D4.1: ECLIPSE CERF for Energy Saving applications (v1)

The document presents the current status of the implementation of the ECLIPSE Common European Reference Model (CERF), together with a summary of its foundations and main characteristics, as part of its opensource development plan. A step-by-step roadmap for the creation of the CERF has been defined with detailed information from its initial definition and objectives up to its maintenance, replication, and beyond. Each step in the roadmap is linked to the corresponding Task or Work Package where it will be fulfilled. Three software foundations from other projects and open-source organisations have been appointed as potential interoperable connectors that will ease the integration of existing components into the CERF. These connectors are the Generic Adapter (GA) from InterConnect project [1], the EDDIE connector from OneNet [2]/EDDIE [3], and the Eclipse Semantic Modelling Framework (ESMF) from the Eclipse Foundation [4]. In order to define the governance scheme of the CERF, the analysis of this aspect is performed for two of the main European Data Spaces initiatives (IDSA [5], Gaia-X [6]) and two Horizon Europe projects (Enershare [7], SYNERGIES [8]). Both their structure and their incentive mechanisms are studied and, in the case of the two projects, the analysis tries to align them with the IDSA governance framework in order to extract a standardised schema that can be applied to the CERF. All 13 demo pilots have been studied in order to define a tailored stakeholder’s engagement plan for each of them. They include the list of identified stakeholders, engagement activities, risks and mitigations in order to achieve their active involvement in the project with regards to the CERF. The current status of the architecture of the CERF is briefly presented, where the main components and interfaces are described. From these interfaces, a subset of them is selected and generic APIs defined for the facilitation of the exchange of data through them. Moreover, the first prototype of the ECLIPSE user application is presented, detailing its functionalities and user interface. Finally, the first version of the pilot implementation is presented for each demo site. In each case, an overview of their development plan is described, followed by the identified data spaces and data sources, energy services, and end user applications to be either fully implemented or adapted and integrated into the CERF.