River Publishers Series in Communication

Internet of Things
From Research and Innovation to
Market Deployment

Editors
Ovidiu Vermesan
Peter Friess

River Publishers

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Preface

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Editors Biography

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Introduction

Putting the Internet of Things Forward to the Next Level

2.1 The Internet of Things Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 The Internet of Things Tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.3 Potential Success Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3.1 Internet of Things Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.1.1 Internet of Things Common Definition . . . . . . . .
3.2 IoT Strategic Research and Innovation Directions . . . . . .
3.2.1 IoT Applications and Use Case Scenarios . . . . . .
3.2.2 IoT Functional View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.2.3 Application Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3 IoT Smart-X Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.1 Smart Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.2 Smart Energy and the Smart Grid . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.3 Smart Mobility and Transport . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.4 Smart Home, Smart Buildings and Infrastructure . .
3.3.5 Smart Factory and Smart Manufacturing . . . . . . .
3.3.6 Smart Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.7 Food and Water Tracking and Security . . . . . . . .
3.3.8 Participatory Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.9 Smart Logistics and Retail . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.4 Internet of Things and Related Future Internet Technologies
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3.4.2 IoT and Semantic Technologies . . . . . . . .
Networks and Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.5.1 Networking Technology . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.5.2 Communication Technology . . . . . . . . . .
3.6 Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.6.1 Adaptive and Event-Driven Processes . . . . .
3.6.2 Processes Dealing with Unreliable Data . . . .
3.6.3 Processes dealing with unreliable resources . .
3.6.4 Highly Distributed Processes . . . . . . . . . .
3.7 Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.7.1 Data Collection and Analysis (DCA) . . . . . .
3.7.2 Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.7.3 Semantic Sensor Networks and Semantic
Annotation of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.7.4 Virtual Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8 Security, Privacy & Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8.1 Trust for IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8.2 Security for IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8.3 Privacy for IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.9 Device Level Energy Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.9.1 Low Power Communication . . . . . . . . . .
3.9.2 Energy Harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.9.3 Future Trends and Recommendations . . . . .
3.10 IoT Related Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.10.1 The Role of Standardization Activities . . . . .
3.10.2 Current Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.10.3 Areas for Additional Consideration . . . . . .
3.10.4 Interoperability in the Internet-of-Things . . .
3.11 IoT Protocols Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.11.1 Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) .
3.11.2 Constrained Applications Protocol (CoAP) . .
3.11.3 Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
3.11.4 Java Message Service API (JMS) . . . . . . .
3.11.5 Data Distribution Service (DDS) . . . . . . . .
3.11.6 Representational State Transfer (REST) . . . .
3.11.7 Extensible Messaging and Presence
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Internet of Things Global Standardisation - State of Play

4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2 IoT Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.1 IoT Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2 IoT Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3 IoT Standardisation Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.1 CEN/ISO and CENELEC/IEC . . . . . . . . .
4.3.2 ETSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.3 IEEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.4 IETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.5 ITU-T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.6 OASIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.7 OGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.8 oneM2M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3.9 GS1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.4 IERC Research Projects Positions . . . . . . . . . . .
4.4.1 BETaaS Advisory Board Experts Position . . .
4.4.2 IoT6 Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dynamic Context-Aware Scalable and Trust-based IoT
Security, Privacy Framework
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2 Background Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3 Main Concepts and Motivation of the Framework . .
5.3.1 Identity Management . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.2 Size and Heterogeneity of the System . . . .
5.3.3 Anonymization of User Data and Metadata .
5.3.4 Actions Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.5 Privacy by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.6 Context Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.4 A Policy-based Framework for Security and Privacy
in Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.4.1 Deployment in a Scenario . . . . . . . . . .
5.4.2 Policies and Context Switching . . . . . . .
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Scalable Integration Framework for Heterogeneous

Smart Objects, Applications and Services
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2 IPv6 Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.3 IoT6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.4 IPv6 for IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.5 Adapting IPv6 to IoT Requirements . . . . . . .
6.6 IoT6 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.7 DigCovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.8 IoT6 Integration with the Cloud and EPICS . . .
6.9 Enabling Heterogeneous Integration . . . . . . .
6.10 IoT6 Smart Office Use-case . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.11 Scalability Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.12 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Internet of Things Applications - From Research
and Innovation to Market Deployment
7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.2 OpenIoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.2.1 Project Design and Implementation . .
7.2.2 Execution and Implementation Issues .
7.2.3 Project Results . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.2.4 Acceptance and Sustainability . . . . .
7.2.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3 iCORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3.1 Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3.2 Project Execution . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3.3 Results Achieved . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3.4 Acceptance and Sustainability . . . . .
7.4 Compose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.4.1 Project Design and Implementation . .
7.4.2 The IoT Communication Technologies .
7.4.3 Execution and Implementation Issues .
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SmartSantander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.5.1 How SmartSantander Facility has Become
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7.5.2 Massive Experimentation Facility: A Fire
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7.5.4 Sustainability Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.6.1 The IoT for Manufacturing Trials in Fitman
7.6.2 Fitman Trials Requirements to IoT
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7.6.3 The TRW and Whirlpool Smart Factory Trial
7.6.4 Fitman Trials Exploitation Plans & Business
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7.6.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OSMOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.7.1 The AW and EPC IoT for Manufacturing
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7.7.2 OSMOSE Use Cases Requirements to
IoT for Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . .
7.7.3 OSMOSE Use Cases Exploitation Plans
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7.7.4 Conclusions and Future Outlook . . . . . . .

Bringing IP to Low-power Smart Objects: The Smart

Parking Case in the CALIPSO Project
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.1.1 Bringing IP to Energy-Constrained Devices
8.1.2 The CALIPSO Project . . . . . . . . . . .
8.2 Smart Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3 CALIPSO Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.1 CALIPSO Communication Modules . . . .
8.3.2 CALIPSO Security Modules . . . . . . . .
8.4 Calipso Implementation and Experimentation with
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8.4.1 Implementation of Calipso Modules . . . .
8.4.2 Experimentation Plan for Smart Parking . .
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Insights on Federated Cloud Service Management and the

Internet of Things
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.2 Federated Cloud Services Management . . . . . . . . . . .
9.2.1 Cloud Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.2.2 Cloud Data Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.2.3 Cloud Data Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.2.4 Infrastructure Configuration and re-Configuration . .
9.3 Federated Management Service Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . .
9.3.1 Open IoT Autonomic Data Management . . . . . . .
9.3.2 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.3.3 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.3.4 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.3.5 Resource Optimization and Cost Efficiency . . . . .
9.4 Self-management Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.1 Service Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.2 Efficient Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.3 Service Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.4 Efficient Sensor Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.5 Request Types Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.6 Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.7 Utility-based Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.8 Service Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.4.9 Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.5 Self-Organising Cloud Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.6 Horizontal Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9.6.1 Open IoT Architecture: Explanation and Usage . . .
9.6.2 Cloud Services for Internet-connected objects (ICOs)
9.6.3 Management of IoT Service Infrastructures following
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Internet of Things Strategic Research
and Innovation Agenda
Ovidiu Vermesan1 , Peter Friess2 , Patrick Guillemin3 , Harald Sundmaeker4 ,
Markus Eisenhauer5 , Klaus Moessner6 , Marilyn Arndt7 , Maurizio Spirito8 ,
Paolo Medagliani9 , Raffaele Giaffreda10 , Sergio Gusmeroli11 , Latif Ladid12 ,
Martin Serrano13 , Manfred Hauswirth13 , Gianmarco Baldini14
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SINTEF, Norway
European Commission, Belgium
3 ETSI, France
4 ATB GmbH, Germany
5 Fraunofer FIT, Germany
6 University of Surrey, UK
7 Orange, France
8 ISMB, Italy
9 Thales Communications & Security, France
10 CREATE-NET, Italy
11 TXT e-solutions, Italy
12 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
13 Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland
14 Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
Peter F. Drucker
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift

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3.1 Internet of Things Vision

Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept and a paradigm that considers pervasive
presence in the environment of a variety of things/objects that through
wireless and wired connections and unique addressing schemes are able to
interact with each other and cooperate with other things/objects to create new
applications/services and reach common goals. In this context the research and
development challenges to create a smart world are enormous. A world where
the real, digital and the virtual are converging to create smart environments
that make energy, transport, cities and many other areas more intelligent. The
goal of the Internet of Things is to enable things to be connected anytime,
anyplace, with anything and anyone ideally using any path/network and
any service. Internet of Things is a new revolution of the Internet. Objects
make themselves recognizable and they obtain intelligence by making or
enabling context related decisions thanks to the fact that they can communicate
information about themselves and they can access information that has
been aggregated by other things, or they can be components of complex
services [69].
The Internet of Things is the network of physical objects that contain
embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal
states or the external environment and the confluence of efficient wireless
protocols, improved sensors, cheaper processors, and a bevy of start-ups and
established companies developing the necessary management and application
software has finally made the concept of the Internet of Things mainstream.
The number of Internet-connected devices surpassed the number of human
beings on the planet in 2011, and by 2020, Internet-connected devices are
expected to number between 26 billion and 50 billion. For every Internetconnected PC or handset there will be 510 other types of devices sold with
native Internet connectivity [43].
According to industry analyst firm IDC, the installed base for the Internet
of Things will grow to approximately 212 billion devices by 2020, a number
that includes 30 billion connected devices. IDC sees this growth driven largely
by intelligent systems that will be installed and collecting data - across both
consumer and enterprise applications [44].
These types of applications can involve the electric vehicle and the smart
house, in which appliances and services that provide notifications, security,
energy-saving, automation, telecommunication, computers and entertainment
will be integrated into a single ecosystem with a shared user interface. IoT
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Figure 3.1 Internet-connected devices and the future evolution (Source: Cisco, 2011)

wireless broadband connections. The Internet of Things makes use of synergies

that are generated by the convergence of Consumer, Business and Industrial
Internet Consumer, Business and Industrial Internet. The convergence creates
the open, global network connecting people, data, and things. This convergence leverages the cloud to connect intelligent things that sense and transmit a
broad array of data, helping creating services that would not be obvious without
this level of connectivity and analytical intelligence. The use of platforms is
being driven by transformative technologies such as cloud, things, and mobile.
The Internet of Things and Services makes it possible to create networks
incorporating the entire manufacturing process that convert factories into a
smart environment. The cloud enables a global infrastructure to generate new
services, allowing anyone to create content and applications for global users.
Networks of things connect things globally and maintain their identity online.
Mobile allows connection to this global infrastructure anytime, anywhere. The
result is a globally accessible network of things, users, and consumers, who
are available to create businesses, contribute content, generate and purchase
new services.
Platforms also rely on the power of network effects, as they allow more
things, they become more valuable to the other things and to users that make
use of the services generated. The success of a platform strategy for IoT
can be determined by connection, attractiveness and knowledge/information/
data flow.
The European Commission while recognizing the potential of Converging
Sciences and Technologies Converging Sciences and Technologies to advance

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Figure 3.2 Future Communication Challenges 5G scenarios [2]

the Lisbon Agenda, proposes a bottom-up approach to prioritize the setting

of a particular goal for convergence of science and technology research;
meet challenges and opportunities for research and governance and allow for
integration of technological potential as well as recognition of limits, European
needs, economic opportunities, and scientific interests.
Enabling technologies for the Internet of Things considered in [36] can
be grouped into three categories: i) technologies that enable things to
acquire contextual information, ii) technologies that enable things to process
contextual information, and iii) technologies to improve security and privacy.
The first two categories can be jointly understood as functional building blocks
required building intelligence into things, which are indeed the features
that differentiate the IoT from the usual Internet. The third category is not a
functional but rather a de facto requirement, without which the penetration of
the IoT would be severely reduced. Internet of Things developments implies
that the environments, cities, buildings, vehicles, clothing, portable devices
and other objects have more and more information associated with them and/or
the ability to sense, communicate, network and produce new information. In
addition the network technologies have to cope with the new challenges such
as very high data rates, dense crowds of users, low latency, low energy, low
cost and a massive number of devices, The 5G scenarios that reflect the future
challenges and will serve as guidance for further work are outlined by the EC
funded METIS project [2].

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As the Internet of Things becomes established in smart factories, both the

volume and the level of detail of the corporate data generated will increase.
Moreover, business models will no longer involve just one company, but
will instead comprise highly dynamic networks of companies and completely
new value chains. Data will be generated and transmitted autonomously by
smart machines and these data will inevitably cross company boundaries.
A number of specific dangers are associated with this new context for
example, data that were initially generated and exchanged in order to coordinate manufacturing and logistics activities between different companies
could, if read in conjunction with other data, suddenly provide third parties
with highly sensitive information about one of the partner companies that
might, for example, give them an insight into its business strategies. New
instruments will be required if companies wish to pursue the conventional
strategy of keeping such knowledge secret in order to protect their competitive
advantage. New, regulated business models will also be necessary the raw
data that are generated may contain information that is valuable to third
parties and companies may therefore wish to make a charge for sharing
them. Innovative business models like this will also require legal safeguards
(predominantly in the shape of contracts) in order to ensure that the value
added created is shared out fairly, e.g. through the use of dynamic pricing
models [55].
3.1.1 Internet of Things Common Definition
Ten critical trends and technologies impacting IT for the next five years were
laid out by Gartner and among them the Internet of Things. All of these things
have an IP address and can be tracked. The Internet is expanding into enterprise
assets and consumer items such as cars and televisions. The problem is that
most enterprises and technology vendors have yet to explore the possibilities
of an expanded Internet and are not operationally or organizationally ready.
Gartner [54] identifies four basic usage models that are emerging:

Manage
Monetize
Operate
Extend.

These can be applied to people, things, information, and places, and

therefore the so called Internet of Things will be succeeded by the Internet
of Everything.

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Figure 3.3

IP Convergence

In this context the notion of network convergence using IP is fundamental

and relies on the use of a common multi-service IP network supporting a wide
range of applications and services.
The use of IP to communicate with and control small devices and sensors
opens the way for the convergence of large, IT-oriented networks with real
time and specialized networked applications.
The fundamental characteristics of the IoT are as follows [65]:
Interconnectivity: With regard to the IoT, anything can be interconnected
with the global information and communication infrastructure.
Things-related services: The IoT is capable of providing thing-related
services within the constraints of things, such as privacy protection and
semantic consistency between physical things and their associated virtual
things. In order to provide thing-related services within the constraints
of things, both the technologies in physical world and information world
will change.
Heterogeneity: The devices in the IoT are heterogeneous as based on
different hardware platforms and networks. They can interact with other
devices or service platforms through different networks.
Dynamic changes: The state of devices change dynamically, e.g., sleeping
and waking up, connected and/or disconnected as well as the context of
devices including location and speed. Moreover, the number of devices
can change dynamically.
Enormous scale: The number of devices that need to be managed and
that communicate with each other will be at least an order of magnitude

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larger than the devices connected to the current Internet. The ratio of
communication triggered by devices as compared to communication
triggered by humans will noticeably shift towards device-triggered
communication. Even more critical will be the management of the data
generated and their interpretation for application purposes. This relates
to semantics of data, as well as efficient data handling.
The Internet of Things is not a single technology, its a concept in
which most new things are connected and enabled such as street lights being
networked and things like embedded sensors, image recognition functionality,
augmented reality, near field communication are integrated into situational
decision support, asset management and new services. These bring many
business opportunities and add to the complexity of IT [52].
To accommodate the diversity of the IoT, there is a heterogeneous mix of
communication technologies, which need to be adapted in order to address the
needs of IoT applications such as energy efficiency, security, and reliability.
In this context, it is possible that the level of diversity will be scaled to a
number a manageable connectivity technologies that address the needs of
the IoT applications, are adopted by the market, they have already proved
to be serviceable, supported by a strong technology alliance. Examples of
standards in these categories include wired and wireless technologies like
Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Z-Wave.
Distribution, transportation, logistics, reverse logistics, field service, etc.
are areas where the coupling of information and things may create new
business processes or may make the existing ones highly efficient and more
profitable.
The Internet of Things provides solutions based on the integration of
information technology, which refers to hardware and software used to store,
retrieve, and process data and communications technology which includes
electronic systems used for communication between individuals or groups.
The rapid convergence of information and communications technology is
taking place at three layers of technology innovation: the cloud, data and
communication pipes/networks and device [46].
The synergy of the access and potential data exchange opens huge new
possibilities for IoT applications. Already over 50% of Internet connections
are between or with things. In 2011 there were over 15 billion things on the
Web, with 50 billion+ intermittent connections.
By 2020, over 30 billion connected things, with over 200 billion
with intermittent connections are forecast. Key technologies here include

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Figure 3.4 IoT Layered Architecture (Source: ITU-T)

embedded sensors, image recognition and NFC. By 2015, in more than 70%
of enterprises, a single executable will oversee all Internet connected things.
This becomes the Internet of Everything [53].
As a result of this convergence, the IoT applications require that classical
industries are adapting and the technology will create opportunities for new
industries to emerge and to deliver enriched and new user experiences and
services.
In addition, to be able to handle the sheer number of things and objects that
will be connected in the IoT, cognitive technologies and contextual intelligence
are crucial. This also applies for the development of context aware applications
that need to be reaching to the edges of the network through smart devices
that are incorporated into our everyday life.
The Internet is not only a network of computers, but it has evolved into
a network of devices of all types and sizes, vehicles, smartphones, home
appliances, toys, cameras, medical instruments and industrial systems, all
connected, all communicating and sharing information all the time.
The Internet of Things had until recently different means at different
levels of abstractions through the value chain, from lower level semiconductor
through the service providers.
The Internet of Things is a global concept and requires a common
definition. Considering the wide background and required technologies,

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Figure 3.5 Detailed IoT Layered Architecture (Source: IERC)

from sensing device, communication subsystem, data aggregation and preprocessing to the object instantiation and finally service provision, generating
an unambiguous definition of the Internet of Things is non-trivial.
The IERC is actively involved in ITU-T Study Group 13, which leads the
work of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on standards for
next generation networks (NGN) and future networks and has been part of the
team which has formulated the following definition [65]: Internet of things
(IoT): A global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced
services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing
and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.
NOTE 1 Through the exploitation of identification, data capture, processing
and communication capabilities, the IoT makes full use of things to offer
services to all kinds of applications, whilst ensuring that security and privacy
requirements are fulfilled. NOTE 2 From a broader perspective, the IoT can
be perceived as a vision with technological and societal implications.
The IERC definition [67] states that IoT is A dynamic global network
infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual things have

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Figure 3.6 The IoT: Different Services, Technologies, Meanings for Everyone [77]

identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent

interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network..

3.2 IoT Strategic Research and Innovation Directions

The development of enabling technologies such as nanoelectronics, communications, sensors, smart phones, embedded systems, cloud networking, network
virtualization and software will be essential to provide to things the capability
to be connected all the time everywhere. This will also support important
future IoT product innovations affecting many different industrial sectors.
Some of these technologies such as embedded or cyber-physical systems form
the edges of the Internet of Things bridging the gap between cyber space and
the physical world of real things, and are crucial in enabling the Internet of
Things to deliver on its vision and become part of bigger systems in a world
of systems of systems.

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Figure 3.7

IoT Definition [68]

The final report of the Key Enabling Technologies (KET), of the HighLevel Expert Group [47] identified the enabling technologies, crucial to many
of the existing and future value chains of the European economy:

Nanotechnologies.
Micro and Nano electronics
Photonics
Biotechnology
Advanced Materials
Advanced Manufacturing Systems.

As such, IoT creates intelligent applications that are based on the supporting KETs identified, as IoT applications address smart environments either
physical or at cyber-space level, and in real time.
To this list of key enablers, we can add the global deployment of
IPv6 across the World enabling a global and ubiquitous addressing of any
communicating smart thing.
From a technology perspective, the continuous increase in the integration
density proposed by Moores Law was made possible by a dimensional scaling:
in reducing the critical dimensions while keeping the electrical field constant,
one obtained at the same time a higher speed and a reduced power consumption
of a digital MOS circuit: these two parameters became driving forces of the
microelectronics industry along with the integration density.
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has emphasized in its early editions the miniaturization and its associated benefits
in terms of performances, the traditional parameters in Moores Law. This
trend for increased performances will continue, while performance can always

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be traded against power depending on the individual application, sustained
by the incorporation into devices of new materials, and the application of
new transistor concepts. This direction for further progress is labelled More
Moore.
The second trend is characterized by functional diversification of
semiconductor-based devices. These non-digital functionalities do contribute
to the miniaturization of electronic systems, although they do not necessarily
scale at the same rate as the one that describes the development of digital
functionality. Consequently, in view of added functionality, this trend may be
designated More-than-Moore [50].
Mobile data traffic is projected to double each year between now and 2015
and mobile operators will find it increasingly difficult to provide the bandwidth
requested by customers. In many countries there is no additional spectrum that
can be assigned and the spectral efficiency of mobile networks is reaching its
physical limits. Proposed solutions are the seamless integration of existing
Wi-Fi networks into the mobile ecosystem. This will have a direct impact on
Internet of Things ecosystems.
The chips designed to accomplish this integration are known as multicom chips. Wi-Fi and baseband communications are expected to converge
and the architecture of mobile devices is likely to change and the baseband
chip is expected to take control of the routing so the connectivity components
are connected to the baseband or integrated in a single silicon package. As a
result of this architecture change, an increasing share of the integration work
is likely done by baseband manufacturers (ultra -low power solutions) rather
than by handset producers.
The market for wireless communications is one of the fastest-growing
segments in the integrated circuit industry. Breath takingly fast innovation,
rapid changes in communications standards, the entry of new players, and
the evolution of new market sub segments will lead to disruptions across
the industry. LTE and multicom solutions increase the pressure for industry
consolidation, while the choice between the ARM and x86 architectures forces
players to make big bets that may or may not pay off [63].
Integrated networking, information processing, sensing and actuation
capabilities allow physical devices to operate in changing environments.
Tightly coupled cyber and physical systems that exhibit high level of integrated
intelligence are referred to as cyber-physical systems. These systems are part
of the enabling technologies for Internet of Things applications where computational and physical processes of such systems are tightly interconnected and
coordinated to work together effectively, with or without the humans in the

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Figure 3.8

IoT landscape [21]

loop. Robots, intelligent buildings, implantable medical devices, vehicles that

drive themselves or planes that automatically fly in a controlled airspace, are
examples of cyber-physical systems that could be part of Internet of Things
ecosystems.
Today many European projects and initiatives address Internet of Things
technologies and knowledge. Given the fact that these topics can be highly
diverse and specialized, there is a strong need for integration of the individual
results. Knowledge integration, in this context is conceptualized as the process
through which disparate, specialized knowledge located in multiple projects
across Europe is combined, applied and assimilated.
The Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) is the result of
a discussion involving the projects and stakeholders involved in the IERC
activities, which gather the major players of the European ICT landscape
addressing IoT technology priorities that are crucial for the competitiveness
of European industry:

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Figure 3.9 Internet of Things Enabling Technologies

IERC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda covers the important

issues and challenges for the Internet of Things technology. It provides the
vision and the roadmap for coordinating and rationalizing current and future
research and development efforts in this field, by addressing the different
enabling technologies covered by the Internet of Things concept and paradigm.
Many other technologies are converging to support and enable IoT
applications. These technologies are summarised as:

IoT architecture
Identification
Communication
Networks technology
Network discovery
Software and algorithms
Hardware technology
Data and signal processing
Discovery and search engine
Network management
Power and energy storage
Security, trust, dependability and privacy

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Interoperability
Standardization
The Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda is developed with the
support of a European-led community of interrelated projects and their
stakeholders, dedicated to the innovation, creation, development and use of
the Internet of Things technology.
Since the release of the first version of the Strategic Research and
Innovation Agenda, we have witnessed active research on several IoT topics.
On the one hand this research filled several of the gaps originally identified in
the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, whilst on the other it created
new challenges and research questions. Recent advances in areas such as
cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, autonomic computing, and social
networks have changed the scope of the Internet of Things convergence even
more so. The Cluster has a goal to provide an updated document each year that
records the relevant changes and illustrates emerging challenges. The updated
release of this Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda builds incrementally
on previous versions [68], [69], [84], [85], [85] and highlights the main
research topics that are associated with the development of IoT enabling
technologies, infrastructures and applications with an outlook towards
2020 [73].
The research items introduced will pave the way for innovative applications and services that address the major economic and societal challenges
underlined in the EU 2020 Digital Agenda [74].

