Pre-Operational Service Platform (D5.6)

The present technical report, which accompanies the product of Deliverable D5.6, represents the implementation report of the PHAROS pre-operational Service Platform (SP). The aim of the PHAROS SP is to interconnect the various subsystems and orchestrate their operation.

The SP was developed according to the specification and architectural blueprint defined in Deliverable D5.1 [1]. In the specific, all the defined submodules were developed, integrated and tested, namely: the Data Repository, the Workflow Engine, the Enterprise Service Bus and the SP Management front-end.

The SP was deployed as a Virtual Machine (VM), with adequate resources, within a host server dedicated to PHAROS within the private data centre of Space Hellas (SPH).

During the implementation phase, some minor adjustments – with regard to the initial specification – were found to be necessary. In particular, a dedicated database for sensor data was proven not to be necessary (sensor information was stored in the general geodatabase); an extra access control layer was added to facilitate authentication and authorisation; finally, a connector plug-in was implemented in order to feed data to the secondary users’ website.

A test campaign was executed with specifically defined test cases. The aim was to validate the functional and interfacing requirements set in D5.1 [1]. All test cases were successfully executed and all SP functionalities were validated, including access control, monitoring, information routing, data handling, incident management and proper interfacing and information exchange to other subsystems.

Concluding, it can be stated that the PHAROS SP has been successfully developed, integrated into the system and tested, thus bringing the platform at a pre-operational status. Minor further activities are needed in order to commercialise it; these activities include further development of management GUI, user documentation, further testing and packaging/installation automation.