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NEC Corporation, a leading network, communications and information technology company, has announced that it is testing the new global oneM2M service layer standard in its Cloud City Operation Center (CCOC) solution to enable machine-to-machine device interoperability in a live smart city program. NEC's Cloud City Operation Center (CCOC) solution is based on the FIWARE open source API-enabled platform and Generic Enabler, created by the EU-funded Future Internet project. The oneM2M stack has been added to this setup and connected to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) broker.
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According to NEC, the Operation Center's advanced dashboard enables KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to be quickly cross-referenced and visualized to provide a fast overview of the status of the city. It will provide data sets on traffic, carbon monoxide, temperature and wind levels and can be cross- referenced using intuitive user interface enabling notifications such as localized air quality alerts to be automatically issued, said NEC.
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Around the world, cities are beginning to deploy a diversity of M2M sensors to improve the efficiency of transport, lighting, irrigation and waste collection services and boost public safety levels by minimizing pollution and waste. NEC added that its use of the open oneM2M specification makes it possible to collect data from a large number of sensors to enable cities to make informed day-to-day management decisions.
In addition of using oneM2M standard to connect Sensors using IETF's (Internet Engineering Task Force), CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) or MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport), NEC said that it is also developing a new Open Linked Data service layer to enable M2M sensor data to be easily connected and queried by third party businesses and used in innovative social media and mobile apps to benefit citizens around the world.
Jose Luis Mate, Product and Solutions Senior Manager at EMEA Cloud Center of Competence at NEC Corporation
Testing our Cloud City Operation Center together with the oneM2M standard has already shown the value that the new international standard for M2M communication will bring for real-world computing systems. The flexibility of our product helped us to quickly integrate the new protocol stack. We can thus orchestrate a growing number of real world systems from various providers in a smart city and help create a brighter and smarter world. It also shows NEC's motto, 'empowered by innovation' drives our technology development.
