Ubiquitous Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Eco-Systems

Dr.-Ing Abdur Rahim BiswasiCore project manager/ IERC AC14 Co-coordinator (On behalf of uCore consortium)

Empowering a cloud based IoTuCore

Acknowledgement• The concept is proposed by several

partners from iCore/IoT.est and other EU FP7 IoT projects

Contribution to 4th EU-Japan Symposiumhttp://www.prime-pco.com/4thJEUsymposium/pdf/s3/s3_abdur_rahim.pdf

Background

Background 21 partners2011-201414.5m Euro

8 partners2011-20144m Euro

18 partners2011-201415m Euro

21 partners2010-201314.5m Euro

uCoreEmpowering a Cloud-Based IoT

Future Smart City Vision

One city, one service platform

Bringing communities, stakeholders and citizens together for a more sustainable society

Cities are treasure troves of data and information, exploitation this "big data” will generate new values and new opportunities

Today: Internet of things and cloud

• Domain-centric solutions and applications

• Infrastructure centric networks (intra-net of things)o Representing silos that do not support interoperability

• Lack of intelligent and self-management capabilitieso Require capabilities to manage large amounts of IoT

objects/data and knowledge

• Fragmented IoT and cloud technologies

• Basic data storage and processing

Most relevant European IoT research • Sharing resources and service provision over multiple domains and

horizontal applications- iCore

• Principle for ubiquitously available, accessible and controllable real world

objects and devices -iCore

• Encompassing cognitive control and management in the IoT -iCore

• Flexible and dynamic creation of services based on user demand and

requirements - iCore/IoT.est

• Concealing technological and network heterogeneity and support various

kinds of devices and their integration- iCore/IoT-A

• User/application centric IoT - iCore/BUTLER

• An interoperable architecture reference-model for the IoT - IoT-A

Object world

Virtual world

Usersworld

Composition virtual object level

Virtual object level

Virtual user and application level

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iCore cognitive control and management IoT architecture

iCore Technical approach

Real World Objects Digital World Objects

Semantic technologiesfor maintaining the handle to Virtual Objects

Complex event prosessing, servicecomposition technologiesCognitive

management and controlframework

Architecture reference model

Context awareness,cognitive processtechnologies

Alignment with EU IoT activities,Overall cognitive process optimization,iCore security

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VO registries

CVO registries

Usercontextregistries

Service logicfactory

VO level cognitiveprocesses

CVO level cognitiveprocesses

User level cognitiveprocesses

Semantic technologiesfor maintaining the handle to Virtual Objects

Complex event prosessing, servicecomposition technologiesCognitive

management and controlframework

Architecture reference model

Context awareness,cognitive processtechnologies

Alignment with EU IoT activities,Overall cognitive process optimization,iCore security

CVO

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CVO registries

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CVO level cognitiveprocesses

User level cognitiveprocesses

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Future requirements • Cognitive manageability and Self-* capabilities ( decision, learning and

reasoning capabilities in IoT and Cloud)

• Scalable and secure a large amount of resources/data sharing and

management

• “Big data” storage and processing for real-time services

• Reliable and real-time communication from objects to applications

• Maximum accessibility and connectivity (interoperable and standard

APIs)

• Dynamic metering – when IoT resources and services are shared

• On-demand and flexible cloud-based IoT service provision

• Users experience creation and enablement

• Privacy and security by design/trusted solutions

uCore Approach

• Further realisation of iCore virtual object & composite virtual object and cognitive management mechanisms and to follow complementary approach with other EU projects BUTLER, IoT.est and IoT-A

• Consolidated IoT centric common cloud based services platform taking into account future IoT vision and requirements

• Enabling secure, scalable and real-time exploitation of IoT objects, devices, infrastructure and applications within an internet service perspective

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uCore closing remarks

• Major opportunity for moving towards one platform for the universal realization of the smart city vision

• uCore partners have a rich portfolio of successful collaborations with Japano Standards in the context of IEEE, e.g., P1900.4, P1900.6,

etc., in collaboration with NICT (Smart Wireless Laboratory). o Research work, e.g., special issues, joint papers, etc.o Regular visits and exchange of ideas in the context of

workshops• Major opportunity for building a success story• Aiming at a closer collaboration with Japanese side, for

instance would be happy if NICT could lead the Japanese side

KiitosThank You!

Dr.-Ing Abdur Rahim BiswasiCore Project Manager/ IERC AC14 CoordinatorCreate-Net, ItalyEmail: abdur.rahim@create-net.org