IoT LabCrowdsourced Experimental Environment

Aleksandra Rankov,

Srdjan Krčo,Stevan Jokić

DunavNET, Serbia

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Explore the power of the crowd

Exploring direct interactions with the

crowd (with smart phones) and enabling

the crowd to be at the core of the

research cycle. This would enable a

Motivation

research cycle. This would enable a

better alignment of the research with the

society and end-users needs and

requirements.

Aim

Economic Research

IoT Lab

To research the potential of crowdsourcing i.e. crowd participation in sensing and actuation

to integrate the crowd smart phones with existing FIRE testbed infrastructures or any general

statically deployed IoT resources in order to enable a wide range of multidisciplinary experiments

with more end-user interactions, flexibility, scalability, cost efficiency and societal added value.

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Societal Research

Technological Research

IoT LabTestbed

as a Service

IoT Lab projectFP7 3-years project (No 610477) commenced 1 Oct 2013

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Santanders

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Voluntary participants will be able to INITIATE,

RUN or JUST TAKE PART in a selected experiment

and thus contribute to the new research.

CROWDSENSING CROWDSOURCING

Privacy by Design –

Built-in anonymity

+ Data protection

+ Incentive and

rewarding schemes

AccelerationGravity

GyroscopeLight

Linear acceleration

Magnetic fieldOrientation

Pressure Proximity

Rotation

TemperatureBattery level

Camera GPS locationMicrophone

Sensory dataCrowd knowledge

Surveys/Questionnaires

Market analysis

Public opinion/polls

Testing of a product

Crowdsourcing

Driven

Initiate, guide, assess

research

1. Submit, assess, rank

research

3. Suggest adaptations

and

Research model –Crowd-sourcing

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Driven

Research research

topics

2. Test/assess results

and improvements

Leverage the “wisdom of the crowd” and collective intelligence potential to enable

truly end-user driven research processes.

Objectives - IoT Lab in a nutshell

Crowdsourcing

mechanisms and tools

• To enable testbeds to integrate and use third party resources (smart phones) and interact with the distributed users.

Virtualization

• of crowdsourcing and testbed components facilitating the integration and interaction with heterogeneous components, including physical, mobile and virtual ones.

Ubiquitous

Interconnection and

Cloudification

• of the testbeds resources to provide an on-line platform of Testbed as a Service (TBaaS).

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Objectives cont’ - IoT Lab in a nutshell

End-user and societal

value

• researching potential crowdsourcing participants interests, drivers and barriers to adoption, in order to propose an optimized model for end-user adoption

and societal value creation.

“Crowdsourcing-driven

research”

• as a new model in which the research can be initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd.

Economic dimension of

crowdsourcing testbed

• by analyzing the potential markets and business models in order to optimize the exploitation, costs, profitability and economic sustainability of such testbeds.

Performing

multidisciplinary

experiments

• including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing, to assess the added value of such approach.

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IoT Lab Mission

To extend existing testbeds through crowd sourcing, enabling richer and more distributed experiments

Bring the researcher and the end-user together, with closer

interactions between the experiments and the society

A new approach for

Support multidisciplinary experiments

Increase testbed economic sustainability

A new approach for

experimentation

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Virtualization of existing testbeds

through Fed4FIRE and integration

ChallengesA large number of testbeds with different functionalities,

architecture and interfaces

through Fed4FIRE and integration

with crowdsourcing IoT resources

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Testbed as a Service

Unification of the resource discovery and reservation processA wide range of heterogeneous devices as well as testbeds

under different authorities, with different tools and from

different application domains are accessible through IoT Lab

platform in a unified way!

Platform Development Approach

IoT Lab Platform

Architecture

State of the Art analysis

and adaptations Updates with technicalUpdates with technical

developments in WPdevelopments in WPs

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Architectureand adaptations Updates with technicalUpdates with technical

developments in WPdevelopments in WPs

IoT Lab Platform

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IoT Lab General Use Case Diagram

Platform Requirements

User profile management

• for both participants and investigators

• Security for AAA control

• Built-in reputation

Experiment

Configuration

• Detailed experiment description (resources, objectives, timeline , privacy)

Testbed Resources

Management

• interface that allows testbed managers to configure and make their resources available for experimentation

Privacy and EthicsCrowdsourcing and

Crowdsensing provisioning

• Capability of crowd and testbed resources to provide sensory and/or crowd knowledge data

Experiments

Management

• Browsing and evaluation of experiments

Privacy and Ethics

• PRIVACY BY DESIGN concept:

• users are requested minimal information

• a clear description of the required data (user and device)

Support for incentives

• for crowd and investigators incentive.

IoT Lab accounts

manager

IoT (testbed)

resources

management

interface

Crowd interaction

management

interface

IoT Lab Platform as a Service

high level architectureMAIN COMPONENTS

Setup and management of

participants accounts, including the

researchers/experimenters access and

personal accounts.

Use of Fed4FIRE

enablers to enable interactions with IoT

components from the

testbeds and the

smart phones.

Handling the interaction

with the participants

Project Plan

Y1

IoT Lab platform fully

defined;

Y2

Finalizing and fine tuning the

tools

Y3

Scaling up the IoT Lab

platformdefined;

Testbeds fully integrated

Initial components developed

tools

Testbed as a Service fully operational

Experiments started

platform

Large outreach

Experiments results and

analytics

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