The aim of the SCOREwater platform is to provide end-users with user-friendly access to water-related IoT data and services via APIs. When examining the business model for the platform, we find several benefits, added value and business opportunities that can arise from the platform. ✘ Vendor or technology lock-in due to vertical business solutions and business models ✘ Expensive ways of platform adaptation related to current and future needs for smart cities and smart water management applications ✘ Distrust between all parties involved in providing data and associated services for smart water management to a common platform by ensuring that appropriate security measures are considered ✘ Need for support in filtering and identifying patterns from large datasets due to lack of resources/competences/skills that can be used to work proactively with e.g. AI-based and machine learning solutions for predictive maintenance and early warning systems The SCOREwater platform contributes to a new digital urban infrastructure that can be called an Open Urban Data Platform (OUDP). The OUDP enables the exploration and exploitation of urban data, new and improved services for and by residents or visitors, companies, non-profit parties and parties from both the public and private sectors. An OUDP offers technological support for the realization of several municipal tasks and/or social goals. It can, as it were, be compared to an Open Data Ecosystem. This is open, transparent and accessible to all collaborating parties (public, private, knowledge institutions, etc.), so that services and applications can be created based on the data held by the platform. ✔ Guarantee the interests of citizens, visitors, companies and administration in the urban/urban area: open, transparent, scalable and safe); ✔ Stimulating economic growth through collaboration with and in ecosystems, providing solutions to social/environmental challenges for the market. ✔ 'Data sovereignty' principle, where data is governed by the law of the country where it was collected, and 'self-sovereignty', where the owner of this data determines who can do what with that data under what conditions;' ✔ Contribute, through the maximum transparency applied, to confidence in correct and ethically responsible data use; ✔ Share, use and analyze both commercial and other non-publicly available datasets, for example due to proprietary format for which you have to buy a specific software component to work with the data, under the right conditions, both ethically and in terms of privacy and legal aspects . An OUDP such as the SCOREwater platform can be described as a preconditional component in the digitization of public space. General values that the OUDP brings are the ability for the public sector and its related stakeholders to work data-driven based on available data, partners and ecosystem. It contributes to all kinds of analytics, such as data science and data mining, artificial intelligence, and advanced business intelligence. This in turn can lead to a better insight into the urban living environment, which helps, for example, to make better decisions and/or interventions and innovation of new products and services. ✔ transforming the municipal organization from working in domains to a data and/or insight-driven organization for more efficient and sustainable water management. ✔ makes it possible to share data with third parties to e.g. create smart water services ✔ Supports the visualization of (future) smart city services and smart water management ✔ Decision support through the ability to model accurate projections of historical/current/future events e.g. predictive maintenance ✔ Highlighting services or areas that need improvement, e.g. pipes and wells that require maintenance ✔ Support in bridging information gaps within and between organizations/water companies ✔ Documentation that can be used for interventions and innovation of new smart water (and smart city) products and services that meet needs/challenges, e.g. flood warnings, pollution monitoring
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