SmartSantander/SACCOM

Our team, together with colleagues from the Institute for Research & Technology of Thessaly, Greece (I.RE.TE.TH/CERTH), took part in SACCOM, a sub-project of the 7FP IP project SmartSantander.

• "Fire for Future Internet Success" brochure with SACCOM featured.
• The final report submitted to Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (excerpt, in Polish).
• SmartSantander and our soft actuation experiment featured in Bloomberg Businessweek Polska page 1, page 2 (in Polish).

SACCOM (“Soft Actuation over Cooperating Objects Middleware”) is a project resulting from the SmartSantander First Open Call for Experiments.

SACCOM aims

• to deploy an independently developed cooperating objects middleware platform, called POBICOS, on top of the Smart Campus IoT testbed at UniS in Guildford, and
• to use the resulting system to perform two experiments, which are referred to as the middleware experiment and the application experiment, respectively.

The POBICOS platform is a product of an FP7 STREP project POBICOS ("Platform for Opportunistic Behaviour in Incompletely Specified, Heterogeneous Object Communities”, FP7-ICT-223984). The original POBICOS middleware is designed to run on embedded, native POBICOS nodes, in a fully distributed and decentralized manner. Contrary to that, the POBICOS Proxy Environment (PPE) is designed to be interfaced to existing, non-POBICOS sensor/actuator networks. In PPE, each node of a non-POBICOS sensor/actuator network is represented by a proxy running on a central server and exposing the node's sensor and actuator resources with the original POBICOS API (at the binary level).

The objective of the middleware experiment is to verify the scalability of the POBICOS Proxy Environment, through which applications will access the IoT nodes of the Guildford testbed. The ambition is to run tests that will involve up to 200 nodes.

The objective of the application experiment is to investigate the concept of so-called soft-actuating applications, which are sense-and-react applications that do not perform any “real” actuation but gently prompt the user to perform the actuating action himself manually.
Proceed to the soft actuation page.