This building block provides the basis for accounting access to and/or usage of data by different users. This in turn is supportive of important functions for clearing, payment, and billing (including data-sharing transactions without involvement of data marketplaces).
Role and Scope
Facilitates the basis for accounting access to and/or usage of data by different users.
Features
DSBA - CTO architecture coherence
Data Exchange and Usage Logging
Standard information model and supporting APIs for the implementation of usage accounting, clearing house and billing functions
Backend components implementing usage accounting, clearing house and billing
Data Contracting
Components and Technologies
i3-Market Project
SW Wallet
Cloud Wallet
i4Trust
Usage accounting relies on TMF635 recommendations part of from TM Forum Open API recommendations.
Technical Reference Implementation
Design Principles Position Paper
The clearing house in the Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN) is used to send purchase-to-pay information in a business-to-business scenario. This information can be highly confidential and it is missioncritical for their day-to-day business. If dispute arises the clearing house is used as trusted third party to resolve this issue by comparing the fingerprint of the messages and identifying the error.
i4Trust
An open source implementation of usage accounting functions compliant with TM Forum recommendations can be found in the FIWARE Catalogue, concretely in connection to the BAE component.
