<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>As I received this call via another list, it might of interest to people on this list as well.<br><br>While pretty much everybody agrees that interoperability is a key feature for the IoT, making sure these test platforms deliver to our expectations I think is equally important.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see below, essentially looking for parties to test the f-interop testing platform, which itself is part of an EU funded project.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="direction: inherit;">Groet,</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">MarcoH</div><div style="direction: inherit;">-- </div><div style="direction: inherit;">Sent from a small touch screen, apologies for typos</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dear All,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> I am writing you on behalf of the consortium</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"> for F-Interop, a H2020 project </font><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">researching and developing online </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">interoperability </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">pe<wbr>rformance </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">test tools supporting emerging </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">IoT-related technologies </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">from </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">standardisat<wbr>io</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">n to </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,25,25)">market (</span><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.f-interop.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.f-interop.eu</a>).</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">So far <span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">F-Interop has built a platform for testing interoperability of IoT protocols</span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">we have integrated tools for remote conformance and interoperability testing of 6TiSCH, CoAP and OneM2M. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are now running an Open Call for third parties to test the current platform from a final user perspective, and to increase its adoption and exploitation by SMEs, developer communities, and standards development organisations. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We </font><span style="font-size:12.8px">aim to select 10 successful third parties to test the platform, and 2 additional entities to run remote plugtest events, receiving €10k each. The call is open until <b>December </b></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>20th</b></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, with more </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">information on the project and Open Call </span><a href="http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">here</a><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">, and in the call announcement attached.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The application process is very lightweight.</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hoping that this might be of interest for you or your communities, we will be glad if you could disseminate this opportunities further through your channels and we are also happy to provide you or your contacts more details about the F-Interop project and the application process so you can understand how to develop successful proposal.</span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">In that case, please do get in touch with me or Marie in cc.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can also use the following tweet for fast dissemination:</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,"Hiragino Sans GB W3","Noto Naskh Arabic","Droid Arabic Naskh","Geeza Pro","Simplified Arabic","Noto Sans Thai",Thonburi,Dokchampa,"Droid Sans Thai","Droid Sans Fallback",-apple-system,".SFNSDisplay-Regular","Heiti SC","Microsoft Yahei","Segoe UI";font-size:17px">#funding opportunities for #SMEs working on #iot #interoperability with the @finterop project #H2020 #opencalls <a href="http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call">http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call</a></span><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#191919" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Looking forward to hear from you.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div>Thanks a lot in advance for your help and interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";font-size:12px">Michele Nati, PhD</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style="font-size:12px">Lead Technologist Personal Data and Trust</span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="font-family:Calibri;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";font-size:12px">+44 (0)7909189428, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";font-size:12px">+44 (0)2037356146</span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michelenati" style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11px;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit" target="_blank">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michelenati</a></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:small">@michelenati</span></p></div></div></div></div> </blockquote></div></body></html>