The Data Platform

The DKSR-OUP is the first available tested, robust, open-source platform. This means that everyone can freely access the platform’s source code, ensuring that cities and regions do not become dependent on one vendor.

DKSR operates an Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) in which developments from the open-source community can be reviewed and ideally made available to all users free of charge. In this way, the DKSR-OUP becomes the core of a community of smart cities and regions.

The Open Urban Platform (OUP) of the DKSR is a (near-) real-time data platform that follows the vision of open urban platforms as expressed by the European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) and defined as a standard in the DIN SPEC 91357framework.

The DKSR OUP focuses on minimal latency, meaning that the time between data acquisition and data provision is kept as short as possible. This allows sensor data to be processed, analyzed, and distributed in near real-time, and used to respond immediately to what is happening in the city, community, or region. With IoT entering the urban and municipal system landscape, applications with real-time functionalities (such as environmentally sensitive traffic control) make up a majority of smart city solutions that can benefit from an OUP.

Municipal administration, companies, and individuals can use the information collected, generated, and provided by DKSR-OUP to optimize their individual decisions and improve their digitized services and processes. In doing so, the platform is highly scalable, allowing its users to grow with their respective needs. It can be used both by partners who want to gain initial experience in the smart city sector and by those who are already successfully operating their own sensor platforms in a decentralized manner and are now aiming for cross-domain data integration as a next step.

The DKSR OUP is FIWARE certified. This means that we use a central FIWARE component to structure data and data models in a standardized way: the Orion Context Broker. Via the NGSI-LD format, we can thus quickly provide good applications from one municipality to all other users.

To break down the data silos of different sensor platforms and municipal management systems of the specific domains, the platform offers a connector technology that can link heterogeneous data sources from all municipal sectors and then homogenize them. Ultimately, the DKSR OUP provides fully integrated access to urban sensor data from the different urban domains and combines them with existing data sources, all of these based on smart data and smart services. In this way, the DKSR OUP unifies the diverse city data sources to better visualize and understand them and to better address city needs.