Deliverable 2.2

The objective of this workpackage is to trial UBIWARE on real industrial cases. This has two major goals for such case studies. The first goal is to evaluate the scientific concepts behind UBIWARE and to find problems and issues in UBIWARE that would otherwise be overlooked. The second goal is to facilitate the further utilization of UBIWARE in the industry. Several specific cases, proposed by the industrial partners, are analyzed, designed and prototyped based on the UBIWARE platform. The reasons for prototyping are the same: to identify issues in UBIWARE that would get overlooked if the work was only theoretical and thus abstract, and to demonstrate the benefits of UBIWARE in a tangible way so to facilitate future industrial adoption. There are four industrial cases, those of Fingrid, Inno-W, Metso Automation and Nokia.

Fingrid case:

With respect to the UBIWARE approach and platform, Fingrid’s main area of interest is in organizing smart data management related to the events/alarms which company gets from their control systems. Existing systems do not provide many possibilities for managing this data beyond storing it to a time-series log, and browsing it with some filtering possibilities. A wish is to that the data should get flexibly accessible, integrated with other related data, and possibilities should be provided for producing generalizing reports to the power system operation and asset management persons.

Inno-W case:

The goal of the Inno-W industrial case is to build an Idea Browser that provides functionality to discover similar ideas/proposals/projects in user-defined context, to calculate and visualize similarity/closeness of ideas with GUI tool. Idea Browser is based on general 4I (FOR EYE) Browser architecture. The main part – GUI Shell, performs communication with resource repository and repository of visualization contests, provides resource search functionality, provides selection of resource visualization contexts and visualization modules (MetaProviders). MetaProvider performs context dependent resource visualization function. Considering the MetaProvider that presents resources in a context of their closeness to the selected one, certain distance measuring calculation is performed before visualization phase.

Metso Automation case:

Metso industrial case was selected to be a test bed for a research and development within the WP2 (Distributed Querying and Integration) because of its “distributed nature” and big amounts of data in storages, that can not be collected in one place. We integrate event flow data (events from monitoring and diagnostic systems) together with the structural and design data to provide a convenient assistant tool for an expert in diagnostics.

Nokia case:

Mobile devices can now run web servers. However, the content inside the mobile devices is currently not accessible from outside (and cannot be indexed by Google). The content needs to be made public and flexibly searchable from outside depending on the access rights of the searcher. Lots of research has been done how to index content and make it searchable on servers. But research how to search real-time from multiple servers organized into a social network is still very young. Nokia Research Center case advances social network search area and possibly generates a global scale search service.