During the first year, efforts were put into retrieving relevant issues and needs from all the pilot events in order to convert these into initial requirements. From the gathered information user scenarios have been formulated and then reviewed by the pilot partners. Once confirmed they have been converted to generic use cases. The requirements management process, allowed a contiuous refinement and the transfer from use cases to solutions by the technical partners.
From the technical point of view during the first two years the integration of MONICA closed loop systems (IoT Platform & Devies - WP3, Audio - WP4, Security - WP5, Decision Support & Applications - WP6) was our main focus. The MONICA platform is designed to deal with large IoT deployments, capable of integration heterogeneous types of devices including wristbands, IoT sound level meters, blimps, sensors, mobile apps, cameras, etc. The MONICA architecture is based on LinkSmart® IoT Platform and SCRAL framework on the IoT layer and follows the OGC SensorThings API. During the second year additional IoT-tracking devices were introduced and ongoing integration happened, as the platform had to fit with all the need of each event.
From month 17, the MONICA platform was deployed during a total of 24 live large scale events in the following 1,5 years. This lead to a contiuous refinement of requirements, testing of the solutions in various combinations and improvement of the solutions.
The MONICA data security, privacy and trust framework assumes components of Encryption, Authentication & Authorisation, Identity & Access Management, anti-Malware Protection, and IT Security Baselines. Ethical analyses were performed before each pilot with the help of an ethics questionnaire. Data Management Plan templates have been created and updated for each pilot. Furthermore for each pilot extensive Data Privacy Acknowledgement forms were signed by all involved parties to define responsible roles and people in each partner organisation.
Visitors feedback surveys as well as MONICA technologies usability surveys have been undertaken to further improve the solutions. In 2018 and 2019 demonstrations, have taken place during DOM and Port Anniversary in Hamburg, Nuits Sonores and Fête des Lumières in Lyon, Kappa FuturFestival and Movida in Torino, Friday Rock in Copenhagen, sports matches in Leeds and Puetzchens Markt and Rhein in Flammen in Bonn. Replication Events have been organised in 2019 in Lyon [Woodstower Festival] and in Denmark [Roskilde SoundSummit, IoT Week Conference and during a Copenhagen Street Festival].
3 Hackathons have been organised in Leeds, Turin, and Roskilde. Hackathon winners and participants were allowed to entrepreneurial trainings and activities by project partners.
Dissemination material has been produced both on the general project level and on pilot-specific level including press releases, brochures, and scientific papers. Media coverage of pilots demonstrations has been massive with print, TV, radio, and online coverage alike.
The MONICA Project has even created interest in the US, where the NPSTC in Washington D.C. received two presentations of specific IoT aspects from the project. There is a scope for the joint TIA-ETSI cooperation on the development of a High Quality IoT device with minimum Latency and Jitter characteristics.
Furthermore MONICA contributed to regulatory issues. Together with Live DMA workshops and
relevant publications have been organized (for example, MONICA has also reached out to WHO regarding noise current regulations). MONICA also worked with the NPSTC in the US, a specification body serving police and safety organizations. Specifically, on the sound monitoring research, MONICA has been contributing to the identification of standard gaps; for example, in Europe there is not a standardized interface for environmental sensors, and this is an area where MONICA lead
some developments.
