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Gabriel Anzaldi

Scientific and Technological Development Director

Eurecat

ICT4Water Management Team

gabriel.anzaldi@Eurecat.org

@gabriel_anzaldi

“Towards EU data spaces: The case of Water”

INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2020Building the European Dataspace for environment

and sustainability

GREEN DEAL DIGITAL AGE

Disruptive Technologies Macrotrends

Diversity

Inequality

Climate change

Demographic development

Circular economy

Platform economy

Geopolitical changes

Technological revolution

Urbanization

Artificial intelligence

IoT

Augmented reality / Virtual reality

Advanced robotics

Blockchain

Self-driving cars

Next generation genomics

Advanced materials

DATA

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ICT4WATER CLUSTER

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ICT4WATER CLUSTER (2019)

WHEN WE START…

Standards to ensure data

exchange communication

Lot of complexity in their

implementation

Beginning of reference

architectures derives in

vendor lock in.

INTEROPERABILITY BARRIERS & GAPS

High FragmentationLack of communicationbetween systems due toproliferation of standardsLack of cross-domain

digital servicesDue to the lack ofinteroperability betweensystems. Hetereogenity in Water

digital infrastructuresLack of reference cross domainplatforms for data sharing.

Lack of good business models

Lack of good business modelsleading to the Digital SingleMarket

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“Too much standards

and data models

impeeds

interoperability

between systems”

Expand interoperability for smart water management

Ensure security, data protection and best practices and key reference technology

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ICT4Water & INSIPRE

2013

2014

2016

2017-2019

2020-BeyondWATERP & INSPIREEU project that generates open geospatial data for water at EU. INSPIRE initial data model & services

OGC Standards

Begin of OGC standards as Web services and common data exchange models

Sandre & INSPIRE

Sandre as a platform for water compliant with INSPIRE.

Water Semantics

Proliferation of semantic water ontologies including HY_Features, Water Semantics, S4N ontology, etc.

SAREF & COPERNICUS

Reference Architectures, standard in semantics & Copernicus as geospatial data model.

SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY IN ICT4WATER

“Semantic interoperability permits to harmonise data

models in water”

WatERP Ontology HY_FEATURES Water Semantics

PROLIFERATION OF ONTOLOGIES…

“Proliferation of domain-specific ontologies generates too

much hidden knowledge”

SAREF4WATR

“ETSI publishes SAREF4WATR extension as an open

standard to cross link water information with other

domains (environment, automotive, wereables,

health, industry, etc)”

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES

“Reference Architectures at EU

level permit to share data at

cross-domain and elaborate new

digital services & assets”

NGSI-LD

FIWARE

DATA PORTALS

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RECOMENDATIONS

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U KKnowledge GraphsMove on form Openstandards to Linked Data andKnowledge Graphs.

Use-CasesDefine use cases to elaboratea complete interoperableapproach

ShareData across platforms andsectors towards cross-domaindecision making

Homogenise

Open Standards into acommon vocabulary(ontology)

ACTION PLAN – DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET OF WATER SERVICES

2018

2030

2021

CURRENT WORK

Activities

Goals

Projects Results

Upgrading

Time

Frame

CURRENT WORK

We are at the genesis of a new age

characterized by the

“convergence of disruptive”

technological, social and

regulatory factors.

Business models are being

redefined to evolve across the

increasingly widespread use of

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the

Internet of things (IoT), blockchain

and 5G (hyper connectivity).

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Technological Convergence – Activated by DataEU has the potential to be successful in the data-agile economy

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Thank you!

Gabriel Anzaldi

Director de desarrollo científico tecnológico

Eurecat

gabriel.anzaldi@Eurecat.org

@gabriel_anzaldi