EU-Stakeholder Forum, 31 January-01 February, 2017, Essen, Germany
Internet of Things: Cross-cutting Integration Platforms Across Sectors
Dr. Ovidiu Vermesan, Chief Scientist, SINTEF DIGITAL
IoT - Hyper-connected Society
• Everything connected, everything analysed,
• Embedded intelligence everywhere
Pervasive Sensing
Cloud Computing
Mobile Edge Computing
Physical, Digital, Virtual
Cognition
Sustainability Energy Efficiency
Smart Data
Ubiquitous Mobile Computing
Computer-aided Collaboration
Autonomous Systems
Electricity Everywhere
Digital Shadow
The dynamics of IoT digital age
IERC
• IoT European Research Cluster
Sustaining Europe’s leading position in the future
Internet of Things within a global context
H2020 Call 2017
FP7
IoT Smart Cities Projects
H2020
IoT-EPI Projects
IoT Projects
H2020 Call 2018
H2020 Call 2019
• Bring together the EU funded projects and identifying IoT technology research challenges at the European level in the view of global development.
• Address the large potential for IoT-based capabilities in Europe and to coordinate the convergence of ongoing activities.
European Research and Innovation Highway
IERC
• IERC Activity Chains
AC05: Trusted IoT
AC03: IoT Results Exploitation
AC04: IoT Hyper-connected Society
AC01: IoT Architecture approaches and open
platforms
AC02: IoT Emerging Technologies and Applications
Activity Chains
IoT-EPI
• IoT - European Platforms Initiative
• The IoT European Platforms Initiative (IoT-EPI) program includes the research and innovation consortia that are working together to deliver an IoT extended into a web of platforms for connected devices and objects.
• The IoT platforms support smart environments, businesses, services and persons with dynamic and adaptive configuration capabilities.
• The goal is to overcome the fragmentation of vertically-oriented closed systems, architectures and application areas and move towards open systems and platforms that support multiple applications.
IoT-EPI
Symbiosis of smart
objects across IoT
environments
Building an IoT Open
Ecosystem for Connected
Smart Objects
Interoperability of
heterogeneous IoT platforms
Connect mass-market products with the
digital world across multiple
application sectors
Open virtual neighbourhood platform for
connecting IoT infrastructures and smart
objects
Adoptive gateways for
diverse multiple
environments Bridging the interoperability gap of
the IoT
Supporting IoT activities on
innovation ecosystems
The business engine for IoT
projects
iot-epi.eu
• IoT - European Platforms Initiative Projects
IoT-EPI
• IoT - European Platforms Initiative Task Forces
Innovation
Platforms Interoperability
IoT Accelerators
IoT Business Models
Educational Platforms
International
Cooperation
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IoT-European LSPs Programme
• IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme
• The IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme includes the innovation consortia that are collaborating to foster the deployment of IoT solutions in Europe through integration of advanced IoT technologies across the value chain, demonstration of multiple IoT applications at scale and in a usage context, and as close as possible to operational conditions.
• The programme projects are targeted, goal driven initiatives that propose IoT approaches to specific real-life industrial/societal challenges. They are autonomous entities that involve stakeholders from supply side to demand side, and contain all the technological and innovation elements, the tasks related to the use, application and deployment as well as the development, testing and integration activities.
IoT Large-Scale Pilots applications and use cases:
MONICA: Wearable devices containing sensors and actuators for massive scale applications.
ACTIVAGE: Active and healthy ageing.
AUTOPILOT: Automated driving and infrastructure.
IoF2020: Strengthen competiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.
SYNCHRONICITY: Single digital city market for Europe.
CREATE-IoT: Stimulate collaboration between IoT initiatives, by supporting the development
and growth of IoT ecosystems based on open technologies and platforms.
U4IoT: Actively engage end-users and citizens to achieve IoT societal acceptance.
IoT-European LSPs Programme
• IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme Projects
IoT-European LSPs Programme
• IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme Activity Groups
European IoT Focus
Area
IoT Focus Area Sustainability
IoT Standardisation, Architecture and Interoperability
IoT Focus Area Evolution
IoT Accelerators Ecosystems and Market Place
Trusted IoT, Privacy, Security and Legal Frameworks
IoT Open Environments
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AIOTI
• Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation
• AIOTI goal is to create and master sustainable innovative European IoT ecosystems in the global context to address the challenges of IoT technology and applications research, innovation, development and deployment including standardisation, interoperability and policy issues, in order to accelerate sustainable economic development and growth in the new emerging European and global digital markets.
AIOTI
• Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation Activity Areas
Deployment
• Identify barriers
• Gather evidence
• Contribute to the
Digital Single Market
Large Scale Pilots
• Experimentation, replication and
deployment
• Convergence
• Interoperability
• H2020
IoT Uptake
• Identify spearhead
players
• Communicate
• Champion
IoT Ecosystem
• Build across different application
areas
• Mapping and bridging of IoT
innovation activities
• Encourage the growth of start-ups
in IoT
AIOTI Structure
• Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation Working Groups
Other large European initiatives
• ECSEL • AENEAS • ARTEMIS-IA • EPoSS
• FoF • Regional and national initiatives
• Digital Catapult coordinates IoT activities in UK. Programme on IoT research activities (£120M projects - 10% coming from the EU) funded by the Research Council and also Industry led programmes. £40M had been dedicated to large scale pilots in smart cities and two health care pilots.
• “La French Tech” for digitisation with a number of supporting regional initiatives addressing key technologies
• Industrie 4.0 in Germany which is supporting IoT-related research for manufacturing.
IoT platforms ecosystems
Source: Vision Mobile Source: IOT Analytics Source: CBInsights
360+ IoT platform offerings
200 startups
50+ Multinational
< 20 Open Source
200 US based
100 European
$1.9B
in 2014
$768M
in 2010
221 deals
in 2014
91 deals
in 2010
30+
Platforms
acquired
4.5Mio IoT developers
91% IoT developers
use open
source
IoT platforms VC investment IoT developers
IoT platforms ecosystems
Source: UNIFY-IoT - http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/pdf/D03_01_WP03_H2020_UNIFY-IoT_Final.pdf
Handling IoT heterogeneity
• Privacy is not something we can standardize or account for in a scripted template.
• Privacy is a function of shifting contexts, motives, and frameworks: culture, religion, location, age, gender, income, family, sexual orientation, life events, experiences, exposure, and more.
• Privacy is subject to each of our unique, yet deeply human sensitivities.
IoT needs and expectations
• Common platform for running the projects across different European initiatives • i.e. Common strategy for the autonomous driving pilots being performed by IoT, ECSEL
RIAs, Lighthouse projects and 5G PPP (addressing communications for autonomous driving).
• A common, uniform market place to allow industry to up-scale their platforms and services to fully exploit the potential of a European digital single market.
• Interoperability and standardisation across industrial sectors and platforms
• End-to-end, by design and by default security, privacy, safety across the sectors and IoT architecture layers and platforms
IoT needs and expectations
• Edge computing domain development based on agreed international standards to fully exploit the potential of a European digital single market
• Convergence of information (IT) and operational technologies (OT) requires and holistic approach for consumer, business and industrial internet of things technologies and applications.
• End-to-end, by design and by default security, privacy, safety across the sectors and IoT architecture layers and platforms
• Coordinated activities between the ECSEL, 5G, PPPs AIOTI, on cross-sectorial and integrated digital platforms, technological and standards development.
• Integrate IoT and federated platforms in the context of circular economy across industrial sectors
IoT needs and expectations
• Coordinate PPPs' activities and link their large demonstrations that address IoT and related technologies like CPS. Instruments for federation that will allow efficient upscaling of initiatives that are successful and show potential.
• Address the interoperability issues, standardisation and the architecture used by the diversity of platforms and propose and develop mechanisms across Europe to up-scale platform building and stimulate innovation.
• Connecting Regional and National Initiatives across Europe coordinate across PPPs and link to national/regional IoT demonstrations using national IoT funding. Replicate pilots in other regions and promote Best Practice.
• Development of a reference IoT architecture that allows for cooperation across value chains and openness to SMEs and the support of Open Platforms
IoT needs and expectations
• Promote industrial partnership and dialogue across a critical mass of stakeholders, including large companies as well as SMEs, and to promote consensus on platform up-scaling.
• Support for Large Experimental Facilities that allow SMEs to access and exploit IoT platforms based on open standards and open APIs.
• Coherent implementation of large-experimental facilities across Member States, vertical sectors, and across societal challenges. Large-scale pilots should build on converging technology trends integrating Artificial Intelligence, communications, IoT, cloud, data analytics, robotics, edge computing, and addressing more application areas (smart living environment, smart agriculture, smart grids, smart cities, intelligent transport systems, automated transport, environmental monitoring, internet of robotics things, etc).
IoT needs and expectations
• IoT based roadmap for digital transformation across the industrial sectors on pursuing IoT applications, technologies, interoperability at different layers, market-relevant standards, uniform guidelines for intellectual property, data protection and security.
• Build upon the large investments of individual EU member states into national initiatives to digitise their industry and foster knowledge exchange and the emergence of converged solutions for a digital single market for European industrial solutions.
• Adopting a European innovation-based policy related to free data flow across Europe that will allow the industry to realise the benefits of the Digital Single Market for IoT and ensure that Europe remains in the lead on IoT research and innovation and will continue to create opportunities for its start-up community.
• A holistic, comprehensive and coordinated strategy at the European level, avoiding fragmentation by looking at MSs best practices while encouraging the creation of pan-European IoT ecosystems across various industrial sectors involving the stakeholders in the different architectural layers and the different participants in the value networks, LEs, RTOs, SMEs and start-ups.
