Mobility Service Systems: Guidelines for a possible paradigm and a case study

This paper discusses a framework for the design of business services, called Service System (SS). SSs are a layer built on the top of Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IOS). SSs integrate two components, Internet of Business (IOB) and Internet of Data (IOD). IOB delivers complex business services that combine services from IOS and IOT. In turn, IOD links semantically the information that is extracted from IOS and IOT and that is processed in IOB; also, it provides a repository for future applications. The association of SS architecture with Open Source drives a twofold roadmap, with a top down design and a bottom implementation. The SS concept is exemplified on a IRMA, namely a project on urban mobility, with pilot cities in Europe and China, where a demo SS is being developed by using Open Source software.