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The key objective of SALTED is to add value to existing datasets and data-streams by enriching them through the application of the principles of linked-data, semantics and Artificial Intelligence. These datasets and data-streams come from heterogenous data sources such as Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, Open Data Portals and Social Media, and are harmonized towards a standard information model, i.e. NGSI-LD, targeting the so-essential interoperability.

The Data Enrichment Toolchain (DET) architecture designed and developed comprises different microservices that, on the whole, address the challenges presented along the achievement of the main goal of the project. The principal microservices are:
data discovery, i.e., the ability to discover and request the collection of sets and streams of data;
data formatting, i.e., the transformation of raw data into well-formed and structured sets of data accordingly to data models described in terms of NGSI-LD;
data curation, i.e., the identification (and potential correction) of data that do not reflect the expected quality (outliers, errors in values and the like);
data linkage, i.e., the ability to relate different datasets accordingly to a well established definition of relationships;
data enrichment, i.e., the ability to understand and frame the data structures according to situations and contexts and the definition of functions that exploit this contextualization.

SALTED Architecture

SALTED Architecture

The SALTED architecture is based on a Context Broker federated setup and DETs. This architecture implementation highly encourages that every DET injects data into its local Context Broker, which is connected, among others, with the so-called Federator Broker. This setup allows users to make their requests to a single central broker, which is able to forward these queries to the corresponding local brokers that have relevant data for those requests.

The Context Brokers used in this project correspond to the FIWARE Generic Enabler Scorpio context-broker, which guarantees full compatibility with the NGSI-LD API. Furthermore, the data enrichment outcomes are published in the European Data Portal, for which a connector between the SALTED architecture and this platform has been developed.

The main results derived from the project can be divided in three phases: harmonization of existing heterogenous data sources (increasing interoperability), enrichment of the harmonized data (enhancing data quality) and publishing of the enriched data in the European Data Portal (improving discoverability). Thereby, SALTED contributes to the stimulation of data usage and the acceleration of the data economy in Europe.

Latest News in SALTED!

August 31, 2023
D2.3: Report on Situation-aware data enrichment

This document, developed by the SALTED project, represents the D2.3 deliverable of the situation-aware data enrichment. The focus of this document is the definition of the architecture implementation and deployment, regarding the enrichment of data that has been carried out throughout the project. The close link to the applications of activity 4 results in a […]

August 31, 2023
SALTED GitHub repository

It goes without saying that one of the key pillars of any project is the code behind the abstract definitions and architectures, and SALTED is no exception. One of our contributions is the release of open source code intended to facilitate future development, both for ourselves and for any interested third party. The SALTED GitHub […]

August 25, 2023
CEF SALTED talk on “AI for Smart Cities”

Dr. Gürkan Solmaz from CEF SALTED has been invited as a keynote speaker by the AI Educational Initiative (AIEI) in Heidelberg, Germany on July 8,2023.  AIEI is a recently formed community to educate broader society on the AI. The keynote lecture was in general about the AI and its applications to the smart cities. Specifically, the […]

June 26, 2023
SALTED in the FIWARE Global Summit 2023

FIWARE Global Summit 2023, the grand annual event organised by the FIWARE Foundation, took place on June 12 and 13 in Vienna. Some of the SALTED team partners attended the event and had the opportunity to promote the project. SALTED was present in the "Strategic FIWARE programs, Services and Products" session. A 10 minute slot […]

June 13, 2023
New Smart Data Models contribution: Extending DataServiceDCAT-AP and Introducing DataServiceRun

Aligned with the Agenda Analytics use case of the SALTED Project, the development and employment of data services is practically a must when talking about the collection and processing of data stored on the Internet. Services such as web crawlers or data linkers can be represented by the DataServiceDCAT-AP Smart Data Model, following the principles […]

May 31, 2023
An extension for the AgriParcel Smart Data Model

One of the SALTED use cases is Smart Agriculture, which aims to analyse the CO2 levels at several kinds of parcels with different types of soil and/or crops. The parcels used for this assessment are located near the city of Madrid. Taking advantage of the Smart Data Models initiative, several data models have been chosen […]

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