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Welcome to the January 2025 meeting of the Working Group Standards & Platforms!
This meeting we will be discussing the future of the Working Group and what to focus on during 2025. We will among other things discuss the result of the questionnaire sent out recently.
As before, we conduct these meeting as hybrid meetings. You can participate by Zoom or physically on site. If you participate in person, please let me know if you like to join a common lunch, 11.30 CET. I´ll be happy to send you an invite.
Physical presence: SEK, Svensk Elstandard, Englundavägen 7, 171 41 Solna
If you use Google Maps: Search on Svensk Elstandard, NOT on the address. It is wrong in the map.
Preliminary agenda
13.00 – 13.10 Introduction– Tobbe
Welcome + info about the Working Group, for new participants
13.10 – 14.10 Possible activities and the result of the survey
We make a short presentation of the topics that have been discussed. We also present the result of the survey regarding the interest for various topics.
14.10 – 14.15 Break
14.15 – 15.15 Organizing the work ahead
From the result in the first section of the meeting we discuss how to carry out various activities in the Working Group 2025. Among other thigs we try to create smaller planning groups for various topics.
15.15 – 15.30 Finish
Upcoming meetings of the Working Group
Reports from standardization
Any other questions
Please forward this invitation if you know anyone else who might be interested.
Results of IoT platform overview 2024 + planning of 2025
In 2024, we have focused on market overview of general horizontal IoT platforms for municipalities and regions + Open-Source initiatives for IoT. Supplemented by reports from standardization + discussions about interesting, related topics and issues.
This meeting we will:
Present, summarize and discuss the results of the market overview of IoT platforms 2024.
Discuss and plan the work for the Working Group 2025. Among other things we might want to carry out a market overview of platforms for creating 3D-worlds and Local Digital Twins for cities, regions, and countries. If you have other ideas about what you would like us to address in the Working Group, please email tobbe@lahrin.se
As before, we conduct these meeting as hybrid meetings. You can participate by Zoom or physically on site. If you participate in person, please let me know if you like to join a common lunch, 11.30. I´ll be happy to send you an invite.
Physical presence: SEK, Svensk Elstandard, Englundavägen 7, 171 41 Solna
If you use Google Maps: Search on Svensk Elstandard, NOT on the address. It is wrong in the map.
Preliminary agenda
13.00 – 13.10 Introduction– Tobbe
Welcome + info about the Working Group, for new participants
13.10 – 14.10 The market overview of general horizontal IoT platforms 2024
We get a presentation of the market overview, summarization of the presentations. We also give time for discussions and reflections within the Working Group.
14.10 – 14.15 Break
14.15 – 15.15 Planning of the work ahead in the Working Group
We discuss what we want to do and focus on in the Working Group for 2025 and forward.
15.15 – 15.30 Finish
Upcoming meetings of the Working Group
Reports from standardization
Any other questions
Please forward this invitation if you know anyone else who might be interested.
IoT service platform from Pingday + Diwise from Masarin/Sundsvall/Gothenburg/Sambruk
In 2024, we focus on market overview of general horizontal IoT platforms for municipalities and regions. Supplemented by reports from standardization, other important initiatives and discussions about interesting related topics and issues.
This time we get a presentation of:
The IoT service platform from Pingday AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Öresundskraft AB and the City of Helsingborg. Pingday is also running “StadshubbsAlliansen” which is an association of 17 City Hubs in Sweden covering 54 municipalities.
The Open Source IoT Platform Diwise. The municipalities of Sundsvall and Gothenburg and other cities cooperate with Sambruk and the company Masarin.
As before, we conduct these meeting as hybrid meetings. You can participate by Zoom or physically on site. If you participate in person, please let me know if you like to join a common lunch, 11.30 at Internetstiftelsen. I´ll be happy to send you an invite.
New version of ISO/IEC 30141 – IoT Reference Architecture
Welcome to the August meeting of the Working Group Standards & Platforms!
Soon, maybe in time for the August meeting, the new version of the International Reference Architecture for IoT, ISO/IEC 30141, will be published. We concentrate this meeting on an overview of the new edition and related standardization work. If interested, there is a blog on IEC web page about this new edition: Essential IoT standard gets a second edition (iec.ch). In Sweden, as an example, 30141 has been used as one of the foundations for procurements of IoT platforms in the regions Jönköping and Västra Götaland.
As before, we conduct these meeting as hybrid meetings. You can participate by Zoom or physically on site. If you participate in person, please let me know if you like to join a common lunch, 11.30 at Internetstiftelsen. I´ll be happy to send you an invite.
Presentations of KMD Data Context Manager and Siemens Building X
Welcome to the June meeting of the Working Group Standards & Platforms.
In 2024, we focus on market overview of general horizontal IoT platforms for municipalities and regions. Supplemented by reports from standardization, other important initiatives and discussions about interesting related topics and issues.
This time we get a presentation of:
KMD Data Context Manager. Presented by Mads Pohl Petersson, Product Innovation Manager | CTO Office KMD, Denmark. Platform based on Fiware.
Building X from Siemens. Presented by Sasha Fridman, Innovation & Digital Business Professional Solution Architect, Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Sweden.
