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Horizontal Supply Chain Collaboration

SICK

Track and trace systems, in combination with digital services, can make the full supply chain more successful. Barcodes, 2D-codes or RFID technology can identify materials. At the same time, the digital services are digitizing the logistic processes, for example, repacking or validation of material in handling units.
These systems provide every stakeholder with necessary and trustworthy information via the IDS data structure. Based on the secure data exchange, further data-driven process automation, such as billing processes, is visible.

BENEFITS:

Digitized and trusted transparency of material flow in the full supply chain
Flexibility in generating new business models in the supply chain to reduce process costs
Reduced cost of fixed capital on stock

COMPONENTS:

SICK track and trace system
IDS Trusted Connector
Data Broker
Identity Provider
Corda

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Supply Chain Manager

Volkswagen AG | thyssenkrupp | Fraunhofer ISST

Trust is one of the highest rated requirements for collaboration in industrial environments, such as material provider and productive consumer, e.g. automotive production. Especially when exchange of sensitive data is required purely trust is not sufficient due of the fact that access to IT systems is outside of human’s control. A technical solution is mostly required to ensure data sovereignty on both ends, establishing trust by using technology.

BENEFITS:

Exchange and usage of data leads to process improvements
Increased transparency in automotive supply chains
Establishing mutual trust enables policy enforcement

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
IDS Connector Framework

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ONCITE

German Edge Cloud

With ONCITE, companies can process and store data on site before they exchange it over a public cloud – with data sovereignty being ensured across the entire process. ONCITE is a compact computing center that is based on edge cloud technology. At the heart of it is the IDS–certified Trusted Supplier Connector. The user interface monitors and controls any exchange of data between two partners. Using the Connector, partners can evaluate data and make it available for being used by their own or by OEMs’ systems.

BENEFITS:

Suppliers and manufacturers can make their data available for being used in digital processes
Companies can process and store data on site before they exchange it over a public cloud
ONCITE allows data exchange transactions in real time and at the highest possible level of security

COMPONENTS:

IDS connector

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Use Case

Two or more organizations that apply an IDS-based solution to a real-life challenge for sharing data in a sovereign way.

Business Expertise

Data Space strategy: Cefriel can support organization to define the data space strategy for the company and design, develop and realize new IDSA data spaces or to evolve existing data spaces based on IDSA standards and principles.

Technical Expertise

IDSA architecture expertize and implementation capabilities: Cefriel can support organization in design, develop and realize new IDSA data spaces, get on board with new use cases and to evolve existing data spaces based on IDSA standards and principles.

Asset manager component, a customizabile component for the governance of exchange of data processes in data spaces.

Contact Details

Nadia Scandelli
nadia.scandelli@cefriel.com

Business Expertise

VTT is the Finnish IDSA Hub (business)

Support for companies in IDS onboarding
Use case specification and validation
Training

Technical Expertise

1. Compatibility tests for IDS components

Technical verification of third party components against IDS certified refererences
Interoperability tests of third party components in VTT IDS testbed
Test report for certification process

2. Customised IDS component development

Integration / interfacing with existing data infrastructure
Custom protocols and vocabulary for data exchange
IDS certification

Data Spaces

Trusted Data Sharing in Smart Cities

Contact Details

Markus Taumberger
markus.taumberger@vtt.fi

Tuomo Tuikka
tuomo.tuikka@vtt.fi

Business Expertise

Fraunhofer ISST offers research expertise in the areas of data ecosystems and digital business and system solutions. Furthermore, Frauenhofer ISST is involved in the establishment of Data Spaces in the most important lead markets, as well as numerous IDS-related individual projects. Fraunhofer ISST is therefore an excellent and experienced partner in finding business opportunities through sovereign data sharing at a high technical level.

Technical Expertise

As an IDSA founding member, Fraunhofer has been involved from the very beginning and plays a key role in the creation of the reference architecture and certification. Fraunhofer also develops all components of the reference architecture in house and is thus in a position to provide a prototypical data space. The components developed by Fraunhofer are collected in the Fraunhofer IDS Lab and can be demonstrated there. Besides, Fraunhofer has adapted the components to the respective needs in various projects with companies. For technical consulting or support for implementation and the adaptation of IDS software components, Fraunhofer is happy to help with its extensive knowledge.

Contact Details

Joshua Gelhaar
joshua.Gelhaar@isst.fraunhofer.de

Website
www.dataspaces.fraunhofer.de

Technical Expertise

CERTH/ITI is the Greek IDSA Hub Facilitator. CERTH/ITI is one of the top Greek institutes related to ICT domain. CERTH/ITI provides technical expertise related to IDS architecture and IDS connectors.

Contact Details

Alexandros Nizamis
alnizami@iti.gr

Anastasia Theodouli
anastath@iti.gr

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Collaborative Warranty and Quality Management

SAP | Fraunhofer

SAP wants to make use of IDS data sharing concepts to improve business processes by providing smart data apps which facilitate intercompany collaboration.

The example of the „collaborative warranty and quality management“ apps illustrate how repair shops are incentivized to share vehicle quality data along the manufacturing supply chain, irrespective of their relevance for warranty claims. Suppliers of any tier gain transparency of quality issues from different downstream branches. When suppliers perform a root cause analysis of such quality issues, they can integrate downstream or upstream quality and usage data which is shared subject to usage policies.

BENEFITS:

Increased exchange of quality data along the supply chain
Timely discovery of evolving quality issues
Parallelizing previously linear business processes

COMPONENTS:

IDS Trusted Connector
SAP IDS App Store
SAP S/4 HANA
Usage Control (MYDATA)

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Catena-X

CHALLENGE:

The goal of Catena-X is to create the first uniform standard for data exchange along the entire automotive value chain. The IDS standard is the blueprint for data exchange based on European values, such as data protection and security, equal opportunities through a federated design, the guarantee of data sovereignty for the provider of data, and trust between participants.

SUCCESS:

With the IDS standard as the essential infrastructure basis, Catena-X will be an extensible ecosystem in which automotive manufacturers and suppliers, dealer associations and equipment suppliers, including the providers of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, can all participate equally.

BENEFITS:

Create an important starting point for the industry to respond more efficiently to the challenges of digital transformation
Increase the automotive industry’s competitiveness
Improve efficiency through cooperation
Accelerate company processes through standardization and access to data

COMPONENTS:

IDS Identity Provider (CA, DAPS, ParIS)
IDS Metadata Broker
IDS App Store
IDS Clearing House
IDS Vocabulary Provider
IDS Connector

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idento.one

Orbiter

Idento.one offers its users a verified digital identity with which they can identify themselves in the digital economy. In doing so, Idento.one solves the GDPR issues around the handling of personally identifiable information and enables data management in compliance with data protection. Idento.one gives users the ability to give (and withdraw) consent for third parties to use personal data. It acts as a "data broker", between individuals and companies.

BENEFITS:

Verified, digital identities
Secure, decentralized data storage

COMPONENTS:

IDS Broker
IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House

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Deutsche Telekom - Data Intelligence Hub

Deutsche Telekom

The "Telekom Data Intelligence Hub” is intended to serve as a digital connection between companies and be both a source for commercial data acquisition and open data. The platform offers users tools for analysis in addition to acquisition, exchange and processing of data. Industry experts, e.g. programmers, data engineers, data journalists and data scientists, get the possibility to develop new business models, data-driven products or services. In a nutshell the it is relevant for companies of all sizes and industries but also for universities, for example, that develop models for the combination of data and algorithms to attain new insights.

BENEFITS:

Secure and controllable data exchange including administration of user rights
Secure working environments for analysis tools to develop data-driven products and services
Simple search and use of data beyond company borders

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
IDS Broker
IDS App Store

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GAIA-X - A Federated Secure Data Infrastructure

1800+ Contributors from 500+ Associations

GAIA-X is a European beacon project that will both connect existing cloud services and spark innovative new modes of connectivity to create a federated digital infrastructure for Europe. A critical success factor is to ensure data sovereignty and interoperability — a shared goal of GAIA-X and IDSA, which is why IDSA concepts are an integral element of the GAIA-X architecture.
Various use cases from different industries submitted in the Gaia-X Hubs demonstrate the advantages of a data infrastructure. The goal of the Gaia-X Hubs is to continually identify, develop and implement new use cases, showing the need as well as the added value of the sovereign data infrastructure. In addition, use cases help to identify sector-specific and cross-sectoral requirements. These are then incorporated into the development of Gaia-X.

www.gaia-x-eu

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NTT Testbed on Data Governance and Sovereignty Across Countries and Companies

NTT | Siemens | Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne | Fraunhofer ISST | Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative (RRI)

In order to enable data to flow freely, the Japanese telecommunications carrier NTT had been working on ensuring protecting data sovereignty and cybersecurity by using the Smart Data Platform with Trust. This platform is a data infrastructure that enables secure and trusted data sharing based on consensus among stakeholders.
Using the Smart Data Platform with Trust, NTT has built a testbed among Japan, Switzerland, and Germany for demonstrating a use case of CO2 reduction and circular economy. This testbed demonstrates that data sharing between Japan and Europe is possible when partners use GAIA-X and IDSA’s core technology: the IDS Connector.

BENEFITS:

Enables trusted and sovereign data sharing across international borders, industries and companies
Supports solutions to major global social issues
Enhances cooperative and sustainable value creation

COMPONENTS:

NTT Smart Data Platform with Trust
IDS Connector (Dataspace Connector)
DAPS
OPC UA
Things Cloud
MindSphere

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Smart Factory Web

The OPC UA Factory Connector is the gateway to the IDS and connects any factory to any IDS participant such as other customers or the Smart Factory Web.
The connector combines the benefits of IDS connectors (secure and standardized communication, data usage control) with the interoperability technologies and applications of Industrie 4.0. In consequence, any Asset Administration Shell (AAS) in the factory can be published and secured over IDS. The OPC UA Factory Connector is able to retrieve the data from the AAS and verify which partner of our supply chain is allowed to use which data element. After the validation and enforcement of the data usage policies, the selected data elements are made visible in our demonstrator.

BENEFITS:

Integration and Interoperability with Asset Administration Shell
Data usage control via IDS
New business opportunities by publishing factory capabilities and assets in marketplaces for industrial production

COMPONENTS:

OPC UA Factory Connector
IDS “MYDATA Usage Control”
Smart Factory Web
Asset Administration Shell

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Maritime Data Space

Sintef | Navtor | Neuron | Wilhelmsen | DNV-GL

CHALLENGE:

Maritime shipping companies are required by law to transmit a set of important data before entering every port. There are various industry solutions for this data exchange such as the Veracity ecosystem in the market today. All of them are very complex and time intensive to manage.

Providers and organizations on shore do not have access to ship data like emissions, fuel consumption and route details. Data access agreements between data providers such as ship owners, authorities or shipyard equippers as well as service providers that take care of for example data analysis and process improvements must be negotiated individually. A common ecosystem for data exchange from ship to shore , that simplifies the process and does not exist.

SUCCESS:

The IDS-based Maritime Data Space brings together all participants and platforms in one trusted and secure data ecosystem. It ensures transparent access to ship-related data, enables secure, stable and efficient communication between ship and shore, and provides value-added and trusted services for ship operations.

Autonomous shipping, environmental sustainability, industry 4.0 technologies, and the connection between ships are current trends that the Maritime Data Space addresses in an innovative way. The combination of the Norwegian DNV GL Veracity data platform with an IDS-based ecosystem strengthens Norway’s position in international maritime data exchange and sharing. Last but not least, the Maritime Data Space satisfies customer and regulatory demand for transparency.

BENEFITS:

Transparent access to all relevant ship related data
Secure, robust and efficient communication between ship and shore
Simplified provision of trusted services for ship operation
Interoperability and data sovereignty for all involved parties

COMPONENTS:

Veracity Industry Data Platform
IDS Connectors
IDS Identity Provider (CA, DAPS, ParIS)
IDS Metadata Broker

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Smart Parking

Volkswagen | Fiware Foundation | Wobcom

Smart Parking is a digital solution to improve parking in a city, reduce air pollution and support local businesses. Drivers in a city are not navigated to their destination, but to the nearest available parking space. They can register their preferred shopping profiles. These anonymised marketing profiles are matched with shops near the parking spaces. Matching shop offers are returned with hash codes for the possible offers. If the driver shops at that particular shop, their parking fee is paid by the shop.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector

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Smart Connected Supplier Network - Market 4.0

TNO

CHALLENGE:

Smart Connected Supplier Network is an initiative of manufacturing companies and their IT-suppliers in the high-tech manufacturing supply chain. The aim is to facilitate cross-factory communication and thus ensuring supply chain transparency and interoperability, resulting in an overall productivity improvement of 20%. This is realized by reducing the administrative burden and facilitating collaboration between supply chain partners. Unlike traditional centralized platform initiatives, SCSN is fully based on the principles of digital and data sovereignty. There is no central entity controlling the data. A non-profit foundation chairs the data sharing agreements, but the implementation is done by the involved IT-suppliers. Unlike existing EDI-initiatives, these agreements not only address the semantics, but also the technical and legal aspects between partners in the ecosystem.

