Data model seeks to fill the smart city interoperability gap

Source: Smart Cities World Published: February 26th, 2021

The uCIFI Alliance is publicly releasing its first unified data model, which claims to provide interoperability and interchangeability between connected devices to “unlock smart cities”, reduce cost and guarantee investments’ sustainability.

uCIFI said the model will “fill the interoperability gap” and become an Internet of Things (IoT) standard that offers cities and utilities full interoperability with other leading industry alliances and organisations, such as Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and Internet Protocol for Smart Object (IPSO).

Open source model

The open source model is focused on key smart city applications such as streetlighting, water metering and distribution monitoring, waste management, parking, traffic monitoring, air-quality monitoring, smart buildings, as well as safety and security.

It also supports common and more complex services, including multicast grouping, sensor-to-actuator dynamic control and a calendar-based control programme to standardise edge computing for IoT sensors.

The alliance, launched in 2018, brings market leaders, cities and utilities together via a unified data model that enables a native communication format between connected sensors on cellular, NB-IoT and LoRaWAN networks, as well as an open source reference implementation on Wi-SUN mesh to be released as another cornerstone of the alliance’s vision.

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