IoT-A Community Newsle!er # 5

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1 IoT-A Community Newsle!er # 5 EDITORIAL IoT Week The Event on IoT technologies, Innova"on and Businesses Internet of Things is no longer talking to the innova-!on or trend watching units. The business units have gone beyond op!mising and fine-tuning efficiency to the utmost. They are sensing a huge market. During plenary sessions and interac!ve workshops par!cipants from all over the world and with various background will have the chance to par!cipate to debates like: What will be the balance between intelligence in the Cloud (end to end) and intelligence at the edges (in the (robo!c?) devices? How will a general audience react to a world where 'everything talks to everything'? Is privacy s!ll a concept that developers can work with? Will IoT cut more jobs in an unstable economic climate or can it kick start a young and IT savvy genera!on to build apps and services with open data coming from real-!me sensor streams? Which domains are currently most successful? How can we ensure interoperability? What are the main standardisa!on efforts? How far are the benchmarking efforts and strategies of smart ci!es? What should I be looking out for if I am a City Council? A ci!zen? A developer? Come and find out! In this issue: - Foreword.. - IoT-A Inside.. - Stakeholder Interac"on IoT and the EU / IoT-A The Movie Events. p3 p6 p7 p9 p10 Interested to follow up on any of these items? Mail Rob van Kranenburg, Stakeholder Coordinator [email protected] IoT-A, the European Lighthouse Integrated Project addressing the Internet-of-Things Architecture, proposes the crea!on of an architectural reference model together with the defini!on of an ini!al set of key building blocks. Together they are envisioned as crucial founda!ons for fostering a future Internet of Things. Using an experimental paradigm, IoT-A combines top-down reasoning about architectural principles and design guidelines with simula!on and prototyping to explore the technical consequences of architectural design choices. More Informa!on at 1

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3 Gérald Santucci, Head of Unit, DG Connect 02, Knowledge Sharing Bernard Barani, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Connect E1 Network Technologies A&er 5 years of collabora!ve research across Europe, major achievements can be highlighted, both separately by project and included under the outstanding impact of the IoT European Research Cluster (IERC). The IoT-A Project will provide this year an architectural reference model (ARM) for the interoperability of IoT systems, providing founda!ons to build upon, such as unified protocols and protocol stacks and machine-to-machine (M2M) interfaces. Thanks to this research, current and future designers of IoT systems will be able to develop their solu!ons in an interoperable manner. The results of the IERC community of projects are outstanding, all the more so due to the fact that they were obtained on a!n cup budget from the 7 th Research Framework Programme. We want to praise the talented and dedicated teams from all across Europe, and also from non-european countries, for their immense work and unques!onable success. Let us tell you that those who have engaged themselves ac!vely in the cause of IoT, in the further development of the various IoT technologies and systems, and who have done so with a sense of determina!on and with passion, have actually done commendable work for the life-perspec!ve of the next genera!on. We all know the importance of the Internet of Things. The contribu!on of the IoT to the economy will certainly be huge. We have witnessed so far three interconnec!vity waves: Foreword: first PCs and laptops plus their associated modem and networking equipment; second, Internet-connected devices such as mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, ebook readers, Internet TVs, digital picture frames, cameras, and even cars; third, machine-to-machine (M2M) solu-!ons encompassing not only business and industrial applica!ons (the sensing enterprise and the sensing factory ) but also increasingly sophis!cated smart grids, networked security cameras and sensors, connected home appliances and HVAC equipment, ITS infrastructure. A fourth wave will arrive when further technological progress, especially in network technology, silicon technology and interoperability, will allow for every thing exis!ng on Earth to be iden!fied and connected to the (Future) Internet. Industry experts now predict that in this Internet of Everything the number of Internet-connected devices will top 50 billion by This means that dozens of connected devices per human being on the planet are conserva!vely an!cipated for a business whose yearly growth is es!mated at 20%. IoT is expected to support mul!ple applica!ons of social value by bringing contextual knowledge of the surrounding world and events into complex business and social processes. The challenge is to seamlessly integrate IoT technologies in complex environments such as transport, energy and logis!cs, and to redesign or adapt the business processes to these technologies. The pieces that will make the IoT puzzle come together are be+er understood today, thanks to flagship projects like IoT-A. The combina!on of IoT and Big Data can be iden!fied as a promising avenue. In the automo!ve sector, Ford pointed out that collec!ng data from a smallscale fleet of repair trucks through to a million-strong network of smart meters then feeding that data through a processing system to deliver detailed business informa!on is a major benefit of M2M. IoT research in the Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT) priority of Horizon 2020 ( ) will build upon the achievements of FP7 and be focused on a cross-cu3ng objec!ve at the confluence of Future Internet, Smart embedded components and systems, Cloud compu!ng, Advanced interfaces and robots, and Big Data. 3