SUCCESS:

SCSN is designed as a highly scalable solution by providing a network approach (four-corner model) which consists of the following two aspects:

One common semantic language to exchange: orders, forecast, TPDs, BoM, drawings, invoices, logistical information, catalogues, and measurement data.
Seamless technical agreements between Service Providers to ensure the promise of Connecting Once - Communicate with everyone. The underlying SCSN infrastructure is based on the reference architecture developed by the International Data Spaces Association. The SCSN Foundation created standard IDS Connectors and Data Apps, which can be used by service providers. These service providers, i.e. integrator parties, created off-the-shelve integrations with a complete portfolio of ERP systems. This way, they can very easily connect manufacturing companies to the network.

BENEFITS:

Seamless scalable integrations for manufacturing companies for exchanging purchase-to-pay information
Reduction in administrative burden, faster time-to-market, lower IT integration costs
IT service providers only need a single integration

COMPONENTS:

IDS Identity Provider (Certificate Authority, DAPS, ParIS)
IDS Metadata Broker
IDS Clearing House
IDS Connectors
Data Apps

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Industrial Additive Manufacturing Services

IBM | thyssenkrupp | Fraunhofer ISST

Thyssenkrupp and IBM together with Fraunhofer ISST have developed a prototype that builds the foundation for further expansion of an industrial manufacturing platform. The combined use of IDS technology and Blockchain is intended to enable a higher degree of automation within the Additive Manufacturing process, as well as to provide data security and data sovereignty.

The secure platform enables the exchange of trusted data and seamless interaction between all parties along the value chain. Easy access to AM technology and services also opens up new revenue streams for small and medium-sized enterprises. In doing so, the ecosystem focuses on protecting intellectual property rights and ensuring product quality through the immutability of data,

BENEFITS:

Creating a trustworthy ecosystem for transfer of valuable and IP-relevant engineering data
Processing industrial AM orders in a fast, traceable and reliable manner
Protecting IP rights and ensuring product quality

COMPONENTS:

IDS Base Connector
Blockchain technology (Hyperledger Fabric)

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DASLOGIS - Dutch Data Spaces for Logistics

CHALLENGE:

To adapt to changing market dynamics, organizations are collaborating more than ever in increasingly complex and agile supply chains, requiring a flexible exchange of many (often commercially sensitive) datasets with a variety of stakeholders.

Organizations in logistics are currently developing and implementing digitization strategies to adapt and prepare to extract value from these opportunities. However, the scale of the challenge transcends the boundaries of organizations. This project builds on the work and analysis of the needs, approach, positioning and roadmap for a Dutch logistics data space in the recently published white paper on the logistics infrastructure for data sharing.

SUCCESS:

Motivated because of conclusions from the white paper and previous research that there is a need for a Dutch Logistics Data Space (DLDS) that expands the limited functions of the current framework approaches for logistics agreements (such as iSHARE) and meets international developments and standards as also applicable in other sectors in the increasingly cross-sectoral and intertwined supply chains. That is why the DASLOGIS project aims to develop a DLDS: a digital virtual environment or ecosystem that enables the finding and controlled sharing of (potentially) sensitive data. It offers flexibility, extensibility, and personalization to support the three main types of logistics data exchange: "sharing transaction data for operational optimization," "sharing (big) data for data for data analysis," and "supply chain data sharing for real-time visibility."

DLDS will be based on the generic and internationally standardized IDS reference architecture model, supplemented and adapted to Dutch logistics needs where applicable. The Proof of Concept (PoC) of the DLDS is validated using three functional prototypes. The project partners will also demonstrate and assess the technical feasibility and business value of a DLDS for the Dutch logistics sector based on logistics use case.

BENEFITS:

Enables the discovery and controlled sharing of (potentially) sensitive data
Offers flexibility, extensibility and personalisation to support data exchange in logistics

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connectors
IDS Essential Service

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Metal Domain Data Space - Market 4.0

CHALLENGE:

Selecting the most suitable new manufacturing equipment is a time-consuming challenge for many customers. There’s no easy way to digest all available information about options, so customers must browse the internet, attend trade shows and talk to multiple experts in order to reach an informed decision. We wondered if data spaces could help integrate and streamline this process. We focused specifically on the metal domain.

SUCCESS:

The MARKET 4.0 Metal Domain Data Space is based on the IDS Reference Architecture Model (RAM). It describes a robust and efficient solution for linking the inventories of different equipment manufacturers to a MARKET 4.0 service that analyses the customer’s requirements and returns the most suitable equipment options for a certain metal domain manufacturing process. The connection is made through IDS connectors and the inventories and services include essential IDS modules (i.e., clearing house, metadata broker) that guarantee a trusted data exchange.

BENEFITS:

The MARKET 4.0 Metal Domain Data Space makes the selection of manufacturing equipment simpler and more efficient, getting to a better result in less time.
It is flexible and offers two solutions:
1. Connecting equipment manufacturer repositories with a single IDS connector. The equipment manufacturers do not require knowledge of the IDS RAM. Only the connector owner needs to have it.
2. Connecting one service with multiple data providers via IDS connectors. The benefit of this is that the data provider controls the data flow and is independent of the connector provider.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House
IDS Metadata Broker
Special Applications
Central IDS compliant platform

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Business Expertise

As an industry expert based in Germany, msg group can help you to get the best value out of your data. Based on our hands-on 5D consulting approach we support you in identifying sustainable use cases and kickstart your data spaces activities, based on real project experiences.

Technical Expertise

With our extensive cloud solution portfolio we are able to build up prototypes, fast MVPs and enterprise level system integration based on IDSA technology. This way we are generating early feedback and support sustainable decisions on the fast lane to production.

Contact Details

Ralf Neubauer
ralf.neubauer@msg.group

Website:
www.msg.group/datenbasierte-oekosysteme

Business Expertise

To support your organisational strategy, we work together with key people in your organisation to explore the opportunities for data sharing and data sovereignty with existing and new partners in your ecosystem. We investigate the concrete benefits of data sharing and data sovereignty, and identify how they can help you leverage your data assets to create value.

Pursuing a new data strategy is likely to have a big impact on your organisation from both a business and a technical perspective. We facilitate several different training modules that will help you, your co-workers and your ecosystem partners understand what data sharing and data sovereignty encompasses, how data sharing and data sovereignty will impact your service portfolio and what it takes to develop your very own sovereign data sharing use cases! We tailor our content to your specific needs.

Technical Expertise

We help organisations with defining and implementing business, legal, operational, functional and technical requirements that will enable your (sovereign) data sharing use cases. With our vast practical experience of bringing data sharing use cases to life, we support you from your use case exploration phase, design and actual development and testing of your use cases right through to your Go-Live. We also facilitate the co-creation of new services, offer project management support, help you with certification, and share our business, technical and regulatory expertise in data sharing with you!

Contact Details

Pieter Schuurmans
pieter.schuurmans@innopay.com

Website
www.innopay.com/en/topics/data-sharing

Business Expertise

Business expertise focusing on creating most adequate business models for monetization of data and associated services.

Example from Energy Domain - Offshore Wind Energy Data Space use case: Currently, only windfarm operators and OEMs have access to the data collected from the wind energy turbines in operation and therefore they are the only players that are presently extracting value out of data. Most European components suppliers and ICT companies do not have access to this data missing the opportunity to improve their competitiveness through digitalization of products and services. In this context, in Tecnalia together with the Basque Energy Cluster we are designing and developing an offshore wind digital platform based on IDSA reference architecture to enable data sharing amongst all the actors of the value chain.

Technical Expertise

Technical expertise from different R&D projects, focusing on: connectors, broker, usage control, clearing house, info model and vocabulary provider.

Example from Manufacturing Domain - TECNALIA Industry division has implemented a connection of manufacturing services (proprietary and external) to the central IDS modules (CA, Broker) through their IDS configured connector. In addition, TECNALIA has implemented a manufacturing data space based on the IDS RA to market manufacturing equipment. At last, TECNALIA is working on the implementation of IDS RA in the interaction of the manufacturing companies with the DIH ecosystem.

Contact Details

Alberto Berretega
alberto.berreteaga@tecnalia.com

Business Expertise

Business Models for Digital Transformation incl. Go to market strategies
www.unity.de/en/services/digital-business-models/

Enterprise Architecture Management - Master complex IT architectures with the management approach!
www.unity.de/en/services/enterprise-architecture-management/

Digital Customer Experience - Use Digital Technologies to increase revenue!
www.unity.de/en/services/digital-customer-experience-management

Customer Technology Acceptance
www.unity.de/en/services/digital-customer-experience-management/customer-satisfaction-and-recommendations/

Innovation Selling - Accelerate your process from the idea to market success
www.unity.de/en/services/innovation-management/innovation-booster/

Contact Details

Heiko Janssen
heiko.janssen@unity.de
www.linkedin.com/in/heikojanssen-it-architecture-newnormal/

Website
www.unity.de/de/leistungen/international-data-space-association/

Business Expertise

TNO has experience in setting up ecosystems and cooperation based on IDS infrastructure. This includes aligning stakeholder needs and capabilities, setting up an independent foundation to manage the ecosystem and developing a legal framework for the stakeholders and the foundation to work in

Technical Expertise

TNO has developed a generic IDS data app which includes an IDS connector. This data app can be "configured" using an OpenAPI definition. This increases development and deployment speed of new IDS data apps.

TNO's experience with IDS goes beyond development and implementation, a large number of data ecosystem related research projects are currently using IDS as their foundation within TNO.

Contact Details

Herman Pals
herman.pals@tno.nl

Website
www.tno.nl/en/focus-areas/information-communication-technology/roadmaps/data-sharing/international-data-spaces-ids/

Technical Expertise

TeraLab IMT will support you with building Data Space uses cases based on our IDS connector and marketplace. TeraLab IMT will leverage its expertise in the IDS architecture and will bring its state-of-the arts tools, to support you through the different stages of a successful integration project (1. understand, 2. develop, 3. implement, 4. operate)

TeraLab IMT Project Managers will assist you in building and assembling the most advanced components for your use cases through our 7 years experience in H2020 projects and implication with GAIA-X Data Spaces. TeraLab IMT will provide you with an access to an ecosystem of researchers, start-ups, and innovative companies to remove the scientific and technological barriers to using and sharing of data.

Contact Details

Contact Form
www.teralab-datascience.fr/?lang=en#contact

Website
www.teralab-datascience.fr/?lang=en

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AI.SOV

Cefriel

The AI.SOV project aims to develop an IDS architecture inspired platform that will guarantee secure and sovereign data sharing among supply chain partners. The sustainable industrial data ecosystem will based on industrial platforms that are supporting the European industries to faster exchange AI results, (such as spare parts production and forecast and predictive maintenance data, or data-driven new business opportunities throughout the value-chain) along with the whole industrial and supply/value chain stakeholders, leveraging on a secure and trustworthy sharing of manufacturing data. In other words, the aim is to design, develop, setup, and deploy a platform able to support and foster data exchange between trusted parties based on self-defined data usage policies by considering data sovereignty principles.

The technical solution provided by AI.SOV will introduce a governance layer devoted to human users over the machine-to-machine data exchange layer provided by IDS. In details, the data exchange layer will comprise IDS Connectors relying on the Dynamic Attribute Provider Service for mutual authentication between machines. This will be complemented by a user agreement layer, which will allow data providers and data consumers to make deals according to well-defined processes.

BENEFITS:

Generate new knowledge in the creation/usage of platforms for the exchange of data among stakeholders in the industrial supply chain
Create an educational module focused on data sovereignty in supply chain by providing both a formal rules representation framework, and real and tangible industrial examples (use cases)

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connectors
Dynamic Attribute Provider Service
Governance Layer
User Agreement Layer

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Smart Factory

VTT | Konecranes-Fastems-Danfoss

The Smart Factory is a step towards the Industry 4.0 vision for smart manufacturing where different machines interact with each other without, or with minimal, human control. The use case and involved IDS Solutions provide multiple benefits. For example, machines (and the companies that operate them) can better control with whom and what data is shared, and how data consumers handle the shared data. Moreover, IDS provides a systematic way to introduce new machines / companies into the factory and no case-by-case integration solutions are needed. With the IDS certification scheme, different stakeholders (both in-factory and external) can ensure that the utilized data exchange components address required security requirements. Finally, IDS brings improved interoperability across different data exchange protocols and formats, and data models.

BENEFITS:

Enhance trusted data sharing across factory borders facilitating e.g. the creation of digital twins
Enable interaction between machines and systems using different communication protocols (i.e. OPC-UA and non-OPC-UA)

COMPONENTS:

Connector – Is based on the Trusted Connector reference implementation and has been extended to support OPC-UA based data exchange. Enables machines to communicate with each other and also facilitates data exchange with external stakeholders.
Dynamic Attribute Provisioning Service (DAPS) – Provides dynamic, up-to-date attribute information about participants and connectors. Currently, the Fraunhofer’s DAPS implementation is used.

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Basque Energy Cluster

Tecnalia

A Digital Platform for sharing (real-time) operational wind turbine data, enabling wind turbine Data Owners to share their data in a secure, trusted and scalable way.

