Standardisation Activities Report – Final (D8.4)

The current report, which is an updated version of deliverable D8.3 [1], documents the series of activities performed during the project lifetime 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) for the whole project duration. 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, 5 and 6 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 relevant 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 during the first project reporting period most of the standardisation activities in which the Consortium has been active have been focused on the standardisation of the different protocols designed as an outcome of the Alert4All project [1], which are being further refined within PHAROS. During the second project period, the Consortium has refined the standardisation strategy, as recommended during the First Review Meeting (Rec. 12 [3]). As an outcome of this re-elaboration of the standardisation strategy, additional standardisation activities and liaisons have been started, on one hand, and on the other hand, additional implementation works have been addressed in order to ensure compliance with further interoperability directives. In the former case, the Consortium has triggered the necessary activities to start the standardisation process of the sCOP format developed within PHAROS as an extension to the TSO standard. In the latter, new requirements have been identified and implemented in order to ensure compliance with the INSPIRE directive [3].