This project is co-financed by the EC 7th Framework Programme on Research & Development under n° 611449, and part of the portfolio of the DG CNECT. For more information please check: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/

SUNRISE Building and Experimenting with the Internet of Underwater Things

Chiara Petrioli FP7 SUNRISE Project Coordinator University of Rome La Sapienza

Web page: http://fp7-sunrise.eu/

Davide Lamanna

Nexse

The Earth Planet…

SUNRISE Motivations (1/2)

The future of mankind is dependent on careful monitoring,

control and exploitation of the marine environments.

o Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the earth surface;

o 40% of the global population living within 100 kilometres of the coast;

o Marine environments support the life of nearly half of all species on

earth;

o Help sustain life by providing 20% of the animal proteins and 5%

percent of the total proteins in the human diet

o Are or are becoming a critical frontier of exploration for transport,

oxygen and food production, hydrocarbon exploitation, aquaculture,

biofuel production, mineral exploitation, climate and global water

circulation;

SUNRISE Motivations (2/2)

The future of mankind is dependent on careful monitoring,

control and exploitation of the marine environments.

o Cumulatively, the services provided by the oceans, such as the provision of food, oxygen, water and climate regulation, have been valued at over US$21 trillion, while maritime transport support 90% of global trade volume.

o The combination of an Underwater Internet of Things (IoT) can provide the missing effective, pervasive means to sense, monitor and control ocean processes to sustainably manage our planet resources:

• Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs).

• Underwater robotics technologies.

• Novel underwater communication technologies and paradigms.

SUNRISE Testbeds

SUNRISE Testbeds

Shared, easy to use, experimental facilities representing a diversity of relevant underwater domains and applications, thus eliminating the current barriers (in terms of high cost infrastructures and long training) that prevent access to the underwater market segment and the underwater research field today.

SUNRISE Approach…

• Enhanced flexibility:

o Novel paradigm of SoftWare (SW) Defined

Open Architecture Modem (SDOAM) and

SW Defined Communication Stack (SDCS).

o Novel business model: manufacturers

would be able to increase revenue through

licensing compiled modules for modems,

transitioning from earning through the

production of hardware to licensing

software

o Standardization of underwater

communication and of the architecture for

seamless integration of heterogeneous

sensors, comms technologies, assets

• Definition of standard software interfaces utility modules and libraries

• Coexistence and interoperability of open blocks and proprietary

blocks

First prototypes developed - SUNSET enabled SDCS; - Two SDOAM implemented

SUNRISE TOOL CHAIN

Tool chain decreasing the time from ideas generation to

prototyping to at seas testing/evaluation of the proposed

solutions.

o Accurate system level simulation/emulation;

o Accurate, simple channel models, enabling flexible and adaptive

communication protocol stacks + Channel recording and replaying;

o Automatic code selection and testbed configuration/reconfiguration;

o Testbed management;

o Tools for data analysis and presentation.

SUNRISE Approach… (1/2)

SUNRISE Approach… (2/2)

Seamless integration of heterogeneous flows of information available in different remote systems and over the Internet

Model driven data processing and decision support

Presentation through customized GUI

SUNRISE GATE

Interface to different experimental

infrastructures, external monitoring systems

for added value applications and services

development

Where we are Today…

• LOON testbed deployed in the Harbour of La

Spezia in March 2014. SUNSET SDCS enabled.

• Porto testbed deployed in the Harbour of Porto in

July 2014. SUNSET SDCS enabled.

• SUNRISE GATE implementation successfully

completed. LOON and Porto testbeds federated

through the SUNRISE GATE in July 2014.

• Complete implementation of SDCS available (S-

SDCS). First version of the Tool-chain to support

experiments developed

• Different prototypes of Software Defined

Acoustic Modems developed.

Where we are Today…

• University of Twente testbed available (Twente

Campus)

• Suasis lake testbed set up (to test phy layer

technologied) is in progress, deployment completed in

summer 2015, available for second open calls

• Three subprojects selected during the first

open call (OPTO-COMM, EXPOSURES,

EVERUN). Starting May 2015.

• Second Open Calls advertised on May 18th 2015

Deadline July 31st 2015 for project submission.

SUNRISE Testbeds in Action

• All testbed components have been largely tested, enhanced and

improved over several at sea campaigns in the past years.

• Novel software and hardware solutions have been developed, integrated

and validated.

• Using the SUNSET framework, which has been selected as the

SUNRISE plugin, SUNRISE is able to support and integrate:

o 5 different acoustic modems

o Multiple networking solutions (MAC, Routing, Cross-layering)

o Several environmental sensors (CO2, CH4, pH, redox, pressure, salinity,

conductivity, O2, etc.)

o Multiple AUVs and ASVs

FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Questions ?

SUNRISE web page http://fp7-sunrise.eu/