BENEFITS:

Enables wind turbine component suppliers to improve component designs and lifetime
Enables windfarm owners to receive improved insights in windfarm performance and enables predictive maintenance of the wind turbines in their windfarm
Enables wind turbine manufacturers to improve their wind turbines’ efficiency, Operation and Maintenance (O&M), and wind turbine lifetime

COMPONENTS:

Offshore wind digital platform as a Data Marketplace, architecture (to be defined) based on IDS-RAM
IDS Connectors and IDS broker to link Data Owners and their Data Sources with the Data Marketplace on one side, and link Data Users via Data Apps with the Data Marketplace on the other side
Vocabulary provider to manage common data models in order to foster the interoperability between different players

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Kiel Mobility Digital Twin

FIWARE | City of Kiel

The digital twin of the mobility stations makes data available through open APIs and standardized data models. This enables a better accessibility of the system both, south- and northbound. Through the standardization, the digital twin of mobility hubs is scalable and can foster the usage of new mobility services and improve municipal mobility planning.
A prototype of the digital twin is implemented for the mobility hub in Kiel Oppendorf.

BENEFITS:

Enable digital mobility services
Improve municipal mobility planning

COMPONENTS:

FIWARE NGSIv2 and NGSI-LD Context Broker
IDS-components planned for the future

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Trusted Exchange for Aeronautics

Engineering | Avio Aero

The scenario for trusted data exchange for aeronautics includes data exchange between engineers, design and testing centres, and aviation companies across country borders. This means that different data protection laws apply. IDS connectors ensure that data can be managed in a safe and standardized manner, allowing for better condition monitoring and detection of anomalies for quality assurance. The connector development plays a crucial role in this scenario as cost reductions for quality assurance become possible. The implementation of the Data Sovereignty principles, following the International Data Space Association Reference Architecture Model, guarantees from on hand to control the access and the usage of data (cross-countries, cross-companies, etc.), on the other hand, the creation of an ecosystem ready to be extended to satisfy new needs and communicate with existing companies using a common vocabulary.

BENEFITS:

Trusted data exchange between different establishments and countries
Usage of IDS open-source components for enabling the data exchange
Providing an Ecosystem Platform for processing and consuming data

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House

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FAIR Data Spaces

Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany | Fraunhofer FIT

The project will build a common cloud-based DataSpace for industry and research by connecting the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI and GAIA-X and following the FAIRData principles.

The project covers parts of the consortia/initiatives NFDI4Ing, NFDI4Chem, NFDI4Health, NFDI4Culture, GHGA, NFDI4Biodiversity, KonsortSWD, Medical Informatics Initiative, Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL) and International Data Spaces Association (IDSA).

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Mobility Data Space

CHALLENGE:

Intelligent traffic and mobility systems require a large amount of data in order to support decisions in the best possible way or even to take them automatically. Although countless mobility data are already collected and processed today, comprehensive utilization of these data is often not possible for technical, legal or economic reasons. With the Mobility Data Space (MDS), an open IDS-based data space that goes beyond the secure exchange of sensitive mobility data, as well as linking existing data platforms with one another (cf. Mobility Data Marketplace – MDM). In this way, comprehensive mobility data can be made available in the future without worrying about misuse of data.

SUCCESS:

The MDS enables the sovereign handling of data for digital mobility solutions. Common legal frameworks based on European data protection guidelines form the basis for this.
By linking offers from different mobility providers, individual mobility can be better combined with public transport offers and sharing providers. New possibilities also arise for traffic control by local authorities when data from private motor vehicles are combined with parking space utilization data and data from local public transport. Real-time information, for example, taking road works or traffic jams into account, allows flexible adjustment of routes for private and public transport vehicles. The perspective to be compliant with other data spaces that cover different domains create a whole new understanding of the mobility sector. The MDS will go live in the first half of 2022 as one of the first IDS-based data space operating at the market worldwide.

BENEFITS:

secures data sovereignty by establishing common rules for trustworthy data transactions
reduces the economic and technical dependence on digital platforms of large private providers
creates a basis for a cross-modal and intermodal mobility system

COMPONENTS:

IDS Identity Provider (CA, DAPS, ParIS)
IDS Metadata Broker
IDS App Store
IDS Clearing House
IDS Vocabulary Provider
IDS Connectors (not provided by operating company)

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Silicon Economy

Fraunhofer IML | Fraunhofer ISST | TU Dortmund

The Silicon Economy is a synonym for an upcoming digital infrastructure or digital ecosystem based on the automated negotiation, scheduling and control of the flow of goods, enabling new, digital business models for logistics (among others). This digital infrastructure enables comprehensive transparency in value added networks and creates trust along complete supply chains, from the supplier of raw materials to the end customer – which is maybe the most important prerequisite for getting all companies to participate.

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NL AI Coalition - Oncology Research

Challenged to be met: Using data between hospitals to further research in oncology.
Solution: IDS provides the reference framework and the software to build in data sovereignty.

BENEFITS:

Advancement of research through access to more data without the need to transfer subject-level data
Potential deployment of new algorithms in the field of oncology
Basis for federated deep learning solutions at scale in the medical domain

COMPONENTS:

The IDS connector with additional capability to allow for improved access to data in a manner that complies with the demands of the hospitals and GDPR

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Energy Data Space (EnDaSpace)

Fraunhofer IEE | Fraunhofer IWES | Fraunhofer ISST | Fraunhofer IOSB-INA | Fraunhofer IOSB-AST

CHALLENGE:

The digitization of the energy transition aims to harness information from a large number of decentralized power generators. With the prospect of green hydrogen gaining importance in the energy sector, the sources of electricity supply for the electrolysis of hydrogen is important. Operation of electrolyzers need to consider availability of green electricity, actual power prices and grid situation. In this use case wind power should be used for hydrogen production when the resource is available.

SUCCESS:

Communication between the plants and systems takes place via an Energy Data Space. Here, plants exchange data according to agreed rules and under certain conditions. An IDS connector implements these rules and processes. The concept of International Data Spaces thus enables all players to make self-determined decisions about the use of their data, thus enabling their digital sovereignty.

The turbine operator provides a data resource with operational data via an IDS connector. An energy management system from a third party provides the digital service to create an optimized schedule which is then sent to the electrolyzer for operation.

BENEFITS:

Provision of operational wind data resource
Digital Service for Calculation of an optimized schedule
Proof-of-concept with real world assets
Data communicated through IDS-connector into FIWARE platform

COMPONENTS:

IDS connector
IDS Identity Provider (CA, DAPS, ParIS)
FIWARE platform linked through connector

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Rail Data Space

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In the rail domain, data-driven business models play a major role for future sales and markets. Secure, dedicated and sovereign data exchange is a challenge in this heterogeneous market. Condition based maintenance on vehicle parts and system components is a major driver to optimize costs and to enable new data-driven services. Data exchange among different companies is the key to leverage predictive maintenance scenarios. Data, information and knowledge is distributed within the domain.

Based on a clear discovery phase to define the business case, we are implementing a technical feasibility with the IDSA using the Open Source Data Space Connector.

BENEFITS:

Creating technological facts
Establishing data exchange with real data assets
Following a clear model with distinct decision points to push condition-based maintenance in the rail domain

COMPONENTS:

Open Source Data Space Connector
Data Apps
Usage Policies

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RealLab Hamburg

National Platform for the Future of Mobility (NPM) | 31 companies and organizations from Hamburg and the area

CHALLENGE:

To leverage the potential of intermodal travel, seamless integration of all mobility options in one user application is crucial. This application requires data interoperability and data sharing between multiple providers, such as different platforms and mobility providers, who have so far been reluctant to share their data, also for fear of competitive disadvantages.

SUCCESS:

In the RealLab Hamburg, the digital mobility of tomorrow is being tested in the here and now of a German metropolis. Based on this, a blueprint for the mobility of the future is to be created. At the centre stands the social debate on digital mobility services in order to provide important insights into which approaches will prove themselves in practice.

A planning app for door-to-door travel between Hamburg and Berlin will be realized as a demonstrator using the IDS & Gaia-X data sovereignty standard. The IDS based data space creates advantages for all stakeholders. Citizens benefit from improved travel options, mobility providers from new business opportunities.

BENEFITS:

Improved mobility trough digitalization & automation
Reduction of traffic & emissions
Increasing mobility & traffic safety

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COMPONENTS:

IDS Connectors

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Ö-Cloud Initiative: Trust in standards and services

Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs of Austria, msg, multiple companies and organizations

CHALLENGE:
Handling data is a crucial success factor for digital transformation. When it is shared and reused, data does not become less, but provides new information and applications. If Austria and Europe succeed in making even better and more targeted use of the treasure trove of data, this will bring greater innovative strength, higher competitiveness and better resistance to crises.

The Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) offers support to companies and research institutions regarding the topic of Gaia-X as part of the Ö-Cloud initiative. The overall goal is to strengthen the digital sovereignty of Austria.

SUCCESS:
msg as an IDSA Implementation Partner has supported the Ministry and the participating companies by a) providing an overview about technical structure of compatible data spaces across domain boundaries b) infrastructure consulting for the operation of IDS and Gaia-X compliant architectures c) aligning and positioning use cases regarding their specific role in the Gaia-X ecosystem.

With the Ö-Cloud Initiative, the BMDW promotes secure data management and data use by Austrian companies. To this end, the association of domestic cloud providers to form a digital security network is supported. Providers of cloud services in Austria complete a self-evaluation according to strict and transparent security standards. For this, they receive the Ö-Cloud seal of approval.

BENEFITS:

The use of secure cloud applications and innovative services creates new economic opportunities for companies.
More data sovereignty: Your own data remains where you want it - in Austria, Europe or beyond.
The data is securely stored and managed according to strict standards (e.g. DSGVO).
The Ö-Cloud initiative facilitates cooperation with other European cloud providers (GAIA-X) and gives domestic providers a competitive edge.
Austria is strengthened as a location for the data economy and becomes more attractive internationally.

COMPONENTS:

IDS and Gaia-X compliant infrastructure

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European Industrial Data Space

CHALLENGE:

Boost 4.0 is the biggest European initiative in Big Data for Industry 4.0, with a 20M€ budget that will leverage over 290M€ of private investment. The 53 partners of the consortium have set the foundations of a sovereign manufacturing oriented European Industrial Data Space (EIDS) in a realistic, measurable and replicable way. The EIDS architecture was aligning with the International Data Spaces (IDS) reference architecture model.

Boost 4.0 has also contributed to the creation of cooperative big data ecosystems widening the European network of digital Hubs and setting up the Digital Factory Alliance, an initiative to offer over the next years a community where European industry, especially SMEs, can find all they need to embrace the big-data transformation of Industry 4.0.

SUCCESS:

Contribution to the international standardization of European Industrial Data Space data models and open interfaces aligned with the European Reference Architectural Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0).
Through 11 lighthouse factory trials and 2 replication ones, Boost 4.0 has leveraged 2 open source (OSS) reference implementations of sovereign data connectors, 1 certification model and 1 integration camp facility for open validation and verification of manufacturing data space software components

BENEFITS:

Numerous benefits for the 11 factory trials including increase of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), improvement of quality and reduction of maintenance activities that were measured by carefully selected KPIs

COMPONENTS:

IDS Identity Provider (CA, DAPS)
IDS App Store
IDS Connectors

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Data Space

A domain-specific or cross-domain ecosystem of trusted partners that share data to benefit of the added-value potential in many different use cases.

Levels of Maturity

Lead In:

Organization or consortium is in the phase of shaping an IDS-based use case by identifying opportunities and/or challenges that can be addressed with sovereign data sharing

Case Committed:

The scope of the use case, the value created and the roles of organizations involved in it have been identified. An approach for realizing the use case has been defined.

Pilot:

IDS-based solution has been implemented and first prototypes have been tested in a use case pilot.

Live:

Use case is running live and data flows in a sovereign way between data sharing parties.

Technical Expertise

HYPERTEGRITY AG spearheads the digital transformation of German cities as a key supplier of the Urban Data Platform Paderborn. Built entirely from open source components, its digital ecosystem is custom-tailored as well as enabling Paderborn to offer it to other municipalities. This approach to Smart Cities made in Germany provides a solid foundation for integrated, sustainable urban development – effectively avoiding the all-too-common traps of vendor lock-ins.

With Smart City infrastructure a rather recent tech stack, our team is supremely qualified for the handling of critical distributed systems: our people are trusted with the development and operative support of road tolling systems since 1999.

www.hypertegrity.de/#smart_cities

Contact Details

Heiko Janssen
heiko.janssen@unity.de
www.linkedin.com/in/heikojanssen-it-architecture-newnormal/

Website
www.unity.de/de/leistungen/international-data-space-association/

Business Expertise

Data Space Use Case, Business Strategy and Policy Design. Through the experienced gained in the design of data space and AI policies and business strategies for the European Commission, national/local governments in multiple sectors or award winning data products, Innovalia Digital and CARSA (Innovalia Group) provide individual business consultancy for design and development of public policies, private business strategies, use cases and technical and industrial agreements and frameworks for trusted data space set up and/or participation.

Design and Development of Research & Innovation Projects. Innovalia has accummulated a successful record setting up large scale innovation pilots and testbeds. CARSA (Innovalia Group) can support companies in the development of R&I projects for adoption of IDS technical and business solutions. The Innovalia Association has access to knowledge and infrastructure for development of testbeds and projects.

