SENSEI

Le concept « Real World Internet » dans le projet SENSEI : applications et enjeux socio-économiques

Fabrice ForestUniversité Pierre Mendès-France - Umanlab

21 septembre 2010, INSA Lyon« Quel Futur pour le Web »Cluster ISLE – Web Intelligence

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1. Le projet SENSEI2. Concept et objectifs3. Enquêtes de terrain4. Scenarios5. Résultats “Usages”6. Résultats “business framework”

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1 – SENSEI project SENSEI (Real World Dimension of the Network of the Future) Integrated Project (IP) in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme in

Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Budget over 23 million Euros / 1900 person-months IP from Call 1, Challenge 1.1: The Network of the Future. Started in January 2008 / end 2010 Consortium involves multi-disciplinary expertise split among 19 partners

from 12 European countries.

2.1 - SENSEI concept

The overall objective of SENSEI is to integrate the Physical with the Digital World of the Future Internet.

SENSEI’s vision is to realize ambient intelligence in a future network and service environment, and to integrate Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) efficiently into the Future Internet.

In order to realize this vision of Ambient Intelligence in future networks and services environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces.

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2.2 - Future Internet and SENSEI

SENSEI objective is to define a system and an architecture, with universal interfaces:

To support a large number of WS&ANs, through a plug and play WS&ANs interface

To be an enabler of applications, that process sensor data and its context information, via the SENSEI service interface

To allow the connection of present and future networks, via the network support interface

2.3 - Overview of essential roles in a SENSEI system

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Resource user:•Business players & processes•Context-aware mobile services •Control and monitoring applications •Network management function, etc.

Resource provider•WSAN island operator, •Processing component provider

Resource:• Sensor• Actuator• Processing components• Management state, etc.

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3.1 - Field inquiries: overview of the approachSENSEI D1.3 - Business and Social Acceptance Studies for Open and

Enterprise Solutions

– Field inquiry – 37 interviews towards users and business stakeholders:• Building and home• City planning and design• Transport • Crisis management

– Assessment of the SENSEI concept + design goals

– User and social acceptance – Business value and roles– Design recommendations

Online scenarios – www.ict-sensei.org

3.2 - Horizontalisation - SENSEI architecture will facilitate the horizontal reuse of sensing, actuation and processing services for different applications.

3.3 - Privacy and Security - SENSEI architecture will protect the privacy of the users and offer adequate security for its participating systems and also to the entities being observed and acted upon

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4 - Application scenarios SENSEI project has created some application scenarios for SENSEI

system. These scenarios concretize some applications that could be enabled by

SENSEI system

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5.1 Usages – decisive adoption factorsDecisive societal acceptance factors1. SENSEI feasibility : SENSEI seen as the combination of existing technologies in a consistent

framework

2. SENSEI in the users’ agenda :SENSEI framework expected by companies to support R&D dynamics and to create new generation of applications

3. SENSEI key design goals : the whole set of SENSEI design goals works as an ecosystem making sense as whole

4. SENSEI and innovation dynamics: SENSEI seen as an enabler for the innovation processes and strategies of the companies (think cross domains, transcend the silos)

5. SENSEI and Future Internet: RWI vision transcends the current Internet of Things vision by combining the Ambient Intelligence with the Future Networks

6. SENSEI ethics and privacy issues : RWI differs from the usual Big Brother nightmare

7. SENSEI and standardization issues : needed to make the SENSEI vision realistic. Should avoid the stakeholders’ effort in standardization

8. SENSEI business roles and value: user acceptance not separable from the business modelling and value networks analysis

Ethics and privacy issues

•The user perception of the RWI differs from the usual Big Brother nightmare (not negatively perceived with regard to traditional privacy issues related to ubiquitous computing).

•Horizontalisation: the distributed principle supports the idea of a neutral system in terms of societal and human control (contrary of an Orwellian centralised system for social control).

•Recent societal trends have changed the users’ perception of the privacy issues: Internet social networking pushed back the limits of the personal privacy

•Ongoing societal changes (environment and energy issues) motivate the development of frameworks to make possible new types of societal schemes and large-scale applications to regulate them

•This willingness of the users to share private data is strongly dependent on the robustness of reliable privacy and security SENSEI mechanisms

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5.2 – User and social acceptance

CMF

ASC

SSB

WOP

SMF

ASP

SDPAPD

3SC

CXP

COP

ASS

WSP

3SP

System components

Deployment

SDO LEGREG

Local connectivity

Services

System

Contents

Services

Development

Services

Services

Code RoleSMF System ManufacturerCMF Component ManufacturerAPD Application DeveloperSDP System DeployerCOP Content ProviderASP Application Service ProviderCXP Connectivity ProviderSSB Sensor and Actuation Service BrokerWOP WSAN OperatorWSP WSAN Service Provider3SP 3rd Party Service ProviderASC Application Service ConsumerASS Application Service Subscriber3SC 3rd Party Service ConsumerSDO Standards Development Organisation (SDO)REG Regulatory BodyLEG Legislative Body

WSAN

Initial Draft Reference Model

Technical, regulatory & legal framework

Business Roles & Relations - Values

Services

Remote connectivity

6.1 SENSEI Business Framework

WSP COP

Resource providers

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ASP

SSB

ASP

SSB

ASP

SSB

ASC ASS

Resource Users

3SC

SENSEI logic

TRADITIONALCENTRIC BROKERING

DISTRIBUTED BROKERING

6.5 Business Framework 3 Models for Business Logics

WOP

Application logic

ASP

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WSP COP

Resource providers

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ASP

SSB

ASP

SSB

ASP

SSB

ASC ASS

Resource Users

3SC

SENSEI logic

TRADITIONALCENTRIC BROKERING

DISTRIBUTED BROKERING

6.5 Business Framework 3 Models for Business Logics

WOP

Application logic

ASP

…

Now New Next

Conclusion - Lifecycle scenarios to design SENSEI system for change

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• Application scenarios used to anticipate the SENSEI deployment and lifecycle

• Scenarios involved RWI perspective from short, mid and to long term

• Different degrees of societal changes, business innovation and technology progress

• functional requirements for SENSEI system designed for change before/beyond runtime• SENSEI lifecycle scenarios for Smart City:

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Thank you

www.sensei-project.eu

fabrice.forest@umanlab.eu