by Rebecca Johnson | 25 August 2023 | Autonomous Agents, Blockchain, Events, Featured, moveID, Partnerships, SSI
The Convergence of AI and Web3 in Decentralized Mobility Solutions
As noted by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, AI and Web3 are converging technologies that leverage decentralized networks, self-sovereign identities (SSI), autonomous agents, and machine learning. These innovations enable new business models and streamline business processes, particularly in the realm of decentralized mobility solutions. A crucial success factor lies in integrating these technologies with existing business processes. Collaboration between innovative AI and Web3 startups and established industry leaders is essential for driving impact and fostering innovation.
At IAA Mobility, AI and Web3 startups collaborate with industry players and universities in the moveID consortium. They are showcasing a state-of-the-art smart city solution called MOBIX Park & Charge. To meet the project’s goals, positioning innovative cutting-edge solutions is vital. These solutions leverage data to redefine the technological landscape, heralding a data-driven revolution. The synergistic trio of Fetch.ai, a long-time partner of Datarella, along with peaq and Ocean Protocol as moveID partners, is making significant strides forward. This initiative is further supported by solution providers and integrators like Datarella, DeltaDAO, 51Nodes, and university teams from htw saar and Zeppelin University.
Fetch.ai: Bridging AI and Blockchain
Datarella partner Fetch.ai seamlessly combines artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain technology, unlocking new possibilities across various sectors. These possibilities include autonomous machine economies, smart cities, and efficient resource management. The Fetch.ai platform provides a decentralized infrastructure for Microagents capable of executing tasks autonomously.
In the context of MOBIX Park & Charge, Microagents act as bridges between different software components on edge devices. This setup enables autonomous control over various systems, such as traffic lights.
Microagents in Action
Fetch.ai Microagents serve as multifunctional intermediaries. They communicate and initiate processes in external systems, handling complex tasks like:
- Managing crypto wallets
- Ensuring secure payment transfers
- Verifying events
- Controlling access to hardware such as gates, traffic lights, and chargers
In essence, Fetch.ai Microagents automate tasks on behalf of human clients, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. These functionalities contribute significantly to the development of decentralized mobility solutions.
peaq: Empowering the Economy of Things
As automation surges, the peaq network emerges as a key player in sharing its benefits with everyone. It fosters the Economy of Things by establishing a crucial layer-one blockchain infrastructure for decentralized mobility applications.
Peaq’s technology stack and economic incentives enable the development of applications for machines in this emerging economy. For instance, it powers electric vehicle (EV) charging applications. The peaq token fuels the entire ecosystem, facilitating digital identities for machines and enabling seamless payments.
In MOBIX Park & Charge, peaq allows communication with charging points, using peaq tokens to initiate and pay for EV charging processes.
Ocean Protocol: A New Data Economy
Ocean Protocol aims to unleash its potential for individuals and organizations alike. It empowers secure data sharing (Compute-to-Data), selling, and monetization while ensuring control and privacy. Users retain the power to determine who accesses their data and how it is used.
This establishes a novel paradigm in the data economy, especially for AI models in the mobility sector. In MOBIX Park & Charge, Ocean Protocol integrates its decentralized data marketplace technology. This facilitates sovereign and privacy-preserving data exchange within mobility applications.
Key Components of Ocean Protocol
Key components of Ocean’s data pricing mechanisms include Compute-to-Data and a Gaia-X-compliant Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) approach. Additionally, Ocean solution provider DeltaDAO collaborates to implement the Ocean Tech Stack. In future versions of MOBIX Park & Charge, the goal is to simplify data sales for IoT devices. These devices will automatically sell data directly on the Ocean Marketplace or through Compute to Data. Fetch.ai agents possess built-in intelligence, allowing IoT devices in cars to decide when and how to post data to the Ocean Marketplace based on traffic situations.