Technical Expertise

Technical Support for IDS Component Development. Dedicated technical sessions provided by Innovalia Digital team and personalised access to Innovalia IDSA Integration Test Camp (ITC) https://www.sqs.es/q-idsa-itc/?lang=en facilitated by Innovalia company SQS for continuous development and interoperability assessment of all types of IDS RA components (pre-certification).

Technical Support for Integration of IDS RA in Digital Solutions and Services. Innovalia has led the design, implementation and evaluation of over 80 data-driven innovation processes trials and industrial business cases in collaboration with the largest European manufacturing industries, leading and participating in the European largest scale piloting efforts for the evaluation of a European industrial data space, the Boost 4.0, Productive 4.0 and Qu4lity H2020 projects. Innovalia Digital and Innovalia Metrology have led in collaboration with IDSA, FIWARE Foundation and ProStep IVIP the implementation of the award winning IoT Solution World Congress 2019 Testbed on Digital Twin Continuity and Sovereign Data Spaces. The expertise accumulated by Innovalia Digital Research & Innovation team will support your organisation in the integration of IDSA connectors within your existing data management platforms or services.

Data Sovereignty Up-Skilling Programmes. Innovalia has supported IDSA in the training of research teams and industrial partners in EU H2020 R&I projects on the use and adoption of IDSA RA and technical components. Innovalia Digital can support your team in the development of training plans in both technical and business areas to master IDSA assets.

Contact Details

Contact
idsa@innovalia.org

Website
idsa.innovalia.org/

Business Expertise

With our proven methodology for more than a decade, we provide expertise of real-world value network and information modeling which are used to create new business models and novel use cases for trusted cross-sectoral corporate data sharing and take them into practical solution concepts fast.

Expertise on data productization and standardization for cross-domain interoprability.

Technical Expertise

Open standards based technologies for knowledge graphs, globally interoperable user enrollment and authentication as well as user data consent capabilities for trusted corporate sharing to complement the IDS certification and trust infrastructure.

Contact Details

Henna Suomi
henna.suomi@digitalliving.fi

Website
applications.ihan.fi
digitalliving.fi

Business Expertise

GATE is the Bulgarian Hub Facilitator. Being the first dedicated Centre for Big Data and AI in Bulgaria, it aims to be the catalyst of national endeavour towards Data usage and Data sharing in both industrial and public domains. GATE provides business expertise related to the elaboration of new data sharing driven use cases and business models and the respective ecosystem establishment and sustainability. GATE will support both supply and demand side of data sharing and the value-adding utilization of data through the realization of industrial, city related and public data use cases.

Contact Details

Irena Pavlova
irena.pavlova@gate-ai.eu

Website
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Vehicle Charging

EDF

Electric Vehicles drivers can find charging their cars confusing and worrying:

Multiple smartphone apps/RFID cards needed to access different public charging networks
Varied pricing rates and structures
Limited interoperability of networks
Difficulty to plan long journeys across multiple networks
Users must plan their journeys more akin to that of a commuter using public transport.
Users can find charging points not working / already in use

All is exacerbated if a driver does not have a home charger or lives in an apartment block with no charging facilities (which is likely at the early stage of EV market development).

There are many data sources separately held that could unlock solution and value if they were aggregated and centralised for use and analysis. We propose to enhance roaming standards to allow operators to offer enhanced services that enable customers to freely move and charge between their home charger and partnering public charging networks, allowing a view of all of their EV ‘fuel’ in one place.

BENEFITS:

This service will improve the EV’s owner experience, by dematerializing the payment amd facilitating the planification of a long journey
It will enable real time connection with charging points (CP), in order to monitor CP availability and CP failures

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Wind and Solar Assets modeling

EDF

When it comes to manage efficiently and effectively the renewable assets and all the O&M actions for the different actors (Manufacturers, Owners, Developers, Operators, ...), the difficulties to access to data exploitable in a cross functional way by these different profiles of actors and the different digital systems mobilized represents a real challenge.

The wind and solar description model is the digital backbone to federate all the businesses and its ecosystem around one single source of truth from “DESIGN, MODIFICATION to others REFRESHMENT”. This structured, agnostic asset management description support business process orchestration in a context of new business model refocused on growth of decentralized and distributed energy and carbon neutrality "as a service".

Being able to share the same abstract representation of data for the wind and solar domain would allow a better understanding of the associated operations (asset management, RCA, Structural Analysis, Visual Inspection, monitoring ...) and an obvious improvement of the processes that mobilize the processing of this information. It lays foundations of virtual plants.

BENEFITS:

Opportunity to build comprehensive models, analytics frameworks and improve multiparty collaboration capabilities needed to support digital ecosystems. It lays foundations of virtual plants with their benefits
Backbone for renewables operator to ensure continuity of technical data along lifecycle
Real accelerator for Greenfields and brownfields assets to deliver more safely, more quickly more efficiently and with a lower Total Cost of Ownership

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Test Use Case

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With the IDS standard as the essential infrastructure basis, Catena-X will be an extensible ecosystem in which automotive manufacturers and suppliers, dealer associations and equipment suppliers, including the providers of applications, platforms and infrastructure, can all participate equally.

BENEFITS:

Create an important starting point for the industry to respond more efficiently to the challenges of digital transformation
Increase the automotive industry’s competitiveness
Improve efficiency through cooperation
Accelerate company processes through standardization and access to data

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Introduction

We help to clarify the business, legal, technical and ethical questions for your data sharing network.

Business Expertise

Fair Data Economy Rulebook model for any data ecosystem that wants implement its use case based on IDS.

Technical Expertise

Personal Data Management for IDS use cases. Specific focus on MyData operator functionalities for cities that is both IDS and OASC MIM4 compliant.

Simplifying Data Contract Services and Data Usage Control by mapping rulebook contents to IDS compliant machine-readable specifications through a Contract API.

Contact Details

Marko Turpeinen
marko.turpeinen@1001lakes.com

Website
1001lakes.com

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Trusted Data Sharing in Smart Cities

VTT | Vastuu Group

Focusing on decision-making around transportation as an area of critical importance, we sought to build proof of concept for many-to-many connections that could be utilized in a smart city context. Our case involved two data lakes – one associated with energy use, the other with transportation and logistics. With the help of common design principles, ecosystem, a layered approach and building blocks, we were able to connect different parties together and make trusted and harmonized data sharing a reality. In this case, the result was improved information around decision-making for transportation, but it is easy to see how this generalizes to other smart city scenarios where acquiring and integrating different data sources enables better decision-making, innovation and new service creation.

BENEFITS:

Drives Europe’s data economy
Next-level adoption and co-creation of value with commercial scenarios
Fosters neutrality, standards and common language to avoid risks and enhance trust
Helps establish the community and ecosystem to foster future innovation

COMPONENTS:

DAPS
IDS connectors
Data harmonization and case-specific ontologies

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Mobility Data Space - Efficient Parking Monitoring and Planning Solution

Mercedes-Benz | acatech

CHALLENGE:

Existing solutions for parking space monitoring are complex and cost-intensive (infrastructure, hardware, personnel)

SOLUTION:

Digital parking management with an overview of the current parking situation with real-time data.
Realization of predictive parking planning with the analysis of the parking behavior of the Mercedes-Benz fleet.

DATA BASIS:

Anonymous vehicle data: Park-in/out events with GPS. Position, time, parking duration and approx. vehicle size.
Fleet with more than 300.000 vehicles in Germany.

POSSIBLE DATA USERS, E.G.:

Cities & Municipalities
Content Providers
Parking Companies

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Mobility Data Space - Information on the Utilization of Parking Spaces

VRN | Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar | Urban Software Institute | acatech

CHALLENGE:

For P+R facilities and tourist regions, parking spaces are often overloaded by commuters and day tourists.
There is a lack of information about capacity utilization.

SOLUTION:

AI-based analysis for parking utilization through real-time data and forecasts.

DATA BASIS:

Floating car data
Parking sensor data (where available)
Analytics, aggregated parking and service data
Mercedes-Benz vehicle parking data, where applicable

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Intelligent Washing Machine

Haier | Fraunhofer ISST

SOLUTION:

Through sensors within washing machines laundry data can be collected, which enables companies to offer their consumers a better utilization of washing machines with additional services. This data is sent to COSMOPlat for optimizing washing programs through ML. The optimized washing programs are sent back to the consumers washing machines to save energy, time, and costs, as well as it reduces the carbon footprint and will lead to longer lasting garments. By collecting consumer data companies get the possibility to gain data insights for product and service innovations. To make this use case concept feasible, IDS technologies need to be implemented, to reach data sovereignty. With the sovereign exchange of data, consumers are willing to share data with companies, as they are in full control over their data and can allow the usage of data only for specific purposes.

BENEFITS:

Increasing the experience of laundry making:
- Reduction of mental and organizational effort
- Save cost, time and energy, environmental awareness
- Longer lasting garments
Offer consumers a better utilization of washing machines with additional services
Gain data insights for product and service innovations

PARTNERS:

Haier COSMOPlat
Fraunhofer ISST

COMPONENTS:

COSMOPlat
IDS connector
RFID sensor

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ECI Gatewise

ECI Software Solution | TNO

Digitize purchasing and sales processes and work together more efficiently in your logistics chain. Reduce manual work. Speed up your order process.ECI Gatewise is an initiative of ECI Software Solutions for manufacturing companies and their suppliers. The aim is to facilitate cross-factory communication and thus ensuring supply chain transparency and interoperability, resulting in an overall productivity improvement of 20%. This is realized by reducing the administrative burden and facilitating collaboration between supply chain partners.The ERP's of ECI contain this solution as a standard module. This means that all manufacturing companies with an ERP of ECI can be connected within a few hours of implementation. After this implementation, they are technically ready to do business, with all connected suppliers.The infrastructure of ECI Gatewise uses the SCSN infrastructure. The SCSN Foundation created standard IDS Connectors and Data Apps, which is used by service provider ECI Gatewise. ECI Gatewise is an off-the-shelve integration with our complete portfolio of ERP systems; Bemet, Inventive, Proteus, Ridder iQ and Trimergo. This way we can very easily connect manufacturing companies to the network.

BENEFITS:

Seamless scalable integrations for manufacturing companies for exchanging purchase-to-pay information
Reduction in administrative burden, faster time-to-market, lower IT integration costs
IT service providers only need a single integration

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connectors
Data Apps
Broker
DAPS

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ADVANEO DMP

Advaneo

The ADVANEO DMP is a collaboration portal that enables the data-sovereign formation of Data Spaces for data-driven applications. Thereby, integrated AI tools, data models and applications as well as free access to millions of Open Data support the development of data-driven innovation projects. For this purpose, the ADVANEO DMP is based on the reference architecture of the International Data Space Association and in the future also the GAIA-X standards.
As a result, the DMP acts as a broker service for data products: They are made globally discoverable by the marketplace with the help of their metadata. The DMP has no contact with the actual raw data at any time. These remain with the provider and are only transmitted directly to the interested party in peer-to-peer encrypted form by an IDS-Connector after successful license acquisition. If required, several parties process sensitive data in dedicated groups without access to the raw data of the other parties. Only the exploitation result is accessible to all. This enables the sharing of confidential data in value chains.

BENEFITS:

Access to internal, external and open data offerings.
Complete control: Sovereign data sharing by IDS-standards
Data Science Workbench for on-the-fly processing
Open Innovation through datathons
Access control throughout your whole organization

COMPONENTS:

IDS Broker
IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House
IDS App Provider

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EUHubs4Data (EUH4D)

EUHubs4Data

EUHubs4Data (EUH4D) project aims to establish the European federation of data driven Innovation Hubs, through the collaboration of relevant initiatives in Europe, creating of an European federated catalogue of assets (services, data, training) and making it available at regional level by the hubs in the federation. IDS reference model has been selected as the model to enable the interoperability between services and datasets of the hubs in the federation, providing a trusted environment where to share data and the corresponding data governance features, including data sovereignty. IDSA is a partner in the project. The project is selecting 42 experiments through three rounds of open calls, where SMEs will use the assets of the federation to solve real use cases and move their data driven products and services closest to the market. These experiments will also serve as a way to check and improve the interoperability framework based on the IDS model.

BENEFITS

To leverage the potential of European initiatives on data driven innovation, making accessible to SMEs and other small actors at regional and local level last European advances on Big Data and AI, and providing a unique environment for data driven experimentation

COMPONENTS:

Deployment of components which ensure interoperability based on trust and data sovereignty for the Federation. Implementation of IDS connectors. Implementation of Identity management components (Certification Authority and Dynamic Attribute Provisioning Service) in accordance with the IDS Reference Architecture Model.

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Privacy-Aware, intelligent and Resilient Crisis Management (PAIRS)

The PAIRS research project, which has now been launched and is funded by the BMWI with 10 million euros, can forecast the effects of crisis situations and derive options for action. The goal is to develop a cross-domain platform for AI-supported crisis management. This is to model crisis scenarios based on data, forecast their consequences and design recommended courses of action for users. In this way, the system will enable companies to implement early warning systems to maintain supply chains and protect overall productivity. With all of this, sovereign access to the required data is guaranteed by building upon the IDS & GAIA-X standards. With this, the solution will be able to connect to existing Data Spaces as well as to build up new ones.

