IDSA, DATA SPACES, DATA, BLOCKCHAIN

1. Why Industrial Data Spaces and
IDSA for SMART FACTORY?
Lars Nagel, Nadia Fabrizio
Digital Transformation, Industrial
Dataspaces & the Blockchain

2. TOPIC: Industrial Dataspaces,
Blockchain and IDSA Standards for the
competitiviness of SME in European Market
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3. Welcome
Nadia Fabrizio, VAM & Foresight, Cefriel-Politecnico di
Milano, nadia.fabrizio@cefriel.com
Lars Nagel, Head
of IDSA, lars.nagel@internationaldataspaces.org
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4. Agenda
I. The I4.0 Ecosystem
II. The Initiative of International Data
Spaces Alliance
III. The IDS Blockchain Approach

5. Data as flowing lymph
Data Management ( from insourcing to analytics) as “basics” of Digital
Trasformation

6. BUILD VALUE FROM DATA IS THE KEY
-FROM ASSET TO SERVICE
-DECOMMODITAZION OF GOODS
We have the “opportunity” to transform the
“meaning” of business with digital

7. Data as flowing lymph for the business
in the digital: they keep «alive» SMART
SERVICES and PRODUCTS

8. PROCESSESS and PROCUCTS THAT GENERATES DATA

9. In other words
Data as a «decommoditiazion» agent in the
digital era:
GOODS are not ONLY »GOODS» but I am able to
inspect insights
Consumers are able to know the origin and the
story…

10. ECOSISTEMA WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE

11. ECOSYSTEM OF MANY COMPANIES

13. What if SME wants to share data among their
«ecosystems» ( filiere)?
Does it exists an alternative approach to the
”Giants” one-takes-all?
How can a SME build a data strategy ?
Does it exist an European way to data
marketplaces?

14. Example: The supply chain for SME and the
problem of sharing data and guaranteed TRUST
at the same time

15. CORE PRINCIPLES OF ECOSYSTEMS
DATA SPACES IN
ECOSYSTEMS
Which approach?

16. •
NEEDS
-exchange data securely without having
to run data streams through a centralized
platform
-the original owner always maintains
control over the data and sets the
restrictions and conditions for its use.

17. How can we exchange data this way ?
A possibile approach is given by IDSA standard
SOLUTION CANNOT COME from a SINGLE
«COMPANY» or FROM a «PROPRIETARY
SOLUTION», it REQUIRES COOPERATIVE
APPROACH AND NON OPPORTUNISTIC VIEW

18. Agenda
Ø The I4.0 Ecosystem
Ø The Initiative of International Data
Spaces Alliance
Ø The IDS Blockchain Approach

19. A TRUSTWORTHY ARCHITECTURE FOR THE DATA ECONOMY
SMAU, Milano, 24.10.2019
Lars Nagel, CEO, International Data Spaces Association
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES

20. 100+
350people
contributing
20countries

21. #datasovereignty

22. MAKE DATA ECONOMY A SUCCESS.
HOW TO
www.internationaldataspaces.org
IDSA reference architecture forms the base of
§ open, distributed data eco systems and market places,
§ ensuring data sovereignty for the creator of the data,
§ and proven data-provenance for the user of data,
§ all above audit-proof, if requested
§ based on European values.

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ARE CREATED BY SHARING DATA
DATA TREASURES
Linking data is the new oil of the data driven economy
Companies want to share data without regret
Stay in control over the flow of your data

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IS BETTER THAN PLAYING ALONE
DATA SHARING
Semantic interoperability between platforms and ecosystems
Data ecosystems require data
Innovation by AI requires ecosystems

25. // 25www.internationaldataspaces.org
CLEANROOMS FOR A PROSPERING DATA ECONOMY
DATA SPACES
Governance for data sharing
Defining usage constraints
Trusted manipulation of data

26. // 26www.internationaldataspaces.org
SECURE INTERNET FOR THE ECONOMY
TRUST BY DESIGN
Digital identities and certification
Usage Control and enforcement
Secure IoT gateways

27. A COMMUNITY OF TRUST
DATA SHARING REQUIRES
Cristal clear governance for data sharing
Data sovereignty
Trustworthy identities

28. …FOR AN OPEN DATA-ECOSYSTEM.
THE IDSA DEFINES…
www.internationaldataspaces.org
1Reference Architecture
2Interfaces
3Contractual Framework
4Sample Code

