FIspace: Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics

FIspace develops a collaboration platform for the international transport and logistics and agri-food areas.


The FIspace project will leverage and extend the domain-solutions and stakeholder communities for international transport and logistics and agri-food developed during the Phase I use case projects FInest and SmartAgriFood. This extension of capabilities will allow for cross domain usage of the FIspace service to address multi-domain business challenges. Such cross domain usage will demonstrate to other FI PPP use case projects the value of the FIspace collaboration model and, hopefully, encourage them to utilize its services in their projects. FIspace will also actively seek out applications and enablers from other Phase II projects to encourage their development and deployment in the FIspace ecosystem. The enabling technologies will be taken from the FInest and SmartAgriFood Phase I projects, as well as the work done in the FIWARE core platform project, and integrated into the FIspace service itself as generic services, or developed as domain applications implementable from the FIspace application store.

The focus of the project will be to implement and test the FIspace solution and its underlying technologies, specifically the FIWARE GEs, using multi-domain trial experiments. In addition, the project will utilize the trials to empirically support the business benefits identified during Phase I of each project, and thus ultimately will demonstrate the benefits of real life utilization of FI enabled technologies.

In total, 8 trials are selected, that are grouped into 3 use case scenarios:

  • Farming in the Cloud addresses food production issues at the farm level and covers two use case trials
  • Intelligent Perishable Goods Logistics addresses monitoring and environmental management issues of perishable goods as they flow through their supply chains so that waste is minimized and shelf life maximized covering three use case trials
  • Smart Distribution and Consumption is about helping consumers to obtain better information on the goods they purchase, and producers to better control the flow of their goods to the consumer, covering three use case trials.

The University Duisburg-Essen acts as Technical Architect in FIspace and is responsible for the development of a set of generic baseline apps.

Funding

Funded by: European Union (EU)

Program: Seventh Framwork Programme (FP7/2007-2013)

Type: Integrated Project (IP)

Funding: 631.840,- Euro (Total Funded Amount 13,5 Mil. Euro)

Duration: 04/2013 - 09/2015

Partners

  • Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek
  • Kühne + Nagel Management AG
  • Institut für angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen GmbH
  • Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • SAP AG
  • IBM Israel – Science and Technology Ltd.
  • ATOS Spain SA
  • KOCSISTEM Bilgi ve Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.
  • The Open Group - X/OPEN Company Ltd.
  • ASTON University
  • CentMa GmbH
  • European Network of Living Labs
  • iMinds
  • Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V.
  • Norsk Marinteknisk Forskningsinstitutt AS
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • Wageningen Universiteit
  • ARCELIK A.S.
  • SUPSA SUPERMERCATS PUJOL S.L.
  • Euro Pool System International (Deutschland) GmbH
  • Stichting Floricode
  • GS1 Germany GMBH
  • Kverneland Group Mechatronics B.V.
  • Mieloo & Alexander BV
  • North Sea Container Line AS
  • Organismos Pliromon ke Eleghou Kinotikon Enishyseon Prosanatolismou Keeggyiseon
  • LimeTri B.V.
  • Innoveitors (Innovators) Efarmoges Ypsilis Technologias AE

This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement no. 604123.