BENEFITS:

Improved crisis resilience.
Data based and AI-supported crisis management.
Cross-domain data bases based on secure IDS & GAIA-X standards.
Applications open: Participate now and shape the final product.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Broker
IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House
IDS App Provider
IDS Data Apps

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Light Commercial Vehicles

WITTE Automotive | Mercedes-Benz | truzzt dataspaces | PlanB | pi-lar

The key goal of the use case is the digitalization of the customary purpose of light commercial vehicles (LCV). This will include turning equipped LCV's into participants of an IDS-powered data-economy by leveraging available data from multiple source, execute pre-defined and use case-specific algorithms and offer the computed results back to the data economy. Parts of the solution will be: 1) Deliver an IDS-compliant control unit as edge device in light commercial vehicles and 2) orchestrate a data and application framework to download and execute use case-specific application on the edge device. IDS helps in two ways: enable an easy scalability across multiple data produces and data consumers in light of European data values (sovereignty, transparency, control).

BENEFITS:

As of today, connected commercial vehicles only focus on telemetry and environmental data. Our solution will allow commercial fleets to fully digitalize the LCV within its digital process chain.

COMPONENTS:

Connector, Broker
DAPS, Billing, Clearing
AppStore

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Data Sharing Coalition - Green Loans

Data Sharing Coalition

In this use case, the consumer will be enabled to use their energy data to receive support with making their house more sustainable. This support can range from sustainability advice to a favourable “Green Loan” for investments in energy saving measures (e.g. heat pumps or solar cells). The consumer shares data on his or her energy consumption with an intermediary and/or loan provider, who in turn is able to assess potential savings from certain energy saving measures. This can be standalone advice but can also be incorporated in advice on a loan to finance these energy saving measures.

This use case gives the consumer more control over their energy data, as they can decide to use their data to access advice or attractive financial value propositions. With their new “green loans” and input for sustainability advice, financial institutes are able to support the transition to a more sustainable society.

BENEFITS:

Intelligent Customer Support
Contributing to Energy Sustainability

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Mobilithek

BMVI | BAST

CHALLENGE:

Digitization is driving new mobility concepts. Traffic and mobility data are becoming the raw material for multimodality, automated and connected driving, and other future solutions. The MDM is right in the middle of the action.

SUCCESS:

Whenever you aim to provide or find high quality mobility data in Germany, you can hardly get around the Mobility Data Marketplace (MDM). As neutral B2B platform MDM offers suppliers and users of mobility to share, search and subscribe to traffic-relevant online data.

With its defined standards for data exchange – based on IDS components, MDM is nation’s biggest volume of information on traffic flows, traffic jams, road works, mobility options, parking facilities and more.

The MDM is continuously working to make as much mobility data as possible accessible, across different means of transport, network elements and actors. This includes mobility data that is offered parallelly on other data portals in Germany, e.g. geoportal.de, mCLOUD.de, open-data-oepnv.de. Such parallel data offers will gradually be made visible on the MDM as well. The evolution of MDM also will lead to an alignment with the Mobility Data Space (MDS) (link to previous posts) which will grant data sovereignty for MDM customers beyond the border of the marketplace and open up the entire marketplace to participants of MDS.

BENEFITS:

Better traffic management through exchange of traffic data with other municipalities
Noticeable relief due to low organizational effort
High transparency and security through unified standards
High degree of dissemination of data in end-user devices through easy access for service providers
Improved business opportunities through easy access to the market for traffic data
New research impetus through broad, easily available data suppl

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
Metadata Catalouge
Data App Store
Domain Vocabularies

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Würth C-Part SUpply

Würth

The transformation of the existing IT infrastructure to an event- and microservice-based software architecture involves a great deal of effort and also risks, since the transformation must take place in parallel with ongoing operations. The entire business logic (at least on the customer side) and thus the control of functions and processes must be mapped in microservices and orchestrated to form the overall service.

SOLUTION:

Moving to the technical platform considering the framework, rules and reference architectures of IDS, Gaia-X and Silicon Economy.
Successive implementation of individual icons in web services, initially on a Fraunhofer IML test infrastructure (Kubernetes cluster for orchestrating microservices encapsulated in application containers).
Implementation of a tool for the orchestration of web services control for the execution or support of logistical processes and services.
Acquiring and building own infrastructure or renting cloud infrastructure.

BENEFITS:

For Würth, this presents an opportunity to install and establish a modern digital infrastructure with the corresponding services that will enable the future-proof, flexible, scalable and sustainable provision of services in the platform economy.

Many companies in the economy are facing a similar (technical) transformation step. Würth can be a role model company here and offer a blueprint for other companies through the derived procedures for implementation, the experience with regard to challenges and best practice

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Defense Data Space

TNO | CGI | Department of Defense

CHALLENGE:

During deployments, it is critical that Defense can share critical up-to-date information with aid agencies, local authorities, and other civilian parties. However, these partners are not part of the secure defense network.
FEDICE - an acronym for Federated Digital Collaboration Environment - ensures that Defense and its partners can continue to share information digitally in a simple, manageable, and secure way.

SUCCESS:

TNO and CGI have been working together for the Department of Defense on this NTP (National Technology Project) for the past two years. They have developed an intelligent platform for information management in federations. The platform enables rapid ad hoc collaboration with aid organizations and other partners, while keeping the data at the source. FEDICE supports the sharing of information as needed.
Throughout all of this, confidentiality of information is taken into account to ensure that data does not get to the wrong places. In addition, logging makes it possible to track which data was released at what time and in which version. The prototype developed was successfully tested earlier this year during a large-scale exercise by the 13th Light Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Army. It has demonstrably made a good step from theory to practice.

BENEFITS:

Secure data exchange with non-military entities.

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HEALTH-X dataLOFT

CHALLENGE:

The health sector is highly regulated and health data is considered to be worthy of special protection. Most of the data from the first and second health domains are locked in proprietary systems that significantly hinder the pooling and secondary use of health data. In addition to a centrally controlled collection of health data, as in China, or a largely libertarian, economically designed consolidation along the lines of the U.S. model, there is scope for Europe to design a third path, that of a citizen-centered health data space. The strategic orientation of this concept is to place citizens at the center of the provision, use and control of their own health data from the primary and secondary health markets and thereby to expand Europe's differentiating competitive advantage. Health data will be integrated into a legitimate, open and supported dataLOFT platform and made accessible according to GAIA-X standards.

SUCCESS:

The goal is to develop transparent, cloud-based health applications with leading representatives of health IT and health care. The concepts of the Medical Informatics Initiative for semantic and syntactic interoperability and regulated data use, as well as legally binding Gema-tik standards and solutions of the telematics infrastructure will be integrated for the networking of the health sectors and the integrative use of the data. dataLOFT will create an ecosystem of health applications based on the data sovereignty of citizens and patients as users and donors of health data and thus contribute to a broad acceptance and high economic relevance of dataLOFT.

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GAIA-X - MERLOT

imc | AWSI | edu-sense | HKA | HPI | IBM | IDSA | 1&1 Ionos | iServ | Schülerkarriere | TUK

CHALLENGE:

The digitization of education is intended to improve educational opportunities and make them fairer. However, in order to identify individual educational needs through algorithms, for example, extensive personal data requiring a high degree of protection (e.g., educational path, goals) is required, which must not be digitally processed because of threats to fundamental rights. The Corona Crisis urgently calls for a solution to this contradiction.

SUCCESS:

The goal of the project is to create specially protected educational data spaces, including services, which are available via marketplaces. To establish data sovereignty, the services will be certified according to their compliant data use and provision. Interoperability of these will be ensured by means of business model interfaces. Existing services will be brought into the project and adapted to conform to the marketplace and educational data space. The added value of the project and the underlying Gaia-x infrastructure will be demonstrated by means of several application examples. The implemented services will be linked to data-secure AI-supported digital assistants that support learners in a data-supervised manner in career orientation and career planning.

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KI Marktplatz [AI Marketplace]

CHALLENGE:

In the digitized world, data is generated permanently and often collected quite automatically. This is a good breeding ground for the applications of artificial intelligence (AI), which can collect unstructured data, organize it and analyze it independently.

SUCCESS:

The AI Marketplace is a digital marketplace for AI applications in the product development process. In a nutshell: The platform brings together AI experts, solution providers and manufacturing companies, fosters collaborative innovation and builds on existing infrastructure to provide the users with essential tools for the development of innovative AI solutions.

To continuously improve AI applications and adapt them to customer needs, AI Marketplace also offers a protected data space for development and test of data on the platform. To guarantee data sovereignty the marketplace relies on an established global standard – the International Data Spaces standard – and forms the basis for a fair cooperation.

BENEFITS:

Access to customers or the necessary domain knowledge
Promoting developments of new AI solutions
Promoting the SME sector to make artificial intelligence attractive

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Wind Energy Generation Data Space

ATTEN2 | Tekniker

CHALLENGE:

A very important aspect of the competitiveness in the wind farms is the maintenance of all the components of the wind turbine. Only wind farm developers and wind turbine manufacturers (OEMs) have access to data collected from operating wind turbines and are therefore the only actors currently working on extracting added value from data at the "top of the value chain". Therefore, most European wind turbine component suppliers, engineering companies or ICT companies cannot obtain, manage, analyse, and learn from the data produced by wind turbines in operation, thus missing the opportunity to improve their competitiveness.

SUCCESS:

The use case shows how the adoption of the IDSA Architecture boost the exchange of the data monitored by the sensors installed in wind turbines, which belong to the wind farm owner and the OEM, with other interested third parties such as technology and component suppliers, as secure data exchange and data sovereignty is guaranteed.

Furthermore, it is also shown how this data sharing enables added value creation through information fusion. The deployment of the solution combines edge processing with the cloud demonstrating its applicability in wind turbine plants.

BENEFITS:

A deeper understanding of the technical characteristics and performance of the wind turbines' critical systems and components.
Developing a highly skilled and competitive supply chain
Less investment in data analysis systems thanks to the collaboration and support of specialized suppliers with in-depth knowledge of the technical characteristics and performance of the components supplied

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MyData for Cities

1001 Lakes | Vastuu Group | City of Helsinki | Open and Agile Smart Cities | MyData Global

CHALLENGE:

Citizen data is a key element in providing human-centric public services. MyData for Cities explores the mechanisms for personal data protection, transparency, and trust when sharing personal data between cities. These capabilities are a key part of the digital transformation journey of cities worldwide.

SUCCESS:

We provide MyData Operator functionality for authentication, consent management and data usage logging that acts as a data intermediary. This will also be a pilot on how MyData Operator functionalities can be implemented with IDS Solutions.

BENEFITS:

Transparency and control for citizen in the usage of their personal data related to smart city services.

COMPONENTS:

We plan to make use an IDS connector that implements the MyData for Cities functionality, and is compatible with the OASC MIM4 specification.

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City Dataspace

Wuppertal | Solingen | Remscheid | APTIV

CHALLENGE:

Smart cities are becoming more and more of a reality every day. While the first autonomous vehicles are making their way into cities on a trial basis, parking lots can already report whether they are occupied or free, sensors monitor air quality, and multimodal apps also enable people to get around using different mobility solutions. What all these applications have in common is that they are based on data generated and managed in different places by different actors. However, applications based on Open and Urban Data in particular have the disadvantage that they are either built specifically for exactly one city and then only work there or have to be adapted for other cities at great expense. The reason for this is that today's Open & Urban Data portals provide data sets in different formats, models and schemas. In addition to these syntactic differences, there are also semantic differences, such as different metrics or geo-reference systems. This is exactly what makes it costly for app developers to develop solutions that work outside of a municipality.

The City Dataspace focuses on the challenge of increasing and enabling the usability of Smart City relevant Open and Urban data using the example of mobility and geodata across municipal boundaries.

SUCCESS:

The City Dataspace aims to enable the data-driven smart city of tomorrow by enabling compatibility of heterogeneous open and urban data from different municipalities together with data from other stakeholders across city boundaries. For this purpose, the City Dataspace relies on the established semantic technologies, combined with new innovative concepts to simplify the use of the required technologies. These concepts are intended to make it possible to provide semantically annotated data in an interoperable way with little effort. This interoperability should enable app developers to develop an app once and roll it out to a large number of municipalities using the City Dataspace. Conversely, the City Dataspace enables municipalities to participate in existing apps just by making their data available.

BENEFITS:

The City Dataspace aims to enable the data-driven smart city of tomorrow by enabling compatibility of heterogeneous open and urban data from different municipalities together with data from other stakeholders across city boundaries.

COMPONENTS:

The City Dataspace is a Knowledge Graph-based Data Management platform that allows access to batch and streaming data using different kinds of data connectors. As IDS components, the city data space will especially focus on using IDS Connectors and IDS Metadata Broker.

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Plastic Domain Data Space - Market 4.0

CHALLENGE:

In the context of B2B relationships, digital marketplaces are emerging to manage relations between equipment suppliers and their customers. But what about data privacy in such platforms?
For the plastic domain, marketplaces where data sovereignty is the rule is an opportunity to guarantee trusted exchange between suppliers and customers for manufacturing equipment purchases.
By providing an environment that gives you a full control of access and usage of private data, it is possible to integrate value services and applications directly on the platform.
This is the focus of the plastic domain in the context of the Market 4.0 Project

SUCCESS:

The MARKET 4.0 Plastic Domain Data Space uses IDS Reference Architecture Model (RAM) to exchange data in the context of a marketplace. App and services are proposed all along the value chain of a plastic product development. A solution for data exchange has been developed for ordering and specific data for simulation and manufacturing.

