart ICT platform at the core of the interaction between the different players in a smart city. The Smart ICT platform is responsible for, among other things, mediating the interaction between data owners/publishers and applications/services. Data owners can make their data available via the ICT platform – either directly or via a data publisher –
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