Dirk Pesch

D4.1 - Experimentation Platform Report

In order to evaluate the concepts, algorithms, architectures, designs, etc. developed in work packages 2 and 3 as well as through the three research themes of the M-Zones programme, experimentation platforms are required. This document provides an overview of the current status of development of experimentation platforms and their use as a research tools within M-Zones.

Due to the diversity of research interests and research foci more than one experimentation platform is required. An experimentation platform can be a software implementation of a model of a real world system, or it can be a real world implementation - hardware and software - of a smart space under study, or it can be a hybrid between real-world implementation and a software model in, for example, a computer simulation environment.