Figure 3.10 Internet of Things - Smart Environments and Smart Spaces Creation

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The IERC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda is developed incrementally based on its previous versions and focus on the new challenges being
identified in the last period.
The timeline of the Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation
Agenda covers the current decade with respect to research and the following
years with respect to implementation of the research results. Of course, as
the Internet and its current key applications show, we anticipate unexpected
trends will emerge leading to unforeseen and unexpected development paths.
The Cluster has involved experts working in industry, research and
academia to provide their vision on IoT research challenges, enabling technologies and the key applications, which are expected to arise from the current
vision of the Internet of Things.
The IoT Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda covers in a logical
manner the vision, the technological trends, the applications, the technology
enablers, the research agenda, timelines, priorities, and finally summarises in
two tables the future technological developments and research needs.
Advances in embedded sensors, processing and wireless connectivity are
bringing the power of the digital world to objects and places in the physical
world. IoT Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda is aligned with the
findings of the 2011 Hype Cycle developed by Gartner [76], which includes
the broad trend of the Internet of Things, called the real-world Web in earlier
Gartner research.
The field of the Internet of Things is based on the paradigm of supporting
the IP protocol to all edges of the Internet and on the fact that at the edge of
the network many (very) small devices are still unable to support IP protocol
stacks. This means that solutions centred on minimum Internet of Things
devices are considered as an additional Internet of Things paradigm without
IP to all access edges, due to their importance for the development of the field.
3.2.1 IoT Applications and Use Case Scenarios
The IERC vision is that the major objectives for IoT are the creation of smart
environments/spaces and self-aware things (for example: smart transport,
products, cities, buildings, rural areas, energy, health, living, etc.) for climate,
food, energy, mobility, digital society and health applications[68].
The outlook for the future is the emerging of a network of interconnected
uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet
alike structure that is positioned over a network of interconnected computers
allowing for the creation of a new platform for economic growth.

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Figure 3.11 Internet of Things in the context of Smart Environments and Applications [84]

Smart is the new green as defined by Frost & Sullivan [51] and the green
products and services will be replaced by smart products and services. Smart
products have a real business case, can typically provide energy and efficiency
savings of up to 30 per cent, and generally deliver a two- to three-year return
on investment. This trend will help the deployment of Internet of Things
applications and the creation of smart environments and spaces.
At the city level, the integration of technology and quicker data analysis
will lead to a more coordinated and effective civil response to security
and safety (law enforcement and blue light services); higher demand for
outsourcing security capabilities.
At the building level, security technology will be integrated into systems
and deliver a return on investment to the end-user through leveraging the
technology in multiple applications (HR and time and attendance, customer
behaviour in retail applications etc.).
There will be an increase in the development of Smart vehicles which
have low (and possibly zero) emissions. They will also be connected to infrastructure. Additionally, auto manufacturers will adopt more use of Smart
materials.
The key focus will be to make the city smarter by optimizing resources,
feeding its inhabitants by urban farming, reducing traffic congestion, providing
more services to allow for faster travel between home and various destinations,
and increasing accessibility for essential services. It will become essential to
have intelligent security systems to be implemented at key junctions in the city.
Various types of sensors will have to be used to make this a reality. Sensors
are moving from smart to intelligent. Biometrics is already integrated in

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the smart mobile phones and is expected to be used together with CCTV
at highly sensitive locations around the city. National identification cards
will also become an essential tool for the identification of an individual. In
addition, smart cities in 2020 will require real time auto identification security
systems.
The IoT brings about a paradigm were everything is connected and will
redefine the way humans and machines interface and the way they interact
with the world around them.
Fleet Management is used to track vehicle location, hard stops, rapid
acceleration, and sudden turns using sophisticated analysis of the data in order
to implement new policies (e.g., no right/left turns) that result in cost savings
for the business.
Today there are billions of connected sensors already deployed with smart
phones and many other sensors are connected to these smart mobile network
using different communication protocols.
The challenges is in getting the data from them in an interoperable format
and in creating systems that break vertical silos and harvest the data across
domains, thus unleashing truly useful IoT applications that are user centred,
context aware and create new services by communication across the verticals.
Wastewater treatment plants will evolve into bio-refineries. New, innovative wastewater treatment processes will enable water recovery to help close
the growing gap between water supply and demand.
Self-sensing controls and devices will mark new innovations in the
Building Technologies space. Customers will demand more automated, selfcontrolled solutions with built in fault detection and diagnostic capabilities.
Development of smart implantable chips that can monitor and report
individual health status periodically will see rapid growth.
Smart pumps and smart appliances/devices are expected to be significant
contributors towards efficiency improvement. Process equipment with in built
smartness to self-assess and generate reports on their performance, enabling
efficient asset management, will be adopted.
Test and measurement equipment is expected to become smarter in the
future in response to the demand for modular instruments having lower
power consumption. Furthermore, electronics manufacturing factories will
become more sustainable with renewable energy and sell unused energy back
to the grid, improved water conservation with rain harvesting and implement other smart building technologies, thus making their sites Intelligent
Manufacturing Facilities.

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Figure 3.12 Connected Devices Illustration [62]

General Electric Co. considers that this is taking place through the convergence of the global industrial system with the power of advanced computing,
analytics, low-cost sensing and new levels of connectivity permitted by the
Internet. The deeper meshing of the digital world with the world of machines
holds the potential to bring about profound transformation to global industry,
and in turn to many aspects of daily life [58].
The Industrial Internet starts with embedding sensors and other advanced
instrumentation in an array of machines from the simple to the highly complex.
This allows the collection and analysis of an enormous amount of data, which
can be used to improve machine performance, and inevitably the efficiency
of the systems and networks that link them. Even the data itself can become
intelligent, instantly knowing which users it needs to reach.
Consumer IoT is essentially wireless, while the industrial IoT has to
deal with an installed base of millions of devices that could potentially
become part of this network (many legacy systems installed before IP deployment). These industrial objects are linked by wires that provides the reliable
communications needed. The industrial IoT has to consider the legacy using
specialised protocols, including Lonworks, DeviceNet, Profibus and CAN and
they will be connected into this new netwoek of networks through gateways.

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The automation and management of asset-intensive enterprises will be
transformed by the rise of the IoT, Industry 4.0, or simply Industrial Internet.
Compared with the Internet revolution, many product and asset management solutions have labored under high costs and poor connectivity and
performance. This is now changing. New high-performance systems that
can support both Internet and Cloud connectivity as well as predictive
asset management are reaching the market. New cloud computing models, analytics, and aggregation technologies enable broader and low cost
application of analytics across these much more transparent assets. These
developments have the potential to radically transform products, channels,
and company business models. This will create disruptions in the business and opportunities for all types of organizations - OEMs, technology
suppliers, system integrators, and global consultancies. There may be the
opportunity to overturn established business models, with a view toward
answering customer pain points and also growing the market in segments
that cannot be served economically with todays offerings. Mobility, local
diagnostics, and remote asset monitoring are important components of these
new solutions, as all market participants need ubiquitous access to their
assets, applications, and customers. Real-time mobile applications support
EAM, MRO, inventory management, inspections, workforce management,
shop floor interactions, facilities management, field service automation, fleet
management, sales and marketing, machine-to-machine (M2M), and many
others [56]
In this context the new concept of Internet of Energy requires web based
architectures to readily guarantee information delivery on demand and to
change the traditional power system into a networked Smart Grid that is
largely automated, by applying greater intelligence to operate, enforce policies, monitor and self-heal when necessary. This requires the integration and
interfacing of the power grid to the network of data represented by the Internet,
embracing energy generation, transmission, delivery, substations, distribution
control, metering and billing, diagnostics, and information systems to work
seamlessly and consistently.
This concept would enable the ability to produce, store and efficiently use
energy, while balancing the supply/demand by using a cognitive Internet of
Energy that harmonizes the energy grid by processing the data, information
and knowledge via the Internet. The Internet of Energy concept as presented
in Figure 3.14 [35] will leverage on the information highway provided by the
Internet to link devices and services with the distributed smart energy grid
that is the highway for renewable energy resources allowing stakeholders to

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Figure 3.13 Industrial Internet of Things [56]

use green technologies and sell excess energy back to the utility. The concept
has the energy management element in the centre of the communication and
exchange of data and energy.
The Internet of Energy applications are connected through the Future
Internet and Internet of Things enabling seamless and secure interactions and cooperation of intelligent embedded systems over heterogeneous
communication infrastructures.
It is expected that this development of smart entities will encourage
development of the novel technologies needed to address the emerging
challenges of public health, aging population, environmental protection and
climate change, conservation of energy and scarce materials, enhancements to
safety and security and the continuation and growth of economic prosperity.
The IoT applications are further linked with Green ICT, as the IoT will
drive energy-efficient applications such as smart grid, connected electric cars,
energy-efficient buildings, thus eventually helping in building green intelligent
cities.

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Figure 3.14 Internet of Energy Implementation Framework (Source:[35])

3.2.2 IoT Functional View

The Internet of Things concept refers to uniquely identifiable things with
their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure and IoT solutions
comprising a number of components such as:
Module for interaction with local IoT devices (for example embedded
in a mobile phone or located in the immediate vicinity of the user and
thus contactable via a short range wireless interface). This module is
responsible for acquisition of observations and their forwarding to remote
servers for analysis and permanent storage.
Module for local analysis and processing of observations acquired by
IoT devices.
Module for interaction with remote IoT devices, directly over the Internet
or more likely via a proxy. This module is responsible for acquisition
of observations and their forwarding to remote servers for analysis and
permanent storage.
Module for application specific data analysis and processing. This module
is running on an application server serving all clients. It is taking requests
from mobile and web clients and relevant IoT observations as input,
executes appropriate data processing algorithms and generates output in
terms of knowledge that is later presented to users.

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Module for integration of IoT-generated information into the business

processes of an enterprise. This module will be gaining importance with
the increased use of IoT data by enterprises as one of the important factors
in day-to-day business or business strategy definition.
User interface (web or mobile): visual representation of measurements
in a given context (for example on a map) and interaction with the user,
i.e. definition of user queries.
It is important to highlight that one of the crucial factors for the success of
IoT is stepping away from vertically-oriented, closed systems towards open
systems, based on open APIs and standardized protocols at various system
levels.
In this context innovative architecture and platforms are needed to support
highly complex and inter-connected IoT applications. A key consideration is
how to enable development and application of comprehensive architectural
frameworks that include both the physical and cyber elements based on
enabling technologies. In addition considering the technology convergence
trend new platforms will be needed for communication and to effectively
extract actionable information from vast amounts of raw data, while providing a robust timing and systems framework to support the real-time
control and synchronization requirements of complex, networked, engineered
physical/cyber/virtual systems.
Alarge number of applications made available through application markets
have significantly helped the success of the smart phone industry. The development of such a huge number of smart phone applications is primarily due to
involvement of the developers community at large. Developers leveraged
smart phone open platforms and the corresponding development tools, to
create a variety of applications and to easily offer them to a growing number
of users through the application markets.
Similarly, an IoT ecosystem has to be established, defining open APIs for
developers and offering appropriate channels for delivery of new applications.
Such open APIs are of particular importance on the level of the module for
application specific data analysis and processing, thus allowing application
developers to leverage the underlying communication infrastructure and use
and combine information generated by various IoT devices to produce new,
added value.
Although this might be the most obvious level at which it is important
to have open APIs, it is equally important to aim towards having such APIs
defined on all levels in the system. At the same time one should have in mind
the heterogeneity and diversity of the IoT application space. This will truly

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support the development of an IoT ecosystem that encourages development
of new applications and new business models.
The complete system will have to include supporting tools providing
security and business mechanisms to enable interaction between a numbers
of different business entities that might exist [86].
Research challenges:
Design of open APIs on all levels of the IoT ecosystem
Design of standardized formats for description of data generated by IoT
devices to allow mashups of data coming from different domains and/or
providers.
3.2.3 Application Areas
In the last few years the evolution of markets and applications, and therefore their economic potential and their impact in addressing societal trends
and challenges for the next decades has changed dramatically. Societal
trends are grouped as: health and wellness, transport and mobility, security
and safety, energy and environment, communication and e-society. These
trends create significant opportunities in the markets of consumer electronics, automotive electronics, medical applications, communication, etc.
The applications in in these areas benefit directly by the More-Moore and
More-than-Moore semiconductor technologies, communications, networks
and software developments.
Potential applications of the IoT are numerous and diverse, permeating into
practically all areas of every-day life of individuals, enterprises, and society
as a whole. The IERC [6869], [8485] has identified and described the main
Internet of Things applications, which span numerous applications domains:
smart energy, smart health, smart buildings, smart transport, smart industry
and smart city. The vision of a pervasive IoT requires the integration of the
various domains into a single, unified, domain and addresses the enabling
technologies needed for these domains while taking into account the elements
that form the third dimension like security, privacy, trust, safety.
The IoT application domains identified by IERC [68], [85] are based on
inputs from experts, surveys [86] and reports [87]. The IoT application covers
smart environments/spaces in domains such as: Transportation, Building,
City, Lifestyle, Retail, Agriculture, Factory, Supply chain, Emergency, Health
care, User interaction, Culture and tourism, Environment and Energy.
The applications areas include as well the domain of Industrial Internet [58]
where intelligent devices, intelligent systems, and intelligent decision-making

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Figure 3.15

IoT 3D Matrix

represent the primary ways in which the physical world of machines, facilities,
fleets and networks can more deeply merge with the connectivity, big data and
analytics of the digital world. Manufacturing and industrial automation are
under pressure from shortened product life-cycles and the demand for a shorter
time to market in many areas. The next generation of manufacturing systems
will therefore be built with flexibility and reconfiguration as a fundamental
objective.
This change is eminent in the transition from traditional, centralized control applications to an interconnected, cooperative Internet of Things model.
Strong hierarchies are broken in favour of meshed, networks and formerly
passive devices are replaced with smart objects that are network enabled
and can perform compute operations. The software side has to match and
leverage the changes in the hardware. Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)
are a well-known concept from business computing to deal with flexibility
and reconfiguration requirements in a loosely coupled manner. However, the
common concepts of SOAs cannot be directly mapped to embedded networks
and industrial control applications, because of the hard boundary conditions,
such as limited resources and real-time requirements [57].
The updated list of IoT applications presented below, includes examples
of IoT applications in different domains, which is showing why the Internet
of Things is one of the strategic technology trends for the next 5 years.
Smart Food/Water Monitoring
Water Quality: Study of water suitability in rivers and the sea for fauna
and eligibility for drinkable use.

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Water Leakages: Detection of liquid presence outside tanks and pressure
variations along pipes.
River Floods: Monitoring of water level variations in rivers, dams and
reservoirs.
Water Management: Real-time information about water usage and the
status of waterlines could be collected by connecting residential water meters
to an Internet protocol (IP) network. As a consequence could be reductions
in labour and maintenance costs, improved accuracy and lower costs in meter
readings, and possibly water consumption reductions.
Supply Chain Control: Monitoring of storage conditions along the supply
chain and product tracking for traceability purposes.
Wine Quality Enhancing: Monitoring soil moisture and trunk diameter
in vineyards to control the amount of sugar in grapes and grapevine health.
Green Houses: Control micro-climate conditions to maximize the production of fruits and vegetables and its quality.
Golf Courses: Selective irrigation in dry zones to reduce the water
resources required in the green.
In-field Monitoring: Reducing spoilage and food waste with better monitoring, statistic handling, accurate ongoing data obtaining, and management
of the agriculture fields, including better control of fertilizing, electricity and
watering.
Smart Health
Fall Detection: Assistance for elderly or disabled people living
independent.
Physical Activity Monitoring for Aging People: Body sensors network
measures motion, vital signs, unobtrusiveness and a mobile unit collects,
visualizes and records activity data.
Medical Fridges: Control of conditions inside freezers storing vaccines,
medicines and organic elements.
Sportsmen Care: Vital signs monitoring in high performance centres
and fields. Health and fitness products for these purposes exist, that measure
exercise, steps, sleep, weight, blood pressure, and other statistics.
Patients Surveillance: Monitoring of conditions of patients inside
hospitals and in old peoples home.
Chronic Disease Management: Patient-monitoring systems with comprehensive patient statistics could be available for remote residential monitoring of patients with chronic diseases such as pulmonary and heart diseases

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and diabetes. The reduced medical center admissions, lower costs, and shorter
hospital stays would be some of the benefits.
Ultraviolet Radiation: Measurement of UV sun rays to warn people not
to be exposed in certain hours.
Hygienic hand control: RFID-based monitoring system of wrist bands
in combination of Bluetooth LE tags on a patients doorway controlling hand
hygiene in hospitals, where vibration notifications is sent out to inform about
time for hand wash; and all the data collected produce analytics which can be
used to potentially trace patient infections to particular healthcare workers.
Sleep control: Wireless sensors placed across the mattress sensing small
motions, like breathing and heart rate and large motions caused by tossing
and turning during sleep, providing data available through an app on the
smartphone.
Dental Health: Bluetooth connected toothbrush with smartphone app
analyzes the brushing uses and gives information on the brushing habits
on the smartphone for private information or for showing statistics to the
dentist.
Smart Living
Intelligent Shopping Applications: Getting advice at the point of sale
according to customer habits, preferences, presence of allergic components
for them, or expiring dates.
Energy and Water Use: Energy and water supply consumption monitoring to obtain advice on how to save cost and resources. Maximizing
energy efficiency by introducing lighting and heating products, such as bulbs,
thermostats and air conditioners.
Remote Control Appliances: Switching on and off remotely appliances
to avoid accidents and save energy.
Weather Station: Displays outdoor weather conditions such as humidity,
temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and rain levels using meters
with ability to transmit data over long distances.
Smart Home Appliances: Refrigerators with LCD screen telling whats
inside, food thats about to expire, ingredients you need to buy and with all
the information available on a smartphone app. Washing machines allowing
you to monitor the laundry remotely, and run automatically when electricity rates are lowest. Kitchen ranges with interface to a smartphone app
allowing remotely adjustable temperature control and monitoring the ovens
self-cleaning feature.

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Gas Monitoring: Real-information about gas usage and the status of gas
lines could be provided by connecting residential gas meters to an Internet
protocol (IP) network. As for the water monitoring, the possible outcome
could be reductions in labor and maintenance costs, improved accuracy and
lower costs in meter readings, and possibly gas consumption reductions.
Safety Monitoring: Baby monitoring, cameras, and home alarm systems
making people feel safe in their daily life at home.
Smart Jewelry: Increased personal safety by wearing a piece of jewelry
inserted with Bluetooth enabled technology used in a way that a simple push
establishes contact with your smartphone, which through an app will send
alarms to selected people in your social circle with information that you need
help and your location.
Smart Environment Monitoring
Forest Fire Detection: Monitoring of combustion gases and preemptive
fire conditions to define alert zones.
Air Pollution: Control of CO2 emissions of factories, pollution emitted
by cars and toxic gases generated in farms.
Landslide and Avalanche Prevention: Monitoring of soil moisture, vibrations and earth density to detect dangerous patterns in land
conditions.
Earthquake Early Detection: Distributed control in specific places of
tremors.
Protecting wildlife: Tracking collars utilizing GPS/GSM modules to
locate and track wild animals and communicate their coordinates via SMS.
Meteorological Station Network: Study of weather conditions in fields
to forecast ice formation, rain, drought, snow or wind changes.
Marine and Coastal Surveillance: Using different kinds of sensors integrated in planes, unmanned aerial vehicles, satellites, ship etc. to
control the maritime activities and traffic in important areas, keep track
of fishing boats, supervise environmental conditions and dangerous oil
cargo etc.
Smart Manufacturing
Smart Product Management: Control of rotation of products in shelves
and warehouses to automate restocking processes.
Compost: Control of humidity and temperature levels in alfalfa, hay,
straw, etc. to prevent fungus and other microbial contaminants.
Offspring Care: Control of growing conditions of the offspring in animal
farms to ensure its survival and health.

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Figure 3.16 Interconnected, Cooperative Internet of Things Model for Manufacturing and
Industrial Automation [57]

Animal Tracking: Location and identification of animals grazing in open

pastures or location in big stables.
Toxic Gas Levels: Study of ventilation and air quality in farms and
detection of harmful gases from excrements.
Production Line: Monitoring and management of the production line
using RFID, sensors, video monitoring, remote information distribution and
cloud solutions enabling the production line data to be transferred to the
enterprise-based systems. This may result in more quickly improvement of
the entire product quality assurance process by decision makers, updated
workflow charts, and inspection procedures delivered to the proper worker
groups via digital displays in real time.
Telework: Offering the employees technologies that enable home offices
would reduce costs, improve productivity, and add employment opportunities at the same time as reducing real estate for employees, lower office
maintenance and cleanings, and eliminating daily office commute.
Smart Energy
Smart Grid: Energy consumption monitoring and management.
Photovoltaic Installations: Monitoring and optimization of performance
in solar energy plants.
Wind Turbines: Monitoring and analyzing the flow of energy from
wind turbines, and two-way communication with consumers smart meters
to analyze consumption patterns.
Water Flow: Measurement of water pressure in water transportation
systems.
Radiation Levels: Distributed measurement of radiation levels in nuclear
power stations surroundings to generate leakage alerts.

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Power Supply Controllers: Controller for AC-DC power supplies that
determines required energy, and improve energy efficiency with less energy
waste for power supplies related to computers, telecommunications, and
consumer electronics applications.
Smart Buildings
Perimeter Access Control: Access control to restricted areas and detection of people in non-authorized areas.
Liquid Presence: Liquid detection in data centres, warehouses and
sensitive building grounds to prevent break downs and corrosion.
Indoor Climate Control: Measurement and control of temperature,
lighting, CO2 fresh air in ppm etc.
Intelligent Thermostat: Thermostat that learns the users programming
schedule after a few days, and from that programs itself. Can be used with
an app to connect to the thermostat from a smart telephone, where control,
watching the energy history, how much energy is saved and why can be
displayed.
Intelligent Fire Alarm: System with sensors measuring smoke and carbon
monoxide, giving both early warnings, howling alarms and speaks with a
human voice telling where the smoke is or when carbon monoxide levels are
rising, in addition to giving a message on the smartphone or tablet if the smoke
or CO alarm goes off.
Intrusion Detection Systems: Detection of window and door openings
and violations to prevent intruders.
Motion Detection: Infrared motion sensors which reliably sends alerts to
alarm panel (or dialer) and with a system implementing reduced false alarms
algorithms and adaption to environmental disturbances.
Art and Goods Preservation: Monitoring of conditions inside museums
and art warehouses.
Residential Irrigation: Monitoring and smart watering system.
Smart Transport and Mobility
NFC Payment: Payment processing based in location or activity duration
for public transport, gyms, theme parks, etc.
Quality of Shipment Conditions: Monitoring of vibrations, strokes,
container openings or cold chain maintenance for insurance purposes.
Item Location: Searching of individual items in big surfaces like
warehouses or harbours.
Storage Incompatibility Detection: Warning emission on containers
storing inflammable goods closed to others containing explosive material.

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Fleet Tracking: Control of routes followed for delicate goods like medical
drugs, jewels or dangerous merchandises.
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Reservation: Locates the nearest
charging station and tell the user whether its in use. Drivers can ease their
range anxiety by reserving charging stations ahead of time. Help the planning
of extended EV road trips, so the EV drivers make the most of potential
charging windows
Vehicle Auto-diagnosis: Information collection from CAN Bus to send
real time alarms to emergencies or provide advice to drivers.
Management of cars: Car sharing companies manages the use of vehicles using the Internet and mobile phones through connections installed in
each car.
Road Pricing: Automatic vehicle payment systems would improve traffic
conditions and generate steady revenues if such payments are introduced
in busy traffic zones. Reductions in traffic congestions and reduced CO2
emissions would be some of the benefits.
Connected Militarized Defence: By connecting command-centre
facilities, vehicles, tents, and Special Forces real-time situational awareness
for combat personnel in war areas and visualization of the location of
allied/enemy personnel and material would be provided.
Smart Industry
Tank level: Monitoring of water, oil and gas levels in storage tanks and
cisterns.
Silos Stock Calculation: Measurement of emptiness level and weight of
the goods.
Explosive and Hazardous Gases: Detection of gas levels and leakages in
industrial environments, surroundings of chemical factories and inside mines.
Meters can transmit data that will be reliably read over long distances.
M2M Applications: Machine auto-diagnosis and assets control.
Maintenance and repair: Early predictions on equipment malfunctions
and service maintenance can be automatically scheduled ahead of an actual
part failure by installing sensors inside equipment to monitor and send reports.
Indoor Air Quality: Monitoring of toxic gas and oxygen levels inside
chemical plants to ensure workers and goods safety.
Temperature Monitoring: Control of temperature inside industrial and
medical fridges with sensitive merchandise.
Ozone Presence: Monitoring of ozone levels during the drying meat
process in food factories.

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Indoor Location: Asset indoor location by using active (ZigBee, UWB)
and passive tags (RFID/NFC).
Aquaculture industry monitoring: Remotely operating and monitoring operational routines on the aquaculture site, using sensors, cameras,
wireless communication infrastructure between sites and land base, winch
systems etc. to perform site and environment surveillance, feeding and system
operations.
Smart City
Smart Parking: Real-time monitoring of parking spaces availability in
the city making residents able to identify and reserve the closest available
spaces. Reduction in traffic congestions and increased revenue from dynamic
pricing could be some of the benefits as well as simpler responsibility for
traffic wardens recognizing non-compliant usage.
Structural Health: Monitoring of vibrations and material conditions in
buildings, bridges and historical monuments.
Noise Urban Maps: Sound monitoring in bar areas and centric zones in
real time.
Traffic Congestion: Monitoring of vehicles and pedestrian levels to
optimize driving and walking routes.
Smart Lightning: Intelligent and weather adaptive lighting in street lights.
Waste Management: Detection of rubbish levels in containers to optimize
the trash collection routes. Garbage cans and recycle bins with RFID tags allow
the sanitation staff to see when garbage has been put out. Maybe Pay as you
throw-programs would help to decrease garbage waste and increase recycling
efforts.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Smart Roads and Intelligent Highways with warning messages and diversions according to climate conditions
and unexpected events like accidents or traffic jams.
Safe City: Digital video monitoring, fire control management, public
announcement systems
Connected Learning: Improvements in teacher utilization, reduction
in instructional supplies, productivity improvement, and lower costs are
examples of benefits that may be gained from letting electronic resources
deliver data-driven, authentic and collaborative learning experience to larger
groups.
Smart irrigation of public spaces: Maintenance of parks and lawns by
burying park irrigation monitoring sensors in the ground wirelessly connected
to repeaters and with a wireless gateway connection to Internet.

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Smart Tourism: Smartphone Apps supported by QR codes and NFC

tags providing interesting and useful tourist information throughout the city.
The information could include museums, art galleries, libraries, touristic
attractions, tourism offices, monuments, shops, buses, taxis, gardens, etc.
The IoT application space is very diverse and IoT applications serve
different users. Different user categories have different driving needs. From
the IoT perspective there are three important user categories:
The individual citizens
Community of citizens (citizens of a city, a region, country or society as
a whole)
The enterprises.
Examples of the individual citizens/human users needs for the IoT
applications are as follows:
To increase their safety or the safety of their family members - for
example remotely controlled alarm systems, or activity detection for
elderly people;
To make it possible to execute certain activities in a more convenient
manner - for example: a personal inventory reminder;

Figure 3.17 Internet of Things- proliferation of connected devices across industries (Source:
Beecham Research, [75])

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To generally improve life-style - for example monitoring health parameters during a workout and obtaining experts advice based on the findings,
or getting support during shopping;
To decrease the cost of living - for example building automation that will
reduce energy consumption and thus the overall cost.
The society as a user has different drivers. It is concerned with issues of
importance for the whole community, often related to medium to longer term
challenges.
Some of the needs driving the society as a potential user of IoT are the
following:
To ensure public safety - in the light of various recent disasters such
as the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean,
earthquakes, terrorist attacks, etc. One of the crucial concerns of the
society is to be able to predict such events as far ahead as possible and
to make rescue missions and recovery as efficient as possible. One good
example of an application of IoT technology was during the Japan nuclear
catastrophe, when numerous Geiger counters owned by individuals were
connected to the Internet to provide a detailed view of radiation levels
across Japan.
To protect the environment
Requirements for reduction of carbon emissions have been
included in various legislations and agreements aimed at reducing
the impact on the planet and making sustainable development
possible.
Monitoring of various pollutants in the environment, in particular
in the air and in the water.
Waste management, not just general waste, but also electrical
devices and various dangerous goods are important and challenging
topics in every society.
Efficient utilization of various energy and natural resources are
important for the development of a country and the protection of
its resources.
To create new jobs and ensure existing ones are sustainable - these are
important issues required to maintain a high level quality of living.
Enterprises, as the third category of IoT users have different needs and
different drivers that can potentially push the introduction of IoT-based
solutions.

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Examples of the needs are as follows:

Increased productivity - this is at the core of most enterprises and affects
the success and profitability of the enterprise;
Market differentiation - in a market saturated with similar products and
solutions, it is important to differentiate, and IoT is one of the possible
differentiators;
Cost efficiency - reducing the cost of running a business is a mantra
for most of the CEOs. Better utilization of resources, better information
used in the decision process or reduced downtime are some of the possible
ways to achieve this.
The explanations of the needs of each of these three categories are given
from a European perspective. To gain full understanding of these issues, it
is important to capture and analyse how these needs are changing across the
world. With such a complete picture, we will be able to drive IoT developments
in the right direction.
Another important topic which needs to be understood is the business
rationale behind each application. In other words, understanding the value an
application creates.
Important research questions are: who takes the cost of creating that
value; what are the revenue models and incentives for participating, using or
contributing to an application? Again due to the diversity of the IoT application
domain and different driving forces behind different applications, it will not
be possible to define a universal business model. For example, in the case of
applications used by individuals, it can be as straightforward as charging a
fee for a service, which will improve their quality of life. On the other hand,
community services are more difficult as they are fulfilling needs of a larger
community. While it is possible that the community as a whole will be willing
to pay (through municipal budgets), we have to recognise the limitations
in public budgets, and other possible ways of deploying and running such
services have to be investigated.

3.3 IoT Smart-X Applications

It is impossible to envisage all potential IoT applications having in mind
the development of technology and the diverse needs of potential users. In
the following sections, we present several applications, which are important.
These applications are described, and the research challenges are identified.
The IoT applications are addressing the societal needs and the advancements

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to enabling technologies such as nanoelectronics and cyber-physical systems
continue to be challenged by a variety of technical (i.e., scientific and
engineering), institutional, and economical issues.
The list is focusing to the applications chosen by the IERC as priorities for
the next years and it provides the research challenges for these applications.
While the applications themselves might be different, the research challenges
are often the same or similar.
3.3.1 Smart Cities
By 2020 we will see the development of Mega city corridors and networked,
integrated and branded cities. With more than 60 percent of the world population expected to live in urban cities by 2025, urbanization as a trend will have
diverging impacts and influences on future personal lives and mobility. Rapid
expansion of city borders, driven by increase in population and infrastructure
development, would force city borders to expand outward and engulf the
surrounding daughter cities to form mega cities, each with a population of more
than 10 million. By 2023, there will be 30 mega cities globally, with 55 percent
in developing economies of India, China, Russia and Latin America [51].
This will lead to the evolution of smart cities with eight smart features,
including Smart Economy, Smart Buildings, Smart Mobility, Smart Energy,
Smart Information Communication and Technology, Smart Planning, Smart
Citizen and Smart Governance. There will be about 40 smart cities globally
by 2025.
The role of the cities governments will be crucial for IoT deployment.
Running of the day-to-day city operations and creation of city development
strategies will drive the use of the IoT. Therefore, cities and their services
represent an almost ideal platform for IoT research, taking into account city
requirements and transferring them to solutions enabled by IoT technology.
In Europe, the largest smart city initiatives completely focused on IoT
is undertaken by the FP7 SmartSantander project [69]. This project aims at
deploying an IoT infrastructure comprising thousands of IoT devices spread
across several cities (Santander, Guildford, Luebeck and Belgrade). This will
enable simultaneous development and evaluation of services and execution
of various research experiments, thus facilitating the creation of a smart city
environment.
Similarly, the OUTSMART [88] project, one of the FI PPP projects, is
focusing on utilities and environment in the cities and addressing the role of
IoT in waste and water management, public lighting and transport systems as
well as environment monitoring.

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A vision of the smart city as horizontal domain is proposed by the

BUTLER project [90], in which many vertical scenarios are integrated and
concur to enable the concept of smart life.
A smart city is defined as a city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures, including roads, bridges, tunnels,
rail/subways, airports, seaports, communications, water, power, even major
buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance
activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its
citizens. Emergency response management to both natural as well as manmade challenges to the system can be focused. With advanced monitoring
systems and built-in smart sensors, data can be collected and evaluated
in real time, enhancing city managements decision-making. For example,
resources can be committed prior to a water main break, salt spreading
crews dispatched only when a specific bridge has icing conditions, and
use of inspectors reduced by knowing condition of life of all structures.
In the long term Smart Cities vision, systems and structures will monitor
their own conditions and carry out self-repair, as needed. The physical
environment, air, water, and surrounding green spaces will be monitored
in non-obtrusive ways for optimal quality, thus creating an enhanced living
and working environment that is clean, efficient, and secure and that offers
these advantages within the framework of the most effective use of all
resources [81].
An illustrative example is depicted in Figure 3.18 [96]. The deployment
of ICT to create smart cities is gaining momentum in Europe, according
to a study by Frost & Sullivan, accentuated by the numerous pilot projects
running at regional, country and EU levels. Initiatives revolve around energy
and water efficiency, mobility, infrastructure and platforms for open cities,
citizen involvement, and public administration services. They are co-funded
by the European Union through its ICT Policy Support and 7th Framework
programmes, but, the report says, there is no clear business model for the
uptake of smart cities. Projects are carried out in the form of collaborative
networks established between the research community, businesses, the public
sector, citizens and the wider community, and they foster an open innovation
approach. Technologies such as smart metering, wireless sensor networks,
open platforms, high-speed broadband and cloud computing are key building
blocks of the smart city infrastructure [96].
A smart city is a developed urban area that creates sustainable economic
development and high quality of life by excelling in multiple key areas:
economy, mobility, environment, people, living, and government [97].

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Figure 3.18 Smart City Concept. (Source: [95])

Figure 3.19 Organic Smart City Concept. (Source: [96])

Excelling in these key areas can be done so through strong human capital,
social capital, and/or ICT infrastructure. With the introduction of IoT a city
will act more like a living organism, a city that can respond to citizens needs.
In this context there are numerous important research challenges for smart
city IoT applications:
Overcoming traditional silo based organization of the cities, with each
utility responsible for their own closed world. Although not technological
this is one of the main barriers

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Creating algorithms and schemes to describe information created by

sensors in different applications to enable useful exchange of information
between different city services
Mechanisms for cost efficient deployment and even more important
maintenance of such installations, including energy scavenging
Ensuring reliable readings from a plethora of sensors and efficient
calibration of a large number of sensors deployed everywhere from
lampposts to waste bins
Low energy protocols and algorithms
Algorithms for analysis and processing of data acquired in the city and
making sense out of it.
IoT large scale deployment and integration
3.3.2 Smart Energy and the Smart Grid
There is increasing public awareness about the changing paradigm of our
policy in energy supply, consumption and infrastructure. For several reasons
our future energy supply should no longer be based on fossil resources.
Neither is nuclear energy a future proof option. In consequence future energy
supply needs to be based largely on various renewable resources. Increasingly
focus must be directed to our energy consumption behaviour. Because of
its volatile nature such supply demands an intelligent and flexible electrical
grid which is able to react to power fluctuations by controlling electrical
energy sources (generation, storage) and sinks (load, storage) and by suitable
reconfiguration. Such functions will be based on networked intelligent devices
(appliances, micro-generation equipment, infrastructure, consumer products)
and grid infrastructure elements, largely based on IoT concepts. Although
this ideally requires insight into the instantaneous energy consumption of
individual loads (e.g. devices, appliances or industrial equipment) information
about energy usage on a per-customer level is a suitable first approach.
Future energy grids are characterized by a high number of distributed small
and medium sized energy sources and power plants which may be combined
virtually ad hoc to virtual power plants; moreover in the case of energy outages
or disasters certain areas may be isolated from the grid and supplied from
within by internal energy sources such as photovoltaics on the roofs, block
heat and power plants or energy storages of a residential area (islanding).
A grand challenge for enabling technologies such as cyber-physical systems is the design and deployment of an energy system infrastructure that is
able to provide blackout free electricity generation and distribution, is flexible
enough to allow heterogeneous energy supply to or withdrawal from the grid,

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Figure 3.20 Smart Grid Representation

and is impervious to accidental or intentional manipulations. Integration of

cyber-physical systems engineering and technology to the existing electric
grid and other utility systems is a challenge. The increased system complexity
poses technical challenges that must be considered as the system is operated
in ways that were not intended when the infrastructure was originally built.
As technologies and systems are incorporated, security remains a paramount
concern to lower system vulnerability and protect stakeholder data [83]. These
challenges will need to be address as well by the IoT applications that integrate
heterogeneous cyber-physical systems.
The developing Smart Grid is expected to implement a new concept of
transmission network which is able to efficiently route the energy which is
produced from both concentrated and distributed plants to the final user with
high security and quality of supply standards. Therefore the Smart Grid is
expected to be the implementation of a kind of Internet in which the energy
packet is managed similarly to the data packet - across routers and gateways
which autonomously can decide the best pathway for the packet to reach
its destination with the best integrity levels. In this respect the Internet of
Energy concept is defined as a network infrastructure based on standard and

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Figure 3.21 Internet of Energy Concept

interoperable communication transceivers, gateways and protocols that will

allow a real time balance between the local and the global generation and
storage capability with the energy demand. This will also allow a high level
of consumer awareness and involvement.
The Internet of Energy (IoE) provides an innovative concept for power
distribution, energy storage, grid monitoring and communication. It will
allow units of energy to be transferred when and where it is needed. Power
consumption monitoring will be performed on all levels, from local individual
devices up to national and international level [102].
Saving energy based on an improved user awareness of momentary energy
consumption is another pillar of future energy management concepts. Smart
meters can give information about the instantaneous energy consumption to
the user, thus allowing for identification and elimination of energy wasting
devices and for providing hints for optimizing individual energy consumption.
In a smart grid scenario energy consumption will be manipulated by a volatile
energy price which again is based on the momentary demand (acquired by
smart meters) and the available amount of energy and renewable energy
production. In a virtual energy marketplace software agents may negotiate
energy prices and place energy orders to energy companies. It is already
recognised that these decisions need to consider environmental information
such as weather forecasts, local and seasonal conditions. These must be to a
much finer time scale and spatial resolution.

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Figure 3.22 Internet of Energy: Residential Building Ecosystem [102]

In the long run electro mobility will become another important element of
smart power grids. Electric vehicles (EVs) might act as a power load as well
as moveable energy storage linked as IoT elements to the energy information
grid (smart grid). IoT enabled smart grid control may need to consider energy
demand and offerings in the residential areas and along the major roads based
on traffic forecast. EVs will be able to act as sink or source of energy based
on their charge status, usage schedule and energy price which again may
depend on abundance of (renewable) energy in the grid. This is the touch
point from where the following telematics IoT scenarios will merge with smart
grid IoT.
This scenario is based on the existence of an IoT network of a vast
multitude of intelligent sensors and actuators which are able to communicate safely and reliably. Latencies are critical when talking about electrical
control loops. Even though not being a critical feature, low energy dissipation should be mandatory. In order to facilitate interaction between
different vendors products the technology should be based on a standardized
communication protocol stack. When dealing with a critical part of the
public infrastructure, data security is of the highest importance. In order to
satisfy the extremely high requirements on reliability of energy grids, the
components as well as their interaction must feature the highest reliability
performance.

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Figure 3.23 Internet of Energy Residential Ecosystem

New organizational and learning strategies for sensor networks will be

needed in order to cope with the shortcomings of classical hierarchical control
concepts. The intelligence of smart systems does not necessarily need to
be built into the devices at the systems edges. Depending on connectivity,
cloud-based IoT concepts might be advantageous when considering energy
dissipation and hardware effort. Many IoT applications will go beyond one
industrial sector. Energy, mobility and home/buildings sectors will share
data through energy gateways that will control the transfer of energy and
information.
Sophisticated and flexible data filtering, data mining and processing
procedures and systems will become necessary in order to handle the high
amount of raw data provided by billions of data sources. System and data
models need to support the design of flexible systems which guarantee a
reliable and secure real-time operation.
Some Research Challenges:
Absolutely safe and secure communication with elements at the network
edge
Addressing scalability and standards interoperability
Energy saving robust and reliable smart sensors/actuators

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Technologies for data anonymity addressing privacy concerns

Dealing with critical latencies, e.g. in control loops
System partitioning (local/cloud based intelligence)
Mass data processing, filtering and mining; avoid flooding of communication network
Real-time Models and design methods describing reliable interworking
of heterogeneous systems (e.g. technical / economical / social / environmental systems). Identifying and monitoring critical system elements.
Detecting critical overall system states in due time
System concepts which support self-healing and containment of damage;
strategies for failure contingency management
Scalability of security functions
Power grids have to be able to react correctly and quickly to fluctuations
in the supply of electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind
and solar facilities.

3.3.3 Smart Mobility and Transport

The connection of vehicles to the Internet gives rise to a wealth of new possibilities and applications which bring new functionalities to the individuals
and/or the making of transport easier and safer. In this context the concept
of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) [102] connected with the concept of Internet
of Energy (IoE) represent future trends for smart transportation and mobility
applications.
At the same time creating new mobile ecosystems based on trust, security
and convenience to mobile/contactless services and transportation applications will ensure security, mobility and convenience to consumer-centric
transactions and services.
Representing human behaviour in the design, development, and operation
of cyber physical systems in autonomous vehicles is a challenge. Incorporating
human-in-the-loop considerations is critical to safety, dependability, and predictability. There is currently limited understanding of how driver behaviour
will be affected by adaptive traffic control cyber physical systems. In addition,
it is difficult to account for the stochastic effects of the human driver in a mixed
traffic environment (i.e., human and autonomous vehicle drivers) such as that
found in traffic control cyber physical systems. Increasing integration calls for
security measures that are not physical, but more logical while still ensuring
there will be no security compromise. As cyber physical systems become more
complex and interactions between components increases, safety and security

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Figure 3.24 Technologies Convergence Internet of Vehicles Case

will continue to be of paramount importance [83]. All these elements are of

the paramount importance for the IoT ecosystems developed based on these
enabling technologies.
When talking about IoT in the context of automotive and telematics, we
may refer to the following application scenarios:
Standards must be defined regarding the charging voltage of the power
electronics, and a decision needs to be made as to whether the recharging
processes should be controlled by a system within the vehicle or one
installed at the charging station.
Components for bidirectional operations and flexible billing for electricity need to be developed if electric vehicles are to be used as electricity
storage media.
IoT as an inherent part of the vehicle control and management
system: Already today certain technical functions of the vehicles onboard systems can be monitored on line by the service centre or garage
to allow for preventative maintenance, remote diagnostics, instantaneous
support and timely availability of spare parts. For this purpose data
from on-board sensors are collected by a smart on-board unit and
communicated via the Internet to the service centre.

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IoT enabling traffic management and control: Cars should be able to
organise themselves in order to avoid traffic jams and to optimise drive
energy usage. This may be done in coordination and cooperation with the
infrastructure of a smart citys traffic control and management system.
Additionally dynamic road pricing and parking tax can be important
elements of such a system. Further mutual communications between the
vehicles and with the infrastructure enable new methods for considerably
increasing traffic safety, thus contributing to the reduction in the number
of traffic accidents.
IoT enabling new transport scenarios (multi-modal transport): In
such scenarios, e.g. automotive OEMs see themselves as mobility
providers rather than manufacturers of vehicles. The user will be offered
an optimal solution for transportation from A to B, based on all available
and suitable transport means. Thus, based on the momentary traffic situation an ideal solution may be a mix of individual vehicles, vehicle sharing,
railway, and commuter systems. In order to allow for seamless usage
and on-time availability of these elements (including parking space),
availability needs to be verified and guaranteed by online reservation
and online booking, ideally in interplay with the above mentioned smart
city traffic management systems.
Autonomous driving and interfacing with the infrastructure (V2V,
V2I): The challenges address the interaction between the vehicle and
the environment (sensors, actuators, communication, processing, information exchange, etc.) by considering road navigation systems that
combines road localization and road shape estimation to drive on roads
where a priori road geometry both is and is not available. Address a
mixed-mode planning system that is able to both efficiently navigate on
roads and safely manoeuvre through open areas and parking lots and
develop a behavioural engine that is capable of both following the rules
of the road and avoid them when necessary.
Self-driving vehicles today are in the prototype phase and the idea is
becoming just another technology on the computing industrys parts list. By
using automotive vision chips that can be used to help vehicles understand the
environment around them by detecting pedestrians, traffic lights, collisions,
drowsy drivers, and road lane markings. Those tasks initially are more the
sort of thing that would help a driver in unusual circumstances rather than
take over full time. But theyre a significant step in the gradual shift toward

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Figure 3.25 ITS Ecosystem (Source: ETSI)

Figure 3.26 Communication and computer vision technologies for driver-assistance and
V2V/V2I interaction [80].

the computer-controlled vehicles that Google, Volvo, and other companies are
working on [80].
These scenarios are, not independent from each other and show their full
potential when combined and used for different applications.
Technical elements of such systems are smart phones and smart vehicle onboard units which acquire information from the user (e.g. position, destination

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Figure 3.27 Internet of Vehicles Concept

Figure 3.28 Connected Vehicle 2020-Mobility Ecosystem (Source: Continental Corporation)

and schedule) and from on board systems (e.g. vehicle status, position, energy
usage profile, driving profile). They interact with external systems (e.g. traffic
control systems, parking management, vehicle sharing managements, electric
vehicle charging infrastructure). Moreover they need to initiate and perform
the related payment procedures.

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The concept of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is the next step for future smart
transportation and mobility applications and requires creating new mobile
ecosystems based on trust, security and convenience to mobile/contactless
services and transportation applications in order to ensure security, mobility
and convenience to consumer-centric transactions and services.
Smart sensors in the road and traffic control infrastructures need to collect
information about road and traffic status, weather conditions, etc. This requires
robust sensors (and actuators) which are able to reliably deliver information
to the systems mentioned above. Such reliable communication needs to be
based on M2M communication protocols which consider the timing, safety,
and security constraints. The expected high amount of data will require
sophisticated data mining strategies. Overall optimisation of traffic flow and
energy usage may be achieved by collective organisation among the individual
vehicles. First steps could be the gradual extension of DATEX-II by IoT related
technologies and information. The (international) standardisation of protocol
stacks and interfaces is of utmost importance to enable economic competition
and guarantee smooth interaction of different vendor products.
When dealing with information related to individuals positions, destinations, schedules, and user habits, privacy concerns gain highest priority.
They even might become road blockers for such technologies. Consequently
not only secure communication paths but also procedures which guarantee
anonymity and de-personalization of sensible data are of interest.
Some research challenges:
Safe and secure communication with elements at the network edge, intervehicle communication, and vehicle to infrastructure communication
Energy saving robust and reliable smart sensors and actuators in vehicles
and infrastructure
Technologies for data anonymity addressing privacy concerns
System partitioning (local/cloud based intelligence)
Identifying and monitoring critical system elements. Detecting critical
overall system states in due time
Technologies supporting self-organisation and dynamic formation of
structures / re-structuring
Ensure an adequate level of trust and secure exchange of data among
different vertical ICT infrastructures (e.g., intermodal scenario).

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3.3.4 Smart Home, Smart Buildings and Infrastructure
The rise of Wi-Fis role in home automation has primarily come about due to
the networked nature of deployed electronics where electronic devices (TVs
and AV receivers, mobile devices, etc.) have started becoming part of the
home IP network and due the increasing rate of adoption of mobile computing
devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.).
Several organizations are working to equip homes with technology that
enables the occupants to use a single device to control all electronic devices
and appliances. The solutions focus primarily on environmental monitoring,
energy management, assisted living, comfort, and convenience. The solutions
are based on open platforms that employ a network of intelligent sensors
to provide information about the state of the home. These sensors monitor
systems such as energy generation and metering; heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC); lighting; security; and environmental key performance
indicators. The information is processed and made available through a number
of access methods such as touch screens, mobile phones, and 3D browsers
[110]. The networking aspects are bringing online streaming services or network playback, while becoming a mean to control of the device functionality
over the network. At the same time mobile devices ensure that consumers
have access to a portable controller for the electronics connected to the
network. Both types of devices can be used as gateways for IoT applications.
In this context many companies are considering building platforms that

Figure 3.29 Integrated equipment and appliances [109].

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Figure 3.30 Smart Buildings Layers [36]

integrate the building automation with entertainment, healthcare monitoring,

energy monitoring and wireless sensor monitoring in the home and building
environments.
IoT applications using sensors to collect information about operating conditions combined with cloud hosted analytics software that analyse disparate
data points will help facility managers become far more proactive about
managing buildings at peak efficiency.
From the technological point of view, it is possible to identify the different
layers of a smart building in more detail, to understand the correlation of the
systems, services, and management operations. For each layer, is important to
understand the implied actors, stakeholders and best practices to implement
different technological solutions [36].
Issues of building ownership (i.e., building owner, manager, or occupants)
challenge integration with questions such as who pays initial system cost
and who collects the benefits over time. A lack of collaboration between the
subsectors of the building industry slows new technology adoption and can
prevent new buildings from achieving energy, economic and environmental
performance targets.
From the layers of a smart building there are many integrated services that
can be seen as subsystems. The set of services are managed to provide the
best conditions for the activities of the building occupants. The figure below
presents the taxonomy of basic services.
Integration of cyber physical systems both within the building and with
external entities, such as the electrical grid, will require stakeholder cooperation to achieve true interoperability. As in all sectors, maintaining security
will be a critical challenge to overcome [83].

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Figure 3.31 Smart Building Services Taxonomy [36]

Figure 3.32 Internet of Buildings Concept

Within this field of research the exploitation of the potential of wireless

sensor networks (WSNs) to facilitate intelligent energy management in buildings, which increases occupant comfort while reducing energy demand, is
highly relevant. In addition to the obvious economic and environmental gains
from the introduction of such intelligent energy management in buildings other
positive effects will be achieved. Not least of which is the simplification of
building control; as placing monitoring, information feedback equipment and
control capabilities in a single location will make a buildings energy management system easier to handle for the building owners, building managers,
maintenance crews and other users of the building.

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Figure 3.33 Level based architecture of building automation systems [48]

Figure 3.34 Role distribution for a classical building automation system and for a Web-ofThings architecture [48]

Using the Internet together with energy management systems also offers
an opportunity to access a buildings energy information and control systems
from a laptop or a Smartphone placed anywhere in the world. This has
a huge potential for providing the managers, owners and inhabitants of
buildings with energy consumption feedback and the ability to act on that
information.
The perceived evolution of building system architectures includes an
adaptation level that will dynamically feed the automation level with control
logic, i.e. rules. Further, in the IoT approach, the management level has also
to be made available transversally as configuration; discovery and monitoring
services must be made accessible to all levels. Algorithms and rules have also
to be considered as Web resources in a similar way as for sensors and actuators.
The repartition of roles for a classical building automation system to the new
web of things enabled architecture is different and in this context, future works

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will have to be carried on to find solutions to minimize the transfer of data
and the distribution of algorithms [48].
In the context of the future Internet of Things, Intelligent Building
Management Systems can be considered part of a much larger information system. This system is used by facilities managers in buildings to
manage energy use and energy procurement and to maintain buildings
systems. It is based on the infrastructure of the existing Intranets and the
Internet, and therefore utilises the same standards as other IT devices.
Within this context reductions in the cost and reliability of WSNs are
transforming building automation, by making the maintenance of energy
efficient, healthy, productive work spaces in buildings increasingly cost
effective [72].
3.3.5 Smart Factory and Smart Manufacturing
The role of the Internet of Things is becoming more prominent in enabling
access to devices and machines, which in manufacturing systems, were hidden
in well-designed silos. This evolution will allow the IT to penetrate further the
digitized manufacturing systems. The IoT will connect the factory to a whole
new range of applications, which run around the production. This could range
from connecting the factory to the smart grid, sharing the production facility
as a service or allowing more agility and flexibility within the production
systems themselves. In this sense, the production system could be considered
one of the many Internets of Things (IoT), where a new ecosystem for smarter
and more efficient production could be defined.
The first evolutionary step towards a shared smart factory could be
demonstrated by enabling access to todays external stakeholders in order
to interact with an IoT-enabled manufacturing system. These stakeholders
could include the suppliers of the productions tools (e.g. machines, robots),
as well as the production logistics (e.g. material flow, supply chain management), and maintenance and re-tooling actors. An IoT-based architecture
that challenges the hierarchical and closed factory automation pyramid, by
allowing the above-mentioned stakeholders to run their services in multiple
tier flat production system is proposed in [199]. This means that the services
and applications of tomorrow do not need to be defined in an intertwined and
strictly linked manner to the physical system, but rather run as services in
a shared physical world. The room for innovation in the application space
could be increased in the same degree of magnitude as this has been the case
for embedded applications or Apps, which have exploded since the arrival

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Figure 3.35 Connected Enterprise [61]

of smart phones (i.e. the provision of a clear and well standardized interface
to the embedded hardware of a mobile phone to be accessed by all types
of Apps).
Enterprises are making use of the huge amount of data available, business
analytics, cloud services, enterprise mobility and many others to improve
the way businesses are being conducted. These technologies include big data
and business analytics software, cloud services, embedded technology, sensor
networks / sensing technology, RFID, GPS, M2M, mobility, security and ID
recognition technology, wireless network and standardisation.
One key enabler to this ICT-driven smart and agile manufacturing lies in
the way we manage and access the physical world, where the sensors, the
actuators, and also the production unit should be accessed, and managed in
the same or at least similar IoT standard interfaces and technologies. These
devices are then providing their services in a well-structured manner, and
can be managed and orchestrated for a multitude of applications running in
parallel.
The convergence of microelectronics and micromechanical parts within a
sensing device, the ubiquity of communications, the rise of micro-robotics, the
customization made possible by software will significantly change the world
of manufacturing. In addition, broader pervasiveness of telecommunications

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in many environments is one of the reasons why these environments take the
shape of ecosystems.
Some of the main challenges associated with the implementation of
cyber-physical systems in include affordability, network integration, and the
interoperability of engineering systems.
Most companies have a difficult time justifying risky, expensive, and
uncertain investments for smart manufacturing across the company and factory
level. Changes to the structure, organization, and culture of manufacturing
occur slowly, which hinders technology integration. Pre-digital age control systems are infrequently replaced because they are still serviceable.
Retrofitting these existing plants with cyber-physical systems is difficult
and expensive. The lack of a standard industry approach to production
management results in customized software or use of a manual approach.
There is also a need for a unifying theory of non-homogeneous control and
communication systems [82].
3.3.6 Smart Health
The market for health monitoring devices is currently characterised by
application-specific solutions that are mutually non-interoperable and are
made up of diverse architectures. While individual products are designed to
cost targets, the long-term goal of achieving lower technology costs across
current and future sectors will inevitably be very challenging unless a more
coherent approach is used. The IoT can be used in clinical care where
hospitalized patients whose physiological status requires close attention can be
constantly monitored using IoT -driven, noninvasive monitoring. This requires
sensors to collect comprehensive physiological information and uses gateways
and the cloud to analyze and store the information and then send the analyzed
data wirelessly to caregivers for further analysis and review. These techniques
improve the quality of care through constant attention and lower the cost of
care by eliminating the need for a caregiver to actively engage in data collection
and analysis. In addition the technology can be used for remote monitoring
using small, wireless solutions connected through the IoT. These solutions can
be used to securely capture patient health data from a variety of sensors, apply
complex algorithms to analyze the data and then share it through wireless
connectivity with medical professionals who can make appropriate health
recommendations.
The links between the many applications in health monitoring are:
gathering of data from sensors
support user interfaces and displays

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network connectivity for access to infrastructural services

low power, robustness, durability, accuracy and reliability.
IoT applications are pushing the development of platforms for implementing ambient assisted living (AAL) systems that will offer services in the
areas of assistance to carry out daily activities, health and activity monitoring,
enhancing safety and security, getting access to medical and emergency
systems, and facilitating rapid health support.
The main objective is to enhance life quality for people who need permanent support or monitoring, to decrease barriers for monitoring important
health parameters, to avoid unnecessary healthcare costs and efforts, and to
provide the right medical support at the right time.
The IoT plays an important role in healthcare applications, from managing
chronic diseases at one end of the spectrum to preventing disease at the other.
Challenges exist in the overall cyber-physical infrastructure (e.g., hardware, connectivity, software development and communications), specialized
processes at the intersection of control and sensing, sensor fusion and decision making, security, and the compositionality of cyber-physical systems.
Proprietary medical devices in general were not designed for interoperation
with other medical devices or computational systems, necessitating advancements in networking and distributed communication within cyber-physical
architectures. Interoperability and closed loop systems appears to be the key
for success. System security will be critical as communication of individual

Figure 3.36 Smart Health Platform

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Figure 3.37 Interoperable standard interfaces in the Continua Personal Health Eco-System
(Source: Continua Health Alliance)

patient data is communicated over cyber-physical networks. In addition,

validating data acquired from patients using new cyber-physical technologies
against existing gold standard data acquisition methods will be a challenge.
Cyber-physical technologies will also need to be designed to operate with
minimal patient training or cooperation [83].
New and innovative technologies are needed to cope with the trends on
wired, wireless, high-speed interfaces, miniaturization and modular design
approaches for products having multiple technologies integrated.
Internet of Things applications have a future market potential for electronic
health services and connected telecommunication industry. In this context,
the telecommunications can foster the evolution of ecosystems in different
application areas. Medical expenditures are in the range of 10% of the
European gross domestic product. The market segment of telemedicine, one
of lead markets of the future will have growth rates of more than 19%.
The Continua Health Alliance, an industry consortium promoting telehealth and guaranteeing end-to-end interoperability from sensors to health
record databases, has defined in its design guidelines, a dual interface for communication with physiological and residential sensors showing a PersonalArea
Network (PAN) interface based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard and
its health device profiles, and a Local Area Network (LAN) interface, based
on the Zigbee Health Care application profile. The standards are relatively
similar in terms of complexity but BLE, tends to have a longer battery life
primarily due to the use of short packet overhead and faster data rates, reduced
number of packet exchanges for a short discovery/connect time, and skipped

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communication events, while Zigbee benefits from a longer range and better
reliability with the use of a robust modulation scheme (Direct Sequence Spread
Spectrum with orthogonal coding and a mesh-like clustered star networking
technology)
Convergence of bio parameter sensing, communication technologies and
engineering is turning health care into a new type of information industry.
In this context the progress beyond state of the art for IoT applications for
healthcare is envisaged as follows:
Standardisation of interface from sensors and MEMS for an open
platform to create a broad and open market for bio-chemical innovators.
Providing a high degree of automation in the taking and processing of
information;
Real-time data over networks (streaming and regular single measurements) to be available to clinicians anywhere on the web with appropriate
software and privileges;
Data travelling over trusted web.
Reuse of components over smooth progression between low-cost home
health devices and higher cost professional devices.
Data needs to be interchangeable between all authorised devices in use
within the clinical care pathway, from home, ambulance, clinic, GP,
hospital, without manual transfer of data.
3.3.7 Food and Water Tracking and Security
Food and fresh water are the most important natural resources in the world.
Organic food produced without addition of certain chemical substances and
according to strict rules, or food produced in certain geographical areas will
be particularly valued. Similarly, fresh water from mountain springs is already
highly valued. In the future it will be very important to bottle and distribute
water adequately. This will inevitably lead to attempts to forge the origin or
the production process. Using IoT in such scenarios to secure tracking of food
or water from the production place to the consumer is one of the important
topics.
This has already been introduced to some extent in regard to beef meat.
After the mad cow disease outbreak in the late 20th century, some beef
manufacturers together with large supermarket chains in Ireland are offering
from pasture to plate traceability of each package of beef meat in an attempt
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limited to certain types of food and enables tracing back to the origin of the
food only, without information on the production process.
IoT applications need to have a development framework that will assure
the following:
The things connected to the Internet need to provide value. The things
that are part of the IoT need to provide a valuable service at a price point
that enables adoption, or they need to be part of a larger system that
does.
Use of rich ecosystem for the development. The IoT comprises things,
sensors, communication systems, servers, storage, analytics, and end
user services. Developers, network operators, hardware manufacturers,
and software providers need to come together to make it work. The
partnerships among the stakeholders will provide functionality easily
available to the customers.
Systems need to provide APIs that let users take advantage of systems
suited to their needs on devices of their choice.APIs also allow developers
to innovate and create something interesting using the systems data and
services, ultimately driving the systems use and adoption.
Developers need to be attracted since the implementation will be done
on a development platform. Developers using different tools to develop
solutions, which work across device platforms playing a key role for
future IoT deployment.
Security needs to be built in. Connecting things previously cut off from
the digital world will expose them to new attacks and challenges.
The research challenges are:
Design of secure, tamper-proof and cost-efficient mechanisms for tracking food and water from production to consumers, enabling immediate
notification of actors in case of harmful food and communication of
trusted information.
Secure way of monitoring production processes, providing sufficient
information and confidence to consumers. At the same time details of the
production processes which might be considered as intellectual property,
should not be revealed.
Ensure trust and secure exchange of data among applications and infrastructures (farm, packing industry, retailers) to prevent the introduction
of false or misleading data, which can affect the health of the citizens or
create economic damage to the stakeholders.

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3.3.8 Participatory Sensing

People live in communities and rely on each other in everyday activities.
Recommendations for a good restaurant, car mechanic, movie, phone plan
etc. were and still are some of the things where community knowledge helps
us in determining our actions.
While in the past this community wisdom was difficult to access and often
based on inputs from a handful of people, with the proliferation of the web
and more recently social networks, the community knowledge has become
readily available - just a click away.
Today, the community wisdom is based on conscious input from people,
primarily based on opinions of individuals. With the development of IoT
technology and ICT in general, it is becoming interesting to expand the concept
of community knowledge to automated observation of events in the real world.
One application of participatory sensing is as a tool for health and
wellness, where individuals can self-monitor to observe and adjust their medication, physical activity, nutrition, and interactions. Potential contexts include
chronic-disease management and health behaviour change. Communities and
health professionals can also use participatory approaches to better understand
the development and effective treatment of disease. The same systems can be
used as tools for sustainability. Individuals and communities can explore their
transportation and consumption habits, and corporations can promote more
sustainable practices among employees. In addition, participatory sensing
offers a powerful make a case technique to support advocacy and civic
engagement. It can provide a framework in which citizens can bring to light a
civic bottleneck, hazard, personal-safety concern, cultural asset, or other data
relevant to urban and natural-resources planning and services, all using data
that are systematic and can be validated [121].
Smart phones are already equipped with a number of sensors and actuators:
camera, microphone, accelerometers, temperature gauge, speakers, displays
etc. A range of other portable sensing products that people will carry in their
pockets will soon become available as well. Furthermore, our cars are equipped
with a range of sensors capturing information about the car itself, and also
about the road and traffic conditions.
Intel is working to simplify deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT)
with its Intelligent Systems Framework (IntelISF), a set of interoperable
solutions designed to address connecting, managing, and securing devices
and data in a consistent and scalable manner.

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Figure 3.38 Common architectural components for participatory-sensing applications,

including mobile device data capture, personal data stream storage, and leveraged data
processing [121]

Participatory sensing applications aim at utilizing each person, mobile

phone, and car and associated sensors as automatic sensory stations taking
a multi-sensor snapshot of the immediate environment. By combining these
individual snapshots in an intelligent manner it is possible to create a clear
picture of the physical world that can be shared and for example used as an
input to the smart city services decision processes.
However, participatory sensing applications come with a number of
challenges that need to be solved:
Design of algorithms for normalization of observations taking into
account the conditions under which the observations were taken. For
example temperature measurements will be different if taken by a mobile
phone in a pocket or a mobile phone lying on a table;
Design of robust mechanisms for analysis and processing of collected
observations in real time (complex event processing) and generation of

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community wisdom that can be reliably used as an input to decision

taking;
Reliability and trustworthiness of observed data, i.e. design of mechanisms that will ensure that observations were not tampered with and/or
detection of such unreliable measurements and consequent exclusion
from further processing. In this context, the proper identification and
authentication of the data sources is an important function;
Ensuring privacy of individuals providing observations
Efficient mechanisms for sharing and distribution of community
wisdom.
Addressing scalability and large scale deployments

3.3.9 Smart Logistics and Retail

The Internet of Things creates opportunities to achieve efficient solutions in
the retail sector by addressing the right person, right content at the right time
and right place.
A personalized connected experience is what users are looking for in
todays digital environment. Connectivity is key to be connected anytime,
anywhere with any devices.
Adapting to the tastes and priorities of changing populations will be a
critical task for retailers worldwide.

Figure 3.39 Internet of Things: Intelligent Systems Framework (Source: Intel)

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To keep up with all these changes, retailers must deploy smart, connected
devices throughout their operations.
By tying together everything from inventory tracking to advertising,
retailers can gain visibility into their operations and nimbly respond to shifts in
consumer behaviour. The challenge is finding a scalable, secure, manageable
path to deploying all of these systems.
Retailers are also using sensors, beacons, scanning devices, and other
IoT technologies to optimize internally: inventory, fleet, resource, and partner
management through real-time analytics, automatic replenishment, notifications, store layout, and more. The Big data generated now affords retailers a
factual understanding of how their products, customers, affiliates, employees,
and external factors come together. Altogether, this is a $1.6T opportunity for
retailers, with $81B in value already realized in 2013 [64].

Figure 3.40 The Digital Retail Store (Source: Cisco)

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3.4 Internet of Things and Related Future Internet

Technologies
3.4.1 Cloud Computing
Since the publication of the 2011 SRA, cloud computing has been established
as one of the major building blocks of the Future Internet. New technology
enablers have progressively fostered virtualisation at different levels and
have allowed the various paradigms known as Applications as a Service,
Platforms as a Service and Infrastructure and Networks as a Service. Such
trends have greatly helped to reduce cost of ownership and management of
associated virtualised resources, lowering the market entry threshold to new
players and enabling provisioning of new services. With the virtualisation of
objects being the next natural step in this trend, the convergence of cloud
computing and Internet of Things will enable unprecedented opportunities in
the IoT services arena [104].
As part of this convergence, IoT applications (such as sensor-based services) will be delivered on-demand through a cloud environment [105]. This
extends beyond the need to virtualize sensor data stores in a scalable fashion. It
asks for virtualization of Internet-connected objects and their ability to become
orchestrated into on-demand services (such as Sensing-as-a-Service).
Inadequate security will be a critical barrier to large-scale deployment
of IoT systems and broad customer adoption of IoT applications. Simply
extending existing IT security architectures to the IoT will not be sufficient.
The connected things in the future will have limited resources that cant be
easily or cost-effectively upgraded. In order to protect these things over a very
long lifespan, this increases the importance of cloud-based security services
with resource-efficient, thing-to-cloud interactions. With the growth of IoT,
were shifting toward a cyber-physical paradigm, where we closely integrate

Figure 3.41 Securely Integrating the Cyber and Physical Worlds (Source: Cisco)

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Figure 3.42 Fog Computing Paradigm

computing and communication with the connected things, including the ability
to control their operations. In such systems, many security vulnerabilities
and threats come from the interactions between the cyber and physical
domains. An approach to holistically integrate security vulnerability analysis
and protections in both domains will become increasingly necessary. There
is growing demand to secure the rapidly increasing population of connected,
and often mobile, things. In contrast to todays networks, where assets under
protection are typically inside firewalls and protected with access control
devices, many things in the IoT arena will operate in unprotected or highly
vulnerable environments (i.e. vehicles, sensors, and medical devices used in
homes and embedded on patients). Protecting such things poses additional
challenges beyond enterprise networks [59].
Many Internet of Things applications require mobility support and geodistribution in addition to location awareness and low latency, while the data
need to be processed in real-time in micro clouds or fog. Micro cloud or
Fog computing enables new applications and services applies a different data
management and analytics and extends the Cloud Computing paradigm to
the edge of the network. Similar to Cloud, Micro Cloud/Fog provides data,
compute, storage, and application services to end-users.
The Micro Cloud or the fog needs to have the following features in order
to efficiently implement the required IoT applications:

Low latency and location awareness;

Wide-spread geographical distribution;
Mobility;
Very large number of nodes,
Predominant role of wireless access,
Strong presence of streaming and real time applications,
Heterogeneity.

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Moreover, generalising the serving scope of an Internet-connected object

beyond the sensing service, it is not hard to imagine virtual objects that
will be integrated into the fabric of future IoT services and shared and reused
in different contexts, projecting an Object as a Service paradigm aimed
as in other virtualised resource domains at minimising costs of ownership
and maintenance of objects, and fostering the creation of innovative IoT
services.
Relevant topics for the research agenda will therefore include:
The description of requests for services to a cloud/IoT infrastructure,
The virtualization of objects,
Tools and techniques for optimization of cloud infrastructures subject to
utility and SLA criteria,
The investigation of utility metrics and (reinforcement) learning techniques that could be used for gauging on-demand IoT services in a cloud
environment,
Techniques for real-time interaction of Internet-connected objects within
a cloud environment through the implementation of lightweight interactions and the adaptation of real-time operating systems.
Access control models to ensure the proper access to the data stored in
the cloud.
3.4.2 IoT and Semantic Technologies
The previous IERC SRIAs have identified the importance of semantic technologies towards discovering devices, as well as towards achieving semantic
interoperability. Future research on IoT is likely to embrace the concept of
Linked Open Data. This could build on the earlier integration of ontologies
(e.g., sensor ontologies) into IoT infrastructures and applications.
Semantic technologies will also have a key role in enabling sharing and
re-use of virtual objects as a service through the cloud, as illustrated in the
previous paragraph. The semantic enrichment of virtual object descriptions
will realise for IoT what semantic annotation of web pages has enabled in
the Semantic Web. Associated semantic-based reasoning will assist IoT users
to more independently find the relevant proven virtual objects to improve
the performance or the effectiveness of the IoT applications they intend
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3.5 Networks and Communication

Present communication technologies span the globe in wireless and wired
networks and support global communication by globally-accepted communication standards. The Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation
Agenda (SRIA) intends to lay the foundations for the Internet of Things to be
developed by research through to the end of this decade and for subsequent
innovations to be realised even after this research period. Within this timeframe
the number of connected devices, their features, their distribution and implied
communication requirements will develop; as will the communication infrastructure and the networks being used. Everything will change significantly.
Internet of Things devices will be contributing to and strongly driving this
development.
Changes will first be embedded in given communication standards and
networks and subsequently in the communication and network structures
defined by these standards.
3.5.1 Networking Technology
Mobile traffic today is driven by predictable activities such as making calls,
receiving email, surfing the web, and watching videos. Over the next 5 to
10 years, billions of IoT devices with less predictable traffic patterns will
join the network, including vehicles, machine-to-machine (M2M) modules,
video surveillance that requires all the time bandwidth, or different types of
sensors sensor that send out tiny bits of data each day. The rise of cloud
computing requires new network strategies for fifth evolution of mobile the
5G, which represents clearly a convergence of network access technologies.
The architecture of such network has to integrate the needs for IoT applications
and to offer seamless integration. To make the IoT and M2M communication
possible there is a need for fast, high-capacity networks.
5G networks will deliver 1,000 to 5,000 times more capacity than 3G
and 4G networks today and will be made up of cells that support peak rates
of between 10 and 100Gbps. They need to be ultra-low latency, meaning
it will take data 110 milliseconds to get from one designated point to
another, compared to 4060 milliseconds today. Another goal is to separate
communications infrastructure and allow mobile users to move seamlessly
between 5G, 4G, and WiFi, which will be fully integrated with the cellular
network. Networks will also increasingly become programmable, allowing

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Figure 3.43

5G Features

operators to make changes to the network virtually, without touching the

physical infrastructure. These features are important for IoT applications.
The evolution and pervasiveness of present communication technologies
has the potential to grow to unprecedented levels in the near future by including
the world of things into the developing Internet of Things.
Network users will be humans, machines, things and groups of them.
3.5.1.1 Complexity of the networks of the future
A key research topic will be to understand the complexity of these future
networks and the expected growth of complexity due to the growth of Internet
of Things. The research results of this topic will give guidelines and timelines
for defining the requirements for network functions, for network management,
for network growth and network composition and variability [150].
Wireless networks cannot grow without such side effects as interference.
3.5.1.2 Growth of wireless networks
Wireless networks especially will grow largely by adding vast amounts of
small Internet of Things devices with minimum hardware, software and
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Based on the research of the growing network complexity, caused by the
Internet of Things, predictions of traffic and load models will have to guide
further research on unfolding the predicted complexity to real networks, their
standards and on-going implementations.
Mankind is the maximum user group for the mobile phone system, which is
the most prominent distributed system worldwide besides the fixed telephone
system and the Internet. Obviously the number of body area networks [36],
[151], [152], and of networks integrated into clothes and further personal area
networks all based on Internet of Things devices - will be of the order of the
current human population. They are still not unfolding into reality. In a second
stage cross network cooperative applications are likely to develop, which are
not yet envisioned.
3.5.1.3 Mobile networks
Applications such as body area networks may develop into an autonomous
world of small, mobile networks being attached to their bearers and being
connected to the Internet by using a common point of contact. The mobile
phone of the future could provide this function.
Analysing worldwide industrial processes will be required to find limiting
set sizes for the number of machines and all things being implied or used
within their range in order to develop an understanding of the evolution steps
to the Internet of Things in industrial environments.
3.5.1.4 Expanding current networks to future networks
Generalizing the examples given above, the trend may be to expand current end
user network nodes into networks of their own or even a hierarchy of networks.
In this way networks will grow on their current access side by unfolding these
outermost nodes into even smaller, attached networks, spanning the Internet
of Things in the future. In this context networks or even networks of networks
will be mobile by themselves.
3.5.1.5 Overlay networks
Even if network construction principles should best be unified for the
worldwide Internet of Things and the networks bearing it, there will not be
one unified network, but several. In some locations even multiple networks
overlaying one another physically and logically.
The Internet and the Internet of Things will have access to large parts
of these networks. Further sections may be only represented by a top access
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shielded against external access and secured against any intrusion on multiple
levels.
3.5.1.6 Network self-organization
Wireless networks being built for the Internet of Things will show a large
degree of ad-hoc growth, structure, organization, and significant change in
time, including mobility. These constituent features will have to be reflected
in setting them up and during their operation [153].
Self-organization principles will be applied to configuration by context
sensing, especially concerning autonomous negotiation of interference management and possibly cognitive spectrum usage, by optimization of network
structure and traffic and load distribution in the network, and in self-healing of
networks. All will be done in heterogeneous environments, without interaction
by users or operators.
3.5.1.7 IPv6, IoT and Scalability
The current transition of the global Internet to IPv6 will provide a virtually
unlimited number of public IP addresses able to provide bidirectional and
symmetric (true M2M) access to Billions of smart things. It will pave the way
to new models of IoT interconnection and integration. It is raising numerous
questions: How can the Internet infrastructure cope with a highly heterogeneous IoT and ease a global IoT interconnection? How interoperability will
happen with legacy systems? What will be the impact of the transition to
IPv6 on IoT integration, large scale deployment and interoperability? It will
probably require developing an IPv6-based European research infrastructure
for the IoT.
3.5.1.8 Green networking technology
Network technology has traditionally developed along the line of predictable
progress of implementation technologies in all their facets. Given the enormous expected growth of network usage and the number of user nodes in the
future, driven by the Internet of Things, there is a real need to minimize the
resources for implementing all network elements and the energy being used
for their operation [154].
Disruptive developments are to be expected by analysing the energy
requirements of current solutions and by going back to principles of communication in wired, optical and wireless information transfer. Research done
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an energy efficiency increase of a factor of 1,000 compared to current
technologies [157].
The results of the research done by the GreenTouch consortium [155]
should be integrated into the development of the network technologies of
the future. These network technologies have to be appropriate to realise the
Internet of Things and the Future Internet in their most expanded state to be
anticipated by the imagination of the experts.
3.5.2 Communication Technology
3.5.2.1 Unfolding the potential of communication technologies
The research aimed at communication technology to be undertaken in the
coming decade will have to develop and unfold all potential communication
profiles of Internet of Things devices, from bit-level communication to continuous data streams, from sporadic connections to connections being always
on, from standard services to emergency modes, from open communication
to fully secured communication, spanning applications from local to global,
based on single devices to globally-distributed sets of devices [158].
In this context the growth in mobile device market is pushing the deployment of Internet of Things applications where these mobile devices (smart
phones, tablets, etc.) are seen as gateways for wireless sensors and actuators.
Based on this research the anticipated bottlenecks in communications
and in networks and services will have to be quantified using appropriate
theoretical methods and simulation approaches.
Communications technologies for the Future Internet and the Internet of
Things will have to avoid such bottlenecks by construction not only for a
given status of development, but for the whole path to fully developed and
still growing nets.
3.5.2.2 Correctness of construction
Correctness of construction [159] of the whole system is a systematic process
that starts from the small systems running on the devices up to network
and distributed applications. Methods to prove the correctness of structures
and of transformations of structures will be required, including protocols
of communication between all levels of communication stacks used in the
Internet of Things and the Future Internet.
These methods will be essential for the Internet of Things devices and
systems, as the smallest devices will be implemented in hardware and many

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types will not be programmable. Interoperability within the Internet of Things

will be a challenge even if such proof methods are used systematically.
3.5.2.3 An unified theoretical framework for communication
Communication between processes [160] running within an operating system
on a single or multicore processor, communication between processes running
in a distributed computer system [161], and the communication between
devices and structures in the Internet of Things and the Future Internet
using wired and wireless channels shall be merged into a unified minimum
theoretical framework covering and including formalized communication
within protocols.
In this way minimum overhead, optimum use of communication channels
and best handling of communication errors should be achievable. Secure
communication could be embedded efficiently and naturally as a basic service.
3.5.2.4 Energy-limited Internet of Things devices and their
communication
Many types of Internet of Things devices will be connected to the energy grid
all the time; on the other hand a significant subset of Internet of Things devices
will have to rely on their own limited energy resources or energy harvesting
throughout their lifetime.
Given this spread of possible implementations and the expected importance of minimum-energy Internet of Things devices and applications, an
important topic of research will have to be the search for minimum energy,
minimum computation, slim and lightweight solutions through all layers of
Internet of Things communication and applications.
3.5.2.5 Challenge the trend to complexity
The inherent trend to higher complexity of solutions on all levels will be
seriously questioned at least with regard to minimum energy Internet of
Things devices and services.
Their communication with the access edges of the Internet of Things
network shall be optimized cross domain with their implementation space
and it shall be compatible with the correctness of the construction approach.
3.5.2.6 Disruptive approaches
Given these special restrictions, non-standard, but already existing ideas
should be carefully checked again and be integrated into existing solutions,
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This very special domain of the Internet of Things may well develop into its
most challenging and most rewarding domain from a research point of view
and, hopefully, from an economical point of view as well.

3.6 Processes
The deployment of IoT technologies will significantly impact and change the
way enterprises do business as well as interactions between different parts of
the society, affecting many processes. To be able to reap the many potential
benefits that have been postulated for the IoT, several challenges regarding
the modelling and execution of such processes need to be solved in order to
see wider and in particular commercial deployments of IoT [162]. The special
characteristics of IoT services and processes have to be taken into account and
it is likely that existing business process modelling and execution languages
as well as service description languages such as USDL [165], will need to be
extended.
3.6.1 Adaptive and Event-Driven Processes
One of the main benefits of IoT integration is that processes become more
adaptive to what is actually happening in the real world. Inherently, this is
based on events that are either detected directly or by real-time analysis of
sensor data. Such events can occur at any time in the process. For some
of the events, the occurrence probability is very low: one knows that they
might occur, but not when or if at all. Modelling such events into a process
is cumbersome, as they would have to be included into all possible activities,
leading to additional complexity and making it more difficult to understand
the modelled process, in particular the main flow of the process (the 80%
case). Secondly, how to react to a single event can depend on the context, i.e.
the set of events that have been detected previously.
Research on adaptive and event-driven processes could consider the
extension and exploitation of EDA (Event Driven Architectures) for activity
monitoring and complex event processing (CEP) in IoT systems. EDA could
be combined with business process execution languages in order to trigger
specific steps or parts of a business process.
3.6.2 Processes Dealing with Unreliable Data
When dealing with events coming from the physical world (e.g., via sensors
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is introduced into the processes. If decisions in a business process are to

be taken based on events that have some uncertainty attached, it makes
sense to associate each of these events with some value for the quality
of information (QoI). In simple cases, this allows the process modeller to
define thresholds: e.g., if the degree of certainty is more than 90%, then it
is assumed that the event really happened. If it is between 50% and 90%,
some other activities will be triggered to determine if the event occurred
or not. If it is below 50%, the event is ignored. Things get more complex
when multiple events are involved: e.g., one event with 95% certainty, one
with 73%, and another with 52%. The underlying services that fire the
original events have to be programmed to attach such QoI values to the
events. From a BPM perspective, it is essential that such information can
be captured, processed and expressed in the modelling notation language, e.g.
BPMN. Secondly, the syntax and semantics of such QoI values need to be
standardized. Is it a simple certainty percentage as in the examples above,
or should it be something more expressive (e.g., a range within which the
true value lies)? Relevant techniques should not only address uncertainty in
the flow of a given (well-known) IoT-based business process, but also in
the overall structuring and modelling of (possibly unknown or unstructured)
process flows. Techniques for fuzzy modelling of data and processes could be
considered.
3.6.3 Processes dealing with unreliable resources
Not only is the data from resources inherently unreliable, but also the
resources providing the data themselves, e.g., due to the failure of the hosting
device. Processes relying on such resources need to be able to adapt to such
situations. The first issue is to detect such a failure. In the case that a process
is calling a resource directly, this detection is trivial. When were talking
about resources that might generate an event at one point in time (e.g., the
resource that monitors the temperature condition within the truck and sends
an alert if it has become too hot), it is more difficult. Not having received
any event can be because of resource failure, but also because there was
nothing to report. Likewise, the quality of the generated reports should be
regularly audited for correctness. Some monitoring software is needed to
detect such problems; it is unclear though if such software should be part of
the BPM execution environment or should be a separate component. Among
the research challenges is the synchronization of monitoring processes with
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software) tend to operate at different time scales from IoT processes (e.g.,
automation and control systems in manufacturing).
3.6.4 Highly Distributed Processes
When interaction with real-world objects and devices is required, it can make
sense to execute a process in a decentralized fashion. As stated in [165], the
decomposition and decentralization of existing business processes increases
scalability and performance, allows better decision making and could even
lead to new business models and revenue streams through entitlement management of software products deployed on smart items. For example, in
environmental monitoring or supply chain tracking applications, no messages
need to be sent to the central system as long as everything is within the defined
limits. Only if there is a deviation, an alert (event) needs to be generated, which
in turn can lead to an adaptation of the overall process. From a business process
modelling perspective though, it should be possible to define the process
centrally, including the fact that some activities (i.e., the monitoring) will
be done remotely. Once the complete process is modelled, it should then be
possible to deploy the related services to where they have to be executed, and
then run and monitor the complete process.
Relevant research issues include tools and techniques for the synthesis,
the verification and the adaptation of distributed processes, in the scope of
a volatile environment (i.e. changing contexts, mobility, internet connected
objects/devices that join or leave).

3.7 Data Management

Data management is a crucial aspect in the Internet of Things. When considering a world of objects interconnected and constantly exchanging all types
of information, the volume of the generated data and the processes involved
in the handling of those data become critical.
A long-term opportunity for wireless communications chip makers is the
rise of machine-to-machine (M2M) computing, which one of the enabling
technologies for Internet of Things. This technology spans a broad range of
applications. Worldwide M2M interconnected devices are on a steady upward
march that is expected to surge 10-fold to a global total of 12.5 billion devices
by 2020. The resulting forecast in M2M traffic shows a similar trajectory,
with traffic predicted to grow 24-fold from 20122017, representing a CAGR
(Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 89% over the same period. Revenue

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Figure 3.44 PCs, smartphones, and tablets: Unit shipment forecast, worldwide,
20112017 [74]

from M2M services spanning a wide range of industry vertical applications,

including telematics, health monitoring, smart buildings and security, smart
metering, retail point of sale, and retail banking, is set to reach $35 billion by
2016. Driving this surge in the M2M market are a number of forces such as
the declining cost of mobile device and infrastructure technology, increased
deployment of IP, wireless and wireline networks, and a low-cost opportunity
for network carriers to eke out new revenue streams by utilizing existing
infrastructure in new markets. This opportunity will likely be most prominent
across a number of enterprise verticals, with the energy industry-in the form of
smart grid and smart metering technologies-expected to experience significant
growth in the M2M market [75].
In this context there are many technologies and factors involved in the
data management within the IoT context.
Some of the most relevant concepts which enable us to understand the
challenges and opportunities of data management are:
Data Collection and Analysis
Big data

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Semantic Sensor Networking
Virtual Sensors
Complex Event Processing.
3.7.1 Data Collection and Analysis (DCA)
Data Collection and Analysis modules or capabilities are the essential components of any IoT platform or system, and they are constantly evolving in order
to support more features and provide more capacity to external components
(either higher layer applications leveraging on the data stored by the DCA
module or other external systems exchanging information for analysis or
processing).
The DCA module is part of the core layer of any IoT platform. Some of
the main functions of a DCA module are:
User/customer data storing:
Provides storage of the customers information collected by sensors
User data & operation modelling:
Allows the customer to create new sensor data models to accommodate
collected information and the modelling of the supported operations
On demand data access:
Provides APIs to access the collected data
Device event publish/subscribe/forwarding/notification:
Provides APIs to access the collected data in real time conditions
Customer rules/filtering:
Allows the customer to establish its own filters and rules to correlate events
Customer task automation:
Provides the customer with the ability to manage his automatic processes.
(e.g. scheduled platform originated data collection).
Customer workflows:
Allows the customer to create his own workflow to process the incoming
events from a device
Multitenant structure:
Provides the structure to support multiple organizations and reseller
schemes.
In the coming years, the main research efforts should be targeted to some
features that should be included in any Data Collection and Analysis platform:
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standards and wrappings for the submission of observations should be

supported
De-centralisation. Sensors and measurements/observations captured by
them should be stored in systems that can be de-centralised from a
single platform. It is essential that different components, geographically
distributed in different locations may cooperate and exchange data.
Related with this concept, federation among different systems will make
possible the global integration of IoT architectures.
Security. DCA platforms should increase the level of data protection
and security, from the transmission of messages from devices (sensors,
actuators, etc.) to the data stored in the platform.
Data mining features. Ideally, DCA systems should also integrate capacities for the processing of the stored info, making it easier to extract useful
data from the huge amount of contents that may be recorded.
3.7.2 Big Data
Big data is about the processing and analysis of large data repositories, so
disproportionately large that it is impossible to treat them with the conventional
tools of analytical databases. Some statements suggest that we are entering
the Industrial Revolution of Data, [167], where the majority of data will
be stamped out by machines. These machines generate data a lot faster than
people can, and their production rates will grow exponentially with Moores
Law. Storing this data is cheap, and it can be mined for valuable information.
Examples of this tendency include:

Web logs;
RFID;
Sensor networks;
Social networks;
Social data (due to the Social data revolution);
Internet text and documents;
Internet search indexing;
Call detail records;
Astronomy, atmospheric science, genomics, biogeochemical, biological,
and other complex and/or interdisciplinary scientific research;
Military surveillance;
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Video archives;
Large scale e-commerce.
The trend is part of an environment quite popular lately: the proliferation
of web pages, image and video applications, social networks, mobile devices,
apps, sensors, and so on, able to generate, according to IBM, more than 2.5
quintillion bytes per day, to the extent that 90% of the worlds data have been
created over the past two years.
Big data requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process large
quantities of data within a tolerable amount of time. Technologies being
applied to big data include massively parallel processing (MPP) databases,
data-mining grids, distributed file systems, distributed databases, cloud
computing platforms, the Internet, and scalable storage systems. These technologies are linked with many aspects derived from the analysis of natural
phenomena such as climate and seismic data to environments such as health,
safety or, of course, the business environment.
The biggest challenge of the Petabyte Age will not be storing all that
data, it will be figuring out how to make sense of it. Big data deals with
unconventional, unstructured databases, which can reach petabytes, exabytes
or zettabytes, and require specific treatments for their needs, either in terms
of storage or processing/display.
Companies focused on the big data topic, such as Google, Yahoo!,
Facebook or some specialised start-ups, currently do not use Oracle tools to
process their big data repositories, and they opt instead for an approach based
on distributed, cloud and open source systems. An extremely popular example
is Hadoop, an Open Source framework in this field that allows applications to
work with huge repositories of data and thousands of nodes. These have been
inspired by Google tools such as the MapReduce and Google File system,

Figure 3.45 Internet of Things holistic view

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or NoSQL systems, which in many cases do not comply with the ACID
(atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) characteristics of conventional
databases.
In future, it is expected a huge increase in adoption, and many, many
questions that must be addressed. Among the imminent research targets in
this field are:
Privacy. Big data systems must avoid any suggestion that users and
citizens in general perceive that their privacy is being invaded.
Integration of both relational and NoSQL systems.
More efficient indexing, search and processing algorithms, allowing the
extraction of results in reduced time and, ideally, near to real time
scenarios.
Optimised storage of data. Given the amount of information that the
new IoT world may generate, it is essential to avoid that the storage
requirements and costs increase exponentially.
3.7.3 Semantic Sensor Networks and Semantic Annotation
of data
The information collected from the physical world in combination with the
existing resources and services on the Web facilitate enhanced methods
to obtain business intelligence, enabling the construction of new types of
front-end application and services which could revolutionise the way organisations and people use Internet services and applications in their daily activities.
Annotating and interpreting the data, and also the network resources, enables
management of the e large scale distributed networks that are often resource
and energy constrained, and provides means that allow software agents and
intelligent mechanisms to process and reason the acquired data.
There are currently on-going efforts to define ontologies and to create
frameworks to apply semantic Web technologies to sensor networks. The
Semantic Sensor Web (SSW) proposes annotating sensor data with spatial,
temporal, and thematic semantic metadata [169]. This approach uses the
current OGC and SWE [171] specifications and attempts to extend them
with semantic web technologies to provide enhanced descriptions to facilitate
access to sensor data. W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group [172]
is also working on developing ontology for describing sensors. Effective
description of sensor, observation and measurement data and utilising semantic Web technologies for this purpose, are fundamental steps to the construction
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However, associating this data to the existing concepts on the Web and
reasoning the data is also an important task to make this information widely
available for different applications, front-end services and data consumers.
Semantics allow machines to interpret links and relations between different
attributes of a sensor description and also other resources. Utilising and
reasoning this information enables the integration of the data as networked
knowledge [174]. On a large scale this machine interpretable information (i.e.
semantics) is a key enabler and necessity for the semantic sensor networks.
Emergence of sensor data as linked-data enables sensor network providers
and data consumers to connect sensor descriptions to potentially endless
data existing on the Web. By relating sensor data attributes such as location,
type, observation and measurement features to other resources on the Web
of data, users will be able to integrate physical world data and the logical
world data to draw conclusions, create business intelligence, enable smart
environments, and support automated decision making systems among many
other applications.
The linked-sensor-data can also be queried, accessed and reasoned based
on the same principles that apply to linked-data. The principles of using linked
data to describe sensor network resources and data in an implementation of an
open platform to publish and consume interoperable sensor data is described
in [175].
In general, associating sensor and sensor network data with other concepts
(on the Web) and reasoning makes the data information widely available for
different applications, front-end services and data consumers. The semantic
description allow machines to interpret links and relations between the
different attributes of a sensor description and also other data existing on
the Web or provided by other applications and resources. Utilising and
reasoning this information enables the integration of the data on a wider
scale, known as networked knowledge [174]. This machine-interpretable
information (i.e. semantics) is a key enabler for the semantic sensor
networks.
3.7.4 Virtual Sensors
A virtual sensor can be considered as a product of spatial, temporal and/or
thematic transformation of raw or other virtual sensor producing data with necessary provenance information attached to this transformation. Virtual sensors
and actuators are a programming abstraction simplifying the development of
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Models for interacting with wireless sensors such as Internet of Things

and sensor cloud aim to overcome restricted resources and efficiency.
New sensor clouds need to enable different networks, cover a large geographical area, connect together and be used simultaneously by multiple
users on demand. Virtual sensors, as the core of the sensor cloud architecture, assist in creating a multiuser environment on top of resourceconstrained physical wireless sensors and can help in supporting multiple
applications.
The data acquired by a set of sensors can be collected, processed according
to an application-provided aggregation function, and then perceived as the
reading of a single virtual sensor. Dually, a virtual actuator provides a single
entry point for distributing commands to a set of real actuator nodes. We follow
that statement with this definition:
A virtual sensor behaves just like a real sensor, emitting time-series data
from a specified geographic region with newly defined thematic concepts
or observations which the real sensors may not have.
A virtual sensor may not have any real sensors physical properties
such as manufacturer or battery power information, but does have other
properties, such as: who created it; what methods are used, and what
original sensors it is based on.

3.8 Security, Privacy & Trust

The Internet of Things presents security-related challenges that are identified
in the IERC 2010 Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap but some
elaboration is useful as there are further aspects that need to be addressed
by the research community. While there are a number of specific security,
privacy and trust challenges in the IoT, they all share a number of transverse
non-functional requirements:
Lightweight and symmetric solutions, Support for resource constrained
devices
Scalable to billions of devices/transactions
Solutions will need to address federation/administrative co-operation
Heterogeneity and multiplicity of devices and platforms
Intuitively usable solutions, seamlessly integrated into the real
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3.8.1 Trust for IoT
As IoT-scale applications and services will scale over multiple administrative
domains and involve multiple ownership regimes, there is a need for a trust
framework to enable the users of the system to have confidence that the
information and services being exchanged can indeed be relied upon. The
trust framework needs to be able to deal with humans and machines as users,
i.e. it needs to convey trust to humans and needs to be robust enough to be used
by machines without denial of service. The development of trust frameworks
that address this requirement will require advances in areas such as:
Lightweight Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) as a basis for trust management. Advances are expected in hierarchical and cross certification
concepts to enable solutions to address the scalability requirements.
Lightweight key management systems to enable trust relationships to be
established and the distribution of encryption materials using minimum
communications and processing resources, as is consistent with the
resource constrained nature of many IoT devices.
Quality of Information is a requirement for many IoT-based systems
where metadata can be used to provide an assessment of the reliability
of IoT data.
Decentralised and self-configuring systems as alternatives to PKI for
establishing trust e.g. identity federation, peer to peer.
Novel methods for assessing trust in people, devices and data, beyond
reputation systems. One example is Trust Negotiation. Trust Negotiation
is a mechanism that allows two parties to automatically negotiate, on the
basis of a chain of trust policies, the minimum level of trust required to
grant access to a service or to a piece of information.
Assurance methods for trusted platforms including hardware, software,
protocols, etc.
Access Control to prevent data breaches. One example is Usage Control,
which is the process of ensuring the correct usage of certain information
according to a predefined policy after the access to information is granted.
3.8.2 Security for IoT
As the IoT becomes a key element of the Future Internet and a critical
national/international infrastructure, the need to provide adequate security
for the IoT infrastructure becomes ever more important.
IoT applications use sensors and actuators embedded in the environment
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lighting to optimize energy consumption and avoid operational failures that

have a real impact on the environment. In the retail industry, a refrigerator
failing to maintain proper cooling temperatures could place high value medical
or food inventory at risk. Having all of these devices connected, it is as well
needed have the right data model. The data model has to accommodate high
data rate sensor data and to assimilate and analyze the information. In this
context database read/write performance is critical, particularly with high
data rate sensor data. The database must support high-speed read and writes,
be continuously available (100% of the time) to gather this data at uniform
intervals and be scalable in order to maintain a cost-effective horizontal data
store over time.
Large-scale applications and services based on the IoT are increasingly
vulnerable to disruption from attack or information theft. Advances are
required in several areas to make the IoT secure from those with malicious
intent, including
DoS/DDOS attacks are already well understood for the current Internet,
but the IoT is also susceptible to such attacks and will require specific techniques and mechanisms to ensure that transport, energy, city
infrastructures cannot be disabled or subverted.
General attack detection and recovery/resilience to cope with IoT-specific
threats, such as compromised nodes, malicious code hacking attacks.
Cyber situation awareness tools/techniques will need to be developed to
enable IoT-based infrastructures to be monitored. Advances are required
to enable operators to adapt the protection of the IoT during the lifecycle
of the system and assist operators to take the most appropriate protective
action during attacks.
The IoT requires a variety of access control and associated accounting schemes to support the various authorisation and usage models
that are required by users. The heterogeneity and diversity of the
devices/gateways that require access control will require new lightweight
schemes to be developed.
The IoT needs to handle virtually all modes of operation by itself without
relying on human control. New techniques and approaches e.g. from
machine learning, are required to lead to a self-managed IoT.
3.8.3 Privacy for IoT
As much of the information in an IoT system may be personal data, there
is a requirement to support anonymity and restrictive handling of personal
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There are a number of areas where advances are required:
Cryptographic techniques that enable protected data to be stored processed and shared, without the information content being accessible
to other parties. Technologies such as homomorphic and searchable
encryption are potential candidates for developing such approaches.
Techniques to support Privacy by Design concepts, including data
minimisation, identification, authentication and anonymity.
Fine-grain and self-configuring access control mechanism emulating the
real world
There are a number of privacy implications arising from the ubiquity and
pervasiveness of IoT devices where further research is required, including
Preserving location privacy, where location can be inferred from things
associated with people.
Prevention of personal information inference, that individuals would
wish to keep private, through the observation of IoT-related exchanges.
Keeping information as local as possible using decentralised computing
and key management.
Use of soft Identities, where the real identity of the user can be used to
generate various soft identities for specific applications. Each soft identity
can be designed for a specific context or application without revealing
unnecessary information, which can lead to privacy breaches.

3.9 Device Level Energy Issues

One of the essential challenges in IoT is how to interconnect things in an
interoperable way while taking into account the energy constraints, knowing
that the communication is the most energy consuming task on devices. RF
solutions for a wide field of applications in the Internet of Things have been
released over the last decade, led by a need for integration and low power
consumption.
3.9.1 Low Power Communication
Several low power communication technologies have been proposed from
different standardisation bodies. The most common ones are:
IEEE 802.15.4 has developed a low-cost, low-power consumption, low
complexity, low to medium range communication standard at the link
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Bluetooth low energy (Bluetooth LE, [182]) is the ultra-low power

version of the Bluetooth technology [183] that is up to 15 times more
efficient than Bluetooth.
Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) Technology [183] is an emerging technology in the IoT domain that transmits signals across a much larger
frequency range than conventional systems. UWB, in addition to its
communication capabilities, it can allow for high precision ranging of
devices in IoT applications.
ISO 180007 DASH7 standard developed by DASH7 Alliance is a low
power, low complexity, radio protocol for all sub 1GHz radio devices.
It is a non-proprietary technology based on an open standard, and the
solutions may contain a pool of companion technologies operating in
their own ways. Common for these technologies are that they use a Sub
1 GHz silicon radio (433 MHz) as their primary communicating device
[25]. The applications using DASH7 include supply chain management,
inventory/yard management, manufacturing and warehouse optimization, hazardous material monitoring, smart meter and commercial green
building development.
RFID/NFC proposes a variety of standards to offer contactless solutions.
Proximity cards can only be read from less than 10 cm and follows the
ISO 14443 standard [185] and is also the basis of the NFC standard.
RFID tags or vicinity tags dedicated to identification of objects have a
reading distance which can reach 7 to 8 meters.
Nevertheless, front-end architectures have remained traditional and there is
now a demand for innovation. Regarding the ultra-low consumption target,
super-regenerative have proven to be very energetically efficient architectures
used for Wake-Up receivers. It remains active permanently at very low power
consumption, and can trigger a signal to wake up a complete/standard receiver
[186187]. In this field, standardization is required, as today only proprietary
solutions exist, for an actual gain in the overall market to be significant.
On the other hand, power consumption reduction of an RF full-receiver
can be envisioned, with a target well below 5mW to enable very small form
factor and long life-time battery. Indeed, targeting below 1mW would then
enable support from energy harvesting systems enabling energy autonomous
RF communications. In addition to this improvement, lighter communication
protocols should also be envisioned as the frequent synchronization requirement makes frequent activation of the RF link mandatory, thereby overhead
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It must also be considered that recent advances in the area of CMOS
technology beyond 90 nm, even 65 nm nodes, leads to new paradigms in
the field of RF communication. Applications which require RF connectivity
are growing as fast as the Internet of Things, and it is now economically
viable to propose this connectivity solution as a feature of a wider solution.
It is already the case for the micro-controller which can now easily embed a
ZigBee or Bluetooth RF link, and this will expand to meet other large volume
applications sensors.
Progressively, portable RF architectures are making it easy to add the RF
feature to existing devices. This will lead to RF heavily exploiting digital
blocks and limiting analogue ones, like passive / inductor silicon consuming
elements, as these are rarely easy to port from one technology to another.
Nevertheless, the same performance will be required so receiver architectures
will have to efficiently digitalize the signal in the receiver or transmitter
chain [188]. In this direction, Band-Pass Sampling solutions are promising
as the signal is quantized at a much lower frequency than the Nyquist one,
related to deep under-sampling ratio [189]. Consumption is therefore greatly
reduced compared to more traditional early-stage sampling processes, where
the sampling frequency is much lower.
Continuous-Time quantization has also been regarded as a solution for
high-integration and easy portability. It is an early-stage quantization as well,
but without sampling [190]. Therefore, there is no added consumption due to
the clock, only a signal level which is considered. These two solutions are
clear evolutions to pave the way to further digital and portable RF solutions.
Cable-powered devices are not expected to be a viable option for IoT
devices as they are difficult and costly to deploy. Battery replacements in
devices are either impractical or very costly in many IoT deployment scenarios.
As a consequence, for large scale and autonomous IoT, alternative energy
sourcing using ambient energy should be considered.
3.9.2 Energy Harvesting
Four main ambient energy sources are present in our environment: mechanical energy, thermal energy, radiant energy and chemical energy. The
power consumption varies depending on the communication protocols
and data rate used to transmit the date. The approximate power consumption for different protocols is as following 3G-384kbps-2W, GPRS24kbps-1W, WiFi-10Mbps-32200mW, Bluetooth-1Mbps-2.5100 mW, and
Zigbee-250kbps-1mW.

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Ambient light, thermal gradients, vibration/motion or electromagnetic

radiation can be harvested to power electronic devices. The major components
of an autonomous wireless sensor are the energy harvesting transducer, energy
processing, sensor, microcontroller and the wireless radio. For successful
energy harvesting implementations there are three key areas in the energy
processing stage that must be addressed: energy conversion, energy storage,
and power management.
Harvesting 100 W during 1 year corresponds to a total amount of energy
equivalent to 1 g of lithium. Considering this approach of looking at energy
consumption for one measurement instead of average power consumption, it
results that, today:
Sending 100 bits of data consumes about 5 J,
Measuring acceleration consumes about 50 J,
Making a complete measurement: measure + conversion + emission
consume 250500 J.
Therefore, with 100 W harvested continuously, it is possible to perform
a complete measurement every 110 seconds. This duty cycle can be sufficient for many applications. For other applications, basic functions power
consumptions are expected to be reduced by 10 to 100 within 10 years; which
will enable continuous running mode of EH-powered IoT devices.
Even though many developments have been performed over the last 10
years, energy harvesting except PV cells is still an emerging technology
that has not yet been adopted by industry. Nevertheless, further improvements
of present technologies should enable the needs of IoT to be met.

Figure 3.46 Energy harvesting - components of an autonomous wireless sensor (Source:

Cymbet)

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An example of interoperable wireless standard that enables switches,
gateways and sensors from different manufacturers to combine seamlessly
and wireless communicates with all major wired bus systems such as KNX,
LON, BACnet or TCP/IP is presented in [120].
The development of energy harvesting and storage devices is instrumental
to the realization of the ubiquitous connectivity that the IoT proclaims
and the potential market for portable energy storage and energy harvesting
could be in distributed smart swarms of mobile systems for the Internet of
Things.
The energy harvesting wireless sensor solution is able to generate a signal
from an extremely small amount of energy. From just 50 Ws a standard
energy harvesting wireless module can easily transmit a signal 300 meters (in
a free field).
3.9.3 Future Trends and Recommendations
In the future, the number and types of IoT devices will increase, therefore interoperability between devices will be essential. More computation and yet less
power and lower cost requirements will have to be met. Technology integration
will be an enabler along with the development of even lower power technology
and improvement of battery efficiency. The power consumption of computers
over the last 60 years was analysed in [192] and the authors concluded that
electrical efficiency of computation has doubled roughly every year and a
half. A similar trend can be expected for embedded computing using similar
technology over the next 10 years. This would lead to a reduction by an order
of 100 in power consumption at same level of computation. Allowing for a 10
fold increase in IoT computation, power consumption should still be reduced
by an order of 10.
On the other hand, energy harvesting techniques have been explored to
respond to the energy consumption requirements of the IoT domain. For
vibration energy harvesters, we expect them to have higher power densities in
the future (from 10 W/g to 30 W/g) and to work on a wider frequency
bandwidth. Actually, the goal of vibration energy harvesters researchers
is to develop Plug and Play (PnP) devices, able to work in any vibrating
environment, within 10 years. In the same time, we expect basic functions
energy consumption to decrease by at least a factor of 10. All these progresses
will allow vibration energy harvesters to attract new markets, from industry
to healthcare or defence.

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Figure 3.47 Energy harvesting wireless sensor network (Source: EnOcean)

The main challenge for thermoelectric solutions is to increase thermoelectric materials intrinsic efficiency, in order to convert a higher part of the
few mW of thermal energy available. This efficiency improvement will be
mainly performed by using micro and nanotechnologies (such as superlattices
or quantum dots).
For solar energy harvesting, photovoltaic cells are probably the most
advanced and robust solution. They are already used in many applications and for most of them, todays solutions are sufficient. Yet, for IoT
devices, it could be interesting to improve the photovoltaic cells efficiency
to decrease photovoltaic cells sizes and to harvest energy in even darker
places.
In the future batteries will recharge from radio signals, cell phones will
recharge from Wi-Fi. Smaller Cells (micro, pico, femto) will result in more
cell sites with less distance apart but they will be greener, provide power/cost
savings and at the same time, higher throughput. Connected homes will enable
consumers to manage their energy, media, security and appliances; will be part
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3.10 IoT Related Standardization

The IERC previous SRAs [68] [85] addresses the topic of standardization and
is focused on the actual needs of producing specific standards. This chapter
examines further standardization considerations.
3.10.1 The Role of Standardization Activities
Standards are needed for interoperability both within and between domains.
Within a domain, standards can provide cost efficient realizations of solutions,
and a domain here can mean even a specific organization or enterprise realizing
an IoT. Between domains, the interoperability ensures cooperation between the
engaged domains, and is more oriented towards a proper Internet of Things.
There is a need to consider the life-cycle process in which standardization is
one activity. Significant attention is given to the pre-selection of standards
through collaborative research, but focus should also be given to regulation,
legislation, interoperability and certification as other activities in the same
life-cycle. For IoT, this is of particular importance.
A complexity with IoT comes from the fact that IoT intends to support
a number of different applications covering a wide array of disciplines that
are not part of the ICT domain. Requirements in these different disciplines
can often come from legislation or regulatory activities. As a result, such
policy making can have a direct requirement for supporting IoT standards to
be developed. It would therefore be beneficial to develop a wider approach
to standardization and include anticipation of emerging or on-going policy
making in target application areas, and thus be prepared for its potential impact
on IoT-related standardization.
A typical example is the standardization of vehicle emergency call services
called eCall driven from the EC [193]. Based on the objective of increased road
safety, directives were established that led to the standardization of solutions
for services and communication by e.g. ETSI, and subsequently 3GPP.Another
example is the Smart Grid standardization mandate M/490 [194] from the EC
towards the European Standards Organisations (ESOs), and primarily ETSI,
CEN and CENELEC.
The standardization bodies are addressing the issue of interoperable
protocol stacks and open standards for the IoT. This includes as well expending
the HTTP, TCP, IP stack to the IoT-specific protocol stack. This is quite
challenging considering the different wireless protocols like ZigBee, RFID,
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HTTP relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCPs flow control
mechanism is not appropriate for LLNs and its overhead is considered too
high for short-lived transactions. In addition, TCP does not have multicast
support and is rather sensitive to mobility. CoAP is built on top of the User
Datagram Protocol (UDP) and therefore has significantly lower overhead and
multicast support [103].
The conclusion is that any IoT related standardization must pay attention
to how regulatory measures in a particular applied sector will eventually drive
the need for standardized efforts in the IoT domain.
Agreed standards do not necessarily mean that the objective of interoperability is achieved. The mobile communications industry has been successful
not only because of its global standards, but also because interoperability can
be assured via the certification of mobile devices and organizations such as
the Global Certification Forum [195] which is a joint partnership between
mobile network operators, mobile handset manufacturers and test equipment
manufacturers. Current corresponding M2M efforts are very domain specific
and fragmented. The emerging IoT and M2M dependant industries should
also benefit from ensuring interoperability of devices via activities such as
conformance testing and certification on a broader scale.
To achieve this very important objective of a certification or validation
programme, we also need non ambiguous test specifications which are also
standards. This represents a critical step and an economic issue as this activity
is resource consuming. As for any complex technology, implementation of test
specifications into cost-effective test tools should also to be considered. A good
example is the complete approach of ETSI using a methodology (e.g. based on
TTCN-3) considering all the needs for successful certification programmes.
The conclusion therefore is that just as the applied sector can benefit from
standards supporting their particular regulated or mandated needs, equally,
these sectors can benefit from conforming and certified solutions, protocols
and devices. This is certain to help the IoT- supporting industrial players to
succeed.
It is worth noting that setting standards for the purpose of interoperability
is not only driven by proper SDOs, but for many industries and applied sectors
it can also be driven by Special Interest Groups, Alliances and the Open Source
communities. It is of equal importance from an IoT perspective to consider
these different organizations when addressing the issue of standardization.
From the point of view of standardisation IoT is a global concept, and
is based on the idea that anything can be connected at any time from any
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concept of connecting any object to the Internet could be one of the biggest
standardization challenges and the success of the IoT is dependent on the
development of interoperable global standards. In this context the IERC
position is very clear. Global standards are needed to achieve economy of
scale and interworking. Wireless sensor networks, RFID, M2M are evolving
to intelligent devices which need networking capabilities for a large number of
applications and these technologies are edge drivers towards the Internet
of Things, while the network identifiable devices will have an impact on
telecommunications networks. IERC is focussed to identify the requirements
and specifications from industry and the needs of IoT standards in different
domains and to harmonize the efforts, avoid the duplication of efforts and
identify the standardization areas that need focus in the future.
To achieve these goals it is necessary to overview the international IoT
standardization items and associated roadmap; to propose a harmonized European IoT standardisation roadmap; work to provide a global harmonization
of IoT standardization activities; and develop a basic framework of standards
(e.g., concept, terms, definition, relation with similar technologies).
3.10.2 Current Situation
The current M2M related standards and technologies landscape is highly fragmented. The fragmentation can be seen across different applied domains where
there is very little or no re-use of technologies beyond basic communications
or networking standards. Even within a particular applied sector, a number
of competing standards and technologies are used and promoted. The entire
ecosystem of solution providers and users would greatly benefit from less
fragmentation and should strive towards the use of a common set of basic
tools. This would provide faster time to market, economy of scale and reduce
overall costs.
Another view is standards targeting protocols vs. systems. Much emphasis
has been put on communications and protocol standards, but very little
effort has previously been invested in standardizing system functions or
system architectures that support IoT. Localized system standards are plentiful for specific deployments in various domains. One such example is in
building automation and control with (competing) standards like BACnet
and KNX. However, system standards on the larger deployment and global
scale are not in place. The on going work in ETSI M2M TC is one such
approach, but is currently limited to providing basic application enablement
on top of different networks. It should also be noted that ETSI represent
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Figure 3.48 Enabling

(Source: IEEE-SA)

Consumer

Connectivity

Through

Consensus

Building

represented by a number of different industries and sectors reaching far beyond

telecommunications.
IEEE-SA is also collaborating with other Standards Development Organizations to create a more efficient and collaborative standards-development
environment.
Developing smart grids around the world will produce benefits - from
the ability to respond to demand with more or less generation, to identifying
waste and reducing costs. But its connecting to whats in the home that will
produce the greatest efficiencies, because the homes/buildings are where the
grid connects to the user. By bringing the user online, the smart grid can
manage demand, eliminate waste, lower peak loads, and stimulate investment
in more energy efficient appliances. Utilities, manufacturers and suppliers are
using IEEE standards to make the Smart Grid work with their products and
the customers homes/buildings. The standards addressing this area are as
following [67]:
Smart Grid Interoperability IEEE 2030TM
Smart Metering IEEE P1377TM , IEEE 1701TM , IEEE 1702TM , IEEE
P1703TM , IEEE P1704TM , IEEE P1705TM

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Utility Network Protocol IEEE 1815TM
Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electrical Power Systems IEEE 1547TM series
Communication over Power Lines IEEE 1901TM , IEEE P1901.2TM
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks IEEE 802series
The electric vehicle will interface with the homes/buildings and the
electrical grid is being shaped by the feedback of owners and manufacturers
today. The standards addressing this area are as following [67]:

Smart Grid Interoperability IEEE 2030TM , IEEE P2030.1TM

Communication over Power Lines IEEE 1901TM , IEEE P1901.2TM
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks IEEE 802series
Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electrical Power Systems IEEE 1547TM series
Smart Metering/Utility Network Protocol IEEE 1701TM , IEEE
1702TM , IEEE P1703TM , IEEE P1704TM , IEEE P1705TM , IEEE
P1377TM , IEEE 1815TM

The IoT will bring home/building networking for connecting devices and
humans to communicate. This will empower the devices themselves and
allow them to interact. In order to make home/building-wide systems with
components from many manufacturers work requires connectivity standards
and an assurance of interoperability. The standards addressing this area are as
following [67]:
Convergent Digital Home Network IEEE P1905.1TM
Power Lines Communications IEEE 1901TM , IEEE P1901.2TM , IEEE
1675TM , IEEE 1775TM
Low-Frequency and Wireless Protocol IEEE 1902.1TM
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks IEEE 802series
Utility Network Protocol IEEE 1815TM
3.10.3 Areas for Additional Consideration
The technology fragmentation mentioned above is particularly evident on the
IoT device side. To drive further standardization of device technologies in the
direction of standard Internet protocols and Web technologies, and towards
the application level, would mitigate the impacts of fragmentation and strive
towards true interoperability. Embedded web services, as driven by the IETF
and IPSO Alliance, will ensure a seamless integration of IoT devices with the

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Internet. It will also need to include semantic representation of IoT device

hosted services and capabilities.
The service layer infrastructure will require standardization of necessary
capabilities like interfaces to information and sensor data repositories, discovery and directory services and other mechanisms that have already been
identified in projects like SENSEI [195], IoT-A[196], and IoT6. Current efforts
in ETSI M2M TC do not address these aspects.
The IoT will require federated environments where producers and consumers of services and information can collaborate across both administrative and application domains. This will require standardized interfaces
on discovery capabilities as well as the appropriate semantic annotation to
ensure that information becomes interoperable across sectors. Furthermore,
mechanisms for authentication and authorization as well as provenance of
information, ownership and market mechanisms for information become
particularly important in a federated environment. Appropriate SLAs will
be required for standardization. F-ONS [199] is one example activity in
the direction of federation by GS1. Similar approaches will be needed in
general for IoT including standardized cross-domain interfaces of sensor based
services.
A number of IoT applications will be coming from the public sector. The
Directive on Public Sector Information [201] requires open access to data.
Integration of data coming from various application domains is not an easy
task as data and information does not adhere to any standardized formats
including their semantics. Even within a single domain, data and information
is not easily integrated or shared. Consideration of IoT data and information
integration and sharing within domains as well as between domains need, also
be considered at the international level.
Instrumental in a number of IoT applications is the spatial dimension.
Standardization efforts that provide necessary harmonization and interoperability with spatial information services like INSPIRE [202] will be
the key.
IoT with its envisioned billions of devices producing information of very
different characteristics will place additional requirements on the underlying
communications and networking strata. Efforts are needed to ensure that
the networks can accommodate not only the number of devices but also
the very different traffic requirements including delay tolerance, latency and
reliability. This is of particular importance for wireless access networks which
traditionally have been optimized based on a different set of characteristics.
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short term needs, but the long term needs still require identification and
standardization.
3.10.4 Interoperability in the Internet-of-Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping the evolution of the future Internet.
After connecting people anytime and everywhere, the next step is to interconnect heterogeneous things / machines / smart objects both between themselves
and with the Internet; allowing by thy way, the creation of value-added open
and interoperable services/applications, enabled by their interconnection, in
such a way that they can be integrated with current and new business and
development processes.
As for the IoT, future networks will continue to be heterogeneous, multivendors, multi-services and largely distributed. Consequently, the risk of
non-interoperability will increase. This may lead to unavailability of some
services for end-users that can have catastrophic consequences regarding
applications related for instance to emergency or health, etc. Or, it could also
mean that users/applications are likely to loose key information out of the
IoT due to this lack of interoperability. Thus, it is vital to guarantee that network
components will interoperate to unleash the full value of the Internet of
Things.
3.10.4.1 IoT Interoperability necessary framework
Interoperability is a key challenge in the realms of the Internet of Things
(IoT)! This is due to the intrinsic fabric of the IoT as: (i) highdimensional,
with the co-existence of many systems (devices, sensors, equipment, etc.) in
the environment that need to communicate and exchange information; (ii)
highly-heterogeneous, where these vast systems are conceived by a lot of
manufacturers and are designed for much different purposes and targeting
diverse application domains, making it extremely difficult (if not impossible)
to reach out for global agreements and widely accepted specification; (iii)
dynamic and non-linear, where new Things (that were not even considered at
start) are entering (and leaving) the environment all the time and that support
new unforeseen formats and protocols but that need to communicate and share
data in the IoT; and (iv) hard to describe/model due to existence of many data
formats, described in much different languages, that can share (or not) the
same modelling principles, and that can be interrelated in many ways with
one another. This qualifies interoperability in the IoT as a problem of
complex nature!

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Also, the Internet of Things can be seen as both the first and the final frontier
of interoperability. First, as it is the initial mile of a sensing system and where
interoperability would enable Things to talk and collaborate altogether for an
higher purpose; and final, as it is possibly the place where interoperability is
more difficult to tackle due to the unavoidable complexities of the IoT. We
therefore need some novel approaches and comprehensions of Interoperability
for the Internet of Things also making sure that it endures, that it is sustainable.
It is then needed sustainable interoperability in the Internet of Things!
This means that we need to cope at the same time with the complex
nature and sustainability requirement of interoperability in the Internet of
Things. For this, it is needed a framework for sustainable interoperability that
especially targets the Internet of Things taking on its specifics and constraints.
This framework can (and should) learn from the best-of-breed interoperability
solutions from related domains (e.g. enterprise interoperability), to take the
good approaches and principles of these while understanding the differences
and particulars that the Internet of Things poses. The framework for sustainable interoperability in Internet of Things applications needs (at least) to
address the following aspects:
Management of Interoperability in the IoT: In order to correctly support
interoperability in the Internet of Things one needs to efficiently and
effectively manage interoperability resources. What then needs to be
managed, to what extent and how, in respect to interoperability in
the Internet of Things?
Dynamic Interoperability Technologies for the IoT: In order for interoperability to endure in the complex IoT environment, one needs to permit
Things to enter and dynamically interoperate without the need of being
remanufactured. Then, what approaches and methods to create dynamic
interoperability in IoT?
Measurement of Interoperability in the IoT: In order to properly manage
and execute interoperability in the IoT it is needs to quantify and/or
qualify interoperability itself. As Lord Kelvin stated: If one can not
measure it, one can not improve it. Then, what methods and techniques
to provide an adequate measurement of Interoperability in the
Internet of Things?
Interaction and integration of IoT in the global Internet: IPv6 integration,
global interoperability, IoT-Cloud integration, etc. In other words, how
to bridge billion of smart things globally, while respecting their specific
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3.10.4.2 Technical IoT Interoperability
There are different areas on interoperability such as at least four areas on
technical interoperability, syntactic, semantic interoperability and organizational interoperability. Technical Interoperability is usually associated
with hardware/software components, systems and platforms that enable
machine-to-machine communication to take place. This kind of interoperability is often centred on (communication) protocols and the infrastructure needed for those protocols to operate and we need to pay a
specific attention as many protocols are developed within SDOs and
therefore it will require market proof approach to validate and implement these protocols leading to have true interoperable and global IoT
products.
Validation
Validation is an important aspect of interoperability (also in the Internet of
Things). Testing and Validation provide the assurance that interoperability
methods, protocols, etc. can cope with the specific nature and requirements of
the Internet of Things.
The main way, among others, is to provide efficient and accurate test
suites and associated interoperability testing methodology (with associated
test description/coding languages) that help in testing thoroughly both the
underlying protocols used by interconnected things / machines / smart objects
and the embedded services / applications. The testing features and facilities
need to become build into the design and deployment process, as the conditions
of communication means, object/things availability and accessibility may
change over time or location.
It is really important that these new testing methods consider the real context of future communicating systems where these objects will be deployed.
Indeed, contrary to most of the existing testing methods, interconnected
things / machines / smart objects in the IoT are naturally distributed. As
they are distributed, the usual and classical approach of a single centralized
testing system dealing with all these components and the test execution is
no more applicable. The distributed nature of the tested components imposes
to move towards distributed testing methods. To be more confident in the
real interoperability of these components when they will be deployed in real
networks, testing has to be done in a (close to) real operational environment.
In this context of IoT where objects are connected through radio links,
communicating environment may be unreliable and non-controllable if dont
address seriously interoperability testing challenges with the same intensity

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and complexity of the IoT research itself. Research in IoT challenges leads
to IoT validation and interoperability challenges.

3.11 IoT Protocols Convergence

In order to use the full potential of IoT paradigm the interconnected devices
need to communicate using lightweight protocols that dont require extensive
use of CPU resources. C, Java, MQTT, Python and some scripting languages
are the preferable choices used by IoT applications. The IoT nodes use separate
IoT gateways if there is needed protocol conversion, database storage, or
decision making in order to supplement the low-intelligence node.
One of the most important aspects for a convergence protocol that support
information exchange between domains, is the ability to convey the information (data) contained in a particular domain to other domains. This section
provides an overview of the existing data exchange protocols that can be
applied for data exchange among various domains.
Today there are two dominant architectures for data exchange protocols;
bus-based, and broker-based. In the broker-based architecture, the broker

Figure 3.49 Message Queuing Telemetry Transport publish/subscribe protocol used to

implement IoT and M2M applications (Source: Eurotech)

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Figure 3.50 Broker based architecture for data exchange protocols

controls the distribution of the information. For example, it stores, forwards,

filters and prioritizes publish requests from the publisher (the source of the
information) client to the subscriber (the consumer of the information) clients.
Clients switch between publisher and subscriber roles depending on their
objectives. Examples of broker based protocols include Advanced Message
Queuing Protocol (AMPQ), Constrained Applications Protocol (CoAP), Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Java Message Service API
(JMS).
In the bus-based architecture, clients publish messages for a specific topic
which are directly delivered to the subscribers of that topic. There is no
centralized broker or broker-based services. Examples of bus-based protocols
include Data Distribution Service (DDS), Representational State Transfer
(REST) and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
Another important way to classify these protocols is whether they are
message-centric or data-centric. Message centric protocols such as AMQP,
MQTT, JMS and REST focus on the delivery of the message to the intended
recipient(s), regardless of the data payload it contains. A data-centric protocol
such as DDS, CoAP and XMPP focus on delivering the data and assumes
the data is understood by the receiver. Middleware understands the data
and ensures that the subscribers have a synchronized and consistent view
of the data.
Yet another fundamental aspect of these protocols is whether it is webbased like CoAP or application-based such as with XMPP, and AMQP. These

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Figure 3.51 Bus-based architecture for data exchange protocols

aspects have fundamental effect on the environment, performance and tools

available for implementers.
The following sections describe the example protocols in more detail,
[3133].
3.11.1 Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
MQTT is an open-sourced protocol for passing messages between multiple clients through a central broker. It was designed to be simple and
easy to implement. The MQTT architecture is broker-based, and uses
long-lived outgoing TCP connection to the broker. MQTT also supports
hierarchical topics (e.g., subject/sub-subject/sub-sub-subject) file system
structure.
MQTT can be used for two-way communications over unreliable networks
where cost per transmitted bit is comparatively high. It is also compatible
with low power consumption devices. The protocol is light-weight (simple)
and therefore well suited for constrained environments. MQTT has a mechanism for asynchronous communication and for communicating disconnect
messages when a device has disconnected. The most recent message can also
be stored and forwarded. Multiple versions of MQTT are available to address
specific limitations.

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With MQTT, only partial interoperability between publishers and subscribers can be guaranteed because the meaning of data is not negotiated.
Clients must know message format up-front. In addition, it does not support
labeling messages with types or metadata. MQTT may include large topic
strings that may not be suitable for small packet size of some transport
protocols such as IEEE 802.15.4 without using MQTT-SN. MQTT may require
EXI (Efficient XML Interchange) to compress the message length that could
reduce communication efficiency.
TCP may negatively affect the network efficiency as the number of
nodes (connection to the broker) increases. If the number of nodes is greater
than a thousand, poor performance and complexity may also result because
automatic/dynamic discovery is not supported in MQTT.
Because the protocol was designed to be simple, users must decide whether
it is too simple and susceptible to potential hacking.
3.11.2 Constrained Applications Protocol (CoAP)
CoAP is an internet-based client/server model document transfer protocol
similar to HTTP but designed for constrained devices. A sensor is typically a
server of information and the client the consumer who can also alter states.
It supports a one-to-one protocol for transferring state information between
client and server.
CoAP utilizes User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and supports broadcast
and multicast addressing. It does not support TCP. CoAP communication is
through connectionless datagrams, and can be used on top of SMS and other
packet-based communications protocols.
CoAP supports content negotiation and discovery, allowing devices to
probe each other to find ways to exchange data. CoAP was designed for
interoperability with the web (including HTTP and RESTful protocols),
and supports asynchronous communications. The small packets are easy to
generate. CoAP supports observing resource state changes as they occur so
it is best suited to a state-transfer model, not purely an event-based model.
CoAP supports a means for resource discovery.
UDP may be easier to implement in microcontrollers than TCP, but the
security tools used for TCP (SSL/TLS) are not available in UDP. Datagram
Transport Layer Security (DTLS) can be used instead. In addition, system
issues such as the amount of support required for HTTP, Tunneling and Port
Forwarding in NAT environments needs to be evaluated.

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3.11.3 Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)

AMQP is an application layer message-centric brokered protocol that emerged
from the financial sector with the objective of replacing proprietary and
non-interoperable messaging systems. The key features of AMQP are message orientation, queuing, routing (including point-to-point and publish-andsubscribe), reliability and security. Discovery is done via the broker.
It provides flow controlled, message-oriented communication with
message-delivery guarantees such as at-most-once (where each message is
delivered once or never), at-least-once (where each message is certain to be
delivered, but may do so multiple times) and exactly-once (where the message
will always certainly arrive and do so only once), and authentication and/or
encryption based on SASL and/or TLS. It assumes an underlying reliable
transport layer protocol such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) using
SSL/TLS, [30].
AMQP mandates the behavior of the messaging provider and client to the
extent that implementations from different vendors are truly interoperable.
Previous attempts to standardize middleware have happened at the API level
(e.g. JMS) and thus did not ensure interoperability. Unlike JMS, which merely
defines an API, AMQP is a wire-protocol. Consequently any product that can
create and interpret messages that conform to this data format can interoperate
with any other compliant implementation irrespective of the programming
language, [30].
Support for more than a thousand nodes may result in poor performance
and increased complexity.
3.11.4 Java Message Service API (JMS)
JMS is a message oriented middleware API for creating, reading, sending,
receiving messages between two or more clients, based on the Java Enterprise
Edition. It was meant to separate application and transport layer functions and
allows the communications between different components of a distributed
application to be loosely coupled, reliable and asynchronous over TCP/IP.
JMS supports both the point to point and publish/subscribe models using
message queuing, and durable subscriptions (i.e., store and forward topics to
subscribers when they log in). Subscription control is through topics and
queues with message filtering. Discovery is via the broker (server). The same
Java classes can be used to communicate with different JMS providers by
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When considering JMS API, keep in mind that it cannot guarantee
interoperability between producers and consumers using different JMS implementations. Also, systems with more than a thousand nodes may result in poor
performance and increased complexity.
3.11.5 Data Distribution Service (DDS)
DDS is a data-centric middleware language used to enable scalable,
real-time, dependable high performance and interoperable data exchanges.
The original target applications were financial trading, air traffic control, smart
grid management and other big data, mission critical applications.
It is a decentralized broker-less protocol with direct peer-to-peer communications between publishers and subscribers and was designed to be
language and operating system independent. DDS sends and receives data,
events, and command information on top of UDP but can also run over other
transports such as IP Multicast, TCP/IP, shared memory etc. DDS supports
real-time many-to-many managed connectivity and also supports automatic
discovery.
Applications using DDS for communications are decoupled and do not
require intervention from the user applications, which can simplify complex network programming. QoS parameters that are used to configure its
auto-discovery mechanisms are setup one time. DSS automatically handles
hot-swapping redundant publishers if the primary publisher fails. Subscription
control is via partitions and topics with message filtering.
DDS Security specification is still pending. Implementers should be aware
that DSS needs DSSI (wire-protocol) to make sure all implementations can
interoperate.
DSS is available commercially and a version of it has been made open
in as much as a public version is available.
3.11.6 Representational State Transfer (REST)
REST is a language and operating system independent architecture for designing network applications using simple HTTP to connect between machines. It
was designed as a lightweight point-to-point, stateless client/server, cacheable
protocol for simple client/server (request/reply) communications from devices
to the cloud over TCP/IP.
Use of stateless model supported by HTTP and can simplify server design
and can easily be used in the presence of firewalls, but may result in the need for

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additional information exchange. It does not support Cookies or asynchronous,

loosely coupled publish-and-subscribe message exchanges.
Support for systems with more than a thousand nodes may result in poor
performance and complexity.
3.11.7 Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
XMPP is a communications protocol for message oriented middleware based
on XML (formally Jabber). It is a brokerless decentralized client-server
(as previously defined) model and is used by text messaging applications. It
is near real-time and massively scalable to hundreds of thousands of nodes.
Binary data must be base64 encoded before it can be transmitted in-band.
It is useful for devices with large and potentially complicated traffic, and
where extra security is required. For example, it can be used to isolate security
to between applications rather than to rely on TCP or the web. The users or
devices (servers) can keep control through preference settings.
New extensions being added to enhance its application to the IoT, including
Service Discovery (XEP-0030), Concentrators for connecting legacy sensors
and devices (XEP-0325), SensorData (XEP-0323), and Control (XEP-0322)
and the Transport of XMPP over HTTM (XP-0124).

3.12 Discussion
The Internet of Things will grow to 26 billion units (without considering
PCs, tablets and smartphones) installed in 2020 representing an almost 30fold increase from 0.9 billion in 2009. IoT product and service suppliers
will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion, mostly in services,
in 2020. It will result in $1.9 trillion in global economic value-add through
sales into diverse end markets. Due to the low cost of adding IoT capability to consumer products, it is expected that ghost devices with unused
connectivity will be common. This will be a combination of products that
have the capability built in but require software to activate it and products
with IoT functionality that customers do not actively leverage. In addition,
enterprises will make extensive use of IoT technology, and there will be a
wide range of products sold into various markets, such as advanced medical
devices; factory automation sensors and applications in industrial robotics;
sensor motes for increased agricultural yield; and automotive sensors and
infrastructure integrity monitoring systems for diverse areas, such as road
and railway transportation, water distribution and electrical transmission.

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By 2020, component costs will have come down to the point that connectivity will become a standard feature, even for processors costing less
than $1. This opens up the possibility of connecting just about anything,
from the very simple to the very complex, to offer remote control, monitoring and sensing and it is expected that the variety of devices offered to
explode [77].
The IoT encompasses sensor, actuators, electronic processing, microcontrollers, embedded software, communications services and information
services associated with the things.
The economic value added at the European and global level is significant
across sectors in 2020. The IoT applications are still implemented by the
different industrial verticals with a high adoption in manufacturing, healthcare
and home/buildings.
IoT will also facilitate new business models based on the real-time data
acquired by billions of sensor nodes. This will push for development of
advances sensor, nanoelectronics, computing, network and cloud technologies
and will lead to value creation in utilities, energy, smart building technology,
transportation and agriculture.

Acknowledgments
The IoT European Research Cluster - European Research Cluster on the
Internet of Things (IERC) maintains its Strategic Research and Innovation
Agenda (SRA), taking into account its experiences and the results from the
on-going exchange among European and international experts.
The present document builds on the 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 Strategic
Research and Innovation Agendas and presents the research fields and an
updated roadmap on future R&D from 2015 to 2020 and beyond 2020.
The IoT European Research Cluster SRA is part of a continuous IoT
community dialogue supported by the European Commission (EC) DG
Connect Communications Networks, Content and Technology, E1 - Network
technologies Unit for the European and international IoT stakeholders. The
result is a lively document that is updated every year with expert feedback
from on-going and future projects financed by the EC. Many colleagues have
assisted over the last few years with their views on the Internet of Things
Strategic Research and Innovation agenda document. Their contributions are
gratefully acknowledged.

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Development
Identification
Technology

Internet of Things
Architecture
Technology

Internet of Things
Infrastructure

Internet of Things
Applications

Communication
Technology

Network
Technology

Table 3.1 Future Technological Developments

20152020
Beyond 2020
Thing/Object DNA
Identity management
identifier
Open framework for the IoT
Soft Identities
Semantics
Privacy awareness
Cognitive architectures
Network of networks architectures
Experimental
IoT architecture developments
architectures
Adaptive, context based
architectures
Self-* properties
Cross domain application deployment Global, general purpose IoT
infrastructures
Integrated IoT infrastructures
Global discovery
Multi application infrastructures
mechanism
Multi provider infrastructures
IoT information open
Configurable IoT devices
market
IoT in food/water production and
tracing
IoT in manufacturing industry
IoT in industrial lifelong service
and maintenance

IoT device with strong processing

and analytics capabilities
Application capable of handling
heterogeneous high capability data
collection an d processing
infrastructures
Wide spectrum and spectrum aware
protocols
Ultra low power chip sets
On chip antennas
Millimeter wave single chips
Ultra low power single chip radios
Ultra low power system on chip
Network context awareness
Self aware and self organizing
networks
Sensor network location
transparency
IPv6- enabled scalability

Unified protocol over wide

spectrum
Multi-functional
reconfigurable chips

Network cognition
Self-learning,
self-repairing networks
Ubiquitous IPv6-based
IoT deployment
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Development
Software and
algorithms

Hardware

Data and Signal

Processing
Technology
Discovery and
Search Engine
Technologies
Power and Energy
Storage
Technologies

Security, Privacy &

Trust
Technologies

Table 3.1 Continued

20152020
Goal oriented software
Distributed intelligence,
problem solving
Things-to-Things collaboration
environments
IoT complex data analysis
IoT intelligent data visualization
Hybrid IoT and industrial
automation systems
Smart sensors (bio-chemical)
More sensors and actuators
(tiny sensors)
Sensor integration with NFC
Home printable RFID tags
Context aware data processing
and data responses
Energy, frequency spectrum
aware data processing
Automatic route tagging and
identification management centres
Semantic discovery of sensors
and sensor data
Energy harvesting (biological,
chemical, induction)
Power generation in harsh
environments
Energy recycling
Long range wireless power
Wireless power
User centric context-aware
privacy and privacy policies
Privacy aware data processing
Security and privacy profiles
selection based on security and
privacy needs
Privacy needs automatic
evaluation
Context centric security
Homomorphic Encryption
Searchable Encryption
Protection mechanisms for IoT
DoS/DdoS attacks

Beyond 2020
User oriented software
The invisible IoT
Easy-to-deploy IoT sw
Things-to-Humans
collaboration
IoT 4 All
User-centric IoT

Nano-technology and new

materials

Cognitive processing and

optimisation

Cognitive search engines

Autonomous search
engines
Biodegradable batteries
Nano-power processing
unit

Self adaptive security

mechanisms and protocols
Self-managed secure IoT

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Development
Material
Technology

Interoperability

Standardisation

Research needs
Identification
Technology

IoT Architecture

Internet of Things
Infrastructure

Table 3.1 (Continued)

20152020
SiC, GaN
Improved/new semiconductor
manufacturing
processes/technologies for higher
temperature ranges
Optimized and market proof
interoperability approaches used
Interoperability under stress as
market grows
Cost of interoperability reduced
Several successful certification
programmes in place
IoT standardization refinement
M2M standardization as part of
IoT standardisation
Standards for cross
interoperability with
heterogeneous networks
IoT data and information
sharing

Beyond 2020
Diamond
Graphen

Automated self-adaptable
and agile interoperability

Standards for autonomic

communication protocols

Table 3.2 Internet of Things Research Needs

20152020
Beyond 2020
Convergence of IP and IDs and Multi methods one ID
addressing scheme
Unique ID
Multiple IDs for specific cases
Extend the ID concept (more
than ID number)
Electro Magnetic
Identification EMID
Internet (Internet of Things)
(global scale applications,
global interoperability, many
trillions of things)
Self management and
Application
configuration
domain-independent
abstractions & functionality
Cross-domain integration and
management
Large-scale deployment of
infrastructure
Context-aware adaptation of
operation
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Research needs
Internet of Things
Applications

SOA Software Services

for IoT

Internet of Things
Architecture
Technology

Communication
Technology

Table 3.2 (Continued)

20152020
IoT information open market
Standardization of APIs
IoT device with strong
processing and analytics
capabilities
Ad-hoc deployable and
configurable networks for
industrial use
Mobile IoT applications for
IoT industrial operation and
service/maintenance
Mobile IoT applications for
IoT industrial operation and
service/maintenance
Fully integrated and
interacting IoT applications for
industrial use
Quality of Information and IoT
service reliability
Highly distributed IoT
processes
Semi-automatic process
analysis and distribution
Code in tags to be executed in
the tag or in trusted readers
Global applications
Adaptive coverage
Universal authentication of
objects
Graceful recovery of tags
following power loss
More memory
Less energy consumption
3-D real time
location/position embedded
systems
Longer range (higher
frequencies tenths of GHz)
Protocols for interoperability
On chip networks and multi
standard RF architectures
Multi-protocol chips
Gateway convergence

Beyond 2020
Building and deployment of
public IoT infrastructure
with open APIs and
underlying business models
Mobile applications with
bio-IoT-human interaction

Fully autonomous IoT

devices

Intelligent and collaborative

functions
Object intelligence
Context awareness
Cooperative position
cyber-physical systems

Self configuring, protocol

seamless networks

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Network Technology

Software and
algorithms

Hardware Devices

Hybrid network technologies

convergence
5G developments
Collision-resistant algorithms
Plug and play tags
Self repairing tags
Grid/Cloud network
Software defined networks
Service based network
Multi authentication
Integrated/universal
authentication
Brokering of data through
market mechanisms
Scalability enablers
IPv6-based networks for
smart cities
Self management and control
Micro operating systems
Context aware business event
generation
Interoperable ontologies of
business events
Scalable autonomous
software
Evolving software
Self reusable software
Autonomous things:
Self configurable
Self healing
Self management
Platform for object
intelligence
Polymer based memory
Ultra low power
EPROM/FRAM
Molecular sensors
Autonomous circuits
Transparent displays
Interacting tags
Collaborative tags
Heterogeneous integration
Self powering sensors
Low cost modular devices

Need based network

Internet of Everything
Robust security based on
a combination of ID metrics
Autonomous systems for
non stop information
technology service
Global European
IPv6-based Internet of
Everything
Self generating molecular
software
Context aware software

Biodegradable antennas
Autonomous bee type
devices

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Research needs

Hardware Systems,
Circuits and
Architectures

Data and Signal

Processing Technology

Discovery and Search

Engine Technologies

Table 3.2 (Continued)

20152020
Ultra low power circuits
Electronic paper
Nano power processing units
Silent Tags
Biodegradable antennae
Multi protocol front ends
Ultra low cost chips with
security
Collision free air to air
protocol
Minimum energy protocols
Multi-band, multi-mode
wireless sensor architectures
implementations
Adaptive architectures
Reconfigurable wireless
systems
Changing and adapting
functionalities to the
environments
Micro readers with multi
standard protocols for reading
sensor and actuator data
Distributed memory and
processing
Low cost modular devices
Protocols correct by
construction
Common sensor ontologies
(cross domain)
Distributed energy efficient
data processing
Autonomous computing
Tera scale computing
Scalable Discovery services for
connecting things with services
while respecting security,
privacy and confidentiality
Search Engine for Things
IoT Browser
Multiple identities per object
On demand service
discovery/integration
Universal authentication

Beyond 2020

Heterogeneous
architectures
Fluid systems,
continuously changing and
adapting

Cognitive computing

Cognitive registries

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Power and Energy
Storage Technologies

Interoperability

Security, Privacy &

Trust Technologies

Paper based batteries

Wireless power
everywhere, anytime
Photovoltaic cells
everywhere
Energy harvesting
Power generation for harsh
environments
Dynamic and adaptable
interoperability for technical
and semantic areas
Open platform for IoT
validation
Low cost, secure and high
performance identification/
authentication devices
Access control and
accounting schemes for IoT
General attack detection and
recovery/resilience for IoT
Cyber Security Situation
Awareness for IoT
Context based security
activation algorithms

Biodegradable batteries

Self-adaptable and agile

interoperability approaches

Cognitive security systems

Self-managed secure IoT
Decentralised approaches
to privacy by information
localisation

Service triggered security

Context-aware devices
Object intelligence
Decentralised self configuring
methods for trust
establishment
Novel methods to assess
trust in people, devices and
data
Location privacy
preservation
Personal information
protection from inference and
observation
Trust Negotiation
Governance (legal
aspects)

Legal framework for

transparency of IoT bodies
and organizations

Adoption of clear European

norms/standards regarding
Privacy and Security
for IoT
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Research needs

Economic

Material Technology

Table 3.2 (Continued)

20152020
Privacy knowledge base
and development privacy
standards
Business cases and value
chains for IoT
Emergence of IoT in
different industrial sectors
Carbon nanotube
Conducting Polymers and
semiconducting polymers and
molecules
Modular manufacturing
techniques

Beyond 2020

Graphen

List of Contributors
Abdur Rahim Biswas, IT, create-net, iCore
Alessandro Bassi, FR, Bassi Consulting, IoT-A
Ali Rezafard, IE, Afilias, EPCglobal Data Discovery JRG
Amine Houyou, DE, SIEMENS, IoT@Work
Antonio Skarmeta, SP, University of Murcia, IoT6
Carlos Agostinho, PT, UNINOVA
Carlo Maria Medaglia, IT, University of Rome Sapienza, IoT-A
Csar Viho, FR, Probe-IT
Claudio Pastrone, IT, ISMB, ebbits, ALMANAC
Daniel Thiemert, UK, University of Reading, HYDRA
David Simplot-Ryl, FR, INRIA/ERCIM, ASPIRE
Elias Tragos, GR, FORTH, RERUM
Eric Mercier, FR, CEA-Leti
Erik Berg, NO, Telenor, IoT-I
Francesco Sottile, IT, ISMB, BUTLER
Franck Le Gall, FR, Inno, PROBE-IT, BUTLER
Franois Carrez, GB, IoT-I
Frederic Thiesse, CH, University of St. Gallen, Auto-ID Lab
Friedbert Berens, LU, FB Consulting S. r.l, BUTLER
Gary Steri, IT, EC, JRC
Gianmarco Baldini, IT, EC, JRC
Giuseppe Abreu, DE, Jacobs University Bremen, BUTLER
Ghislain Despesse, FR, CEA-Leti

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Hanne Grindvoll, NO, SINTEF ICT

Harald Sundmaeker, DE, ATB GmbH, SmartAgriFood, CuteLoop
Henri Barthel, BE, GS1 Global
Igor Nai Fovino, IT, EC, JRC
Jan Hller, SE, EAB
Jens-Matthias Bohli, DE, NEC
John Soldatos, GR, Athens Information Technology, ASPIRE, OpenIoT
Jose-Antonio, Jimenez Holgado, ES, TID
Klaus Moessner, UK, UNIS, IoT.est
Kostas Kalaboukas, GR, SingularLogic, EURIDICE
Latif Ladid, LU, UL, IPv6 Forum
Levent Grgen, FR, CEA-Leti
Luis Muoz, ES, Universidad De Cantabria
Manfred Hauswirth, IE, DERI, OpenIoT, VITAL
Marco Carugi, IT, ITU-T, ZTE
Marilyn Arndt, FR, Orange
Mario Hoffmann, DE, Fraunhofer-Institute SIT, HYDRA
Markus Eisenhauer, DE, Fraunhofer-FIT, HYDRA, ebbits
Markus Gruber, DE, ALUD
Martin Bauer, DE, NEC, IoT-A
Martin Serrano, IE, DERI, OpenIoT
Maurizio Spirito, IT, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, , ebbits, ALMANAC
Maarten Botterman, NL, GNKS, SMART-ACTION
Nicolaie L. Fantana, DE, ABB AG
Nikos Kefalakis, GR, Athens Information Technology, OpenIoT
Paolo Medagliani, FR, Thales Communications & Security, CALYPSO
Payam Barnaghi, UK, UNIS, IoT.est
Philippe Cousin, FR, easy global market, PROBE-IT,
Raffaele Giaffreda, IT, CNET, iCore
Ricardo Neisse, IT, EC, JRC
Richard Egan, UK, TRT
Rolf Weber, CH, UZH
Sbastien Boissseau, FR, CEA-Leti
Sbastien Ziegler, CH, Mandat International, IoT6
Sergio Gusmeroli, IT, TXT e-solutions,
Stefan Fisher, DE, UZL
Stefano Severi, DE, Jacobs University Bremen, BUTLER
Srdjan Krco, RS, DunavNET IoT-I, SOCIOTAL
Snke Nommensen, DE, UZL, SmartSantander

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Trevor Peirce, BE, CASAGRAS2
Veronica Gutierrez Polidura, ES, Universidad De Cantabria
Vincent Berg, FR, CEA-Leti
Vlasios Tsiatsis, SE, EAB
Wolfgang Knig, DE, ALUD
Wolfgang Templ, DE, ALUD

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ebbits, ARTEMIS, ENIAC, EPoSS, EU-IFM, EURIDICE, GRIFS, HYDRA,
IMS2020, Indisputable Key, iSURF, LEAPFROG, PEARS Feasibility,
PrimeLife, RACE networkRFID, SMART, StoLPaN, SToP, TraSer, WALTER, IoT-A, IoT@Work, ELLIOT, SPRINT, NEFFICS, IoT-I, CASAGRAS2,
eDiana, OpenIoT, IoT6, iCore PROBE-IT, BUTLER, IoT-est, SmartAgriFood, ALMANAC, CITYPULSE,COSMOS,CLOUT, RERUM, SMARTIE,
SOCIOTAL, VITAL

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acronym
3GPP3GPP
AAL
ACID
ACL
AMR
API
AWARENESS
BACnet
BAN
BDI
Bluetooth
BPM
BPMN
BUTLER
CAGR
CE
CENCEN

Meaning
3rd Generation Partnership Project
Ambient Assisted Living
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
Access Control List
Automatic Meter Reading Technology
Application Programming Interface
EU FP7 coordination action Self-Awareness in Autonomic
Systems
Communications protocol for building automation and
control networks
Body Area Network
Belief-Desire-Intention architecture or approach
Proprietary short range open wireless technology standard
Business process modelling
Business Process Model and Notation
EU FP7 research project uBiquitous, secUre inTernet of
things with Location and contExt-awaReness
Compound annual growth rate
Council of Europe
Comit Europen de Normalisation

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CENELEC
CEO
CEP
CMOS
CSS
D1.3
DATEX-II
DCA
DNS
DoS/DDOS
EC
eCall
EDA
EH
EMF
ERTICO-ITS
ESOs
ESP
ETSI
EU
Exabytes
FI
FI PPP
FIA
FIS 2008
F-ONS
FP7
FTP
GFC
GreenTouch
GS1
Hadoop
IAB
IBM
ICAC
ICANN
ICT
iCore
IERC
IETF
INSPIRE

Comit Europen de Normalisation lectrotechnique

Chief executive officer
Complex Event Processing
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
Chirp Spread Spectrum
Deliverable 1.3
Standard for data exchange involving traffic centres
Data Collection and Analysis
Domain Name System
Denial of service attack Distributed denial of service attack
European Commission
eCall eSafety Support A European Commission funded
project, coordinated by ERTICO-ITS Europe
Event Driven Architecture
Energy harvesting
Electromagnetic Field
Multi-sector, public / private partnership for intelligent
transport systems and services for Europe
European Standards Organisations
Event Stream Processing
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
European Union
1018 bytes
Future Internet
Future Internet Public Private Partnership programme
Future Internet Assembly
Future Internet Symposium 2008
Federated Object Naming Service
Framework Programme 7
File Transfer Protocol
Global Certification Forum
Consortium of ICT research experts
Global Standards Organization
Project developing open-source software for reliable,
scalable, distributed computing
Internet Architecture Board
International Business Machines Corporation
International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers
Information and Communication Technologies
EU research project Empowering IoT through cognitive
technologies
European Research Cluster for the Internet of Things
Internet Engineering Task Force
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European
Community

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IoE
IoM
IoP
IoS
IoT
IoT6

IoT-A
IoT-A
IoT-est
IoT-i
IoV
IP
IPSO Alliance
IPv6
ISO 19136
IST
KNX
LNCS
LOD
LTE
M2M
MAC
MAPE-K

makeSense
MB
MIT
MPP
NIEHS
NFC
NoSQL

Internet of EnergyInternet of Energy

Internet of MediaInternet of Media
Internet of PersonsInternet of Persons, Internet of
PeopleInternet of People
Internet of ServicesInternet of Services
Internet of Things
EU FP7 research project Universal integration of the
Internet of Things through an IPv6-based service oriented
architecture enabling heterogeneous components
interoperability
Internet of Things ArchitectureInternet of Things
Architecture
Internet of Things ArchitectureInternet of Things
Architecture
EU ICT FP7 research project Internet of Things
environment for service creation and testing
Internet of Things Initiative
Internet of Vehicles
Internet Protocol
Organization promoting the Internet Protocol (IP) for Smart
Object communications
Internet Protocol version 6
Geographic information, Geography Mark-up Language,
ISO Standard
Intelligent Transportation System
Standardized, OSI-based network communications protocol
for intelligent buildings
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Linked Open Data Cloud
Long Term Evolution
Machine to Machine
Media Access Control data communication protocol
sub-layer
Model for autonomic systems:
Monitor, Analyse, Plan, Execute in interaction with a
Knowledge base
EU FP7 research project on
Easy Programming of Integrated Wireless Sensors
Megabyte
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massively parallel processing
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Near Field Communication
not only SQL a broad class of database management
systems

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OASIS
OEM
OGC
OMG
OpenIoT

Outsmart
PAN
PET
Petabytes
PHY
PIPES
PKI
PPP
Probe-IT
PSI
PV
QoI
RF
RFID
SASO
SDO
SEAMS
SENSEI
SIG
SLA
SmartAgriFood

SmartSantander
SOA
SON
SSW
SRA
SRIA
SRA2010
SWE
TC

Organisation for the Advancement of Structured

Information Standards
Original equipment manufacturer
Open Geospatial Consortium
Object Management Group
EU FP7 research project Part of the Future Internet public
private partnership Open source blueprint for large scale
self-organizing cloud environments for IoT applications
EU project Provisioning of urban/regional smart services
and business models enabled by the Future Internet
Personal Area Network
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
1015 byte
Physical layer of the OSI model
Public infrastructure for processing and exploring streams
Public key infrastructure
Public-private partnership
EU ICT-FP7 research project Pursuing roadmaps and
benchmarks for the Internet of Things
Public Sector Information
Photo Voltaic
Quality of Information
Radio frequency
Radio-frequency identification
IEEE international conferences on Self-Adaptive and
Self-Organizing Systems
Standard Developing Organization
International Symposium on Software Engineering for
Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
EU FP7 research project Integrating the physical with the
digital world of the network of the future
Special Interest Group
Service-level agreement / Software license agreement
EU ICT FP7 research project
Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for safe and
healthy food from farm to fork
EU ICT FP7 research project
Future Internet research and experimentation
Service Oriented Approach
Self Organising Networks
Semantic Sensor Web
Strategic Research Agenda
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Strategic Research Agenda 2010
Sensor Web Enablement
Technical Committee

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TTCN-3
USDL
UWB
W3C
WS&AN
WSN
WS-BPEL
Zettabytes
ZigBee

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3

Unified Service Description Language
Ultra-wideband
World Wide Web Consortium
Wireless sensor and actuator networks
Wireless sensor network
Web Services Business Process Execution Language
1021 byte
Low-cost, low-power wireless mesh network standard based
on IEEE 802.15.4

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