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As part of the IoT Day 2013 (http://iotevents.org/details/2013-internet-of-things-day) CREATE-NET organised, also with the support of iCore, the first IoT Day in Italy. The event, featuring speakers from both, the community of IoT "makers" and researchers (EU projects on IoT iCore and COMPOSE), was meant to disseminate information about what IoT connected objects allow you to do, how these can be exploited (OpenPicus, Arduino and products as GoodNightLamp) and what are the research challenges still open that prevent the IoT from fulfilling its full potential.

IoT experts and "makers" gathered in Trento on the 9th of April to share their experiences and show through practical demonstrators the innovation potential of IoT and connected objects. Amongst its main objectives, this events aimed at stimulating the interest and involvement of software developers and researchers in promoting IoT as innovation hotbed for future applications.

For more information see the report from the event at http://www.create-net.org/news/reporting-first-italian-iot-day

iCore held its 5th F2F meeting in Delft between the 4th and 7th February. The project is almost halfway its execution period and this meeting gave the opportunity of reaching consensus around the architecture behind the proposed concepts, besides planning the implementation of the use-cases and assessing the potential standardisation project output (ETSI M2M and oneM2M mostly). The meeting featured also a joint session with BUTLER project where items for further collaboration amongst the projects were discussed (namely the possibility of joint trials and exploitation strategy). iCore also took part to the IERC meeting co-located in Delft the 7th and 8th of February. After a plenary introduction the IERC participants split to progress the work of the various Activity Chains (see the IERC website for further information).

iCore presented an early prototype of its first results at the 3rd ETSI M2M Workshop in Mandelieu (France), held from October 23rd to October 25th 2012. The demonstration showed a working implementation of how cognitive technologies can be used to empower IoT applications in a Smart Home environment. More specifically, the demonstration comprised the virtualisation of sensing and actuating objects (iCore concept of Virtual Object), the dynamic mashup of various Virtual Objects enriched with service logic (iCore concept of Composite Virtual Object) and used in a personalised way fitting the user context and application requirements, reusing as necessary objects outside the purpose for which they were originally deployed. Furthermore, the demonstration showed how the use of cognitive mechanisms (such as Situation and Request Matching and Decision Making) facilitates the autonomous, dynamic creation, instantiation and configuration of Composite Virtual Objects (and their components) also reducing the time needed for handling user requests and/or application requirements.

iCore Partners met at ATOS (Spain) between 2nd and 4th October 2012 for the fourth face-to-face project meeting. This get together marked the first year of project execution and was mainly dedicated to jointly progress architecture design matters in each of the work packages as well to the integration of proof of concept implementations.