The open-source software and related communities behind COP-PILOT have been systematically developing software and open implementations of standards since 2019, providing solid platforms to several EU projects since then. COP-PILOT is an excellent opportunity for these communities to meet and collaborate under the umbrella of one of the largest high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) projects to date. The scale of COP-PILOT, both by means of number of vertical sectors (Mining, Smart Cities, Agriculture & Logistics, Energy, and Manufacturing) and geographical span across the entire Europe (from the mines of northern Sweden to South European business domains in Greece, Spain, and Portugal) creates a perfect Pan-European environment where these communities could develop integrated solutions for close-to-market deployments and validations through large-scale pilots. For this reason, this document puts all these communities under a common perspective and attempts to highlight how they jointly contribute to the realisation of a platform-of-platforms to facilitate stakeholders from heterogeneous vertical business domains, but also 3rd parties as COP-PILOT employs two rounds of open calls that will bring many more stakeholders aboard. This document aims at presenting COP-PILOT Horizon as an ecosystem of open-source assets that establish a solid foundation with (i) long-living open-source communities in Europe, (ii) global standards that matter for the Cloud Edge IoT (CEI) ecosystem, and (iii) five business sectors across Europe.
Katsikas et al. (Fri,) studied this question.