Advanced Big Data Value Chain for Public Safety and Personal Security
Increasing road safety is still a major worldwide challenge. Though road safety in the EU has improved in the last decades, still more than 25.000 people have lost their lives on EU roads in 2017 [1]. Harsh driving remains one … Continued
Thanks to the cooperation between HDI and the AEGIS technical partners, the second Scenario of the Insurance Demonstrator continues to exploit at best the (updated) release of the AEGIS platform. The current results after the execution of the Scenario … Continued
Following the successfull evaluation of the early SHAL demonstrator, development went on towards implementation of the medium stage. The evaluation discussed here revolves around the two medium stage scenarios and the test cases examined to verify their completion. Scenario 3 … Continued
The objective of the Smart Home and Assisted Living (SHAL) Demonstrator is to illustrate the benefits of a big data platform through the implementation and offering of a services bundle towards advanced holistic monitoring and assisted living management, which aims … Continued
While road safety in the EU has improved and the number of road fatalities in the EU has rapidly decreased in the last decades, still 25.300 people have lost their lives on EU roads in 2017[1], and 1,4 million people … Continued
To disseminate results from the AEGIS project related to the automotive demonstrator, a scientific paper entitled “A Research Agenda for Vehicle Information Systems”[1]has been submitted to and finally been accepted for presentation by the highly ranked European Conference on Information … Continued
In this post we will provide some insights on the current development of an appropriate business model for the AEGIS platform. In the early stages of the project, two business models have been identified as suitable for AEGIS: the … Continued
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF 2018) was held 12 – 14 November in Vienna, Austria. It is the key European event for industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policy makers to discuss challenges and opportunities of the European data … Continued
The first Scenario of the Insurance Demonstrator is aimed to exploit at best the first release of the AEGIS platform. Thanks to the cooperation between HDI and the technical partners the execution of the Scenario can be considered as a … Continued
‘Human error is the most important cause of road accidents, but the impact of road condition and maintenance [on road accidents] is not negligible’ as a recent study from the European Union reports. Key causes are, amongst others, ‘localized … Continued
The second release of the AEGIS integrated prototype features a partially functional high fidelity software prototype connected to a deployed version of the platform, providing an initial interface including the basic UI/UX for the users of the platform. The GUI/Front-end … Continued
An interview with Alessandro Testa of HDI We interviewed Alessandro Testa, the HDI responsible of the AEGIS project to have an insight of his context and needs, and certainly his expectations from the AEGIS platform. Further information about the Insurance … Continued
The conceptual architecture of AEGIS platform was the outcome of the analysis and translation of the technical requirements collected by the consortium following the Agile methodology and the linking of these requirements into functionalities of the components. These components formed … Continued
Pilot Plans & Execution Scenarios of the Smart Home and Ambient Assisted Living Demonstrator The combined objective of the Smart Home and Assisted Living (SHAL) Demonstrator is to illustrate and implement a services bundle towards advanced holistic monitoring and assisted … Continued
Pilot Plans & Execution Scenarios of the Insurance Demonstrator The AEGIS project is an opportunity for HDI to better exploit “the Big Data related world” being part of a building up innovative processes and evaluating the AEGIS platform. On the … Continued
The AEGIS platform will be evaluated through three PSPS pilots from the automotive, the smart home & ambient assisted living, and the insurance domain. The platform evaluation applies a mixed-method approach combining qualitative as well as quantitative instruments. Obviously the … Continued
Since the advent of Facebook and the related breed of social network platforms their main business model have been focused on contents and the creation of network effects able to guarantee the flow of data from users, that actually filled … Continued
When talking about data analysis, sometimes it can seem tempting to jump straight into the analysis part. Real-world data is typically noisy, enormous in volume, comes from heterogeneous source, each having their own rules of representing data. Before attempting the … Continued
It is a general principle to monitor the performance of a project against its project objectives. Whoever ‘examines and judges accomplishments and effectiveness [of an approach] is engaged in evaluation’ (Patton, 1990). Hence it is the overall goal of any … Continued
Today we are very happy to announce the release of the AEGIS platform v1. The AEGIS first integrated prototype features a low fidelity, functional mockup version of the AEGIS platform’s backbone, providing a meaningful subset of the functionalities characterizing the … Continued
The AEGIS platform promises a novel approach in data sharing and exchanging: a safe environment for the stakeholders to sell and purchase datasets, data services, algorithms or intelligence reports. In order to reach its objective AEGIS needs to understand the … Continued
The AEGIS platform promises a novel approach in data sharing and exchanging: a safe environment for the stakeholders to sell and purchase datasets, data services, algorithms or intelligence reports; what is generally known as “Data Assets” in AEGIS terminology. This … Continued
AEGIS aims to add value to the data stored in its platform by semantically enriching them with more useful information and this will be done utilizing well established standards and technologies. All data registered and/or stored in the AEGIS platform … Continued
This is the fifth and final blog post out of the 5 blog posts that will provide a view of the 5 AEGIS high level scenarios. To find more about the AEGIS scenarios, you can visit the first blog post of … Continued
This is the fourth blog post out of the 5 blog posts that will provide a view of the 5 AEGIS high level scenarios. To find more about the AEGIS scenarios, you can visit the first blog post of this series. … Continued
This is the third blog post out of the 5 blog posts that will provide a view of the 5 AEGIS high level scenarios. To find more about the AEGIS scenarios, you can visit the first blog post of this series. … Continued
This is the second blog post out of the 5 blog posts that will provide a view of the 5 AEGIS high level scenarios. To find more about the AEGIS scenarios, you can visit the first blog post of this … Continued
In this and the upcoming blog posts, we will present 5 high-level scenarios that try to explain how the AEGIS platform can be used by different stakeholders working in the PSPS domain. The 5 scenarios to be presented, can be … Continued
The AEGIS platform will provide a concrete method for create micro-contracts for data, services, algorithms and intelligence reports sharing that will be used to validate transactions and safeguard the proper use of the platform by the different participating partners, forbidding … Continued
This blog discusses the high level methodology of AEGIS. Step 1: Understanding the stakeholders and their data One of the challenges we faced during the project’s early steps was to identify all involved parties in the wide set of … Continued
One of the main objectives of AEGIS is to drive data-focused innovation that expands over multiple business sectors and takes into consideration structured, unstructured and multilingual data sets, rejuvenates the existing models and facilitates companies and organisations in the Public … Continued