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Figure 11.
Seamless interoperability between sensors and actuators.
6.1.1.
Other architectural projects
The above section concentrates on the physical architecture. Of course other views are
important as well and several EU funded projects worked on this.
OASIS.
An innovative approach to account for this demands is followed by the project
OASIS (Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization)
funded by the EU in the 7th framework program. OASIS aims to introduce an
innovative, Ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and System, which will
enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and the sharing of content
between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to
applications for the elderly and beyond. The OASIS System will be open, modular,
holistic, easy to use and have constant standards. In order to achieve interoperability of
services and sharing of contextual information between different services and objects, it
is first necessary to model them, by extracting each service's individual structure up to
its most basic level. In current approaches, this can lead to more or less ad-hoc
solutions. The OASIS solution is to provide foundational ontology components,
specifically tailored to the requirements of the applications to be covered and the
services provided.
The core of the reference architecture is the Common Ontological Framework
(COF), an open and extensible hyper-ontology containing two major resources:
a library of component ontologies and ontological modules supporting inter-
operability across the knowledge sources and services of the application
scenarios;
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