OSA - An Open Smart building API
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| Coordinator | Lunds universitet - MAPCI - Mobile And Pervasive Computing Institute at Lund University |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 361 000 |
| Project duration | January 2016 - June 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme for the Internet of Things |
| Call | Internet of Things Call fall 2015 |
Important results from the project
The project´s aim was to create a model and strategy to establish an open platform with a public API to enable service providers to develop and deliver digital services to smart (multi-family) residential buildings using the building´s infrastructure of smart sensors and actuators in a standardized way. The project has achieved its goals by benchmarking with other successful open platforms through workshops with experts in technology, business models and legal matters related to open platforms and through modeling and analysis of the project.
Expected long term effects
The project has resultated in a strategy and an implementation plan that the project partner Sensative now is expected to use to establish the open platform . Furthermore, it has resulted in a business model that has the potential to provide incentives for all players in the ecosystem that will be created around the platform SHAPE .
Approach and implementation
The project has been divided into four work packages A) Analysis of other open IoT platforms B) Modeling of the project platform C) Workshops and studies around business models , legal matters, organization, ownership etc. for open platforms & API D) Identify all activities that must be done to establish an open API in order to create a real interest among developers so that an ecosystem can be built. The work packages have been completed and the project has identified that Google/Android is very similar to the platform in the project, SHAPE, and is well suited for future benchmarking .