OneNet Cross-Platform Services

The goal of the OneNet System is to facilitate data exchanges among existing platforms, services, applications, and devices by the power of interoperability techniques. To ensure that system requirements are technically -implementable and widely adopted, internationally standardized file formats, metadata, vocabularies and identifiers - are required.

The  OneNet “Cross-Platform Access” pattern is the fundamental characteristic of an interoperable ecosystem, leading to the definition of the exposed list OneNet Cross-Platform services (CPS).  The pattern entails that an application accesses services or resources (information   or functions) from multiple platforms through the same interface. For example, a “grid monitoring” application gathers information on different grid indicators provided by different platforms that conduct measurements or state estimations.  The challenge of realizing this pattern lies in allowing applications or services within one platform to interact with other platforms (eventually from different providers) with relevant services or applications via the same interface and data formats. Thereby, reuse and composition of services as well as easy integration of data from different platforms are enabled. 

Based on the defined concept for CPS, an extensive analysis has been performed regarding data exchange patterns and roles involved for system use cases (SUCs) from other H2020 projects and the OneNet demo clusters. This has resulted into a first list of CPS, that has been thereafter taxonomized into 10 categories. The different entries have been defined providing a set of classes such as service description, indicative data producer/consumer etc. Each CPS can be assigned with multiple business objects describing the context of it. For a specific set of widely used by the Demo CPS, there have been formal semantic definitions provided in the "CrossPlatformServices-Semantic" excel worksheet.