"The meeting point between the Internet of things and the Smart Cities" Luis Muñoz

SmartSantander: The Meeting Point between the Internet of Things and the Smart City

Prof. Luis MuñozLaboratories for R+D+I in Telecommunications, 39005-Santander; Spain

University of [email protected]

Course on Smart Cities and Innovation in Services UIMP, August 2011

Outline

• Internet of Things (IoT). – Integrating IoT in the Future Internet.

• IoT impact on network behavior.• Looking for a research with a true impact.• Smart Cities: The paradise for the living labs.• SmartSantander.

– What, why and how?– Technologies and services– Experimentation support and tools

• Conclusions.


Internet of Things (1/3)

• Heterogeneous devices/objects such as RFID, smartcards, sensors, actuators, …

• Machine to machine (M2M) term is used instead ofIoT. However, M2M is a subset of IoT.

• Standardization activities in the ETSI conducted byETSI TC M2M.– Smart metering.– E-Health.

• New Long Term Evolution (LTE) profile, fitting M2Mrequirements, under discussion.



• ITU-T work on ubiquitous sensor networks (USN)



• Plethora of heterogeneous devices accessing to theNGN backbone through a plethora of accessnetworks.

• IoT architecture definition encompassing:– Protocols and interfaces– Services

• European projects to monitor at time being:– IoT-A (Internet of Things Architecture; IP)– IoT-i (Internet of Things Initiative; CA)– SmartSantander (IP)– BUTLER (IP)– OUTSMART (PPP-FI)


IoT impact on network behavior

• The presence of a huge number of heterogeneousIoT devices imposes a set of open questions aboutthe performance of access networks (mainlywireless).

• It is not yet valid to make an approach just based onsimplified analytical models or simulations.

• A much more ambitious approach is needed.


Looking for a research with true impact (1/2)

• A lot of Future Internet research has crystallized interms of relevant publications, prototypes andsimulations.

• Just as an example: Too many RFCs, some of themvery successful:– Mobile IPv4 (RFC 3344, Charles Perkins)– Mobile IPv6 (RFC3775)– Raptor Codes (RFC 5053)

• However is this enough?


Looking for a research with a true impact (2/2)

• There is a need to provoke a higher impact. – Increasing end-user involvement ⇒ Increases social

awareness concerning research– Prioritizing innovation

• Which are the tools?


Smart cities: The paradise forliving labs

• Smart cities represent a unique ecosystem which fitsthe requirements of research driven by innovation.– End-users (citizens)– Local authorities and their requirements, constraints,

interests,…– Service and technology providers (SMEs, companies,…).– Researchers


SmartSantander and the living labs

• Smart Santander aims at deploying a unique Internetof Things infrastructure for carrying out experimentalresearch in the framework of a city

• The infrastructure has to provide support to the– Research community– End-users (inhabitants, local authorities,…)– Service providers

• …and has to be SUSTAINABLE


What is SmartSantander about?

• SmartSantander aims at providing a European experimental test facility forthe research and experimentation of architectures, key enablingtechnologies, services and applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) inthe context of the smart city.

20.000 IoT devices


Why Smart-Z with Z = Santander?

• Smart Santander was perceived from the verybeginning as a golden opportunity for lining up thevectors of the value chain:– Research centers

– Industry, in particular SMEs

– Other agents

• SmartSantander is not only for researchers...– Smart services for Santander city and citizens

– Traffic management in the city (outdoors parking areas,traffic monitoring, control loading areas, ...) +environmental impact


How is SmartSantander becoming a reality?

