Architecture for Unified Regional and Open digital ecosystems for Smart Communities and wider Rural Areas Large scale application

Informations projet

AURORAL

N° de convention de subvention: 101016854

DOI

10.3030/101016854

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 8 Decembre 2020

Date de début 1 Janvier 2021

Date de fin 31 Mars 2025

Financé au titre de

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Coût total

€ 16 287 718,64

Contribution de l’UE

€ 14 569 392,75

Coordonné par

LUXACTIVE KG
Austria

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Livrables

Documents, reports (39)

Report on the updates of the AURORAL ontology and interoperability middleware

Assessment and evaluation of the AURORAL Service Store

Specification of AURORAL pilot requirements for cross-cutting services

Description and selection of AURORAL pilot requirements for crosscutting services

Policy recommendation on relevant ICT standardisation, EU priorities and business opportunities

Analysis of best practices and guideline on relevant ICT standardisation EU priorities and business opportunities

Report on synergies between AURORAL and other projects and initiatives

Description and documentation of the collaboration with other project and initiatives

Report on dissemination activities

Description and documentation of the dissemination activities

Business model evaluation and assessment for AURORAL Smart Communities

Evaluation of performance and design of model for replication

Report on market uptake potential building (first and final version)

Assessment of the adoption and exploitation of AURORAL solution by the wider stakeholders

Baseline for digitalized rural ecosystems in Europe

Analysis of the status and needs of digitalized rural ecosystems in Europe

Report on the evaluation of data security, privacy and sovereignty in the AURORAL system (first and final version)

Evaluation of compliance with security, privacy and data sovereignty

Report on SAB Engagement

Documentation and analysis of the Stakeholders Advisory Board activities

Market review and IPR Strategy

Assessment and analysis of the status, needs and potential of the market

Replication plan

Assessment and planning of to empower transfer and replication of AURORAL best practices and results

AURORAL extended pilot-specific marketplace of services and utilization platform

Analysis and evaluation of AURORAL extended pilot-specific community-focused marketplace of smart services under a B2C and G2B/G2C platform approach

Results of open call, including ranked list of received proposals

Publication of the results of the call

AURORAL open call requirements for vertical tools and services

Identification and description of the requirement for the open call for vertical tools and services

Report on financial ecosystem -supply side- for rural innovation projects

Identification of the potential public and private investors for rural innovation projects

Evaluation report of AURORAL simulation in ecosystem outside the project

Evaluation of the results of the training session carried out to simulate AURORAL solution in different ecosystems

Report on AURORAL innovation gaps (first and final version)

Assessment of the marketready available digital services and platforms and identification of potential innovation gaps within AURORAL

AURORAL pilot-focused requirement extraction and KPIs definition

Review of AURORAL pilot sites and specific requirements and KPIs for vertical integration and horizontalmarketplace services

Identified needs and requirements for cross-cutting services for Open Calls

Analysis of the status and needs for the open call for crosscutting services

Specification of AURORAL ontology for the rural environment

Description and selection relevant standards and data models for defining the ontology to be used in the open API

A detailed assessment of the pilot sites' sustainable investments market for rural innovation and a vision for closing gaps and overcoming deficiencies

Identification of market failure and financing needs regarding rural innovation projects

AURORAL extended pilot-specific horizontal tools and services

Analysis and evaluation of AURORAL extended pilotspecific horizontal tools and services

Service Store implementation for the Auroral Middleware

Definition and description of AURORAL Service Store

Initial integration of vertical tools and services per pilot site

Report and evaluation of the initial integration of vertical tools and services per pilot site

Business Plan for project results exploitation

Description of the Business plan for project results exploitation

The AURORAL Data Interoperability Brokerage Middleware

Definition and description of AURORAL Data Interoperability Brokerage Middleware

Terms of reference of the call for grant and selection of third parties, including guide for applicants

Definition of rules and procedure of the open call for FSTPs

Report on cooperation activities

Documentation and analysis of the cooperation activities

Call for grant and selection of third parties, including eligibility and evaluation criteria

Definition of the specific procedures for selection of winning 3rd parties

Report on monitoring methodology to track AURORAL's relevance and replicability in European Rural Areas

Analysis on the methodology used to track the scalability replicability and interoperability of AURORALs solutions initial

Quality and scope of AURORAL demonstrators at Auroral ecosystems

Definition and description of AURORAL demonstrators’ quality and scope

Report on AURORAL's relevance and replicability in European Rural Areas

Evaluation of the scalability, replicability and interoperability of AURORAL’s solutions

Report on upgrades of Cross-cutting Tools and Services integrated at pilot sites

Analysis of the Integrated Cross-Cutting Tools and Services at pilot sites potentiality

Report on the technical evaluation of the AURORAL innovation (first and final version)

Technical description and analysis of the AURORAL innovation

Demonstration plan for AURORAL ecosystems

Description of the demonstration plan for AURORAL ecosystem

AURORAL reference architecture

Definition and description of AURORAL reference architecture design

The AURORAL Northbound and Southbound Open APIs

Definition and description of AURORAL Northbound and Southbound Open APIs

Report on the evaluation of acceptance and adoption of the innovation

Evaluation of innovations' acceptance and adoption by the public, the entrepreneurs, the service providers, and the stakeholders. Provide a description of a common pool of indicators to use as a baseline for measuring Smart Communities performance and guidelines for continuous development of the project impacts and results for codevelopers.

Other (1)

AURORAL Investment Platform

Description of the common framework that will aggregate villages and rural towns into an investment platform

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Integrated Cross-Cutting Tools and Services at pilot sites and validation report

Description and evaluation of the Integrated Cross-Cutting Tools and Services at pilot sites

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

ORDP Open research data pilot

Description and documentation of the strategy for the management of researchdata and publications generated within AURORAL

Publications

Conference proceedings (18)

How much OWL do you need to know to make sense of building ontologies?

Auteurs: María Poveda-Villalón, Sergio Carulli-Pérez and Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: 12th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2024), 2024
Éditeur: linkedbuildingdata

Are smart mobility pilots in Finland fostering sustainability? – An assessment

Auteurs: Valtteri Ahonen, Virve Merisalo, Shahid Hussain, Veikko Pekkala, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Transportation Research Procedia, Numéro Volume 72, 2023, Page(s) 3869-3876, ISSN 2352-1465
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.496

Carbon Footprint Reduction with Car-Sharing Service – A Case Study

Auteurs: Valtteri Ahonen, Jussi Lassila, Jani Karjalainen, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Transportation Research Procedia, Numéro Volume 72, 2023, Page(s) 1934-1941, ISSN 2352-1465
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.673

Practical challenges of ODRL and potential courses of action

Auteurs: Andrea Cimmino, Juan Cano-Benito, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1428–1431, ISBN 9781450394192
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3543873.3587628

Towards time privacy policies in ODRL

Auteurs: Juan Cano-Benito, Andrea Cimmino, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: NeXt-generation Data Governance Workshop, Numéro 2024, 2024, ISSN 1613-0073
Éditeur: CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Employee Perceptions of Privacy and Data Control in Workplace Wellness e- Health Programs

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Javier García-Zubia
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2024, Page(s) 2020-2025
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/compsac61105.2024.00323

Building data sharing platforms for rural areas: Including the periphery

Auteurs: Kine Jacobsen
Publié dans: The 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Numéro 32, 2024
Éditeur: ECIS

When Ontologies Met Knowledge Graphs: Tale of a Methodology

Auteurs: Romana Pernisch, María Poveda-Villalón, Diego Conde-Herreros, David Chaves-Fraga, Lise Stork
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, 2025, Page(s) 286-290, ISBN 978-3-031-78951-9
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_43

Data Space Design: An empirical case study of smart rural communities

Auteurs: Kine Jacobsen
Publié dans: The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Numéro 33, 2025
Éditeur: ECIS

Towards quantitative measures of interoperability

Auteurs: Juan Cano-Benito, Andrea Cimmino, and Raul Garcıa-Castro
Publié dans: Semantic Interoperability in Data Spaces, 2024
Éditeur: internationaldataspaces

Ontology Engineering and the FAIR principles: A Gap Analysis toward a FAIR-by-design methodology

Auteurs: María Poveda-Villalón1, Daniel Garijo, Alejandra N. Gonzalez-Beltran, Clement Jonquet and Yann Le Franc
Publié dans: FOAM 2024 - FAIR principles for Ontologies and Metadata in Knowledge Management, 2024, Page(s) 15p.
Éditeur: HAL

A data-driven framework for building energy benchmarking and renovation decision-making support in Sweden

Auteurs: Santhan Reddy Penaka, Kailun Feng, Anders Rebbling, Shoaib Azizi, Weizhuo Lu and Thomas Olofsson
Publié dans: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Numéro Volume 1196, 2023, ISSN 1755-1315
Éditeur: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1196/1/012005

On the Governance of Semantic Artefacts in Dataspaces

Auteurs: Lucía Sánchez-González, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Oscar Corcho and María Poveda-Villalón
Publié dans: SDS Semantics in Dataspaces 2024, 2024
Éditeur: Research-Technology Management

Propagating Ontology Changes to Declarative Mappings in Construction of Knowledge Graphs

Auteurs: Diego Conde Herreros, David Chaves-Fraga, María Poveda-Villalón, Romana Pernisch, Lise Stork, Oscar Corcho
Publié dans: Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop 2024, Numéro 21, 2024
Éditeur: CEUR

Energy-efficient retrofitting with incomplete building information:a data-driven approach

Auteurs: Kailun Feng, Weizhuo Lu, Santhan Reddy Penaka, Erik Eklund, Staffan Andersson and Thomas Olofsson
Publié dans: 16th ROOMVENT Conference, Numéro Volume 356, 2022, ISSN 2267-1242
Éditeur: E3S Web Conf
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202235601003

The AURORAL Privacy Approach for Smart Communities Based on ODRL

Auteurs: Andrea Cimmino, Juan Cano-Benito, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit, 2025, Page(s) 89-100
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78572-6_6

Data-driven modelling of building retrofitting with incomplete physics: A generative design and machine learning approach

Auteurs: Haitao Yu, Kailun Feng, Santhan Reddy Penaka, Qingpeng Man, Weizhuo Lu, Thomas Olofsson
Publié dans: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Numéro Volume 2654, 2024, ISSN 1742-6596
Éditeur: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2654/1/012053

Injecting data into ODRL privacy policies dynamically with RDF mappings

Auteurs: Juan Cano-Benito, Andrea Cimmino, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023, Page(s) 246–249, ISBN 9781450394192
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3543873.3587358

Peer reviewed articles (19)

From cloud and fog computing to federated-fog computing: A comparative analysis of computational resources in real-time IoT applications based on semantic interoperability

Auteurs: Edgar Huaranga-Junco, Salvador González-Gerpe, Manuel Castillo-Cara, Andrea Cimmino, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Future Generation Computer Systems, Numéro 159, 2024, Page(s) 134-150, ISSN 0167-739X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.05.001

Multi-scale modeling in thermal conductivity of Polyurethane incorporated with Phase Change Materials using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Auteurs: Bokai Liu, Yizheng Wang, Timon Rabczuk, Thomas Olofsson, Weizhuo Lu
Publié dans: Renewable Energy, Numéro Volumne 220, 2023, ISSN 0960-1481
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119565

An ontological approach for representing declarative mapping languages

Auteurs: Ana Iglesias-Molina; Andrea Cimmino; Edna Ruckhaus; David Chaves-Fraga; Raúl García-Castro; Oscar Corcho
Publié dans: Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, Numéro Volume 15, 2024, Page(s) 191-221, ISSN 1570-0844
Éditeur: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/sw-223224

Human-in-the-loop machine learning: Reconceptualizing the role of the user in interactive approaches

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Javier García-Zubia
Publié dans: Internet of Things, Numéro Volume 25, 2024, ISSN 2542-6605
Éditeur: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2023.101048

The Evolution of Smart and Intelligent Mobility – A Semantic and Conceptual Analysis

Auteurs: Pekka Leviäkangas, Valtteri Ahonen
Publié dans: International Journal of Technology, Numéro Vol 12, No 5 (2021), 2021, Page(s) 1019–1029, ISSN 2087-2100
Éditeur: Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia
DOI: 10.14716/ijtech.v12i5.5256

Optimizing Computational Resources for Edge Intelligence through Model Cascade Strategies

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona; Diego Casado-Mansilla; Diego López-de-Ipiña; Javier Garcia-Zubia
Publié dans: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Numéro Vol 9, No 10, 2022, Page(s) 7404-7417, ISSN 2327-4662
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/jiot.2021.3118845

Towards smart, digitalised rural regions and communities – Policies, best practices and case studies

Auteurs: Pekka Leviäkangas, Signe Sønvisen, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Marius Mikalsen, Andrea Cimmino, Anastassios Drosou, Shahid Hussain
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro 81, 2025, Page(s) 102824, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102824

Addressing sustainability in mobility: a study on Finnish smart mobility innovation projects

Auteurs: Valtteri Ahonen, Shahid Hussain, Virve Merisalo, Veikko Pekkala, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: European Transport Research Review, Numéro 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-8887
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s12544-023-00630-0

Energy-efficient retrofitting with incomplete building information: A data-driven approach and empirical study in Sweden

Auteurs: Feng, Kailun, Weizhuo Lu, Yaowu Wang, and Qingpeng Man
Publié dans: Buildings, Numéro Volume 12 / Numéro 8, 2022, ISSN 2075-5309
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/buildings12081244

Thermal energy community-based multi-dimensional business model framework and critical success factors investigation in the mediterranean region of the EU

Auteurs: Arnau González, Pol Arranz-Piera, Borja Olives, Aleksandar Ivancic, Conrad Pagà, Marc Cortina
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro Volume 75, 2023, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

