1. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
“Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating
Applications with Social Media Services and Personal
Cloudlets”
www.openi-ict.eu
OPEN INNOVATION IN THE MOBILE APP
ECOSYSTEM: OPENI PERSPECTIVE ON APIS AND
CLOUDLETS
Dr. Fenareti Lampathaki (National Technical University of Athens – NTUA, DSSLab)
Samos 2013 Summit on Digital Innovation for
Government, Business and Society, July 1st, 2013

2. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
Social Innovation
Source: http://www.lusic.se/about/what-is-social-innovation/

3. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
A Surging App Economy

4. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.App Developer Journey
Source: VisionMobile. Developer Economics 2013

5. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.Developer Perspective
War of Mobile OS
APIs Market Proliferation
Source: Musser, J. (2012) Open APIs: What's Hot, What's Not?.
http://www.slideshare.net/jmusser/j-musser-apishotnotgluecon2012

6. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
Service Providers
Perspective
Applications as cost centres
Concerns for disruption of
business models

7. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
Lack of data control
Fragmentation in data silos
Users Perspective
Personal data on the cloud

8. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.OPENi Approach

9. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
 An open-source cloud platform that will allow Users to
instantiate, deploy and manage their own Cloudlet.
 An API framework that will allow Developers to build
applications that integrate dynamically a broader
spectrum of cloud-based services and at the same time
can access User Cloudlets to store and retrieve content
and data.
 A set of value adding services, that will allow
Developers to easily access and use the content and
data stored in the Cloudlets across several applications
and devices.
Key Results

10. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.API Framework
• User-centric, «Graph» API based on REST & JSON
• Abstracts functionality of Cloud-based Services
into uniquely identified objects
• Accompanied by a developers’community-based platform

11. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
Cloudlet
Cloudlet
• Each cloudlet is addressable
• API Component embedded in Cloudlet
• All communication via REST/JSON
• Portability, security, privacy, ownership

12. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
To inspire innovation in the European mobile applications industry, by
radically improving the interoperability of cloud-based services and
trust in personal cloud storage through the development of a
consumer-centric, open source mobile cloud applications platform.
7 partners from 5 countries
3 Use Cases:
• MyLife
• Personalized Advertizing
• Personalized Shopping
1 Goal
OPENi in a nutshell
Objective: ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud
Computing, Internet of Services &
Advanced Software Engineering
Start date: October 2012
Duration: 30 months

13. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
 State-of-the art deliverables and requirements analysis
completed
 Targeted blog posts summarize (part of) results
 FIA Dublin Session (Boosting the App Economy: What’s the role of
APIs, Cloudlets and Data Driven Services?) proceedings
 Design documents will be released within the next month
 Opportunity to follow closely the OPENi activities through the
Advisory Groups that are currently being established
 Interested to join? Let us know!
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What’s available now?
What comes next?

14. Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating Applications with Cloud-based
Services and Personal Cloudlets.
“Open-Source, Web-Based, Framework for Integrating
Applications with Social Media Services and Personal
Cloudlets”
www.openi-ict.eu
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Join Us!
Samos 2013 Summit on Digital Innovation for
Government, Business and Society, July 1st, 2013
Dr. Fenareti Lampathaki (NTUA, DSSLab)
fenareti.lampathaki @fenaretiflamp@epu.ntua.gr
Acknowldgement: Photos retrieved from Google Images