While the first and second years of the project focused on building the FESTIVAL experimentation platform and realise internal experiments, the third year focus was about its validation and exploitation.
1) Workpackage 2 provided the base of the FESTIVAL platform and portal by the end of the 2nd year and demonstrated its functionalities on Month 26 within the Deliverable 2.5 “Integrated reusable components for EaaS – Second release”.
2) The FESTIVAL EaaS platform and experimenter portal developed in the WP2 has been exploited by the activities conducted by the Workpackage 3. About 12 internal experiments have been conducted from application domains such as smart energy management, smart shopping, smart building and smart city. The result of the work has been presented in the Deliverable 3.4 “Final Report of Selected Applications and Experiments”.
The project has organised an open call to attract external experimenters that use the platform for their experimentations. A total of about 130 experiments of different size have been created by using the platform (see The Deliverable 3.5 “Report of Results Derived from Call for Experimenters” for details).
3) In this final year, Workpackage 4 has been in charge of evaluating the quality of service provided by the platform, as well as the quality of experience perceived by the experimenters. The overall results are have been provided in detail within the Deliverable 4.4 “Final FESTIVAL performance and User Involvements report”.
4) In addition to the individual exploitation plans for the project achievements by each partner, a joint exploitation plan for the global project outcomes is also considered, in particular under a testbed oriented global smart city alliance, namely Urban Technology Alliance, with core partners coming from the FESTIVAL consortium. The project has been very active in participating in various events worldwide to disseminate its results and attract interest from different stakeholders (see Deliverable 5.7 “Final report on communication, dissemination, standardization, exploitation, and open data management”).
5) Finally, Workpackage 6 has been doing the overall coordination of, not only the technical activities of the project, but also the activities related to the dissemination, exploitation and impact monitoring. An excellent synergy has been created from the EU-Japan partners, which committed to further exploit the project results after the project end and have planned a set of activities focusing on ensuring the sustainability both of the FESTIVAL EaaS Platform within the Urban Technology Alliance and of the single exploitable items. The Deliverable 6.7 “Final impact report and future EU-Japan collaboration plan” provides the measurable indicators and their values towards the impact generated by the project.
The project has managed to integrate about 10 European and Japanese assets and 7000 open data sets. The integration has been validated by organising about 10 small and large scale trials involving several thousands of end-users. In addition to the internal experiments, the project has succeeded in attracting abut 130 external experiments running on the platform.
