COMET

Consumer empowerment and participation in the smart living domain

Challenge and innovation

In connection with smart living, users are already collecting their data in a large number of applications and services. This data is currently primarily available to them and large manufacturers of smart living products and cannot be fully and responsibly utilised due to a lack of connectivity and trust regarding the use of their data. This monopolisation of smart living data means that SMEs in Germany and Europe in particular are at a competitive disadvantage, as the lack of data makes it difficult for them to develop new AI-based services to solve pressing challenges such as the increasing demand for resources and energy.

The COMET project aims to use the modules COMET Connect and COMET Personal Data Market to give users more control as data owners and thus also give companies access to high-quality data for AI-based innovations. COMET is intended to enable private end users to initially participate in the SmartLivingNEXT Dataspace and thus increase its attractiveness and scope.

With the help of COMET Connect, users can release data for the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem (in full or in part). COMET Connect ensures that the individual data formats of the manufacturer data are provided interoperably, thereby ensuring greater data availability. It serves to integrate a wide variety of applications across manufacturer boundaries and thus represents the interface to users of different applications for the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem.

In addition to integrating manufacturer-independent existing applications, COMET is focussing on developing its own crowdsourcing app. It creates an innovative solution that enables users to provide their data in the area of smart living while maintaining transparency and control over its use. The app enables users to collect data from their home by entering it manually and to make this data available to the data ecosystem on a voluntary basis. The combination of consumption data and self-reported data creates labelled data that is of great importance for the development of AI-based services.

The COMET Personal Data Market is a transparent and innovative solution in which users retain control over their own data and can decide for themselves with whom they want to share it(data ownership). Various services such as the Data Catalogue, a Consent Registry or a Data Quality Computation Service enable consumers to collect, manage and provide their data in a targeted manner. At the same time, the services ensure adequate quality and easy processability for ecosystem participants.

Application and benefits

COMET Connect and the COMET Personal Data Market will be further developed and established in close cooperation with the ForeSightNEXT flagship project. The platform provided by the ForeSightNEXT flagship project is to be used as a technical and conceptual basis. Initially, the systems of the application partners will be connected. It is already possible to connect the flagship project, the satellites and participating companies during the project phase. As part of the project, but also beyond its duration, COMET Connect and thus also the COMET Personal Data Market will be made available to other companies in the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem, so that the overall goal of a more attractive data space can be pursued.

Project partners

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Smart Enterprise Engineering), mediola - connected living AG

Consortium leader

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement)