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April 30, 2020

GAIAboX® – Secure Resource Management, File Storage & Data Exchange in IDS

What does a digital ecosystem need to make data and services available in a secure manner? A resource management and file storage based on data sovereignty. In other words: GAIAboX® by nicos AG. The managed service provider developed one of the most promising IDS-based solutions to be brought to market as part of the IDS Launching Coalition.
Jörg Langkau

Resource Management and File Storage

With its high-performance IT infrastructure, nicos enables collaboration and secure data exchange between all locations worldwide. The idea of GAIAboX® is prototyping a secure and sovereign resource management and file storage. It is accessible via FTP, SSH and HTTP and follows the concept of “Linked Data Platform” (LDP). The achievement of GAIAboX® is not limited to data sharing, as open inventory platform it also allows representing any resource.

GAIAboX® will also provide application protocols like mqtt, gRPC, WebSockets in order to make “publish/subscribe” available. It intends to provide data and information in a standardized and semantically described manner according to the concept of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), thus enabling interoperability and easy interaction.

Data Sovereignty and Usage Control

GAIAboX® ensures data sovereignty by using the technologies of the IDS Architecture. It acts as an IDS Connector Provider. Along with finely-grained access control to the stored resources, the concept of IDS usage control will also be established.

The storing of any resource in a GAIAboX® can be enriched with a contract or a policy deciding on where to remain and how to use the resource. GAIAboX® is implementing a web client application in order to get access to other GAIAboXes, too.

Benefits

  1. platform independency
  2. IDS conformity
  3. Deploying to existing cloud services

Technological architecture or IDS components used

  • Linked Data Platform (LDP)
  • IDS Connector technology
  • Publish/subscribe machanisms

Learn more about GAIAboX here.

Author: Jörg Langkau

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