Conclusion: Paving the Way for a Data-Driven Future
The versatile infrastructure of peaq, the automated decision-making capabilities of Fetch.ai’s Microagents, and Ocean Protocol’s sovereign data exchange mechanism synergistically converge to facilitate MOBIX Park & Charge. As we stride toward a data-driven future, these technologies pave the way for decentralized mobility solutions that could profoundly reshape mobility.
by Rebecca Johnson | 2 August 2023 | Autonomous Agents, Blockchain, Featured, Ocean Protocol
Big data has broken privacy. We’ve built a way to solve this problem and create business intelligence while preserving user privacy. This post dives into how we are automating private business intelligence.
Introduction to Ocean Protocol’s decentralized data marketplace
The Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that aims to unlock the value of data and enable secure and privacy-preserving on-chain data sharing and monetization ⛓️. It provides a framework for building data-centric applications that facilitate the exchange of data assets while ensuring data privacy, security, and compliance.
The Ocean Protocol marketplace is the heart of the entire Ocean Protocol ecosystem. These data sets can be bought and sold along with access to computation on those data. What Uniswap did for Finance, Ocean Protocol is doing for data. Ocean goes beyond just merely trading data in the clear though and makes it possible to order computation on data you never see and get actionable results while maintaining data privacy and secrecy. That in many ways is the holy grail of data privacy and security!
The Ocean Protocol approach to data markets is already gaining substantial traction in industries through the MoveID consortium and GAIA-X where Datarella is a partner. Specifically, there are already industry focused GAIA-X compliant Marketplaces utilizing Ocean protocol already released in the wild (see Pontus-X)
Fetch.ai Agents + Ocean Protocol: A Perfect Match
Switching gears, you may have also heard of Fetch.ai. It provides a next-generation protocol enabling a digital world where Autonomous Economic Agents and Microagents can perform proactive economic activity. AEAs have some unique attributes. Fetch Agents (AEAs) can find resources on their own, they have private keys so they can transact autonomously, and, more importantly, they can decide to execute business logic autonomously based on their programmed skills and behaviors. AEAs are perfect for delegating on-chain tasks that you need to make sure actually happen technically but don’t want to have to handle manually. A great example of this is the stop loss agents that Fetch.ai has released in order to allow people to provision liquidity on DeFi protocols autonomously. Another real-life use case is the kind of behavior that we demonstrated with MOBIX at the International Automobile Show (IAA) in 2021.
In that context, we demonstrated how an Autonomous Economic Agent, running on an edge device and accessible through a specialized version of the MOBIX app, could enable privacy-preserving ad workflows. That sounds super complicated, but its utility is really simple.
Smart Recommendations without Data-Lake-Honeypots
Consumers have come to expect really smart recommendations in their apps based on their current context and previous actions. We’ve come to take this for granted everywhere. It extends from the autocomplete suggestions in your search field to Netflix recommendations to mobility recommendations embedded in scooter rental apps. There’s a shadow side of this intelligence though. Simply put, in order to offer that kind of intelligence someone is invariably building a vast data lake full of your user data to power those convenient algorithms. We all know that this kind of data accumulation has massive privacy ramifications, not to mention the security risks associated with those giant data-lake-honeypots. By connecting Fetch.ai Autonomous Economic Agents with Ocean Compute to Data workflows and the Ocean Marketplace we are laying the cornerstone for enabling that kind context aware convenience without sacrificing any user privacy.
Moreover, outside of the consumer sector in the world of IoT devices, this code makes it really convenient for any number of machines to automatically sell their data either directly on the Ocean Marketplace or via Compute to Data! AEAs have a certain amount of built-in intelligence. This enables IoT devices from cars to weather stations to decide, based on their situation, when and how to post the data to the Ocean Marketplace for sale. Additionally, it allows consuming devices to autonomously search out and purchase the data that they need. Together, this approach provides the basis for autonomous adaptive machine learning without having to own your own ample data sets.
Privacy-Preserving Prediction Engines
TLDR: By enabling Fetch Agents to post data to Ocean Marketplace Compute to Data recommendation engines can be driven without violating privacy.
