Santander on FIRE

eChallenges e-2013 - Call for Papers Deadline

We would like to invite you to submit extended abstracts for eChallenges e2013 by 08 March 2012.

Supported by the European Commission, the 23rd annual eChallenges e-2013 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Malahide, Dublin, Ireland from 09 - 11 October. Focused on Applied ICT addressing major Societal Challenges, and showcasing strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies and workshops, eChallenges brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.

Please publish this Call for Papers on relevant sites and circulate it to relevant colleagues in research, government or business. Please also publish a link to www.eChallenges.org/2013

Please follow eChallenges e2013 on www.twitter.com/eChallenges and retweet the Call for Papers.

Core Thematic Priorities for eChallenges e-2013

Applied ICT addressing Societal Challenges

- eHealth and mHealth

- eGovernment, eParticipation & eDemocracy

- eInclusion

- Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage

- Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills

- Intelligent Content and Semantics

- Sustainable Environment

Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures

- Future Internet & Smart Cities

- eInfrastructures & Smart Grid

- Living Labs

- Cloud Computing

- Mobile Applications

- RFID & Networked Enterprise

- Security and Identity Management

More information is available at http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/default.asp?page=themes

We are now inviting extended abstracts (1,200 - 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute thematically focused workshop sessions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions for papers and sessions are outlined in the Call for Papers http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/default.asp?page=c4p

Call for Papers

Important Deadlines

Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts: 08 March 2013

Acceptance decision: 05 April

Submission of full paper: 30 April

The scientific programme for eChallenges e-2013 is based on an open Call for Papers and the conference language is English.

All extended abstracts (http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/default.asp?page=submission) must be submitted online by 08 March for double blind peer review by the International Programme Committee.

Papers should focus on a research or eAdoption topic on which a case study, initial or final results can be published. General project descriptions are not appropriate. All papers must highlight the level of innovation and actual or expected impact.

Please bear in mind that the extended abstracts submitted are double blind peer reviewed so they should not provide contact details within the text of the extended abstract submitted. All extended abstracts are submitted as text via a form - tables and diagrams can be submitted as part of the full paper submission in April.

Extended abstracts should provide a good overview of your full paper and cover the following headings:

- Introduction - Issues to be addressed

- Objectives of your paper

- Methodology Used

- Technology or Business Case Description

- Conclusions and Summary Recommendations

Workshop proposals must also be registered by 08 March http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/default.asp?page=submission-ws Each workshop proposal should be supported by a minimum of two papers per workshop session. Authors submit abstracts via Abstract Submission process, as these will be double blind peer reviewed by the IPC.

We look forward to receiving your extended abstracts and workshop submissions by 08 March.

CityScripts: a social tool for SmartSantander experimenters

The CityScripts prototype is aimed at experimenting with sensors and actuators in the city of Santander composing mash-ups integrating sensor data with social networks and other online data sources.

An important aspect of this project is the provision of a personal workspace in which each user can compose public data from city sensors with personal data from his/her own personal devices and services including social profiles bringing a social dimension in the IoT paradigm.

Let us to make a brief overview of the Cityscripts workspace and describe the steps to create a simple example using the data delivered by the real sensors placed in the Santander city.

The CityScripts Workspace

Main workspace sections are:

1 - Friends: a list of friends (at the moment limited to our twitter followings). Selecting a friend, it is possible to discover his/her shared things/services.

2- Sensors/Actuators palette: it shows the available Sensors/Actuators (things and services) that can be registered in the user workspace. In particular, two sensor categories have been realized ad-hoc for SmartSantander:

Geographic Selection: enables the creation of a collection of sensors in a given region

Abstract Region: enables the selection of sensors in a region and computes a single value for the whole region (i.e. the average temperature in a city).

3 - Added/Bookmarked Sensors: a list of added (using the palette) or bookmarked (from a friend profile page) Sensors in the workspace. They represent ready-to-use things. Each Sensor can be then connected to an Actuator in the workspace.

4 - Added/Bookmarked Actuators: a list of added (using the palette) or bookmarked (from a friend profile page) Actuators in the workspace. They represent ready-to-use things. Each Actuator can be then used in building a connection with a Sensor in the workspace.

