IEEE Electrification Magazine - March 2016 - 2

By Howard Bandler

Public-Private
Partnerships
Creating new markets for industry, encouraging
social engagement, and improving quality of life.

HIS IS THE STORY OF HOW 19 ORGANIZAtions-including major corporations,
national governments, universities, and
research institutions-collaborated on an
ambitious research and development
(R&D) project at the cutting edge of the Internet of Things
(IoT) and how the results of that project can now help me
find a bicycle to rent in La Coruña, Spain, when it has been
a long day and I am just too tired to walk anymore. Of
course, if that were all it did, this would not be much of a
story, but there is more.
The "it" to which I am referring is SOFIA: a middleware software platform that draws its name from the
acronym for Smart Objects for Intelligent Applications. In
January 2009, The Advanced Research and Technology
for Embedded Intelligence and Systems (ARTEMIS) Industry Association launched the SOFIA project with the goal
of creating an open platform that would enable and support cross-industry interoperability of Internet-enabled
systems and devices. ARTEMIS is an R&D organization
with the mission of promoting the study, advancement,
and practical application of embedded and cyberphysical
systems within the European Union (EU). Indra Sistemas
(Indra), an information technology (IT) products and services company with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, participated from the project's outset along with other leading technology companies such as Phillips, Nokia, and

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