Datarella has joined forces with Fetch.ai and Ocean protocol over the last few months to build an Ocean Connection Agent to take private data available to itself, store it confidentially, and then spin up a fixed-rate exchange on the Ocean Market or with compute to data enabled as shown in the previous figure. You can imagine that in the near future, this might be your current location data or data about your preferences or searches performed locally within an app (the MOBIX app for example). This data never leaves the sovereign control of the user and the user doesn’t have to worry about handling or organizing or authorizing the data because the AEA does that on behalf of the user well, autonomously! The same applies to companies running AEAs on IoT devices too. You might be asking now why this is even beneficial. It’s useful because it solves the problems associated with those vast data lakes that are driving the recommendation engines behind all sorts of “smart” services.
The Solution for Automating Private Business Intelligence
Ocean Marketplace is an open-source decentralized market that you can fork to develop your own marketplace. It comes equipped with all the features right out of the box. The “Compute to Data” part enables the person, or in this case, AEA is posting the data to stipulate that it cannot be downloaded in the clear – but rather that you’re selling the results of selected algorithms which you or your agent will run (automatically) against the private data on behalf of a purchasing entity (person or AEA). They get the results of the computation – the basis for those context-aware recommendations, but they don’t have the opportunity to abuse the data because they never actually see it despite gaining actionable business intelligence based on the contents of said data. That’s what we mean by “Automating Private Business Intelligence”.
The world we’re building is one where your data remains yours but the results of computations on your data will enable a host of new context-aware smart services that respect your privacy by design but still feel like magic. Bringing the unique properties of the Ocean Marketplace together with Fetch.ai Agents means for the everyday person that it’s increasingly going to be possible that you can have your cake and eat it too. You won’t have to choose between amazing functionality and privacy – you’ll be able to have both – and get paid for it. Your data – your profits!
Developer Resources
If you’re a developer and want to dive into the code there are two spots you’ll want to check out. First of all, you’ll find the code open-sourced on github here. Additionally, if you’re already an AEA developer you’ll want to check out the package in the AEA registry. In the near future, we’re also planning to release the Storj AEA but for now, you can take any S3-compatible storage you choose. Let’s start automating private business intelligence generation!
by Michael Reuter | 18 November 2022 | Blockchain, Featured, Ocean Protocol, Partnerships, Web3 Company Builder
In a world premiere, Datarella, Biennale de Paris, and Ocean Protocol, present DIAM, the Decentralised Invisual Art Marketplace. DIAM allows buying invisual art in a totally new way, by combining the international art market with Web3, the latest technological development. DIAm is the latest member of the Datarella Web3 Company Builder model.
DIAM is the Decentralized Invisual Art Marketplace. It intends to value a new form of creativity, a new form of art: Invisual Art. The idea of DIAM is to unleash creativity on a global scale. DIAM’s dream is to augment human beings through art. On DIAM, art lovers can purchase invisual art experiences using $OCEAN, a crypto-currency that uniquely and in an unforgeable way guarantees the purchase of art experiences. DIAM’s decentralized architecture allows artists to showcase their work and present their art in a completely autonomous process, guaranteeing them a fair share of income.
Invisual Art
Invisual art is art that exists other than in the form of artworks. The practices of invisual art have in common the fact of existing other than in the form of a work of art. There is no definition of invisual art, if not this common point. Invisual art is an art that exists most often as an experience and not as an object. The invisual practices are extremely varied: lifestyle, behaviors, experiments, state of mind
DIAM Goals
- To enable invisual artists to make a living from their work;
- To enable anyone to become an artist through the valuation of their invisual creativity;
- To provide a tool to encourage inventiveness in art by mixing the latest technologies with the latest form of art in order to build the next-generation art market;
- To encourage the emergence of new types of collectors and investors in art;
- Marketing art as an experience.
How To Buy Invisual Art?
At the official DIAM launch event on 11 November 2022, Alexandre Gurita, Director of the Biennale de Paris and of the Ecole Nationale d’Art (ENDA), and Corina Mila, Enseignante-Chercheuse at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, introduced the audience to the concept of Invisual Art. Michael Reuter, Co-founder & CEO of Datarella, and Rebecca L. Johnson, CTO of Datarella, have demonstrated how to buy invisual art at DIAM using datatokens. Special guest Casey Herd, Artistic Director of BALLET RISING, has explained how DIAM enables Ballet lovers all over the world to immerse in the ballet experience using DIAM datatokens.