4 Foreword: Europe will have to fight hard to play a leading role in IoT. Clearly, since former Premier Wen Jiabao iden!fied IoT as an "emerging strategic industry", China has set the pace of global developments by focusing on object-toobject communica!ons via infrared sensor, Radio Frequency Iden!fica!on (RFID) and other Machine-to- Machine (M2M) technology. The Chinese government has established state-owned enterprise zones such as the Chengdu Internet of Things Technology Ins!tute in Sichuan province. China es!mates that in 2020 the IoT domes!c market size will reach around RMB 5 10 trillion with an annual compound growth rate of over 30 per cent. In other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, other actors are also very ac!ve through na!onal programmes that put smart systems at the heart of smart ci!es. Europe is not without assets, but we need to rapidly get our act together on IoT and have a more systema!c approach towards the upcoming challenges. This is where we see an immense value in the burgeoning IoT community in Europe, even if the EU budget that we have invested in research so far represents at best 10% of what China has been doing. We see three important issues for the EU IoT community to capitalise on: Hardware will become more powerful with increased processing capabili!es and intelligence. This will drive emphasis on device power management and open opportuni!es for component vendors. Mobile ubiquity is needed and increased network quality and speed as well. This should go hand in hand with more homogeneous global tariffing to facilitate the emergence of interna!onal solu!ons. As cloud applica!ons will increasingly support applica!on deployment across common pla9orms, be+er data aggrega!on and analy!c tools should drive increased cost savings and innova!on for enterprises adop!ng IoT solu!ons. From that last perspec!ve, projects like IoT-A have a key role to play. It is already quite valuable that the project has managed to come up with a unified service framework which poten!ally cuts across the applica!on siloes and opens the door towards applica!ons with mixed use cases, e.g. using both environmental and automo!ve traffic data. This is a step in the right direc!on. We need technologies to support a "single applica!on market", favouring interoperability across use cases. If the first research results are endorsed by industrial players and contribute to the emergence of an IoT architectural and interoperability framework, this will further expand the standardisa!on work started in the M2M domain, first with the ETSI M2M ini!a!ve and now also with the OneM2M ini!a!ve. Let us be frank: Europe has failed to seize in!me the opportunity of ecosystems developed around smartphones, with now 2 to 3 dominant global players. Europe did not understand that such ecosystems had to be built around two key elements: the Opera!ng system (Android, ios) and the device. Device is king and it is not just by chance that all players are moving towards device control (e.g., Google-Nexus, Amazon Kindle). IoT deployment will bring to the market another set of devices, beyond smart phones. New ecosystems will be built around them, with a much more diverse applica!on profile than what exists today with smartphones. Can Europe lead in crea!ng these ecosystems? We believe it is possible, if we have common reference frameworks, the ambi!on to aggregate technologies and to push unified solu!ons towards mul!ple markets and applica!ons such that we can benefit from economies of scope and of scale. A crucial factor for the large-scale success of IoT will thus be to overcome the fragmenta!on of ver!cally oriented, closed systems towards open systems, based on open APIs and interworking standardised protocols at various levels of the system. Availability of a large number of applica!ons through applica!on markets has significantly helped the success of the smartphone industry. This is primarily due to the involvement of the developers community at large, which could get federated with a cri!cal mass effect around a limited amount of pla9orms. With the Horizon 2020 programme looming ahead, it is our renewed ambi!on to make it happen. Around IoT-A, the EU industrial community has begun to develop key technologies. The challenge is now to get them packaged in the most appropriate way to serve as many business scenarios as possible, and to move to the markets with 4

5 an innova!on minded approach. Horizon 2020 will provide the en!re IoT community in Europe with the programma!c instrument to make it happen; let us not miss the opportunity! At the same!me, we are all aware that the deployment of IoT will have a transforma!onal effect on society; how we live, work, learn and think; how we interact between us and with objects; how we look at the future; what is our role in life. A new ethics a new social contract will need to be forged among all stakeholders from government, academia, industry and society. IoT-A, with the valuable contribu!on of Rob van Kranenburg, has made posi!ve forays into the understanding and scoping of the ma+er. Work in Horizon 2020 will benefit from the new emphasis placed on Social Sciences and Humani!es (SSH) and Responsible Research and Innova!on (RRI), together with other emerging concepts such as the Europe-born Onlife ini!a!ve, to advance ethics-by-design, thus going beyond today s conserva!ve focus on the regulatory approach to privacy and designing an IoT architecture that reconciles innova!on and protec!on, technology and society. We cannot walk away from our future. But we must include in our conversa!ons among ourselves the societal dimension of the IoT, and eventually the Internet of Nano-things, which starts out with the idea of an era of intelligent machines (Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines, 1990) and of a computer fast enough to simulate an en!re human brain by 2020 (Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind, 2012). Kurzweil s vision, which draws on research in neuroscience and ar!ficial intelligence, seems very similar to the ul!mate des!na!on of the IoT epic: The inevitable next step is that our brains will soon be merged with the intelligent technology we are crea!ng. By around the 2030s, nanobots in our bloodstream and brains will keep us healthier and smarter, most of our thinking will be in the cloud unhindered by the natural limits of our biological brain and easy to back up like a hard drive, and we will vastly speed up the learning process. Such a vision may lead humanity to a dismal future something like Bentham s and Foucault s Panop!con metaphor of a City of Control or, even worse, Steven Spielberg s predic!on of a Robopocalypse in which the dazzling technology that increasingly shapes our world Foreword: turns against us. But it may also lead to a newer world in which knowledge crea!on and sharing powers the tool to free the word something around Mathiesen s and Giacomin s Openspace/Synop!con metaphor of a City of Trust. We commend all IoT-A project par!cipants because their work has made it possible to reach for the first!me a common understanding of the IoT domain. We know that the challenges ahead are both technological and societal. But we also know that if we remain commi+ed to make research responsible and policy making based on scien!fic evidence, the IoT will herald and enable a new Enlightenment, an Enlightenment for the 21 st century. We would be proud to see Europe show the way and set the pace. 5

6 IoT-A Inside: Expert Workshop with Gerrit Muller By Mar"n Bauer Already from the onset of IoT-A, we have ac!vely engaged the IoT stakeholder community. In the past this engagement mostly took place through stakeholder workshops, during which topics such as requirements, business models, and privacy were discussed. However, due to the growing maturity of the IoT Architectural Reference Model (ARM), IoT-A has shi&ed its focus from mere informa!on gathering towards valida!ng the ARM. For this new topic, IoT-A has engaged other projects within the FP7 IoT cluster, and we also decided to engage outside experts on par-!cular topics. The first topic off was architecture methodology. Gerrit Muller from Buskerud University College and the Embedded Systems Ins!tute (University of Technology Eindhoven) kindly agreed to scru!nise the ARM from an architecture-methodology point of view. For this, IoT-A partners from the architecture and the stakeholder work package met with Gerrit Muller for a oneday workshop in Dortmund in January. During this very intense and very frui9ul workshop, the IoT-A partners and Gerrit Muller discussed a wide range of topics in great depth: Architecture challenges due to the very wide scope of IoT-A (as compared to other reference-architecture projects). Benchmarking of the architecture methodology employed by IoT-A. How to improve the usability of the ARM document insight for the Guidelines Chapter in D1.5. Benchmarking of the IoT-A requirements: are we done or is something missing? Besides these topics Gerrit Muller also provided us with valuable advice on how to improve the dissemina!on of the ARM. A&er the workshop, the minutes of the mee!ng were thoroughly analysed and specific ac!on points were extracted, touching upon diverse topics such as: ARM-sec!on delinea!on and ordering; Elec!on of an illustra!ve use case for the ARM document; and How to best present the ARM at public mee!ngs such as the forthcoming IoT Week. IoT-A once again thanks Gerrit Muller for generously sharing his in-depth knowledge about the prac!cal issues and pi9alls of system architec!ng. 6

7 Interview with Tomaž Vidonja If you were in charge of IT Central Europe, what would you do? I would stay and go on with exis!ng vision to find the value of IoT in business and our lives. I see IoT as another (disrup!ve) technology which in early stages behaves "abnormally". And threre is nothing wrong with it. S!ll we've been through many stages of different disrup!ve technologies lately and we can't exactly predict the outcome(s). What we can do is we can set up the rules and values which drive the development. We don't need to invent them but take the exis!ng ones, like improving exis!ng processes, higher energy efficiency, sustainable growth of society. What IoT brings are two basic elements. Real-!me globally accessible informa!on and human independent data. Huge amount of data. What follows is more important. Our capabili!es to take advantage of all this data. So we are trying to stay focused on applica!ons and IoT pla9orms to help make value and benefits out of data which is gathered. To stay focused on Central and South East Europe the IoT is not developed as one would expect according to EU/EC plans to develop common EU market and to include all EU countries. Just for an illustra!on, up to now there have been started approximately 50 IoT related projects. This is a combined number of FP5, FP6 and also latest FP7. You can really find many different topics from pure RFID and sensors to more complex ambient systems and pla9orms. In addi!on there is also well known FI-WARE (Future Internet) project which is basically structured in the same way in terms of countries involved as it all other project from the FPs. If we add Call 1 FI-WARE projects to all other men!oned than there are in total over 60 IoT related projects in EU, many s!ll running, some already finished. Analysing those project I found that only 5% (five) are led by partner from Central & South East Europe (Hungary and Greece) and there only one project run by Turkey. All other are»owned«and led by EU-15 countries, mostly Germany (23%) and France (18%). So opportunites for companies from other countries to equaly well develop the IoT technologies and consequently compe!!ve products for market are slim. Stakeholder Interac"on: Why is this important? Well I don't think that all these funds spent in those projects will eventually have enough or expected impact on EU industry. And I'm especially concerned about the benefits for SMEs and for Central & South East Europe region. I'm not sure what exactly is expected outcome of all these IoT EU/EC projects but I honestly hope that somebody in EC would have at least a clue if not hard numbers. On the other side, there is hope for improvement. One is called Call 3 FI-WARE (FI-PPP) and the other is known as Horizon The former has just published a call and for the la+er we need to wait and see first calls coming out. What I would do has nothing to do with reality, in fact. So be+er ques!on is what we can do and actually make it happen. J One way is to start a na!onal IoT project/ program to built the ini!al IoT technology cluster. This is what we in Slovenia have been doing for the last two years with IoT Competence center Opcomm with almost 10mio. Next what we could do is to start building a broader community which focuses on applica!ons that IoT and also M2M delivers to help business growth, sustainable growth, improving wellbeing and social inclusion. We've developed and we've been running two ini!- a!ves. First one is an annual interna!onal IoT/M2M event called»living bits and things«. A&er 2011 and 2012, we plan to held 2013 in November again. The second one is open community run as web site» And there is another way to improve IoT, not only in Slovenia and in a broader region is our interna!onal IoT Internet of Things LinkedIn group. What is the biggest impediment for Slovenian IoT industry at the moment? Regarding the IoT industry in Slovenia there are three major areas, which I think are pre+y much in common to other new EU countries, since the major push for IoT in the recent years in EU came from the FP funded projects. And as we can see EU-15 countries and theirs companies and research ins!tutes have been leading 95% of all IoT projects funded by EU. On the other hand IoT is such a broad term that many of the companies and organisa!ons don't even recognize they somehow fit into the IoT with their products, services and solu!ons. So it's up to us to help develop un- 7

8 Stakeholder Interac"on: derstanding of IoT both in terms of technologies and in terms of applica!ons. In this respect IoT as technology enables and helps many different ver!cal segments to improve, to be more energy efficient, to be resource efficient, make less pollu!on and be more environment friendly and so on. I believe that for our country and similar smaller regions which can't»afford«big and global players it is all about connec!ng and networking on one side and solving specific concrete problems in the region with IoT technology, which can be simply repeated and used in other regions in EU and worldwide. Do you see things happening with young IT entrepreneurs? Are there startups? Where do they get funding? Yes. Though entrepreneurship was not something we were strong in the past due to historical reasons. On the other hand we always had bright and innova!ve young people who were challenging the status quo. Our educa-!on system is excellent and has been developing great individuals and research teams up to now. Unfortunately those brainiacs who were trying to make their ideas alive and bring them to market were a+racted by foreign capital and went abroad. Today we are inves!ng also in VC and other ways of financing start-ups. And I see IoT as a great opportunity for our region to become next source of IoT technologies and especially new ventures. IoT is in early stage, it requires talents, knowledge and crea!vity. We have lots of engineers and students in IT industry and more and more young people in high schools and even in higher classes of primary schools. A&er two years of our na!onal IoT competence center Opcomm program, we expect in 2013 to a+ract new SMEs to join the IoT environment. There are many ideas which are start-up ready and we plan to help them out. In terms of funding, we're doing it in two ways. First we are working on the applica!on/ver!cal level with industry players globally and finding new opportuni!es for IoT products (start-ups). This would bring on board strategic partners. On the other hand there can be found many seed-camps and VC events, not only in Slovenia but also in the region which can help IoT start-ups to get funded. Our ICT Technology Network mostly focuses on the strategic investors rather than VCs. In addi!on what we do are our na!onal projects and interna!onal network/ cluster connec!ons where we can secure addi!onal funds. 8

9 IoT-A Global IoT and the EU "The European Commission published the results of the public consulta!on on the Internet of Things and the output from the work of the group of experts on the Internet of Things. The conclusions will help to define the future policy on the Internet of Things. The public consulta!on was held between April and July 2012 (see IP/12/360). 600 people, associa!ons and various groups from academics and civil society, as well industry players responded to the consulta!on. Through the public consulta!on, the Commission sought views on an a policy approach to foster a dynamic development of Internet of Things in the digital single market while ensuring appropriate protec!on of and trust from EU ci!zens. Together with the results of the public consulta!on, the Commission published the output from the work of the group of experts on the Internet of Things. Informa!on on the en!re work of the group can be found in the Register of the Commission Expert Groups. The Commission will develop future policy ini!a!ves on the basis of these documents and with further support from the CONNECT Advisory Forum for ICT Research and Innova!on (CAF)." IoT-A the Movie The IoT-A project is proud to present to you the IoT-A Movie The Internet of Things Architecture h+p://vimeo.com/ The IoT-A movie introduces you to the spectacular story of how the Internet of Things could benefit people and society in the future and how the European Lighthouse Project on the Internet of Things will "make things talk". It provides you with a glimpse into a concept being worked on by the IoT-A project team for several years, namely the Architecture Reference Model, ARM, a dic!onary for the IoT, a toolbox for developers. For more informa!on go to or send feedback to [email protected] Some comments: David Boswarthick: Very interes!ng and a good / simple overview of some IoT applica!ons in real life. I have forwarded it to a number of people internally and also TC M2M and onem2m for their informa!on. Mirko Ross: IoT-A did well to chose a life saving example for the storyboard, because it's so obvious useful in case of emergencies. Chris Speed: Interes!ng a"empt at explaining the barriers. I've tweeted and will circulate here to lists / interested par!es Ben van Lier: The film is beau!ful and also very useful. It will really help me to explain people inside and outside Centric the meaning and prac!cal applica!ons of The Internet of Things. The incident and healthcare part of the film is very interes!ng because as Centric we have more than once proved that within the Netherlands all ICT possibili!es are present and connectable 9

10 Events: IoT Week The Event on IoT technologies, Innova"on and Businesses June 2013, Helsinki Internet of Things is no longer talking to the innova!on or trend watching units. The business units have gone beyond op!mising and finetuning efficiency to the utmost. They are sensing a huge market. In line with current strategic developments in the Internet of Things, the programme of the IoT Week 2013 is based on four topics: General opening keynotes by policy actors and industry representa!ves as well as presenta!ons from a global perspec!ve of the Internet of Things IoT technologies with several sessions on actual research undertaken on IoT architecture, IP and cogni!ve technologies, seman!c interoperability, etc IoT solu!ons as the essen!al and core ingredient and motor of the Smart Ci!es concepts IoT & entrepreneurship & business models During plenary sessions and interac!ve workshops par!cipants from all over the world and with various background will have the chance to par!cipate to debates like: What will be the balance between intelligence in the Cloud (end to end) and intelligence at the edges (in the (robo!c?) devices? How will a general audience react to a world where 'everything talks to everything'? Is privacy s!ll a concept that developers can work with? Will IoT cut more jobs in an unstable economic climate or can it kick start a young and IT savvy genera!on to build apps and services with open data coming from real-!me sensor streams? Which domains are currently most successful? How can we ensure interoperability? What are the main standardisa!on efforts? How far are the benchmarking efforts and strategies of smart ci!es? What should I be looking out for if I am a City Council? A ci!zen? A developer? The conference programme is under finalisa!on and s!ll needs some more input from IERC projects. More informa!on about the programme, registra!on, exhibi!on and sponsoring can be found at Projects are more than welcome to present their topics, showcase their use-cases and experiments and ac!vely par!cipate to the exi!ng sessions. The objec!ve of the IoT Week is to unite the IoT community by offering a pla9orm for presen!ng the latest news on relevant research topics, providing poli!cal and societal insights and offering networking opportuni!es. The event is organized by the European Integrated Project IoT-A (Internet of Things - Architecture) together with several research projects from the IERC European Research Cluster for the Internet of Things, such as BUTLER, Icore, PROBE-IT, IoT-Est, IoT6, Ebbits and CALIPSO. Consequent support and input for discussions will be insured by the IoT Forum ( Contact: Laure Quin!n [email protected] Web: 10

11 Events IoT-A will be present at following interna"onal Events: Future Internet Assembly (FIA) May 2013, Dublin, Ireland Internet of Things China June 2013, Shangai, China IoT-A Meet-up 24 May 2013, Sao Paolo, Brazil h+p:// 11

12 IoT-A Community Newsle!er # 5 DOWNLOAD ALL DOCUMENTS ABOUT IoT-A ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE MODEL (ARM) HERE Issued: April 2013 Editors: Joachim Walewski, Rob van Kranenburg, Laure Quin!n [email protected]; [email protected] 12