BENEFITS:

Enhance trusted data sharing in B2B transaction
Enhance data control usage of the data flow

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector

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MARKET4.0 Marketplace

CHALLENGE:

The MARKET4.0 platform addresses the need of sharing private information between suppliers (machine specification, CAD files) and their potential customers (product CAD files) to facilitate online procurement of production equipment and production services.

SUCCESS:

The MARKET4.0 platform allows the use of IDS-enabled apps to create trust between suppliers and customers in sharing information, thus making online procurement of production equipment and services possible. The solution are validated in context of three discreet domains: Metal Processing, Plastics Processing, and High Tech.

BENEFITS

The MARKET4.0 platform allows direct interaction among the different sides to improve the sales power of production equipment SMEs. Additionally, it aims to shorten the time for procurement of new equipment.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
IDS Clearing House
IDS Metadata Broker
Special Applications
Central IDS Compliant Platform

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truzzt Port

CHALLENGE:

Create a digital business and make it sustainable into the future.
Digitize your business models and become an active member of the data economy.

SUCCESS:

You can digitize your company and participate in a data economy based on European values

Enabled by a standard that‘s accepted accross industries (IDSA) and all the necessary legal and commercial frameworks (Gaia-X + data spaces).

So what is it that we do ecactly?

We work with open source software und auf der Basis voased on European Standards.

Here is what we offer:

- Consulting for linking business models to technical standards

- Coaching for compliance with technical standards

- Support in implementation and integration

- Holistic Moderation

Simple and safe in six steps:

1. Assisted business development

2. Linking business models with technology

3. Verified process for registration & sign-in

4. Applying communication tools and data tools in the connector

5. Leveling up by fulfilling all requirements

6. Automated business processes

Sounds complicated?

We know it‘s difficult, to apply both IDSA and Gaia-X etc. in your company.

But it can‘t be helped, it can‘be avoided any longer. The future of your company depends on a successful digitization.

But it isn’t!

There‘s more to us than technology!

We will support you and accompany you on the first steps:

We will analyze your business challenges and link them to both the technical standard and the ecosystem framework to build the perfect digitization.

BENEFITS

We bring companies together who want to meet the challenge of digitization. We support them from their first steps in digitizing business models on the basis of standards and frameworks to day-to-day operations. A framework and a technical standard alone are not enough - they bring about scaling and future-proofing of investments. What is missing is a common Go2Market, easy consumability of the technology and a driving force for the formation of digital communities/partnerships for a data business at eye level.

COMPONENTS:

Connector
ParIS
DAPS
Broker
Clearing House

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Orbiter/idento.one

truzzt | Verifeye

CHALLENGE:

Self-sovereignidentity (SSI) is an approach to digital identity that gives individuals control of their digital identities.

SUCCESS:

What is idento.one?

Secure storage and sharing of identities and data in the same way as we are used to from our financial accounts.

Personal Data Banking with portable identities.

A consumer-centricdata ecosystem:

where the data provider takes back control of the data in a system designed to comply with the strongest GDPR and ePrivacy regulations.

Data sharing made easy with truzzt box & IDS connectors:

idento.one uses IDS connectors provided by your personal truzzt box, enabling you to be part of the new European data-sharing infrastructure -GAIA-X. Data sovereignty made in Europe!

GDPR compliance:

We secure GDPR compliance for your data.idento.oneis developed in accordance with the IDS reference architecture and complies with the strong GDPR and ePrivacyrequirements.

GDPR-compliant by design.

idento.one: your digital ID management

•Verified digital identity on your mobile phone

•Free configurable personal profiles

•GUI for management of personal data

•Consent manager to share data with third parties

•Statement of data transactionsVerified, digital identities

•Secure, decentralized data storage

•GUI for management of data-and data transactions

•IDS-certified connectors

idento.one: your dataspace

A system for secure, standardized and GDPR-compliant storage and sharing of your data with verified counterparts in the data economy.

BENEFITS

Trust –the key value:

Verified, digital identities means trust in the digital economy.
idento.one provides verified, digital identities, guaranteeing the existence of every user’s identity.
idento.one provides trust to the digital economy.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connectors

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truzzt box

CHALLENGE:

You create your own new internet with the secure data space of your truzzt box.

Your data is inextricably linked to your terms of use. With data sovereignty, you and only you decide what happens to your data. Traceability lets you see what happens to your data. The trust anchor ensures that only verified partners can access your data. Data spaces prevent data theft and data loss because your data is always stored distributed and encrypted.

SUCCESS:

Your truzzt box:

Sovereign.

In the truzzt box your documents are always available for you. Everywhere. With the truzzt box, you can see them all at a glance and have access to them at your fingertips. Not even truzzt has access to your personal documents. You are always in control. That’s what we call European data sovereignty.

Transparent. Encrypted.

As a verified user of your truzzt box you always know who you are dealing with. Create trust by security and by knowing who’s at the other end. You don't have to be afraid of data theft anymore. You only buy from real, verified merchants. Your personal data will always remain encrypted and safe in your truzzt box.

Self-learning. Automated.

The truzzt box is your intelligent personal assistant and will automatically adapt to your usage with its artificial intelligence. On all your devices.

truzzt.control: idento.one

Simple.

As a verified user with idento.one, you can manage your digital identity from anywhere and on any device. With your ID card, with your driver’s license and with any other documents you might need.

Anywhere.

Your idento.one dashboard gives you an overview of the digital services you use, from online banking to your social networks. You alone decide which service can access your data, when and how. Anywhere, even in your car.

Everything under control.

You keep control of your data. Only you can share them – with whom you want to and when you want to.

truzzt.connect: Pocket Space Computing

Scalable.

Never again pay for storage space you don’t need. With Pocket Space Computing, you always get exactly the right performance – anywhere in the world, anytime. Infinitely scalable.

Configurable.

You just put your own truzzt box together according to your needs. It's best to start with our standard box. Extensions and changes are possible at any time. What is not needed, will not be charged.

Future-proof.

You won’t need an extra app for everything. Pocket Space Computing means that the necessary connections and programs are there for you. In the future, you may no longer need to buy a new device, but you will have a virtual computer on the web. Accessible from anywhere.

BENEFITS:

We reinvent the internet. In 2020, we had many discussions with our founders and with new partners to set the course for truzzt box as the first functioning application that works according to DIN SPEC 27070 and according to the architecture model of the International Data Spaces Association. Your truzzt box. Your data space in the new internet.

Technical Expertise

Tekniker has been involved in different R&D projects where the IDSA ecosystem has been adopted in sectors such as industry and energy. As a result, Tekniker provides technical support to understand and adopt the IDSA ecosystem in distributed infrastructures through the deployment of the different components that have been developed following the IDSA-RAM: IDS Connector, Identity Provider, Broker, Clearing House, etc.

In addition, Tekniker through its involvement in innovation fields such as semantic and usage control technologies, provide a more detailed technical support regarding the adoption of the IDSA Information Model and the provision of domain-dependent vocabularies through the Vocabulary Provider as key factors to provide interoperability as well as the implementation of usage control technologies to gran data sovereignty.

Contact Details

Gonzalo Gil

gonzalo.gil@tekniker.es

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Logistics and Product Life Cycle Management

Fraunhofer Institutes IML, ISST, IOSB, FIT, AISEC, IAIS

CHALLENGE:

Data exchange as a basic requirement for collaborative condition monitoring.

SUCCESS:

Use of the IDS infrastructure to build up a common database that allows valid analysis processes.

BENEFITS

The exchange of machine data makes it possible to carry out condition analyses that an individual company would not have been able to do due to the lack of data.

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Business Expertise

Engineering has experience in the design and deployment of IDSA Data Spaces, thanks to the expertise gained in several research projects (at European and national level) for the adoption of IDS-based solutions aiming to address (and catch) business opportunities.

Technical Expertise

Engineering has designed some IDS components, playing a pioneering role in the releasing of open source software in the ecosystem, lowering the barriers for approaching and adopting the data sovereignty in companies. Engineering has attended (actively) several Integration Camp and Plugfest events in order to speed up the integration and the compatibility between components.

Contact Details

Angelo Marguglio
angelo.marguglio@eng.it

Introduction

sovity believes in sovereign data exchange and makes the access to data spaces based on IDS technology available for every company.

Business Expertise

We have been part of data space initiatives and IDS since day one. sovity supports companies by IDS technology as managed service to enable every player in making use of sovereign data exchange: Data-Sovereignty-as-a-Service. This includes the design of use cases and its architectures, the implementation of a data space and the management of IDS components. sovity is involved in various. Thus, we are making IDS accessible easily and believe the data exchange should become commodity, so you as company can focus on the use case value on top.

Technical Expertise

We are part of various initiatives and projects around data spaces and our products follow always the latest technological principles. sovity provides all different IDS components as manages service. Connect to data spaces and share your data with the Connector-as-a-Service or build your own data space with Data-Space-as-a-Service. We will guide you in integrating and using IDS end-to-end to leverage always on the latest open-source software.

Contact Details

Sebastian Kleff
sebastian.kleff@sovity.de

Website
sovity.de

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PwC Data Ecosystem

PwC

PwC has established a Data Ecosystem which is easy to use and enables to build data-driven products and services efficiently and effectively. The Data Ecosystem delivers a unique value to both data providers and data consumers with security and trust. The PwC Data Ecosystem is a collection of infrastructure, analytics and applications used to not only capture and analyze data but also build data-driven services and products. The efficient development and deployment of internal and external data-enabled services (SaaS) and data-driven applications is based on expertise and technical requirements like: Future Readiness & Orientation Automation & Scalability Data Driven Insights & Decisions Continuous Learning and Improvement Data Ownership Enablement & Collaboration Customer Centricity The Data Ecosystem facilitates reusable and industry agnostic components for direct consumption of data.

CHALLENGE:

PwC addresses the need for an infrastructure to connect and make use of data in an easy and scalable way for better fact-based decision-making with trust, security and governance; this will only be achieved via the PwC Data Ecosystem.

SUCCESS:

The PwC Data Ecosystem drives a data mesh approach based on a modern, distributed architecture for better predictions/forecasting etc. It makes data accessible, available, discoverable, secure, and interoperable. With this approach, PwC enables industry-specific trusted spaces where stakeholders can define, access and control their own data products.

BENEFITS:

Access to internal and external data offerings.
Easy and scalable integration to different data platforms and data spaces.
Compliance with GDPR and international standards.
As a regulated firm, PwC has a vast experience of handling sensitive data in a secure and compliant way in accordance with regulations and professional laws.
Trust and security are the key drivers of PwC Data Ecosystem

COMPONENTS:

PwC plan to make use of IDS components within the PwC Data Ecosystem in the near future and get certified with IDSA.

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DataPorts

CHALLENGE:

Although many projects/initiatives have dealt and/or are dealing with developing data platforms architectures in diversified application domains, not many projects have addressed integration in port environments with the possibility of including cognitive services/applications and extending/federating the platform to whole transportation routes covering whole Europe. Lack of interoperable, scalable, reliable data platforms causes major technological and business issues such as the impossibility to plug non-interoperable data sources into heterogeneous data platforms, the impossibility to develop applications to exploit heterogeneous data in homogeneous and/or cross domains, slowness of data technology introduction at a large-scale, discouragement in adopting data sharing technology, increase of costs, scarce reusability of data, user dissatisfaction, and lack of unified data governance mechanisms.

SUCCESS:

DataPorts aims to design, develop, set-up and operate a data platform for the trusted, secure and reliable data sharing with IDS connectors and trading among the actors operating in the diverse supply chains involved in the seaports, also enabling the connection with other stakeholders in the logistics supply chain.

BENEFITS

The adoption and use of this Data Platform by existing connected / digital ports will imply their transition to actual cognitive ports, taking real advantage of the huge amount of data produced by the stakeholders and opening the way to new capabilities: Real-time control of operations; Streamlined decision making; Accurate prediction of future events and situations; Prescriptive analytics.

COMPONENTS

In the context of the DataPorts project, an industrial data platform (cognitive ports data platform) has been designed and implemented that: 1. Connects to different digital infrastructures currently existing in digital seaports, enabling the interconnection of a wide variety of systems into a tightly integrated ecosystem, 2. Sets the policies for a trusted and reliable data sharing and trading based on data owners’ rules and offering a clear value proposition, and 3. Leverages on the data collected to provide advanced data analytics services based on which the different actors in the port value chain cloud develop novel AI and cognitive applications. In the context of the DataPorts platform, to realize data sharing and data exchange, two main approaches are considered: • Data is stored off-chain: Generally, in this approach, we follow the concept of the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) reference architecture model. In a nutshell, we consider the P2P data exchange between the data owners and data consumers through the IDSA connectors. To ensure the security and privacy aspects, blockchain manages consent of access to data. Smart contracts decide if a particular access to data is allowed concerning the invoker’s credentials and the specification of access rules for the data. • Data is stored on-chain (blockchain for shared data): Blockchain platform records transactions related to shared data and processes of all participants in a business network. For instance, cold chains alarms of a container for verification of its state such as if conditions have been compromised, allows everybody in the network to be aware of the event and act upon it. This approach in fact ensures verifiable and immutable information on shared data through the entire chain to all business network participants, serving as a single source of truth and providing transparency and a not-repudiation process. In the first approach, the data (sovereign data) is kept on the owner’s premises. The metadata for sovereign data is published to the broker (IDSA broker). A data consumer needs to understand whether the data he seeks is a shared data stored in Blockchain or is stored by a data owner. To clarify this, the data consumer must access the IDSA broker, and in case the data is sovereign data, data sharing rules are used to determine if a data access is allowed. Eventually, in case of a legitimate data access, a peer-to-peer secure communication with data owner to obtain data is initialized through IDSA connectors.

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H2 Metaverse

ARENA-INNOVATION | CODE_n

CHALLENGE:

The latest draft of the "Act to Accelerate the Use of Liquefied Natural Gas” („Gesetzes zur Beschleunigung des Einsatzes verflüssigten Erdgases“) sees a significant change in reallocation of LNG import terminals for the import of hydrogen. In the draft, it is no longer mandatory that green hydrogen or its derivatives must replace the fossil fuel LNG. Now there is talk of "climate-neutral hydrogen and derivatives". This means that hydrogen based on natural gas, of which CO2 is fully captured and not released into the atmosphere can also be used. With blue hydrogen, the CO2 would be stored underground (CCS). In the case of turquoise hydrogen, it would be done using the – at large-scale not yet tested – methane pyrolysis converted into solid matter. In both cases it would have to be ensured that during extraction and transport of the natural gas no methane escapes. In theory, even hydrogen falls into this category, that would be produced by electrolysis using nuclear power.

SUCCESS:

A project draft (Projektskizze) has already been submitted to BMBF under the acronym "h2republic". The goal is that a new "H2 Data Space" for sovereign data exchange shall be created, which shall stand at the basis of the "H2 Metaverse" platform. Due to the technical complexity of the "H2 Data Space", it should remain hidden to the eye of the conventional "H2 Metaverse" platform user. Hence, the "H2 Data Space" shall be the interface to the programmers and smart service providers, whereas the "H2 Metaverse" shall be the interface to the conventional Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) players by using predefined smart services according to their requirements. Such smart federated services can/shall be the implementation of standardized Digital Twins for ensuring cross-sectoral interoperability along the entire value chain and for depicting the entire physical hydrogen world into the digital H2 Metaverse, which at the end should become a de-facto standard for the entire gas domain.

BENEFITS

Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) technologies are defined as sector coupling technologies for coupling the energy and mobility sector together. Hence, it is obvious, that the newly created "H2 Data Space" will link up the already existing energy and mobility data spaces and of course other as well. On the other hand, in order to ensure sovereign data exchange and interoperability, it will try to digitally interconnect all FCH clusters worldwide. In order to prevent lock-in effects, the H2 Metaverse shall not belong to one person or entity but to the whole users and be created by them while being at the same time free of charge. With regard to the business model, this shall be realized via company participation (Gesellschaftsbeteiligung) with all the 16 German states (Bundesländer), similar to the already existing company participation of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg to the "mobility data space".

COMPONENTS:

The H2 Metaverse platform shall be similar to the Catena-X platform in terms of visibility. For this all the necessary IDS components, like for example the IDS/Eclipse Connector and so on shall be used.

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GATE Urban Data Space

Sofia Municipality | SofiaPlan, National Statistical Institute | Executive Environment Agency | Meteorological Institute | Urban Mobility Centre

CHALLENGE:

GATE Urban Data Space focuses on the challenge of accelerating and improving the usability of city relevant public and private data,, such as for example air quality data, mobility data, transport data, infrastructure data, spatial data, demographics data.

The aim is to realize a data space allowing for the collection, processing, aggregation and sharing of data for the city and the region, based on the understanding that data is also key to informed decision-making, a valuable resource for innovation and development and a prerequisite for building smart urban and regional decisions.

SUCCESS:

Public and private data, as well as citizens data on key activities such as urban and air cleanliness, mobility, construction, energy efficiency, etc., will be integrated, which is crucial not only to ensure better use of resources and fewer emissions but also to provide for sustainability through construction optimization, smarter urban transport, modernized water and waste treatment facilities and more efficient ways to use energy in buildings.

GATE Urban Data Space will enable the creation of different Use Cases, among which:

- 3D City Models or Digital Twins to provide for comprehensive digital representation of the city at all levels and simulation of integrated processes for improved decision making;

- Parametric Urban Planning and Design to provide for analysis and recommendations for optimized positioning and accessibility of social infrastructure such as kindergardens, schools, hospitals, green areas, etc.;

- Urban Environment Analysis and Simulation, including spatial-temporal air quality analysis, identification of the main sources of pollution and wind and air quality simulation;

- Solar Potential and Energy Footprint of the Buildings analysis

GATE Urban Data Space will fully comply with the IDS RAM and implement the IDS components specified.

BENEFITS:

Data users from research, industry and public administration can use the provided by the Urban Data Space high quality data sets, aggregated data sets and data models in various scenarios and economic and social domains (as well as cross domains) and extract value from it. Data driven application and service providers can utilize the Data Space platform and services to build applications by exploiting the provided open APIs and building upon the Data as a Service model. Researchers, innovative startups and SMEs and bigger companies using the Urban Data Space for their developments and test-before-invest activities are potential customers of the training and consultancy related to IDSA technologies adoption acceleration. Various businesses and public administration representatives are the target group for consultancy/training related to the elaboration of new data sharing driven use cases and business models, as well as for training on data sharing principles. Partners in membership scheme can use the Urban Data Space (together with GATE researchers) for innovation ideation, and technology co-experiments for industry prototyping, PoC, and demonstrators. Research partners can utilize the Data Space in collaborative and contract research projects using it for design, experimenting, and testing in their project activities.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector - to connect to the different data providers
IDS Broker
IDS App Store
Identity Management
Clearing House

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Resilience and Sustainability Data Space

ADVANEO

CHALLENGE:

News about evolving or new global crises (e.g. pandemic, war, disasters…) have become “the new normal” over the recent years. In our connected world, dampening their effects, adapting and becoming more resilient and thus sustainable, can be improved vastly, by building shared solutions along these connections. And the backbone of these connections is data. As prominent use cases the PAIRS-and the SPELL-Plattform will be part of the Resilience and Sustainability Dataspace. Especially the PAIRS-Plattform inside Resilience and Sustainability Data Space will allow for transparency of the supply chain by early identification of crisis and their effects on supply and production conditions for each individual participant. Furthermore the participants will be aided with iteratively improved recommendations for measures to manage the crisis effects on their organization.

But finding and using data in a sovereign way is a general core challenge in any data driven project.

So how can interested parties easily find services to become more resilient? How can they be sure that their data privacy and sovereignty is guaranteed in such an open ecosystem? And how can creators of such services find initial their initial partners and start building the required networks?

SUCCESS:

The answer to the above questions lies in established and independently certifiable standards for sovereign data sharing and the usage of services – like IDSA and GAIA-X. The Resilience and Sustainability Data Space is built on these standards.

These standards are built into a unified system, which enables offering, finding and accessing relevant data sources as well as resilient and sustainability services.

The IDS solution, especially the corresponding connectors, as basic technology inside the Resilience and Sustainability Dataspace facilitate the necessary sovereign data exchange.

BENEFITS

Companies and organizations as users of the Resilience and Sustainability Dataspace benefit from our data-based approach of a digital infrastructure to integrate decentralized information in a protected virtual space. With this infrastructure users are either able to apply already implemented services or to develop new services supporting our users in order to gain new insights and knowledge about. The variety of datasources which are part of the Resilience and Sustainability Dataspace also facilitates cross-over domain approaches for services as also will be implemented inside the PAIRS-Plattform. Especially the supply chain use case as a cross-over domain service utilizes the different data sources coming for different . By additional search and find functionalities inside the Resilience and Sustainability Dataspace partners can connect to build research projects, exchange in a sovereign way data and make use of the existing dataspace infrastructure. In the end, athis enables users to seamlessly build their own trustworthy resilience and sustainability ecosystems.

COMPONENTS

The Resilience and Sustainability Data Space is built completely on the standards of IDSA and GAIA-X. It is run on the technical infrastructure of the Advaneo Data Space Solutions. This Data Space building block product suite offers ready-to-go integrated IDSA components like: · IDS Broker · IDS Connector · IDS Clearing House · IDS App Provider On top of this, it integrates Advaneos Trusted Data Hub: a proprietary privacy-preserving multi-party-computation solution. In an even more secured way than the standard IDSA Connector-implementation, it allows multiple parties to jointly use even sensitive data in sharing use cases without ever revealing the raw data to each other.

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Qu4lity - Manufacturing Process Anomaly Detection for Capital Goods in Automotive and Railway Sectors

MONDRAGON

CHALLENGE:

Data Sovereignty for collaboration between industrial partners, OEMs, and technology providers in manufacturing value chain for production and detection of anomalies and deviations.

SUCCESS:

To demonstrate successful data sovereignty for critical production data to mitigate trust issues between unknown partners.

BENEFITS:

Stablish a secure Industrial Value Chain for Anomalies and Deviations in Hot-Stamping and Cutting/Grinding Machinery processes
Full control over data, their digital identities, and the use of data
Set-up new Services Business Models - Interoperability and Semantic between heterogenous industrial scenarios and assets.
Federated Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Operations

COMPONENTS:

Building Blocks used:

Interoperability: Data-Models & Format associated with AAS, Data Exchange APIs using IDSA connectors

Trust: Access & Usage Control and Trusted Exchange thanks to IDSA connector Data

Value: Metadata have been set up

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Brainport Industries Smart Factory

Brainport Industries | TNO

CHALLENGE:

Companies want to build a flexible production environment. Controlled access to data is needed to build new Smart Industry tools, such as dashboard and smart algorithms. This needs to be shared between different companies, technology service providers and machines, sensors and equipment.

SUCCESS:

Data is shared in a controlled way through an IDS Connector. The IDS Broker makes data sources findable across the data space. Through a dedicated Asset Administration Shell (AAS) DataApp, data of different manufacturing assets can be exchanged in a standardized way.

BENEFITS:

It enables the creation of Smart Industry solutions for a long-tail of manufacturing companies. This in turn increases the market potential for smart solutions. For manufacturing companies the cost of integration is significantly reduced.

COMPONENTS:

TNO IDS Connector v2

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Medical Data Space MedDS

Fraunhofer ITMP | Fraunhofer FIT | Fraunhofer IOSB

The Medical Data Space is a trustworthy infrastructure for the secure exchange of health data between distributed players (patient, doctor, clinic, relatives, service providers, manufacturers, etc.). This is intended to improve prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment processes and enable innovative health-promoting business models. The use of data can be controlled in a user-friendly, transparent and privacy-compliant manner. Modern algorithms help in the targeted use of data.

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IDS Connectors
IDS Broker

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IDS certification scheme

Any organization or individual seeking permission to operate components in the International Data Spaces needs to pass the Operational Environment Certification which ensures secure processes and management of components.

Comparably, each IDS component is expected to behave in adherence with IDS specifications and to protect the data which is transferred and processed. It shall allow participants to assess the possible consequences of data sharing and provide transparent information. Therefore, components need to pass the Component Certification before they may be used in the IDS.

While the certification of organizations and individuals focuses on security and trust, the certification of components additionally refers to compliance with technical requirements ensuring interoperability.
To ensure a consistent process in the certification of participants and core components, the IDS uses a certification scheme comprising all processes, rules, and standards governing the certification process. The IDS Certification Scheme follows best practices from internationally recognized certification concepts.

Framework for the IDS Certification Scheme

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Roles in IDS Certification

The realization of the IDS certification scheme requires different roles responsible for different tasks:

applicants,
evaluation facilities, and
certification body

Certification body

The certification body oversees the certification process regarding quality assurance and framework governance. It defines standard evaluation procedures and supervises the actions of the evaluation facilities. A certificate is granted only if both, the evaluation facility, and the certification body have concluded that all preconditions for certification are fulfilled.

Evaluation facility

Contracted by an applicant, the evaluation facility is responsible for carrying out the detailed technical and/or organizational evaluation work during a certification process. The evaluation facility issues an evaluation report for the respective organization/individual or core component, listing details regarding the evaluation process and an assessment whether all requirements are properly fulfilled.

The approval scheme for evaluation facilities can be found here.

Applicant

The applicant is not just the subject of the evaluation and certification process but plays an active part in it. An applicant needs to actively apply to trigger the certification process. During the certification process, the Applicant provides all necessary material needed for the evaluation and certification of its component or organization and supports with questions or issues arising.

Certification process

The certification follows the same process for all certification profiles in operational environment and component certification. It consists of the following three phases:

Application Phase: The main goal of this stage is the successful start of the IDS evaluation and certification process.
Evaluation Phase: The main goal of this stage is the evaluation of an applicant or core component based on the defined evaluation criteria.
Certification Phase: The main goal of this stage is the examination of the evaluation report by the certification body, which issues a certificate if the result of the evaluation process is positive.

