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CoBIs Overview

Presentation giving an overview of the project.

IST Project Fact Sheet

The project summarized in a compact fact sheet.

IST Results Project Brochure

Project overview with focus on the scenarios.

Videos

SAP TV CoBIs Feature

SAP TV broadcasted a 5 minute feature about the CoBIs project.

Public Deliverables

Final Project Report

The CoBIs project – partially funded under the Information Society Technologies (IST) thematic priority of the 6th Framework Programme (FP6) of the European Commission – has developed a radically new approach to business processes involving physical entities such as goods and tools in enterprise environments. Advances in Networked Embedded Systems have been applied to embed business logic in the physical entities to create so-called Collaborative Business Items (CoBIs) that make it possible to relate more closely the state of an enterprise as represented in a business process with what is actually happening in the real world.

Relocatable services and service classification scheme

In the first six months of the project we started to work in parallel on all the research aspects mentioned above. Clearly, our focus lay on the pre-selection and analysis of business processes and also on the classification of service functionality provided by CoBIs. In accordance to this, this document summarizes our first results, concepts and ideas mainly related to the latter two topics, but we also give a short overview on the current status of other work.

Concept for Collaboration of Services

This document describes the essential concepts regarding the collaboration among networked embedded systems, with respect to the project objective of extending business processes to the “Point of Action”. The difference of this document compared with the state of the art stems from the fact that existing wireless sensor networks are rather static, both from the point of view of the code that the nodes are running as well as from the point of view of the location that the nodes are located in. In this document we focus on collaboration among sensor nodes, which will result in dynamic wireless sensor networks.

CoBIs Platform Survey and State-of-the-Art Sensor Platforms

This report surveys the platforms brought into the CoBIs projects: TecO’s Smart-Its Particles, Ambient Systems’s µNodes and Infineon’s Sindrion system. Each platform has its strengths and the D301 specifies selection criteria for each platforms by analyzing key characteristics such as lifetime, reliability and robustness, scalability, costs and maintenance. In particular, a very detailed analysis is given for ultimate targets regarding costs, environmental constraints, lifetime, reliability, range and number of wireless sensor nodes a technology for CoBIs has to achieve. The report further provides an overview on other state-of-the-art sensor platforms.

Management & Maintenance Requirements

The report surveys the management and maintenance requirements of CoBIs systems by incorporating the specifications of dedicated use cases. A hierarchical and systematic approach for a service based administration platform is presented. The achieved results allow accommodating the upcoming implementation steps within the overall service architecture developed by the cooperating CoBIs work groups.

Completed Set of Reusable Services Considering Side Constraints

In this document, we have compiled a set of base and collaborative services, extended the service design and architecture by providing generic platform-independent description for the most used and the most complex base and collaborative services. These descriptions were completed with their counterpart CoBIL description. The generic service description contains information about service functionality, dependencies, and interfaces. Furthermore, we designed cross-layer solutions and protocols for each of the defined services considering side constraints such as reliability, data quality, and robustness. The requirements of the CoBIs defined scenarios have been taken into account while designing the solutions. Various experiments performed have proved the superiority of the designed protocols and solutions and their suitability for CoBIs defined scenarios.

Rolling Report on Experiences from Demonstrators and Think Tank Workshops

The role of this deliverable is to provide the experiences from demonstrators and think tank workshops organised within the CoBIs lifetime. Therefore, we have focused on these two different key areas:

  • To present experiences and lessons learned from several demonstration and trials throughout the project’s lifetime
  • To present the results of discussions we had with key people coming from industry, government and academia within the context of three wireless sensor network workshops we organised

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