IoT-A and FIWARE: bridging the barriers between the cloud and IoT systems design and implementationIoT-A and FIWARE: bridging the barriers between the cloud and IoT systems design and implementation Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2018-11-012016enToday, IoT systems are designed and implemented to address specific challenges based on domain specific requirements, thus not taking into consideration issues of openness, scalability, interoperability and use-case independence. As a result, they are less principled, lacking standards, vendor oriented and hardly replicable since the same IoT architecture cannot be used in more than one use-cases. To address the fragmentation of existing IoT solutions, the IoT-A project proposes an architecture reference model that defines the principles and standards for generating IoT architectures and promoting the interoperation of IoT solutions. However, IoT-A addresses the architecture design problem, and does not focus on whether existing cloud platforms can offer the tools and services to support the implementation of IoT-A compliant IoT systems. In this work we propose an architecture based on IoT-A that focuses on the FIWARE open cloud platform that in turn provides the building blocks of future Internet applications and services. We further correlate FIWARE and IoT-A projects to identify the key features for FIWARE to support IoT-A compliant system implementations.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/146-1536th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services ScienceCLOSER 2016 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science Preventis Alexandros Stravoskoufos Konstantinos Στραβοσκουφος Κωνσταντινος Sotiriadis Stelios Σωτηριαδης Στελιος Petrakis Evripidis Πετρακης Ευριπιδης SciTePress Cloud computing Cloud service interoperability FIWARE Internet of Things IoT-A