Standard-based publish-subscribe service enabler for social applications and augmented reality services

A Publish/Subscribe mechanism based on the Open Mobile Alliance's (OMA) Next Generation Services Interface (NGSI) open standard, allows interfacing the information available from many publishers with heterogeneous customers. Pervasive devices (including mobile smartphones) publish a huge amount of real world information, which afterwards is accessed through web browsers and applications. The adoption of an open standard interface between information publishers and consumers allows to reduce the gap in the technologies used on both sides, therefore, include new actors into the services, increase the service offers and increment the world-wide and cross-domain usage of services based on the Publish/Subscribe paradigm. Major European Industrial Entities supported by the EU Research Program are deriving a cross-domain Future Internet open standard technology to be adopted and used in any application domain by any customer for any needs. The reference open standard chosen is OMA's NGSI. The open standard based technological binding created in the FI-WARE EU funded project and provided with an open reference implementation performed by Telecom Italia is demonstrated through examples of Augmented-Reality and social-impacting services that improve the quality of life for people (including those decease affected).