Growing Smart Cities on an Open-Data-Centric Cyber-Physical Platform

Considering an environment that consists of several services, applications and platforms, each present entity produces a certain amount of data. With so many sources of data, there are a number of things bound to exist: different formats of information, redundancy and no consistent standards of information. In environments as these, the collaboration between different entities creates an opportunity for innovation, where data interoperability allows for the re-use of information, the possibility of different services taking advantage of other third-party sources and the development of new businesses from existing information. This, however, is only possible if there is some sort of interoperability between the data, a way for it to be transmitted from entity to entity, always with the possibility of creating value with its manipulation and consumption. This paper exposes the work done in the development of a platform focused on data, looking into its forms of representation and how to solve the problems caused by the ever existing necessity of data interoperability between systems. The possibility for maintaining and creating Open Data Ecosystems is also analysed in the scope of the proposed platform.