Result description
The NeMo project developed a Hyper-Network of tools and services for an e-mobility Marketplace that enables the creation, trading and interoperable execution of e-mobility services across countries and across service providers. As an IT system, the NeMo Hyper-Network comprises of: A collection of NeMo Nodes to which the NeMo Core Components are deployed, forming the basic infrastructure that allows members of the NeMo consortium to participate in the NeMo Marketplace; A set of NeMo enabled electro-mobility services providing B2B functionality around the operation of electric vehicles. Business Partners of NeMo can register such services on the NeMo Marketplace so that they can be contracted and consumed by other partners; Electro-mobility applications that members of the NeMo Consortium offer to their customers in a B2C mode. These B2C applications may recur to NeMo Registered Services, but they are considered neither as NeMo Core Components nor as NeMo Registered Services.
From an IT system perspective, the NeMo Hyper-Network is a distributed system comprising of multiple NeMo Nodes hosting the business functionality provided by the NeMo Marketplace. It is a business network allowing partners to perform B2B business transactions. The functional prototype provides a de-centralized node network where each participant hosts its own node: as a local access point to the NeMo Marketplace and storing data available on the marketplace locally in their data centre; to employ data replication techniques allowing each participant to access data consistently across all nodes is of high importance in such a de-centralized marketplace. NeMo employs ‘blockchain’ technology to assure that all participants in the NeMo Hyper-Network act on the basis of agreed-upon business functionality and agreed-upon/consensus-based business data; to enable service-to-service invocations across the marketplace nodes, thus supporting a standardized way of peer-to-peer service invocations. Partners benefit from NeMo’s Common Information Model as data representation standard used on the marketplace, data translations to and from CIM, and an Integration Bus running on each node.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Business partners – SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations
Electromobility Service providers, IT service providers, Aggregators, CPOs, energy actors, OEMs, SMEs, Transport/mobility operators, mobility stakeholders, urban logistics companies
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Prototype level of the Hyper-Network, exploring market level deployment
The Hyper-Network can provide a set of tools and basic services that can be used by any business actor to reach to better, more complex and innovative services to offer to the marketplace on top of his own existing offerings. It is built to allow easy services integration into a completely new service, that can be of any context. It is a place of supporting business and service development with great potential.
The system is based on decentralized architecture and open sets. Each node can be used at the business partner own system.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by IBM DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
