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e-Infrastructures RoadmapDirections to: Making sense of sensorsVast amounts of data are being created all the time, through all kinds of sensors and sensor networksdistributed all over the world. These involve information from a broad spectrum of application areas,from environmental sensors such as seismic data, weather data, radioactivity, electromagnetic receptors,gravitational wave observatories, pollution measurements, temperature, ground water levels andfluvial data up to measurements of human and animal activities such as (air) traffic control, criticalinfrastructure status or RFID-tagging of animals. Signalling devices – such as satellites, radar equipment,radio beakons, large scale laser facilities and mobile telecom infrastructures – complement the systemas they can be used to actively manipulate events that need to be measured. The Galileo EuropeanSatellite navigation system that is about to be built can be used to map the virtual topology on to thereal world.Of course, many of these infrastructures are already hooked up to the research networks, but to beable to real-time interact with groups or unexpected combinations of them, to increase thecommunity that can use them in a sensible way and to be able to easily integrate them into newservices requires some degree of standardisation on the one one hand and technological enablers suchas grid middleware on the other. Measuring equipment is the equivalent of sensory input of ourcontinent and the data they produce together sets some boundary conditions on the kind of workscientist can deliver. The combination of real-time data combined with large-scale simulation renderedthrough the grid will enable scientists to better predict what is happening and help make betterpolicy decisions. Especially in emergency situations, such as a vast flooding of part of Europe or alarge-scale nuclear accident in the middle of the continent, this might save many lives. One might alsoneed resources that gather information about human activities on a macro scale, such as road usage,air traffic control data and sound pollution. That way, Europe will gain more insight into theoperational issues many of such infrastructures are facing.Since maintaining a full copy of every bit produced by every sensor is not scalable, it would log asensibly reduced amount of data to the European Grid Storage Facilities for long term preservation.The reflector mechanism could in time provide an ‘instant replay’ buffer of for instance 48 hours thatwould capture full volume data on all sources to be able to provide negative latency (so that whensome extraordinary event happens, one can copy the buffer and research the full data set instead of asubset).Next turn:Y Commission a reflector mechanism capable of becoming the secure and scalable front end forall European real-time data sources.Y Identify and approach top 100 sensor facilities valuable to the European Science Grid to beadded a.s.a.p.Y Create guidelines for conformance and provide a mechanism for all other sensors to be added attheir own initiative.Y Fund research in generic aggregation strategies for multiple real-time data streams and couplingwith model computations and historical data.End destinationY A rich ecosystem of grid-enabled devices available for distributed measuring of all relevantenvironmental parameters.Relevant policies, organisations, activities:Y ESA, LOFAR, ECMWF, ENBI, EMSC/IASPEI, GALILEO, and many others.Y DG Information Society and Media, DG JRC, DG Environment, DG Energy and Transport,DG Agriculture, FP7+, OECD, e-Content+ programme.Sensor data is also subject to the other needs of data with regards to storage, availability and/orcuration. Rather than having to redundantly create a buffering and redistribution infrastructure foreach of those continuous data outlets in order to facilitate their broad use, it would make muchsense to create a universal (distributed) facility that will take care of this. Such a facility would act asa fuse for their access – taking care of load balancing on the fly through the grid. Also, it can provide‘translations’ into a diversity of protocols. This would create a multi-tier infrastructure, whereprimary resources only need to take care of broadcasting the data once. This would enable mobilesensors to be deployed without delay when the need arises.42 43
e-Infrastructures RoadmapDirections to: Grid-enabled instrumentsEurope has a wide diversity of special scientific measuring equipment, large and small. It would bevery useful if these could be accessed easily through a shared set of open standards available to theentire European Research community. Such increased availability will facilitate higher efficiency andmore interdisciplinary use. To achieve such availability these resources would have to be enhancedwith lightweight middleware that would make them available within grid infrastructures.‘Prime target are the Research Infrastructures (RI)’, a name used for huge scientific instruments andinstallations that are globally one of a kind because of their state of the art technology, scale or cost.Examples are the Gravitational Wave Detector GEO 600 (Hannover), the ITER fusion power plant,ISIS neutron scattering facilities (near Oxford), X-ray laser XFEL (Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein),the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF (Grenoble), Ultra Low Temperature Installation(Helsinki), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Grenoble) and the European Spallation Source(to be allocated). The RI often involve immense investments that can only be justified because theyhave a life span of sometimes several decades. Due to the unique nature of the RI, scientists from allover Europe (and even from across the globe) may require remote access to them. The investment ingrid-enabling such instruments is a first priority, and will be worth every Euro. ESFRI will in itsroadmaps that are developed parallel to this roadmap concern itself with trying to structure futureResearch Infrastructures, which will need to also be grid-enabled.Next turn:Y Initiate a funding scheme specifically dealing with gridifying the first wave of resources, to breakthe impasse and create critical mass. This could be done by a Task Force that identifies andprioritizes strategic resources that should be available to the European Science Grid.Y Install an Expertise Center (and/or complemented with national help desks) to help deal usersand owners deal with adoption issues and look into new and efficient ways to gridify thesedevices.End destinationY A rich ecosystem of grid-enabled devices for measuring.Relevant policies, organisations, activities:Y ESFRI, e-IRG, OECD, DG Information Society and Media, CERN, FP7+.Science is a global phenomenon. Sometimes Europe will need transparent access to scientificinstruments and installations on other continents. A considerable budget goes to Research Infrastructureselsewhere on the planet. For our own cost-benefit we might consider picking up the bill for theinvestment to make such access possible on our terms on selected installations elsewhere. This wouldnot only allow European scientists to profit better from very scarce resources not available otherwisebut also would help support the strategic placement of the European approach as the standard.44 45
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