Federated Business Model

This section outlines the commercial aspects of algorithm hosting within APEx and will be further analysed and documented by the APEx project.

Algorithm Hosting Platforms

Table 1 provides an overview of the requirements and guidelines for the algorithm hosting platforms to support commercial algorithm hosting through ESA’s Network of Resources.

Table 1: Requirements for supporting commercial algorithm hosting for algorithm hosting platforms

ID	Requirement	Description
BM-REQ-01	The algorithm hosting platform shall allow a fixed price per area unit.	This requirement ensures transparent pricing for the user, for example expressed in platform credits per km², hectare or by number of products.
BM-REQ-02	The operator of the algorithm hosting platform should support registering the algorithm in the ESA network of resources, with a cost per km², hectare or by number of products.	This does not apply if the service can be invoked by the user ‘for free’, so costs are compensated by a different mechanism.