An Innovative Multi-service App Enabled by a European Wide Service Platform

AbstractThis paper describes a European Wide Service Platform defined and promoted in the EC co-funded R&D project MOBiNET (www.mobinet.eu) and the impact this platform will have to an innovative Application developed by Pluservice, as a real use case of the platform. MOBiNET project is creating an “Internet of Mobility” linking the main actors – travelers, road or transport operators, vehicle manufacturers, and service providers – through a dynamic platform for online services available to everyone in Europe. The MOBiNET platform will enable the implementation of an Application to the final user for a pan-European seamless travel experience, in terms of booking, payment and information received. The aim of MOBiNET is the simplification of the overall process of bringing together mobility service offerings and demand. The multi-service application will be connected to a range of other services today very difficult to interface to without MOBiNET. Access to data – real time local public transport, traffic information, Point of Interests, Events, disruptions – is the priority for the enrichment of the App as well as the access to B2B services. As a concrete use case, a parking payment interoperable service is developed by Pluservice and the Hungarian National Mobile Payment Plc. (NMP). This integration will allow PluService's customers to buy parking service in Hungary using their usual application. A standardized common interface to Parking service providers as well as to resellers published to the MOBiNET market place, will create a truly interoperable EU-wide parking solution. The paper also explores the business exploitation of the platforms