5 - Connections list. A connection always involves a Sensor as data source and an Actuator as the data recipient. A connection can be configured and customized by filters and mappings.

6 - Script list. A script is a valid Javascript code which can reference all the sensors and actuators in the users’ workspace to create an execution logic or workflow.

We are going to implement the following scenariol: a restaurant manager publishes the number of free parks close to her restaurant on its Facebook page.

To do that, we need: an Abstract Region sensor instance that resume the data of sensors placed close to Calle Hernan Cortes in Santander , a Facebook Actuator for posting on free parks on Facebook page, and a connection.

Step One: adding an Abstract Region Sensor

We are going to to create an Abstract Region Sensor able to get the number of free park provided by the sensors placed in the area of Calle Hernan Cortes in Santander.

1. Select the Abstract Region Sensor icon on the palette.

2. Let us name this sensor as “ParkCalleCortes”. Click on the “Abstract Region” sensor icon and fill the form using “ParkCalleCortes” as name, selecting the “Park slot availability for “sensor type”, check “Free” for the operations, drag the area you like to monitor on the map. Finally, choose the kind of policy you prefer.

3. “ParkCalleCortes” has been added to your workspace and it starts soon to collect data. As you can see, the list item reports the name of the thing, it's description, the owner and the selected policy.

4. If you click in the added Sensor name, under the Sensor list in the workspace, you will able to browse the particular thing details page. The data table on the bottom side of the thing page contains the current last 50 collected data items.

Step Two: adding a Facebook Actuator

Creating a Facebook Actuator, each time it received a data value, it is published on user’s wall.

1. Click over the Facebook icon in the Actuators section of the palette. You will be redirected to the Facebook authorization web site.

2. If you are not logged in at the present time, it will request to do it.

3. On the that Facebook pages related on Cityscripts app, you should authorize the app to post on your wall.

4. When the authorization process finishes, you are redirected to the Paraimpu workspace.

Step Three: creating and configuring their Connection

It is the time to connect the Abstract Region Sensor to the Facebook Actuator and configure it in order to post a message under the following condition: publish the number of free parks when it is greater then 1.

1. Place the mouse over the “ParkCalleCortes " in the Sensors list and click on the icon. The dialog with the list of all available Actuators opens.

2. Select the Facebook Actuator and press the "Connect" button. The requested connection is created and you can find it under the Connection list in the workspace.

3. Now we are going to configure the created connection: put the mouse over the created connection and click the "Configure"  button.

4. The Connection details page shows some info about the particular connection:

• A filter. It is a JavaScript expression which is evaluated to filter the data values coming from the Sensors. In this way only the values satisfying it will be processed. One connection can have 0 or 1 filter.

• One or more mappings. A mapping specifies two expressions: the first is the JavaScript expression for the condition applied to data coming from Sensor. If it results “True” triggers a replace action to the data which will be sent to the actuator. One connection can have from 0 to N mappings.

5. Set the filter in order to evaluate only the values you like. In our case is:

ParkCalleCortes.operations.free>1

6. Add a new mapping by clicking on the "Add mapping" button. The data value coming from the Sensor is represented in an expression by its name “ParkCalleCortes ” (like a variable).

7. On the leftmost text box, write the following mapping condition:

ParkCalleCortes.operations.free > 1

8. On the other text box on the right, write the following message:

Now <%ParkCalleCortes.operations.free%> park slots are available.

9. The expression <%ParkCalleCortes.operations.free %> means: "the current value coming from ParkCalleCortes and stored in the ‘free’ field inside ‘operations’. Anyway it is possible to write any valid JavaScript expression between <% and %>.

10. Now the last step: activate the connection. You can do in 2 ways.

• by clicking on the connection details page
• on the workspace page, move the cursor on the related connection box and click on the activate icon

Conclusions

In this post we described the actions to create a Sensor, an “social” Actuator like Facebook is and their Connection in the CityScripts workspace in order to satisfy the simple scenario. On the Facebook timeline, the messages appears like next image.

With few changes it can be applied on other situations that could use temperature or sound sensors and post tweet.