• Phased roll-out and deployment:

Phase 1

November 2011

2.000 IoT devices

Mainly WSN nodes and GWs

Basic experi-mentationsupport

Transport, metering, environment

Phase 2

November 2012

5.000 IoT devices

More heterogeneity WSNs, RFID, GW

Advanced tools for experimentation

TBD

Phase 3

August 2013

20.000 IoT devices

Federated with other FIRE facilities

Advanced cross-testbedtools

TBD

Time

Scale

Resources

Facility services

Application domains

Basis for 1st call experimentsCall publication: Sep ‘11Experiments: Dec ‘11 – Jul ‘12

Basis for 2nd call experimentsCall publication: Sep ‘12Experiments: Dec ‘12 – Jul ‘13


Technologies and Services

• Phase 1 deployment– 1300 installed on lamp posts

• 650 targeted to service provision (Temperature, Relative Humidity, Noise Levels)

• 650 targeted to experimentation

– 325 buried in the asphalt



• Full-meshed network architecture– Topology controlled by experimenter possible– Reprogrammable over-the-air– 802.15.4 transceiver dedicated for experimentation

Parking sensor node. To be deployed buried in

the asphalt. At the corresponding load/unload

area, bus stop or handicapped-reserved space.

Repeater. To be deployed at available street

lights or traffic lights.

Gateway. Connected to Internet/Intranet.

Radio link

Streetlight

Parking sensor: Sensor node

with one transceiver (Digimesh)

Repeater: Sensor node with two

transceivers (Digimesh and 802.15.4)

Gateway: Node with communication with

sensor networks (Digimesh and 802.15.4)

and communication with external networks

(WiFi, GPRS, ethernet)

Load/Unload

Area

SmartSantander

Backbone

Digimesh Link

802.15.4 Link

WiFi/GPRS,

ethernet Link



• Pilot deployment already up and running– 3 clusters.– 150 Waspmotes with dual transceiver:

• 100 sensing environmental conditions (Temperature and/or CO index).

• 50 parking occupancy status.

– 3 Gateways for connection with the Portal Server– Duality experimentation-service provision



• From the lab to the hostile outdoor scenario!!



• Additional testbeds increasing the heterogeneity– Smart campus, Guildford, UK

• 350 freely programmable IoT experimentation nodes:– 250 wireless sensor nodes in an office environment providing energy

consumption at desk, light, temperature, motion, and noise.

– 100 embedded Linux gateway devices (Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth).

– Lübeck testbed deployment• 320 wireless sensor nodes with USB backbone, indoor.• 60 wireless sensor nodes without wired backbone, outdoor.

– Belgrade testbed deployment• 20 mobile devices, deployed on public buses.

– Equipped with GPRS, GPS, temperature, humidity, air pressure, CO, CO2 andNO2.

– Access to data and re-programming possible.

• Additional 60 devices available, but for data access only.


Expected experimentation support and tools

• Tools supporting of the entire experimentation cycle– Open APIs with appropriate documentation.– Transparent and seamless.– Secure.

Specification phase

Specification

Setup phase Execution phase

– Resource selection– Configuration specs– Provisioning of images– Definition of KPIs,

debug & log info

– Reservation– Scheduling– Deployment and

configuration

– Execution control– Event injection– Monitoring– Data collection– Logging


Summer school

• Dates: 29/08 - 02/09 2011.• Venue: Kotor, Montenegro.• The aims of the summer school are to:

– Survey fundamental and applied aspects of the Internet ofThings.

– Provide hands-on experience for experimentally-driven IoTresearch on one of the leading European IoT researchfacilities.

– SmartSantander tutorial - how to use the platform andhow to apply for funding available to run experiments.

• Lectures: Each day will feature lectures withsubsequent discussions around important IoTresearch themes and technology areas:

www.senzations.net


Conclusions (1/2)

• IoT represents a new paradigm for the Internet of the Future.– New architecture, protocols, interfaces and services to be

conceived.

• New approach to the research:– End user involvement needed but NOT user driven.– Higher impact.– Innovation as a key axis.

• Living labs are becoming a relevant ecosystem– Smart cities represent an appropriate instantiation of the

living labs.


Conclusions (2/2)

• SmartCity for experimentation:– Wide possibilities for experimentation (protocols

experimentation, data and knowledge engineering, WSNmanagement, services and applications).

– Open platform.

• Real-world environment.

• Open Calls for experimentation:– Call publication: Early September 2011– Call close: 5 weeks after– Call budget: TBC - (up to 1.2 M€ for both phases)– Number of partners per experiments: 1-3 (TBC)– Max. requested funding per experiment 200K

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