WP6 - Application Integration, Trials and Evaluation: D6.1-Detailed Report on Planning of Pilots

This deliverable contains all the details on the planning, description of business cases, business goals stakeholders, IT infrastructure, evaluation guidelines and other aspects of the pilot trials, that are envisioned for demonstrating the benefits of the ASPIRE middleware platform. These pilot trials mainly consist of controlled and carefully designed experiments that will be organized either by those partners of the consortium who have previous experience on demos or similar events for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), or by other institutions that have accepted to test the ASPIRE middleware platform during their trials. The pilots aim to cover different business sectors, scenarios and applications related to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems, thus giving a diverse set of outcomes that will be able to provide a better perspective on how ASPIRE will help in the reduction of the Total cost of ownership (TCO) associated to RFID systems as well as to confirm the ease of implementation of ASPIRE open source software (OSS) components into current IT SME infrastructure.The different pilot trials described in this deliverable are the following:
• A Logistics pilot for the packing industry to be setup at SENSAP S.A in Greece.
• A pilot for company STAFF-Jeans SA, which focuses on two distinct yet complementary scenarios, namely logistics and retail scenarios for the apparel-textiles industry
• PV Lab pilot, which is demonstration pilot that aims at showcasing the ASPIRE middleware.