Standardisation Activities Report – Intermediate (D8.3)

The current report documents the series of activities performed in order to ensure interoperability of the system by means of identifying relevant standards to be incorporated to the system as well as providing new proposals for standardisation (either as new standards or as extensions of the already existing standards). The content of the deliverable is the outcome of the activities carried out within the context of Task 8.2 (Standardisation and interoperability) during the first reporting period. The main objectives of the task are:

• Identification of possible areas of standardisation regarding interoperability from the implementation work packages
• Investigate established standards for possible extension
• Develop extensions of existing standards or propose new/updated standards regarding interoperability in the areas of situation assessment and decision support, alerting, simulation

Apart from Task 8.2, the technical progress of the works carried out in WP 3, 4 and 5 have been used as basis to identify the relevant standards to be applied for devising an interoperable system.

The activities carried out within this task have been focused on two main areas: (i) the identification of relevant standards to be used in order to ensure system interoperability and flexibility; (ii) the identification of relevant standards which could be updated/extended according to the PHAROS outcome. For the first area, the objective has been to identify and analyse the standards in order to include them in the PHAROS design and implementation activities, while in the second case, the Consortium is intended to be active in proposing new updates or standards in the corresponding standardisation organisations.

It must be pointed out that most of the standardisation activities in which the Consortium has been active for the time being are focused on the standardisation of the different protocols designed as an outcome of the Alert4All project [1], which are being further refined within PHAROS. Additional standardisation activities shall be triggered during the second reporting period in order to foster the standardisation of the results obtained by PHAROS during the first reporting period. For this purpose, the relevant standardisation organisations have been identified.