However, the details for each phase differ slightly between the assurance levels as described below.

Assurance Level 1

For Assurance Level 1, the applicant must apply directly to the certification body to trigger the start of the certification process.

Once the certification body accepts the application, the applicant is responsible for the evaluation phase by conducting a self-assessment and providing the results to the certification body. In the certification phase, the certification body reviews the self-assessment and issues the certificate, if the self-assessment meets the defined requirements.

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Fig.: Certification Process for Assurance Level 1

Assurance Level 2 and 3

Assurance Level 2 and 3 require an independent evaluation facility to conduct the evaluation of the component or operational environment. The applicant must contract an evaluation facility. Together, applicant and evaluation facility finalize the application for certification with the certification body.

Afterwards, the evaluation facility is responsible for carrying out the evaluation according to the IDS certification scheme. The evaluation facility documents their progress and findings in an evaluation report which is passed on to the certification body at the end of the evaluation phase.

In the certification phase, the certification body examines the evaluation report and issues a certificate, if the evaluation was conducted properly and led to a positive evaluation result.

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IDS Certification criteria

IDS Certification ensures that IDS components and organizations or individuals who want to participate in data sharing meet the highest security standards.

These standards are industry-proven security criteria derived from ISO/IEC 27001 (international standard for information security management) and IEC 62443 (cybersecurity for operational technology in automation and control systems). In addition, IDS Certification implements security criteria defined in the Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue
(C5) and the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix. Finally, IDS certification captures IDS specific criteria.

The certification criteria are defined in the IDS Certification criteria catalogs.

IDS Certification trust levels

IDS Certification ensures that IDS components and organizations or individuals who want to participate in data sharing provide a sufficiently high degree of trust and security. Nevertheless, the IDS Certification has a flexible setup and provides different levels of certification according to the intended use cases.

To ensure on the one hand a low entry barrier specifically suitable for SME’s and on the other hand a scalable certification to meet high information security requirements, three different security levels, with an increasing extent of the security requirements that need to be fulfilled, were defined:

Criteria for IDS Connector certification

Three different trust levels, with an increasing extent of the security requirements that need to be fulfilled, are defined:

Trust 1: offers basic security features to protect against attackers from outside, to ensure integrity and availability. It is therefore designed for use in scenarios with only low security requirements. A Connector meeting this profile is suitable for exchanging data with limited trust and security needs, for exchange of data in a contained environment or for demonstration purposes.
Trust 2: includes strict container isolation, integrity-protected logging, encryption of all persisted data, protection against accidental misuse by administrators. This profile is used for scenarios in which the protection of the processed and transmitted data is essential.
Trust 3: offers additional protection against misuse of privileged access, i.e., manipulation by administrators. This includes the protection against insider attacks as well as against external attackers who could gain privileged access. This is achieved by actively monitoring users and data on behalf of the data owner.

Criteria for IDS operational environment certification

The operational environment certification defines three different trust levels, with an increasing extent of the security requirements that need to be fulfilled:

Trust 1: covers only the basic security requirements that every participant of the International Data Space needs to fulfil. The entry level therefore serves as a low barrier for companies (especially SMEs) interested in trying out International Data Space participation.
Trust 2: covers additional security requirements, ensuring an advanced level of security. This level is suit-able for most core participants.
Trust 3: includes special security requirements that are necessary for International Data Space participants providing key services within the Inter-national Data Space.

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AluTrace

Fraunhofer EMI | Fraunhofer IWM | fem

CHALLENGE:

Due to the great freedom of design, additive manufacturing (AM) offers enormous potential for lightweight construction. In order to harness this potential, it is crucial to integrate knowledge between the individual stages of the AM value chain. By digitally linking AM process and product data, lightweight design and production can be further optimized in economic and ecological terms. The present use case demonstrates the added value for the lightweight potential of additively manufactured (laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)) aluminum components when decentralized material and AM process data is shared between actors via a cross-institutional data space.

In the present use case, a design engineer aims to optimize a component, originally manufactured by casting AlSi10Mg, with regard to lightweight design by means of topology optimization for AM. A process-specific topology optimization algorithm (PSTO) will provide an optimized design and also knowledge of the best suited combination of AM-machine, part orientation in build space and a heat treatment. As input for this design algorithm, decentralized data about mechanical material characteristics, AM process parameters and post-processing information such as heat or surface treatment has to be shared and linked in an automatic manner. Since the different data is provided by different actors, compliance with the FAIR data principles is paramount.

SUCCESS:

To meet this need, a data space architecture based on the International Data Spaces (IDS) reference architecture model is designed and implemented. By doing so, the very first instance of the Materials Data Space® (MDS) is created. Using the MDS in this context ensures

findability (F) of the decentralized data and their owners through the use of a broker as a virtual marketplace,
secure and automated access (A) to the data from the IT infrastructures of the institutions,
interoperability (I) in data sharing with full guarantee of data sovereignty through the use of the IDS connectors, and
the reusability (R) of the data by the PSTO based on machine- and human-understandable metadata in the form of knowledge graphs.

The knowledge graphs describe the entire process chain from additive manufacturing to mechanical testing and embed the resulting data in its context through an ontology-based process model. These semantic metadata enable the linking of data in the sense of a cross-institutional data fabric and automated data analysis for intelligent lightweight design by the design engineer.

BENEFITS:

The lightweight potential of additively manufactured components can be optimally exploited through process-specific topology optimization.
The decentralized material, process and component data are semantically linked and shared in an automatic manner while maintaining the highest data sovereignty standards.
A scalable solution for the integration of data and analysis results from the data space into the design process of lightweight components is provided.
Detailed, diverse material, process and component data for AM lightweight materials are provided in a scalable data space architecture.
Tools for digital modelling of value chains and interoperable description of data and domain knowledge have been developed.

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IDS Dataspace Connector
IDS Broker as virtual market place
IDS Identity Provider
IDS Clearing House

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Component certification

Trustful cross-company data exchange requires secure soft- and hardware components. All IDS components must meet a list of certification criteria to prove the provision of the required functionality, interoperability, and level of security. The evaluation of these certification criteria is conducted in the IDS core component certification.

Component assurance levels:

The depth and rigor of a component evaluation consists of the following three assurance levels, independent on the type of component that is being certified:

Assurance Level 1: Checklist self-assessment and automated interoperability testing
Assurance Level 2: External concept review including functional and security testing
Assurance Level 3: External evaluation including concept review, testing and source code audit

Connector trust levels

The criteria that make up each of the three trust levels for a Connector are defined in such a way that they are specific enough to ensure interoperability with the functional requirements of an IDS Connector, yet general enough, to allow the use of a Connector in different deployment scenarios without having to define different criteria catalogues for each separate use case.

The following three trust levels are defined for the certification of a Connector:

Trust Level 1: Data space interoperability
Trust Level 2: Feature complete for data usage control
Trust Level 3: Additional protection from internal attacks

The following figure illustrates all possible combinations of assurance and trust level, that an applicant can choose from.

This matrix approach allows the component developer to select a combination of assurance and trust level for their component that best correspond with the intended use cases.

On the one hand, this ensures a low entry barrier specifically suitable for SMEs. On the other hand, a scalable certification to meet high information security requirements becomes possible. purposes.

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Operational environment certification

Participants in the International Data Spaces share valuable data. It is essential that all participant's organizational processes and operational environments are trustworthy. This trustworthiness is evaluated in the IDS operational environment certification.

Central elements of the IDS operational environment certification are the different trust levels and assurance levels. The IDS established these levels to offer suitable certification profiles for different use case requirements.

On one side, the following three trust levels are established:

Trust level 1: Entry into data sharing
Trust level 2: Providing reliable services
Trust level 3: Offering trust-building services

Higher Trust Level represent the increasing number of criteria which needs to be fulfilled for a successful certification.

On the other side, the following three assurance levels are established:

Assurance level 1: Self-Assessment
Assurance level 2: External evaluation of corporate policies and processes
Assurance level 3: External audit of measures controlling the adherence to corporate policies

Higher assurance level represent the increasing demand for more reliable evidence that needs to be presented in different evaluation methods to prove compliance with the certification criteria.

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Macau-EU Cross-Border Flow of Scientific Research Data

Macau University of Science and Technology | Fraunhofer ISST

CHALLENGE:

The safe and orderly flow and governance of data has become a global issue, and the cross-border flow of data is one of the most complex sub-issue. At the outset, the existing international data cross-border flow mechanism is experiencing pressure from various aspects such as “EU-US Privacy Shield Frameworks” agreement overturned and Standard Contractual Clauses require additional “supplementary measures”, etc. Given the fact that data has become more and more important for the development of both economy and society at large, the “investigation after the fact” approach cannot meet the satisfaction of some countries or regions for security and management concerns. In addition, how the different requirements for data export in different jurisdictions apply to the same business brings huge problems to practice when data keeps flowing. In this case, Macau University of Science and Technology and the Fraunhofer ISST are respectively located in different jurisdictions. As a consequence, the cross-border flow of scientific research data involving personal information often arises in the scientific research cooperation activities between the two parties. If we transfer any kind of data in the multi-center joint scientific research activities, except for the traditional research ethics requirements, the two parties must also meet the requirements of their respective laws and regulations on the export of personal information.

SUCCESS:

In order to explore the mechanism for the safe and orderly flow of data across borders in the digital era, we can together establish a trinity of “legal regulations + management mechanism + technical assurance” model in the field of scientific research, covering the whole process of “before, during and after course”.

BENEFITS:

This has not only mark the possible and trust way to realize the purpose of data cross-border issues that needed to be addressed, but also laid a solid foundation for the future exploration in regards to this area. It is also a great opportunity to promote the development and fame of IDS in Macau and Asia.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector

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FA³ST ecosystem for I4.0-compliant and data-sovereign digital twins

Fraunhofer IOSB

CHALLENGE:

Due to the advancing digitalization of industrial value chain, increasingly large amounts of data are being generated in industry. Sharing data with partners in this domain, opens up new application and value propositions. This requires that the data can be interpreted across system and company boundaries, generally referred to as interoperability. The Platform Industry 4.0 proposes the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) specification for the digital represention of all assets. Additionally, the data security and data sovereignty challenges, which arise in such use-cases, are addressed by the IDS ecosystem.

SUCCESS:

By combining the AAS with the IDS, interoperability across company borders is created. Product and production data is represented in AAS digital twins and shared via IDS Connectors.

BENEFITS

The AAS can describe all kinds of products and production equipment while linking data elements to semantic descriptions. The sharing of such data enables use-cases like the Platform Industry Collaboritive Condition Monitoring use-case or the automotive network Catena-X

COMPONENTS:

Eclipse Dataspace Connector 0.0.1-milestone-4
EDC Extension for AAS 1.0.0

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Data Space Energy Transition

CHALLENGE:

Supply Chain management in the energy sector
Energy communities
Optimization of supply and demand / power grid stabilization
New data services and products for renewable energies

SUCCESS:

Combination of energy, mobile phone, weather and calendar data for a specific location to provide a planning basis for energy production
Intelligent energy distribution and storage within energy communities as well as load and demand profiles
Forecasting and optimization models (traditional as well as AI models)
Mobile batteries stabilizing the power grid
Dynamic charging management of e-cars

BENEFITS:

Optimized and lower resource consumption as well as optimized storage and distribution.

COMPONENTS:

Eclipse Data Space Connector is used as a connector.
Nexyo is used as the hub for testing in some of the Use Cases. Nexyo is conform to the european Gaia-X initiative and IDSA reference architecture as well as IDS certification. The Data Space is Gaia-X compliant.

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EuProGigant - European Production Giganet

CHALLENGE:

EuProGigant encompasses four thematic working groups working on industry-relevant, cross-company related use cases:

CO2e footprint in production engineering & manufacturing: how can estimations on energy use and CO2 footprint be created and used in the design phase by using portable data and interoperable software tools?
Component matching: how can Gaia-X principles be instrumentalized to manufacture and assemble with optimal resource use and minimal waste?
Mobile processing machines: how does the EuProGigant/Gaia-X concept work when the machine comes to the part instead of the other way around? How can large data volumes be synchronised for the autonomous planning of maintenance processes on track infrastructure?
Validation platform: how can small companies monitor machines and assemblies without having to compile a large database?

SUCCESS:

EuProGigant focuses on the Gaia-X Federation Services. EuProGigant demonstrates that an ecosystem based on Gaia-X mechanisms enables digital sovereignty, transparency and fosters interoperability to ensure a secure data and service portability. EuProGigant connects multiple edge systems, platforms and cloud services. The EuProGigant demonstrator powered by deltaDAO and Ocean protocol is based on a distributed ledger technology - try it out: https://euprogigant.portal.minimal-gaia-x.eu/.

BENEFITS

The EuProGigant business value is defined as increasing the value creation speed through dynamic, decentralized datadriven business models. The European Production Giganet allows you to choose your business partners you trust, own your data and manage the cross-company connectivity easily.

COMPONENTS

Currently EuProGigant does not use any IDS components. EuProGigant focuses on the Gaia-X Federation Services and might use the Eclipse Dataspace Connector.

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