The activities of BigDataOcean summarised below:
Architecture, Data Ingestion and Development
• 72 vocabularies have been collected for the harmonisation of data in BigDataOcean
• A significantly renovated Data Ingestion system has been developed to allow the automated ingestion, semantic enrichment, parsing and normalisation of data from different type of sources including real-time data. This system enabled the fast and timely ingestion of large amounts of data on the platform.
• By the time of the report, more than 170 TB of data from 209 data sources are available.
• The BigDataOcean backbone was renovated and in a layered, cloud infrastructure, with several virtualization and performance capabilities that would enable executing data processing tasks over the new large amounts of collected data (billions of rows).
• A new data exploration section has been integrated in the platform that allows users to browse, query,visualise, search, preview the datasets, their metadata and their variables on the platform.
Pilots and Evaluation
• A detailed description of the evaluation framework and validation methodology was provided, including an extensive description and justification of the models used in the development of the evaluation framework. Additionally, a validation plan has been included addressing the target of the platform validation from at least 1000 users.
• The set of scenarios associated with each pilot and respective test cases were enhanced and improved to demonstrate the added value of the BigDataOcean platform both in terms of scientific innovation and business situation. The stakeholders involved in each pilot were described, giving a special focus to their current and envisaged business situation in the context of the designed scenarios and the envisaged solution that the BigDataOcean platform is providing through the Pilot applications.
• The results of the external evaluation have been documented and used as feedback to be taken into consideration for the development of the lessons learnt while formulating them into adoption guidelines for the users as well as the impact assessment of the project into the business market.
Networking and Dissemination
• The dissemination and communication activities enabled the BigDataOcean platform evaluation by more than 1100 individuals, 70% of the ones engaged in the last evaluation phase were related with stakeholders from the maritime and energy industries.
• The number of industry contact points has grown more than 400% (from 59 at M15 to 309 at M30). BigDataOcean communication has also reflected a positive impact. For instance, the number of followers in social channels increased nearly 45% (from 176 to 255 in a similar period, reaching 431 followers in total) and the number of unique visitors to the website increased by 124% (from 2707 visitors at M15 to 6051 at M30).
Exploitation
• A detailed business plan has been defined for afore-mentioned BDO commercial partnership (HOLISTIC, UBITECH, MARINETRAFFIC), important market hypotheses have been validated while several negotiations are ongoing for converting prospects into paying customers.
• The exploitation strategy has rolled-out in each business and a ROI quantification was performed for each of them.
• Thanks to BDO business-oriented dissemination, 1000+ prospects tested BDO platform in a hands-on manner and provided their feedback.
• During the grant period, the Consortium has been able to cultivate a community of maritime organisations that recognise the value of BDO solutions and are eager to adopt them as a working tool. At the project completion, in fact, 116 prospects have expressed their interest in a commercial follow-up.
• 4 deals have been signed by Consortium partners in the second reporting period. 2 of them, in particular, allow UBITECH to continue providing BC1 solutions to ANEK (i.e. Fuel Consumption Reduction Investigation Service) and FOINIKAS (i.e. BDO Fault Detection and Predictive Maintenance). The other 2 agreements – involving HOLISTIC as commercial front-end – allow NESTER and HCMR to access BDO platform for delivering end-user applications to their clientele, with payments starting from July 2019. BC3 was awarded the NATO innovation award putting it as a forerunner in future NATO tenders.