Feel free to register for free and experience the latest development at the intersection of technology and art!
If you are interested to learn more about the Decentralized Invisual Art Marketplace, feel free to follow DIAM on Twitter, and LinkedIn and discuss all things invisual art with the DIAM team – see you there!
by Michael Reuter | 13 September 2022 | Blockchain, moveID, Partnerships, SSI
Together with 18 project partners in the Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project moveID, Datarella develops the required digital identity infrastructure for the mobility of the future. With BOSCH heading the moveID consortium, leading mobility enterprises, Web3 companies, and research organizations create the foundation for autonomous driving and applications leveraging connected vehicles and devices.
Use Cases for the Mobility of the Future
The research project moveID comprises various scenarios of smart traffic management, s.a. parking, charging, or zoning. To create a trusted environment and connect all traffic participants, vehicles, and infrastructure components, s.a. traffic lights, access gates, and parking meters, obtain unique digital identities. All identities are managed as self-sovereign identities, a concept known as SSI, for maximum privacy and compliance with GDPR and the Gaia-X framework.
Datarella will co-create the standards and infrastructure for the future of mobility as part of the Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility moveID project, with an overall size of more than €20 million, by Gaia-X, the European Association for Data and Cloud. The three-year project brings together top industry players to build a sovereign digital infrastructure enabling secure, connected, and open mobility, with Datarella, conducting intense research and development as well as leveraging its expertise in creating successful mobility applications, s.a. Deep Parking, and MOBIX. To make moveID‘s decentralized digital identity infrastructure usable and to develop winning business models on top of it, B2B and B2C applications will be developed.
„With moveID, we will prove that European research projects like Gaia-X can be managed in an agile, dynamic way, and produce significant meaningful results for all mobility participants. Working with industry leaders like Bosch, or Continental on the one hand, and with Web3 projects and research institutes, on the other hand, collaboration is not a simple phrase – it‘s living reality“, says Datarella CEO Michael Reuter.
The Power of Web3
Besides Datarella, other project participants include Bosch, Ocean Protocol, Airbus, Continental, Fetch.ai, Materna, Denso, WOBCOM, ecsec, htw saar, Atos, Chainstep, ZU, peaq, 51nodes, ITK, DLR, and deltaDAO. The project will feature a strong Web3 component with contributions from leading projects in the space:
- peaq, the Web3 network powering the Economy of Things, will conduct intense research and development within the project. peaq will further build up its layer-one blockchain in line with the co-created requirements and standards, aiming to grant Gaia-X’s moveID the perfect infrastructure for decentralized mobility applications. peaq will also provide its core functions: peaq ID – Self-Sovereign Machine Identities (SSMIs), peaq access, and peaq pay. peaq is built using Substrate and will soon be live on both Kusama as well as Polkadot. It is working on enabling collaboration and interoperability with the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems for other Web3 consortia collaborators in Gaia-X.
- 51nodes, a Web3 developing and integration company brings to the project its experience with SSI architecture and implementation in the context of decentralized mobility infrastructure. In addition to the development and integration of various SSI technologies, the focus of work will be on SSI interoperability challenges.
- Through BigchainDB, Ocean Protocol – the Web3 platform to unlock data services for AI and business innovation – is providing key technical infrastructure for moveID to expedite the development of decentralized digital identity infrastructure for European mobility. Essential components of Ocean’s decentralized data marketplace technology, Compute-to-Data, and data pricing mechanisms are being leveraged to build a system architecture that ensures a seamless exchange of information between providers and customers of mobility applications.
- deltaDAO, a web3 software development, integration, and consulting company, will co-develop decentralized data infrastructure and federation services in the context of the broader Gaia-X ecosystem. deltaDAO contributes its extensive knowledge regarding Gaia-X compliance, interoperability, and integration
Peter Busch, Product Owner for Distributed Ledger Technologies (Mobility) at Bosch, said: “Web3 technologies offer a promising digital foundation for future mobility solutions. With moveID, we are setting the foundation for a hyper-connected mobility infrastructure by leveraging self-sovereign device identities and decentralized data sharing to enable hundreds of potential use cases. We are thrilled to be exploring this exciting prospect side by side with some of the leading projects in the decentralized space such as peaq, Ocean Protocol, Datarella, 51nodes, and Chainstep.”
by Michael Reuter | 16 April 2021 | Blockchain
Datarella is joining forces with Ocean Protocol to expand the Open Data Economy. moveID, our first project will be under the umbrella of GAIA-X, the European Association for Data & Cloud, as part of the GAIA-X 4 Future Mobility Project, which aims at bringing cloud applications to autonomous & networked vehicles.
The project’s overall goal will be the creation of a decentralized ecosystem of data & services that allows autonomous & networked vehicles to integrate into smart infrastructures and third-party services, following GAIA-X’s design principles. With mutual trust as its core concept, its stated goal will be achieving data sovereignty.
For Datarella, technology is an instrument to increase the quality of living, by supporting human beings in all kinds of professional and private activities. The growing complexity and diversity of our ecosystem require technological infrastructures that facilitate collaboration and cooperation. By planning, developing and implementing blockchain solutions worldwide, Datarella meets this requirement: in the fields of Finance, Supply Chain, and Mobility, we enable industry participants to join forces and create sustainable, crisis-proof business models. GAIA-X is the perfect environment for true collaboration. – Michael Reuter, CEO of Datarella
Data generated by network actors or Autonomous Economic Agents (AEAs) in the ecosystem can be useful to 3rd parties, and thus has value as an asset. Ocean Market unlocks the value of these by enabling every authenticated user to put their data up for sale and to monetize it. Vehicle data, for example, could be (re)used for traffic analysis for the generation of better traffic models such as optimized traffic light switching.
Different market actors will price data differently, depending on the method of data generation, data quality, and its utility to the potential buyer. Ocean Market allows for dynamic pricing and thus for optimal value generation for data generators and data curators, in a privacy-preserving manner.
This project will use Datarella’s Enterprise Blockchain Solutions, which serve as the foundational, underlying protocol for digital business transformation with converging technologies such as AI and autonomous machines. Datarella’s future mobility solutions are fueled by blockchain technology, real-time decentralized data management, transparency and GDPR compliance. Given the natural synergies between Ocean and Datarella, this partnership is the first of many that will drive enterprise adoption of Ocean Protocol technology in Datarella’s client base.
Our mission is for data to be treated as an asset. By tapping into underutilized data from mobility IoT sensors, AI can uncover mobility patterns and optimize services / reduce waste. Machines can speak to each other and algorithms can make optimizations – all in real-time. Ocean can tokenize mobility data from devices, thereby creating an opportunity for these tokens to be used as instruments in DeFi projects. This is one of the many ways in which we enable data owners to share in the value their data creates. – Razvan Olteanu, COO of Ocean Protocol
Ocean Protocol is a Day 1 Member of GAIA-X Association AISBL, an international non-profit organisation established to achieve the GAIA-X project goals for the development of an efficient, competitive, secure and trustworthy federation of data infrastructure and service providers for Europe – fostering digital sovereignty of European cloud service users.
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About Ocean Protocol
Ocean Protocol’s mission is to kickstart a Web3 Data Economy that reaches the world, giving power back to data owners and enabling people to capture value from data to better our world. Data is a new asset class; Ocean Protocol unlocks its value. Data owners and consumers use the Ocean Market app to publish, discover, and consume data assets in a secure, privacy-preserving fashion. Ocean datatokens turn data into data assets. This enables data wallets, data exchanges, and data co-ops by leveraging crypto wallets, exchanges, and other DeFi tools. Projects use Ocean libraries and OCEAN in their own apps to help drive the Web3 Data Economy. The Ocean token is used to stake on data, to govern Ocean Protocol’s community funding, and to buy & sell data. Its supply is disbursed over time to drive near-term growth and long-term sustainability. OCEAN is designed to increase with a rise in usage volume.