We conduct this meeting as a hybrid meeting. You can participate by Zoom or physically on site. Please email me at tobbe@lahrin.se if you are attending in person, so I can plan for coffee and seats. If so, please also let me know if you like to join a common lunch, 11.30 at Internetstiftelsen. I´ll be happy to send you an invite.
We conduct this meeting as a hybrid meeting. That is, with the possibility to participate both via Zoom and physically on site at the Internet Foundation’s facility Goto 10 in Stockholm.
ZettaScale, from ZettaScale Technology, which built its IoT platform on Open Source from the Eclipse Foundation.
We conduct this meeting as a hybrid meeting. That is, with the possibility to participate both via Zoom and physically on site at the Internet Foundation’s facility Goto 10 in Stockholm.
Survey carried out by the Community / Working Group Standards & Platforms during our meetings 2024
During 2024 the Community / Working Group Standards & Platforms will carry out a market overview of general horizontal IoT platforms for municipal and regional operations at its meetings in close cooperation with RISE Smart City Lab. The first meeting is already on Monday, February 18th.
In 2020, the Working Group conducted a similar survey where 15 actors came and gave presentations to the Group. That market survey is documented in the Working Group’s reports from 2020 and 2021, which can be found on the IoT Sweden website and on the Collaborate web page of SEK IoT Forum. That time, the market research resulted in valuable documentation and material. The material formed the basis for, among other things, the production of procurement material was used in Region Jönköping’s two IoT platform procurements in 2020 and 2022. That procurement material is now being further developed by the “Smart Region Västra Götaland” project for their upcoming IoT procurement during spring 2024 where about 50 municipality, the VG Region and 100 companies are participating.
This year, suppliers will be invited to give a 1-hour presentation each at the working group meetings. This time we also have a clearer template for what we want to get presented. This will hopefully make it easier to compare different solutions and better understand how different platforms are positioned and what strengths and possible weaknesses they may have.
An apology in advance to all English speaking members. Some of the presentations, mainly those from Swedish vendors, will be held in Swedish. We cant force them to translate their presentation material only for these occasions. We will try to announce clearly what will be held in Swedish or English.
During the spring, the Community / Working Group will have meetings the following occasions. All at 13.00 – 15.30.
Monday 19 February
Monday 18 March
Monday 15 April
Monday 20 May
Monday 17 June
The community / working group’s meetings are open to all interested parties. If you are not on the mailing list for the Working Group but want to receive invitations, calendar bookings and zoom links, you can email me at tobbe@lahrin.se. Most of the meetings will be digital, but we will also try to implement one or some of the meetings as a hybrid meeting with the possibility of also meeting physically at GOTO 10 at the Internet Foundation in Stockholm.
At the first meeting, now on February 19, we will get a presentation of AssetBook (in Swedish) as well as an introduction (in English) to functions from the Open Source group Eclipse Foundation (which the Community / Working Group also heard about in August last year). Later in the spring, we will also get a presentation of some suppliers who have developed platforms based on open-source code from Eclipse.
In March, the Working Group receives a visit from OS2-fællesskabet from Denmark, who present their work with OS2, an IoT platform that is being developed by several Danish municipalities in collaboration. We also get a presentation of ZettaScale, an Eclipse-based platform.
Several additional suppliers and actors have expressed interest and will be booked during the year. We will get back with updated information as the program for each meeting becomes ready. If you are a supplier but have not registered for a presentation yet, you can contact me at tobbe@lahrin.se. The working group has developed criteria that must be met in order to come and present. This is to get a reasonable number of presentations and that these are relevant in the context. Above all, the Working Group wants to receive presentations of general platforms. For example, there is no room to look at domain-specific solutions for individual industries or applications this time.
Hopefully these sessions will be very interesting and also provide great possibilities to connect and cooperate. Welcome!
Available on the web site of the project “Smart Region Västra Götaland”
If you missed the interesting Market Dialog regarding public procurement of IoT Platform for the project “Smart Region Västra Götaland” you can now take part in the recording of the meeting. The meeting was held in Swedish.
Welcome to participate in the Community’s and Standards & Platforms Working Group’s first meeting for 2024. This time the meeting is an IoT Sweden Forum where the Working Group hosts the project Smart region Västra Götaland’s Market Dialogue for the procurement of a long-term county-wide horizontal IoT platform.
The market dialogue is carried out in collaboration between IoT Sweden, RISE Smart City Lab, the project Smart region Västra Götaland and the Working Group. The participants in RISE Smart City are also invited, and IoT Sweden has extended an even wider invitation.
The dialogue will deal with selected parts of the procurement documents that VGR and the municipalities in Västra Götaland produce for the procurement of long-term IoT platforms. Among other things, pricing model and security issues. You can read more about the event on IoT Sweden’s website: https://iotsverige.se/kalendarium/upphandling-av-iot-plattform-marknadsdialog
The meeting is of interest for everyone engaged in Web of Things and Smart Cities. It´s also rather unique having over 50 Municipalities and their companies + the Västra Götaland Region and the county board invited to participate in the procurement and project.
The procurement material will be available for vendors at the Swedish procurement portal Tendsign soon. The material is written in Swedish.
