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GSMA Launches IoT Big Data API Directory

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GSMA has launched ‘IoT Big Data API Directory’ that will make harmonised data sets from multiple sources worldwide available to developers and third parties, enabling them to create innovative new Internet of Things (IoT) services. 

Global mobile operators China Mobile, China Unicom, KT Corporation, Orange and Telefónica have already implemented solutions enabling them to share harmonised IoT data, said GSMA. The directory, which is the first of its kind, is designed to encourage a common approach to data sharing that will help the IoT to realise its full potential and encourage the development of new projects across transport, the environment and smart cities.

The IoT Big Data API Directory provides details of IoT and context data sets covering machines, devices, automotive, roads, environment, smart home and agriculture. All of the data sets are harmonised and can be viewed on github. A common approach to data sharing lowers costs and creates opportunities for IoT developers, data brokers and data providers.

Mobile operators are seen as key participants in the delivery of an IoT big data ecosystem, although much of the IoT data that is collected will come from a range of data provider partners. The document provides a framework for the delivery of IoT big data services that recognises the many different approaches towards the services that are offered and the technology choices that are made. The proposed architecture offers a degree of flexibility which allows IoT big data services to be offered in multiple ways.

Thierry Nagellen, Project Manager Big Data, Orange Labs
Creating heterogeneous data formats in the IoT world to share anonymised data is both achievable and necessary, and our work with FIWARE supports a more efficient management of municipal services and brings open standards to transform cities into engines of growth. This GSMA initiative offers a unique opportunity to propose a common model that can be regularly improved. 

Vicente Munoz, Chief IoT Officer, Telefonica 
The IoT Big Data project is a great initiative that is fostering the creation of a vibrant, open ecosystem on which different stakeholders, IoT device vendors, data providers, cities, mobile operators, entrepreneurs and app developers, work together to create new business opportunities around a next generation of IoT solutions. From Telefónica, where IoT closely collaborates with LUCA – Telefónica’s Big Data Business Unit, we fully support the development of the ecosystem. 

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