Smart Data Platform — Reference Architecture
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Smart Data Platform Reference Architecture
Three-tier architecture: Engagement and Interaction at top, Intelligence Models and Agents in the middle, Foundational Data and Operations at the bottom, with a Human-in-the-Loop supervision checkpoint.
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Smart Data Platform
Human-in-the-loop data & AI reference architecture
Engagement & interaction
Intelligence, models & agents
Foundational data & operations
Users
Business
Citizen analysts
Developers
Scientists
↗ consumer zone
Productivity apps
Team collaboration
Data sheets & comms
Low-code automation
Workflow builder
↗ consumer zone
BI & insights
Governed dashboards
Semantic metrics
AI-generated insights
ML predictions
↗ observability & audit
eLABSuite
Specialized industry surfaces (consumption role)
eLIMS-BPT
eELN
eOMS
eVRM
GxP Archive
LabAccess
Also a data source — see foundational tier below
↗ consumer zone
Unified intelligence & agentic processing layer
↗ AI runtime & execution
Core data
Structured knowledge
Relational & graph
Service intelligence
Semantic models
Classical ML
↗ data & knowledge
Knowledge
OntoEurofins
Ontology & graph
AD rule graph
OWL / SKOS
Lineage graph
↗ ontology concept
RAG & retrieval
Vector databases
Embedding models
Hybrid search
LLM / SLM
Agentic retrieval
↗ RAG concept
Human-in-the-loop
supervision checkpoint
↗ policy control plane
Knowledge-grounded agents
Retrieval, reasoning, grounded responses
MCP tool invocation
↗ agent platforms
Autonomous
agents
Durable execution
↗ agent platforms
Specialist
domain agents
AD rule · doc intel
↗ agent infra
real-time
streams
eLABSuite
(data sources)
eLIMS-BPT
eELN · eOMS
eVRM · GxP Arc.
Sensors & devices
Lab instruments
↗ backend systems
Integrated data
& fabric
Unified data lake
Lakehouses
Warehouses
Eventhouses
ELT pipelines
↗ data & knowledge
data
transformation
Medallion
architecture
Bronze
Silver
Golden
records
Raw → curated → trusted
↗ data lakehouse
Semantic ontologies
OntoEurofins · AFO / BFO
Class hierarchies & SKOS
↗ ontology concept
Data governance
Catalog & lineage
Provenance & audit
↗ governance catalog
Data products
Trustworthy & governed
GxP audit records
Certified outputs
CoA · LabAccess
Regulatory outputs
Partner APIs
↗ observability & audit
feedback loop as sources
Smart Data Platform Reference Architecture · Eurofins BPT · v1.0 draft