This presentation builds on the success achieved with SAREF - winner of the best vocabulary award at SEMANTiCS2016 - a vocabulary developed in close interaction the industry and with the support of the European Commission. SAREF is standardized by ETSI (TS 103 264) and provides an important contribution to achieve semantic interoperability in the IoT. This presentation focuses on a follow-up study on SAREF recently launched by the European Commission for “ensuring interoperability for Demand Side Flexibility (DSF)”. DSF indicates the flexibility offered by the demand side (i.e., end-consumers) to voluntary change their typical electricity consumption patterns in response to time-variable electricity prices or incentives. The implementation of DSF not only requires energy market players (such as grid operators) and energy service companies to cooperate, but also their technical infrastructures to be coupled. The goal of the DSF study is to identify gaps in standardization, recommend alignments needed to achieve DSF interoperability - especially in relation to SAREF and its extension for Energy (SAREF4ENER) - and demonstrate an integrated DSF infrastructure. The presentation describes the study and addresses the lesson learned in implementing a demonstrator (proof of concept) of interoperability, which will be shown at the European Utility Week 2017.
This presentation builds on the success achieved in the past years with SAREF, winner of the best vocabulary award at SEMANTiCS2016. SAREF is a shared vocabulary of consensus developed in close interaction with the industry and with the support of the European Commission. SAREF is a standard published by ETSI (TS 103 264 V2.1.1) and provides an important contribution to achieve semantic interoperability in the IoT. According to a McKinsey report of 2015 - The Internet of Things: Mapping the value beyond the hype - interoperability is essential to unlock 40% of the $11 trillion potential value of the IoT. As confirmed in the EC Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation 2017, SAREF is a first ontology standard in the IoT ecosystem that provides a step forward towards the development of similar standards for other vertical domains to unlock the full potential of the IoT.
Since its first creation in 2015, SAREF has gradually grown into a network of modular, standardized semantic models that continues to grow systematically within the SmartM2M TC in ETSI. In 2016, a new SAREF version was released, and the first 3 extensions for the Energy, Environment and Building domains were standardized (www.ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/57284). A multitude of other domains such as Smart Cities, Smart AgriFood, Smart Industry and Manufacturing, Automotive, eHealth/Ageing-well and Wearables, are on the roadmap of ETSI and the European Commission, turning SAREF into an essential reference model to enable integration of semantic data from various vertical domains in the IoT.
This presentation will focus on a follow-up study on SAREF recently launched by the European Commission for “ensuring interoperability for Demand Side Flexibility”. Demand Side Flexibility (DSF) indicates the flexibility on the electricity usage offered by end-consumers (i.e., the “demand side”) to voluntary change their typical electricity consumption patterns in response to market signals, such as time-variable electricity prices or incentives. The implementation of DSF not only requires energy market players (such as grid operators) and energy service companies to cooperate, but also their technical infrastructures to be coupled. The goal of the DSF study is to identify gaps in standardization, recommend alignments needed to achieve DSF interoperability - especially in relation to SAREF and its extension for Energy (SAREF4ENER) - and demonstrate an integrated DSF infrastructure.
The presentation will describe the DSF study and address the lesson learned in implementing a demonstrator (proof of concept) of interoperability for DSF, which will be shown at the European Utility Week exhibition in Amsterdam on 3-5 October 2017. The innovative character is that the work is based on the integration of SAREF with existing standards defined by various Standards Development Organizations (such as IEC, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI and oneM2M) for Energy, Demand Side Flexibility, Smart Meters, Smart Appliances and Machine to Machine (M2M) communications. Industry contributors to the demonstrator are Vodafone, meter manufacturers (providing smart meters and a Head End System), Sierra Wireless (providing a gateway and oneM2M platform) and smart appliances manufacturers from EEBus and Energy@home (e.g., Bosch/Siemens and Whirlpool).
Dr. Laura Daniele is a scientist in the area of ontology engineering and semantic technologies at TNO, where she leads the research activities on semantic interoperability. She graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and developed her MSc thesis at the University of Twente (NL) by means of the European Socrates/Erasmus program. In 2011, she obtained her PhD from the University of Twente on model-driven development of context-aware mobile applications. Since 2011 she works at TNO. Her interest is to provide data integration solutions to enable semantic interoperability among various organizations that need to share data, but use different terminologies, standards and/or heterogeneous IT systems. Her research focuses on the application of semantic technologies, especially in the Internet of Things. Laura has developed a number of ontologies to enable semantic interoperability in several domains (http://ontology.tno.nl/), and is the creator of the SAREF ontology for the European Commission and standardized by ETSI (www.ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/57284). Laura serves as expert in ETSI SmartM2M on standardization of semantics and has been the leader of the ETSI Specialist Task Force 513 that resulted in the extension of SAREF to the Energy, Environment and Building domains. She also represents TNO in the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) WG03 on IoT standardization. She is active in various European research projects and has authored many international publications. Laura also serves as Program Committee member for major conferences and journals in the Semantic Web area.
