Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards
With the advancement of IoT devices and thanks to the unprecedented visibility and transparency they provide, diverse IoT-based applications are being developed. With the proliferation of IoT, both the amount and type of data items captured have increased dramatically. The data generated by IoT devi...
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doaj-3e6898f17aad4938a2caf86a51e3f6b02021-04-05T17:38:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019498684988010.1109/ACCESS.2021.30691949388690Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS StandardsYalew Tolcha0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4135-7896Ayalew Kassahun1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1066-7127Teodoro Montanaro2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1750-8268Davide Conzon3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2962-8702Georg Schwering4Jarissa Maselyne5Daeyoung Kim6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7960-5955Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of KoreaInformation Technology (INF) Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, KN, The NetherlandsLINKS Foundation, Torino, ItalyLINKS Foundation, Torino, ItalyEuropean EPC Competence Center GmbH (EECC), Neuss, GermanyFlanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Merelbeke, BelgiumKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of KoreaWith the advancement of IoT devices and thanks to the unprecedented visibility and transparency they provide, diverse IoT-based applications are being developed. With the proliferation of IoT, both the amount and type of data items captured have increased dramatically. The data generated by IoT devices reside in different organizations and systems, and a major barrier to utilizing the data is the lack of interoperability among the standards used to capture the data. To reduce this barrier, two major standards have emerged: the Global Standards One (GS1) Electronic Product Code Information Service (EPCIS) and the FIWARE Next Generation Services Interface (NGSI). However, the two standards differ not only in the data encoding but also in the underlying philosophy of representing IoT data; namely, EPCIS is event-based, and NGSI is entity-based. Interoperability between FIWARE and EPCIS is essential for system integration. This paper presents OLIOT Mediation Gateway, now one of the incubated generic enablers offered by the FIWARE Foundation, that realizes the required interoperability between NGSI and EPCIS systems. It also demonstrates the applicability and feasibility of the Gateway by applying it to a real-life case study of integrating transparency systems used in a meat supply chain.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9388690/Agri-foodEPCISinteroperabilityIoTNGSImediation gateway |
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Yalew Tolcha Ayalew Kassahun Teodoro Montanaro Davide Conzon Georg Schwering Jarissa Maselyne Daeyoung Kim Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards IEEE Access Agri-food EPCIS interoperability IoT NGSI mediation gateway |
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Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards |
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Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards |
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Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards |
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Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards |
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Towards Interoperability of Entity-Based and Event-Based IoT Platforms: The Case of NGSI and EPCIS Standards |
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towards interoperability of entity-based and event-based iot platforms: the case of ngsi and epcis standards |
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With the advancement of IoT devices and thanks to the unprecedented visibility and transparency they provide, diverse IoT-based applications are being developed. With the proliferation of IoT, both the amount and type of data items captured have increased dramatically. The data generated by IoT devices reside in different organizations and systems, and a major barrier to utilizing the data is the lack of interoperability among the standards used to capture the data. To reduce this barrier, two major standards have emerged: the Global Standards One (GS1) Electronic Product Code Information Service (EPCIS) and the FIWARE Next Generation Services Interface (NGSI). However, the two standards differ not only in the data encoding but also in the underlying philosophy of representing IoT data; namely, EPCIS is event-based, and NGSI is entity-based. Interoperability between FIWARE and EPCIS is essential for system integration. This paper presents OLIOT Mediation Gateway, now one of the incubated generic enablers offered by the FIWARE Foundation, that realizes the required interoperability between NGSI and EPCIS systems. It also demonstrates the applicability and feasibility of the Gateway by applying it to a real-life case study of integrating transparency systems used in a meat supply chain. |
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Agri-food EPCIS interoperability IoT NGSI mediation gateway |
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