Assessing the Sustainability Alignment of Smart Mobility Projects

Auteurs: Shahid Hussain, Valtteri Ahonen, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Transportation Research Procedia, Numéro 84, 2025, Page(s) 161-168, ISSN 2352-1465
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.03.059

Sustainability Assessment of Smart Mobility Projects in Finland: A Comparative Analysis

Auteurs: Shahid Hussain, Valtteri Ahonen, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Transportation Research Procedia, Numéro 82, 2025, Page(s) 713-733, ISSN 2352-1465
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2024.12.068

Helio: a framework for implementing the life cycle of knowledge graphs

Auteurs: Andrea Cimmino and Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, Numéro Volume 15, 2024, Page(s) 223-249, ISSN 1570-0844
Éditeur: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/sw-233224

Mind the gap: The AURORAL ecosystem for the digital transformation of smart communities and rural areas

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona, David Buján-Carballal, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Juan Cano-Benito, Andrea Cimmino, María Poveda-Villalón, Raúl García-Castro, Jorge Almela-Miralles, Dimitris Apostolidis, Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Martin Wagner, María Guadalupe-Rodriguez, Diego Salinas, David Esteller, Martí Riera-Rovira, Arnau González, Jaime Clavijo-Ágreda, Albert
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro Volume 74, August 2023, 2023, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102304

Sustainability of smart rural mobility and tourism: A key performance indicators-based approach

Auteurs: Shahid Hussain, Valtteri Ahonen, Taha Karasu, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro Volume 74, 2023, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102287

Data-driven quantitative analysis of an integrated open digital ecosystems platform for user-centric energy retrofits: A case study in northern Sweden

Auteurs: Bokai Liu, Santhan Reddy Penaka, Weizhuo Lu, Kailun Feng, Anders Rebbling, Thomas Olofsson
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro Volume 75, 2023, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102347

A literature review of smart technology domains with implications for research on smart rural communities

Auteurs: Kine Jakobsen, Marius Mikalsen, Grethe Lilleng
Publié dans: Technology in Society, Numéro Volume 75, November 2023, 2023, ISSN 0160-791X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102397

Open Digital Rights Enforcement framework (ODRE): From descriptive to enforceable policies

Auteurs: Andrea Cimmino, Juan Cano-Benito, Raúl García-Castro
Publié dans: Computers & Security, Numéro 150, 2025, Page(s) 104282, ISSN 0167-4048
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104282

Comparative Lifecycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Investments in Public Buildings: A Case Study of an Austrian Kindergarten Under Atypical Operational Conditions

Auteurs: Georgia Kousovista, Giannis Iakovides, Stefanos Petridis, Nikolaos-Charalampos Chairopoulos, Angelos Skembris, Maria Fotopoulou, Despina Antipa, Nikolaos Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios Rakopoulos
Publié dans: Applied Sciences, Numéro 15, 2025, Page(s) 2330, ISSN 2076-3417
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/app15052330

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Älykkään liikenteen tki-hankkeet ja tasapainoinen kestävä kehitys

Auteurs: Shahid Hussain, Valtteri Ahonen, Virve Merisalo, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Liikenne-vuosikirja, Numéro 7, 2025, Page(s) 65-96, ISSN 2670-0379
Éditeur: Liikennesuunnittelun Seura
DOI: 10.58956/liikenne.147220

Saavutettavuus ja yhdenvertaisuus harvaan asutuilla seuduilla - viitekehys

Auteurs: Pekka Leviäkangas, Matti Roine, Taha Karasu, Valtteri Ahonen, Shahid Hussain, Virve Merisalo
Publié dans: Liikenne-vuosikirja, Numéro 7, 2025, Page(s) 39-63, ISSN 2670-0379
Éditeur: Liikennesuunnittelun Seura
DOI: 10.58956/liikenne.147427

Book chapters (4)

Modulating Users’ Involvement in Interactive Machine Learning Solutions: A Model Cascade Strategy

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Javier García-Zubia
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2022), Numéro 2022, 2022, Page(s) 345-356, ISSN 978-3-031-21332-8978-3-031-21333-5
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21333-5_35

Sustainability and Value Propositions of Smart Mobility Projects in Rural Areas

Auteurs: Valtteri Ahonen, Shahid Hussain
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025, Page(s) 676-682
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-85578-8_91

Tailoring Digital Middleware for Rural Needs: Insights from User Feedback Analysis

Auteurs: Oihane Gómez-Carmona, David Buján-Carballal, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2024), 2024, Page(s) 716-728
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77571-0_68

Ecological Sustainability and Passengers’ Values in Mobility – A Case of Fell Lapland Region

Auteurs: Valtteri Ahonen, Maria Hakkarainen, Erkki Nykänen, Pekka Leviäkangas
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025, Page(s) 85-90
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-85578-8_12