AURORAL

THE PROJECT **About** AURORAL (Architecture for Unified Regional and Open digital ecosystems for Smart Communities and wider Rural Areas Large scale application) focuses on increasing connectivity and delivering a digital environment of smart objects interoperable services platforms able to trigger dynamic rural ecosystems of innovation chains, applications and services. Thus, AURORAL contributes to increase economic growth and create jobs in rural areas and to tackle significant societal challenges, contributes to overcoming digital divide between rural and urban areas and to develop the potential offered by increased connectivity and digitisation of rural areas. AURORAL digital environment is demonstrated by cost-efficient and flexible cross-domain applications through large-scale pilots in seven European regions. It builds on an open, API-based, interoperable and federated Internet of Things (IoT) architecture and includes a reference implementation supporting flexible integration of heterogeneous services, bridging the interoperability gap of the smart object platforms and creating markets for services in rural areas. **AURORAL´s** **Objectives** **1** Deploy of transformative strategies and processes, empowering rural ecosystems to boost their potential by digitalising resources, products, and services. **2** Introduce “Semantic Interoperability as a Service” to enhance the interoperability of smart object and service platforms, by facilitating sharing and using data. **3** Validate reference implementations of horizontal sectors and independent digital services, by exploiting the benefits of data abundance in rural areas.