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Internet-of-Things Architecture IoT-A Project Deliverable D8.1 Information Flyer

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IOT-A The Internet-of-Things Architecture 257521

VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Sebastian Lange Laure Quintin, Anita Theel SAP, Fraunhofer IML, VDI/VDE-IT. NXP Alexander Bassi M3 (Final) Changes First version

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Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) Dissemination Level Public Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) Restricted to a group specified by the Consortium (including the Commission Services) Confidential, only for members of the Consortium (including the Commission Services)

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Executive Summary
The Information Flyer on the IoT-A project is providing comprehensive and at the same time concise information on the project for the wider public audience and the InternetofThings community at large.

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Table of Content
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Content of the information flyer

The two-page A4-flyer combines the properties of a printed media with a web-site-style look. In the header reference is made to the 7th Framework Programme and the EU next to the projects logo. The flyer is structured for information on visions of the future and information on how IoT-A is to contribute to these future scenarios. Visions of the future are given in five examples: smart Home intelligent Transport productive Business environment efficient Logistics and Retail environment safe Health-Monitoring Followed by a more detailed project description, focussing on the: Technological Challenges Project Outline Main Objectives Stakeholder Group (with a brief introduction) Finally, Project Facts and logos of the project participants are displayed.

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IoT-A, the European FP7 agship project to establish and to evolve a federating architectural reference model for the Future Internet of Things
VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

smart Home where no energy is wasted, where

n intelligent Transport system where public

productive Business environment where ofces

n efcient Logistics and Retail environment

safe Health-Monitoring system, always connected,

lighting is efcient, where interactive walls are able to display useful information, as well as pictures or art, videos of far-away friends or

transport and trafc ow is seamless, where private and public vehicles interact, choose the best path avoiding congestion and preserving

become smart and interactive and where factories relay production related data in realtime; where remote face-to face meetings are established through holograms, where documents are no longer just in the work ow and can be traced and automatically information.

where safety and environmen- making use of non-intrusive tal concerns are ubiquitously where consumers are supported to have a healthy and convenient shopping experience; where traceability of with access to all relevant quality and sustainability measures. techniques such as sweat and rious illnesses by adapting the environment and by selecting appropriate drugs and diet; where tness is tailored to ones needs automatically in order to achieve the desired accordance with ones mood and environment. embedded in all the processes; breath analysis, preventing se-

relatives; a home environment the environment, and where that suits ones needs, whether multimodal transport is one is reading a book or watching a movie; where all household appliances talk to each other and help solving problems, instead of creating new ones. smooth and easy; where parking is not a problem any longer and where alternative nient.

paper, but are fully integrated products is a given standard

product information including target without injuries and in

means of transport are conve- linked with additional online

IOT-A WILL BE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCH A FUTURE

Technological Challenges
In order to realise the vision pictured above, many technological steps need to be tackled. Advancement in miniaturisation, energy harvesting, and the integration of computing and communication elements into non-standard substrates will enable the implementation of most science-ction visions we may have today, but the absence of a uniform and coherent architecture will greatly threaten the Internet of Things (IoT) development. Therefore, we believe that a rst step towards realising this vision is the development of an open architectural reference model, providing guidance for the technical decisions required to design and standardise protocols and algorithms that the envisioned IoT will be based on. This architectural reference model will represent a set of deliberate design choices out of many design alternatives. These choices will be informed by a thorough understanding of requirements on the IoT. While many of these requirements still need to be determined in detail some are already known. Unlike existing technology in the above application areas, it should deeply embed privacy and security in its foundations, as the personal integrity of its users and the integrity of the infrastructure itself needs to be guaranteed. It should also enable scalable communication and management of its devices, as the expected number of IoT devices at the network edges will exceed the currently existing ones by orders of magnitude. The IoT also has to be interoperable at the communication layer in order to support the co-existence of a variety of existing and emerging communication technologies. Interoperability needs also to be guaranteed at the service level ensuring smooth integration

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into the service layer of the Future Internet. Pursuing this approach IoT-A will also ensure that knowledge generated by the IoT will be modular and re-usable across domain-specic boundaries.

To develop IoT device platform components including device hardware and run-time environment To validate the architectural reference model against the derived requirements and by implementation of real life use cases that demonstrate the benets of the developed solutions.

Project Outline
IoT-A proposes the creation of an architectural reference model together with the denition of an initial set of key building blocks, which we envision as the crucial foundation to grow a future Internet of Things organically based on our past experience in developing the Internet and Web 2.0 applications. Using an experimental paradigm, IoT-A will combine top down reasoning about architectural principles and design guidelines with simulation and prototyping work to explore the technical consequences of architectural design choices.

To contribute to the dissemination and exploitation of the developed architectural foundations.

Stakeholder Group - How to become involved?

IoT-A has established a stakeholder group that is involved in the denition of requirements for the architectural reference model as well as in the validation of the initial and updated versions of proposed architectures. If you are interested in becoming a IoT-A stakeholder please apply at: www.iot-a.eu/stakeholder Applicants will be informed upon selection.

Main Objectives
To provide an architectural reference model for the interoperability of IoT systems, outlining principles and guidelines for the technical design of its protocols, interfaces and algorithms. To assess existing IoT protocol suits and derive mechanisms to achieve end-to-end interoperability for seamless communication between IoT devices. To develop modelling tools and a description language for goal-oriented IoT aware (business) process interactions allowing expression of their dependencies for a variety of deployment models. To derive adaptive mechanisms for distributed orchestration of IoT resource interactions exposing self-* properties in order to deal with the complex dynamics of real world environments. To holistically embed effective and efcient security and privacy mechanisms into IoT devices and the protocols and services they utilise To develop a novel resolution infrastructure for the IoT allowing scalable look up and discovery of IoT resources, entities of the real world and their associations.

Project Facts
Project Duration: 1.09.2010 - 31.08.2013 (3 years) Project EC Contribution: 12 Mio. EUR Consortium: 19 Partners from 8 European countries Project Ofcer: Manuel Mateo, European Commission Project Coordinator: Dr. Sebastian Lange, VDI/VDE-IT Technical Coordinator: Dr. Alessandro Bassi, Hitachi Deputy Tech. Coordinator: Dr. Alexander Gluhak, Uni Surrey Contact: info@iot-a.eu

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Picture credits: SAP, Fraunhofer IML, VDI/VDE-IT, NXP