Position papers | International Data Spaces

Horizontal Supply Chain Collaboration

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

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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Collaborative Warranty and Quality Management

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 collaborate to apply an IDS-based solution to a real-life challenge

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

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 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

The goal of Catena-X is to create the first a 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 and the guarantee of data sovereignty for the creator of data and trust between participants.

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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idento.one

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

COMPONENTS:

Veracity Industry Data Platform
IDS Connector
IDS and broker

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Smart Parking

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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Trusted Data Sharing in Smart Cities

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 could be (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:

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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Smart Connected Supplier Network

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.

The underlying SCSN infrastructure is based on the IDS-RAM. The SCSN Foundation created standard IDS Connectors and Data Apps, which can be used by service providers. These service providers 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 Connectors
Data Apps
Broker
Certificate Authority
DAPS

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Industrial Additive Manufacturing Services

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

The DASLOGIS project aims to realize a first version of an open IDS-based Dutch Logistics Data Space (DLDS) to support the three main types of logistics data sharing and to accelerate its adoption.

Sharing of transaction data for operations optimization
Sharing of (big) data for data analytics
Sharing of supply chain data for real-time visibility

DLDS will be based on IDS-RAM, supplemented and adapted to the Dutch logistics needs where applicable. The Proof of Concept (PoC) of the DLDS is validated using three functional prototypes.

BENEFITS:

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

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Metal Domain Data Space - M4.0

The M4.0 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 an M4.0 service that analyses the customer’s requirements and returns the most suitable equipment options for a certain metal domain manufacturing process.

BENEFITS:

Makes the selection of manufacturing equipment simpler and more efficient, getting to a better result in less time.

COMPONENTS:

IDS Connector
Clearing House
Broker
ESS App
Central 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mobility Data Space 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.

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 Connector

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Silicon Economy

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)

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.

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 Data Space connector
Linking of data via REST interface with the connector
Identity Provider and DAPS
FIWARE platform linked through connector

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Rail Data Space

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

In the Reallabor 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. This IDS based data space creates advantages for all stakeholders. Citizens benefit from improved travel options, mobility providers from new business opportunities.

WEBSITE:

https://reallab-hamburg.de/en/projekte/dateninteraktion-und-souveraenitaet/

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Ö-Cloud Initiative: Trust in standards and services

The Fedaral 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.

msg as a 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 IDSA / Gaia-X compliant architectures c ) aligning and positioning use cases regarding their specific role in the Gaia-X ecosystem

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European Industrial Data Space

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 European data space in a realistic, measurable and replicable way; aligning with the International Data Space (IDSA) reference architecture. 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, specially SMEs, can find all they need to embrace the big-data transformation of Industry 4.0.

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Project

An initiative or alliance of organizations aiming at creating a data space

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

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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

Sandar Olivares
solivares@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.

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Irena Pavlova
irena.pavlova@gate-ai.eu

Website
gate-ai.eu/en/business/idsa-hub/

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Vehicle Charging

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.

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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

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.

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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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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.

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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

The deep dive

Explore position papers and strategy statements by our board members and affiliated researchers for a deeper understanding of our mission and goals.

New Business Models for Data Spaces Grounded in Data Sovereignty

Data Sovereignty – Critical Success Factor for the Manufacturing Industry

Usage Control in the International Data Spaces

GAIA-X and IDS

Implementing the European Strategy on Data. Role of IDS

GDPR Related Requirements and Recommendations for the IDS Reference Architecture Model

IDS Certification Explained

Blockchain Technology in IDS

Anforderungsdokument

Open Data Spaces Towards the IDS Open Data Ecosystem

Jointly Paving the Way for a Data Driven Digitalisation of European Industry

Horizontal Supply Chain Collaboration

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Supply Chain Manager

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Collaborative Warranty and Quality Management

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Collaborative Warranty and Quality Management

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Catena-X

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idento.one

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Deutsche Telekom - Data Intelligence Hub

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GAIA-X - A Federated Secure Data Infrastructure

NTT Testbed on Data Governance and Sovereignty Across Countries and Companies

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Smart Factory Web

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Maritime Data Space

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Smart Parking

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Trusted Data Sharing in Smart Cities

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Smart Connected Supplier Network

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Industrial Additive Manufacturing Services

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DASLOGIS - Dutch Data Spaces for Logistics

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Metal Domain Data Space - M4.0

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