SORRISO meets its goals and gives back to the open source community

SORRISO is an intense and ambitious applied research project and living lab, developed by 7 companies/institutes from Piemonte (i-EM, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, 4USolution, Bellissimo, ISET Telecom, Ivrea Sistemi e Torino Nord Ovest) and co-funded by the EU, Italian and the Piemonte Regional governments (POR FESR 2007/2013)

The project was recently completed in November 2015, achieving a number of major results in just 10 months, including among others:

• The realization of a living lab, animated by Torino Nord Ovest, involving teachers and students from two schools (IC Aldo Moro di Bruino and Istituto Tecnico Vallauri di Fossano) who actively participated by learning and designing parts of the system
• The installation, supported by ISET Telecom, of two "Lucciola" storage systems (manufactured by 4USolution) in the two school buildings
• The implementation of a new ZigBee-based communication module (firmware and hardware) integrated with the Storage system  and compatible with JEMMA and the Energy@home specifications (developed in collaboration between ISMB and Ivrea Sistemi).
• The integration of the system with the smartdatanet cloud system, an open platform promoted by the Piemonte region in collaboration with CSI (developed in collaboration between ISMB and i-EM)
• The analysis and development of new energy management and forecast techniques (developed in collaboration between ISMB and i-EM)
• A new user interface (designed and developed by Bellissimo and integrated with JEMMA and  smartdatanet by ISMB) 

SORRISO has adopted the Energy@home eco-system and the JEMMA solution as a starting point to build its innovations. We are now happy to announce that the project has agreed to feed some of the outcomes back to the open source communities by releasing two new open source components.

The SORRISO Smart Data Platform cloud connector  (now available as jemma.osgi.sdp.uploader.sorriso) is a configurable component which allows to easily publish data from devices (exposed through the generic OSGi DAL specification employed in JEMMA) to any platform compliant with the smartdatanet API, and use the platform as cloud back-end for Energy-related applications.

The SORRISO Web-based User interface (now available as jemma.osgi.webui.sorriso) is a new Web-based GUI which can be deployed on any JEMMA gateway and allows accessing data both from devices and from the smartdatanet back-end.

Here a few snapshots and pictures of the new GUI. More details (in italian) on the official SORRISO project website.