29. STRATEGIC INDUSTRY REQUIREMENTS
DETERMINE THE DESIGN OF THE INTERNATIONAL
DATA SPACES ARCHITECTURE
Trust is the basis of the INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES. It is
supported by a comprehensive identity management focusing on
the identification of participants and providing information about
the participant based on the organizational evaluation and
certification of all participants.
Trust
The INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES enables app injection to connectors to add
services on top of the pure data exchange. This includes services for data
processing as well as the alignment of data formats and data exchange protocols,
but also enables analytics on data by the remote execution of algorithms.
Value adding apps
The INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES enables the
creation of novel, datadriven services that make use
of data apps. It also fosters new business models
for those services by providing clearing, billing and
the creation of domainspecific brokers and
marketplaces. In addition, usage restrictions and
legal aspects are provided as templates and with
methodological support.
Data Markets
The INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES
Connector, being a central component of the
architecture, is implemented in different
variants and from different vendors.
Nevertheless, each connector is able to
communicate with every other connector or
component in the ecosystem of the
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES.
Standardized interoperability
The architecture of the INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES does not require central
data storage capabilities. Instead, it pursues the idea of decentralization of data
storage, which means that data physically remains with the respective data
owner until it is transferred to a trusted party. This approach requires a holistic
description of the data source and data as an asset combined with the ability to
integrate domainspecific vocabularies for data. Brokers in the eco system
enable comprehensive realtime search for data.
Ecosystem of data
Components of the INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES rely on current security measures.
Next to architectural specifications, this is realized by the evaluation and certification
of the components. In line with the central aspect of ensuring data sovereignty, a data
owner in the INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES attaches usage restriction information to
its data before it is transferred to a data consumer. The data consumer may use this
data only if it fully accepts the data owner’s usage policy.
Security and data sovereignty
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30. www.internationaldataspaces.org // 31@ids_association
IDS CONNECTOR IMPLEMENTATIONS
RUNNING ON DIFFERENT DEVICES
Lightweight Sensor Connector
• Connector running on 32 bit
microprocessor
• Implementation by Fraunhofer
Trusted Connector
• Connector running on sensor device
• Implementation by Sick AG
Mobile Connector
• Connector running on mobile device
• Implementation by thyssenkrupp AG,
Fraunhofer and Logenios GmbH
Base Connector
• Connector running on Raspberry Pi
• Implementation by nicos AG

31. www.internationaldataspaces.org // 32@ids_association
THE MISSING LINK IN THE IOT
IDS AS DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
Internet of ThingsPersonal
Data
Space
Smart Services
IDS (for peer-to-peer data management)
IDS ConnectorsIDS Connector
Mobility4.0
Industry4.0
Healthcare4.0
Energy4.0
Agriculture4.0
City4.0
Insurance4.0
Finance4.0
Food4.0
…4.0
IDS Connector
Lifestyle
as a
Service
Cross domain
value creation
by sharing data
Service-App2 Service-AppXService-App1
Customer 1
Customer 2
Customer 3
Customer 4
IDS is the enabler
for any future data-
driven ecosystem
(by making data be
considered as an
economic asset)

32. THE INTERNATIONAL DATA
SPACES APPROACH CONNECTS
ALL KINDS OF DATA ENDPOINTS
When broadening the perspective from an individual
use case scenario to a platform landscape view, the
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES positions itself as an
architecture to link different cloud platforms through
secure exchange and trusted sharing of data, short:
through data sovereignty.
By proposing a specific software component, the INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES Connector, industrial data clouds can be
connected, as well as individual enterprise clouds and onpremise applications and individual connected devices.

33. IDSA Hubs
Technical Research Centre
of Finland
-Espoo, Finland
Higher Education and
Research Institution
-Paris, France
Czech Technical University
in Prague
-Prague, Czech Republic
Digital Innovation Centre
-Milan, Italy
Technological Centre
-Bilbao, Spain
Organization for Applied
Scientific Research
-The Hague, Netherlands
IDSA goes Europe - first six hubs set up across Europe ...
… with the central support centre operating out of Germany.

35. Agenda
Ø The I4.0 Ecosystem
Ø The Initiative of International Data
Spaces Alliance
Ø Insight: The IDS Blockchain
Approach

36. Some IDSA Components are based on the concept of
“decentralization” and distributed ledger
• #Blockchain is a technology to coodinate activities
in a distributed business where the cooperative
behaviour can win the opportunistic logics
• Using existing theory of cooperative behaviour in
platform economy, that blockchain ( if well desigend in
incentives and with tokens) is able to industrialize trust
and so to compete with the businesses based on ledgers
at their margins.

37. WHY BLOCKCHAIN

38. CAPABILITIES
Slide
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ConsensusPrivacy
Business terms
embedded in
transaction database
& executed with
transactions
All parties agree
to network verified
transaction
Ensuring appropriate
visibility; transactions are
secure, authenticated
& verifiable
Append-only
distributed system of
record shared across
business network

39. •
IDSA APPROACH

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Application of Blockchain in IDSA
● Data consumer: in this case
certain data from the IDS
ecosystem needs to be
registered in a blockchain.
● USE CASES
1. BROKER
2. DATA PROVENANCE
3. CLEARING HOUSE
● Data provider: in this case the
blockchain ( the ledger) contains
data which needs to be made
accessible to other parties in the
IDS ecosystem

41. •
Projects in IDSA-Example
Manufacturi
ng
Networks
Additive
Manufacturi
ng
Asset Life
Cycle
Managemen
t
Supply
Chain
Visibility

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LARS NAGEL
CEO
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES ASSOCIATION
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INFO@INTERNATIONALDATASPACES.ORG
@ids_association
#internationaldataspaces
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44. THANK YOU!
Nadia Fabrizio, VAM & Foresight, Cefriel-Politecnico di
Milano, nadia.fabrizio@cefriel.com
Lars Nagel, Head
of IDSA, lars.nagel@internationaldataspaces.org
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45. Any QUESTIONS?
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Grazie
Thank you
Danke