Abstract
To foster the digital transformation in Legal Metrology, the PTB has initiated the development of a coordinated European digital quality infrastructure for innovative products and services; the “European Metrology Cloud”. Its foundation lies in a trustworthy, metrological core platform in each member state, designed to support and streamline regulatory processes by joining existing infrastructures and databases, and to provide a single-point-of-contact for all stakeholders. Within this quality infrastructure, reference architectures, i.e. innovative measuring instruments, as well as technology- and data-driven digital services for Legal Metrology will be developed. The initial outcomes of this initiative will be demonstrators. These demonstrators will serve as blueprints for the individual national platforms to attract and to integrate further stakeholders and services. Furthermore, it is anticipated that these demonstrators will provide results to support or even initiate processes for future-proof national and European legislation. These platforms can later be combined via a coordinating platform established and maintained by a board of Member States, authorities and industrial stakeholders. With these objectives, the initiative fosters the European Commission envisioned digital single market.
Coordination and Contact
Coordinator: Florian Thiel
Work Package 1: Trustworthy Metrological Platform
Work Package 2: Reference Architectures
Work Package 3: Technology based Metrological Support Services
Work Package 4: Data based Metrological Support Services
Consortium
Meetings
- 25.06.2020 CECIP webinar on: 'Digitalisation in Legal Metrology' on Thursday 25 June
Recording of the webinar: https://www.cecip.eu/news-and-events/cecip-webinard-digitalisation-recording/ - 25.06.2020 MetrologyCloud webinar – Node rollout Presentation,
- 28th May 2019, Workshop: Digital Transformation of Legal Metrology - The European Metrology Cloud
- 28th May 2019, 1. Project Report is available
- February 2019, Meeting of Metrology Cloud WP4
- 12th December 2018, joint Meeting of WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP4 (web conference)
- 7th November 2018, Meeting of Metrology Cloud WP2 with VDMA at PTB, Berlin, Germany.
- 24th October 2018, Meeting of Metrology Cloud WP3 with AGME, German Verification Authorithies at PTB, Berlin, Germany.
- 10th October 2018, Meeting of Metrology Cloud WP4 at NSAI Headquarter, Dublin, Ireland.
- 9th and 10th October 2018, Joint Meeting of WELMEC Working Group 7 Software and Metrology Cloud Workpackage Members from WP1-4 at NSAI, Dublin, Ireland.
- 29th August 2018, Joint Meeting of WELMEC's Subgroup "New Technologies" and Metrology Cloud Workpackage WP 2 and WP 3, PTB Berlin, Germany
- 12th June 2018, Kick-off Workshop, PTB Berlin - Germany
Publications
General Topics
- Thiel, Florian; Wetzlich, Jan; The European Metrology Cloud: Impact of European Regulations on Data Protection and the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data, 19th International Congress of Metrology, 01001 (2019), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/metrology/201901001,
- Thiel, Florian; Esche, Marko; Grasso Toro, Federico; Peters, Daniel; Oppermann, Alexander; Wetzlich, Jan; Dohlus, Maximilian: "A Digital Quality Infrastructure for Europe: The European Metrology Cloud" (2018) ; DOI: 10.7795/310.20170404
- Metrologische IT, "Digitalisierung im gesetzlichen Messwesen", PTB-Mitteilungen 04/2016 und PTB-Mitteilungen 01/2017
- Florian Thiel: "Digital transformation of legal metrology - The European Metrology Cloud", OIML Bulletin, vol. LIX, 2018(1), pp. 10-21
GAIA-X and the Metrology Cloud
- GAIA-X: A Pitch Towards Europe, BMWi 2020,
- F. Thiel and J. Nordholz, "Quality Infrastructure Digital (QI-Digital)", BMWi, 2020
Specific Topics
Work Package 1: Trustworthy Metrological Platform
- M. Dohlus, M. Nischwitz, A. Yurchenko, R. Meyer, J. Wetzlich and F. Thiel, Designing the European Metrology Cloud, OIML Bulletin, vol. LXI, 2020(1), pp. 8-17,
- Dohlus M. , Nischwitz M., Yurchenko A., Wetzlich J., Integrated Information Systems: Design-Options for Consortial Plattforms, PTB-Metrology-Cloud Whitepaper 2018
- Wetzlich J, Nischwitz M, Thiel F, Seifert J.-P., A Modular Testbed for Intelligent Meters and their Ecosystem, FedCSIS 2017, ACSIS, Vol. 13, pp. 119–125, DOI: 10.15439/2017F556, ISSN 2300-5963
Work Package 2: Reference Architectures
- A. Oppermann: "Secure Cloud Computing in Legal Metrology", Dissertation, TU Berlin, Germany, 2019
- Oppermann A, Toro FG, Thiel F, Seifert J-P. Secure Cloud Computing: Reference Architecture for Measuring Instrument under Legal Control. Security and Privacy 2018; e18.
- D. Peters, P. Scholz, F. Thiel, Software Separation in Measuring Instruments through Security Concepts and Separation Kernels, Acta IMEKO, vol. 7, no. 1, article 4, March 2018, identifier: IMEKO-ACTA-07 (2018)-01-04, ISSN: 2221-870X
- A.Oppermann, F. Grasso Toro, A. Yurchenko, J.-P.Seifert, Secure Cloud Computing: Communication Protocol for Multithreaded Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Remote Data Processing in IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) (pp. 503-510), DOI: 10.1109/ISPA/IUCC.2017.00084
- A. Oppermann, F. Grasso-Toro, F. Thiel, and J.-P- Seifert: Anomaly Detection Approaches for Secure Cloud Reference Architectures in Legal Metrology. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2018), pages 549-556, ISBN: 978-989-758-295-0,
- Peters D, Peter M, Seifert J-P, Thiel F.: A Secure System Architecture for Measuring Instruments in Legal Metrology. Computers. (2015); 4(2):61-86. doi:10.3390/computers4020061
Work Package 3: Technology based Metrological Support Services
- Peters D, Wetzlich J, Thiel F, Seifert Jean-Pierre: Blockchain Applications for Legal Metrology, IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 14-17, 2018, Houston, Texas
Work Package 4: Data based Metrological Support Services
- M. Esche and F. Thiel: Software Risk Assessment for Measuring Instruments in Legal Metrology, Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), pages 1113 – 1123, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.15439/978-83-60810-66-8, ISSN 2300-5963, (2015)
Metrology Cloud in the Media
Movies/Print
- Movies:
Links
European Commission:
DG Growth, New Legislative Framework
Completing a trusted Digital Single Market
Free flow of non-personal data
European Industry
National Metrology Institutes
Harmonisation and Standartisation Organisations: