city&building automation

CONVERGENCIA IT/OT.

El caso de NearbySensor

Jornada SmartLivingPlat

26/11/2015

Face-off?

Server

PLC

2 families of concepts

Database

Storage

Printing

High-level

programming

language Web

File System

Operating

System

Microprocessor

Access

Control

List

E-Mail

IP

DCS

FieldBus

SCADA

Transducer

I2C

Process

Real-time

Microcontroller

HMI

Actuator

Low-level

integration

Client-server

CIO COO

Industrial

Easy and not easy problems for usual customers

To add a camera on a pc for visual

communication with anyone in the world

To add a camera to an installed alarm system in

an office to take pictures in case of alarm

To transfer a call between a VoIP terminal

and a Smartphone.

To open/close the lights of an office room when

a call enters to any smartphone in the room

To automatically invest thousands of € according

to the evolution of a share stock index.

To automatically regulate the air-co temperature

of a room according to the real-time origin of the

electric energy.

To connect databases/applications through an APITo regulate the lighting of an office sector

according to the number of active pc’s on that

sector.

IT/OT integration benefits

Mix of professional profiles

Enhanced performance

Risk reduction

Cost reduction

Flexibility

Diversity of providers available

IT/OT convergence challenges

Deliver technical levels of quality required both in IT and

OT fields

Coordinate strategies of IT and OT in the market

Deliver products which can actually fit all needs in a real

environment

Adopt a step-by-step strategy

Overcome the problems of coordination inside

customer’s organizations

NearbySensor approach

This is the REAL disruptive concept

INDUSTRIALIZING

SIMPLIFYINTEGRATIONUSER

EMPOWERMENTEFFICIENCY

END-TO-END

SECURITY

Ubiquity of TCP/IP protocols, also in industrial networks

Avalaibility of services in the cloud

Trend creation by the Maker community

Rise of open architechtures

Free, adaptive and reliable operating system

The context: “base technologies” evolution

A set of elements have actually modified the tech base environment:

Enhancement of microprocessors features, at a very low price

Paradigm shift in building management networks

Until now

(1)

From now

on

(2)

The architecture of a control

network looks as a

conventional data network

No need for control sub-

networks, because of low-

level integration. Sensors

belong to processes and not

to final services.

A physical sensor or actuator

becomes an abstract entity

equivalent to any data record

or event from the IT world

Paradigm shift in building management networks(2)

Final station: the IoT stack

Industrial Internet

Smart gridSmart

Manufacturing

Logistics and

transportation

Insurance

&

Banking

Connected

car

Connected

BuildingRetail Lifestyle Ehealth

Public

SafetyMilitary

Consumer Government

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Service providers and integrators

(consulting, integration, development)

IoT Platform IoT products

IoT products, solutions

and services

Sensors DevicesServices and

solutions

IoT Backend IoT Enablement

MiddlewareAnalytics

Platfor,

Tools and

FrameworksComputing Storage Microservice

Focus on the architecture, not the pieces

NearbyBox

controller A

NearbyBox

controller B

NearbyBox

controller C

Installed base of indoor/outdoor sensors and actuators of any technology

Third part controllers

NearbyAgent

frameworkNearbyAgent

framework

NearbyAgent

framework

NearbyAgent

framework

Monitor Operate Maintain Analyze Deploy

Service 1

(energy management)

Service 2

(garden/plants

irrigation)

Service 3

(Access control)

Service n

(Surveillance)

Nearby Platform

Simple, open and cheap universal boxes

Physical deployment scheme

Homogenous and regular network

Ne

Data line

Power line

Sala 1

Room 2

Hall

Room 3

Switch Ethernet

Server

NearbyPlatform

Efficient approach, efficient deployment

A unique infrastructure, whatever the service delivered

Single point of management

Exempl: racks and urban cabinets control

Ready to solve challenges

NearbySensor has been created to deliver specific solutions to problems faced by

cities in their way to become smart managed.

NearbySensor technologies have been designed according to four big drivers:

• Rationalism: work with the same pattern at any scale

• Real integrability with third parts

• Industrializing of specific services&solutions

• Security and reliability

Usual problems before NearbySensor

• Closed technologies, city or building managers may get tied to a unique vendor.

• Uneasy integration with city/building IT central architecture.

• Lack of flexibility to interoperate with third part solutions.

• Lack of scalability. Big solutions never fit to small problems.

• Security is an overheaded layer, not an inherent property.

Applications layer

Physical layer Hardware abstraction layer

Addressing layer

Process management layer

“Services” layer

Physical resources layer (hard, soft)

“SO”

A known solution

Logic layer abstraction

(1)

(3)

(2)

Some practical values

Multi-service use of a common

resource

The system presents is browsed

as a service catalog.

A service includes:

• A list of sensors/actuators

• The actuation rules

• Some predefined alarms/alerts

• Some graphical presentation of data

• Etc…

Installation A

Installation B

Service library

Catalog of services

“download and install”

A group of services is chosen

at any given installation.

Single hotel room

The aggregation of services allows defining installations

with the same focus building managers have, not in terms

of the field network.

Creating and maintaining a building management

installation becomes an industrializing task, where time

and management complexity fall dramatically.

Acces control

Climate control

Light regulation control

Sunblind engine control

Wi-fi connection control

Corollary

Functional categories management

Mountain BTS

Radiocom operator

Climate control

Water level control

Wind forcé control

UPS battery control

Teaching room

Climate control

Fire control

Air quality Control

Light regulation control

Pupils presence control

Acces control

Noves aplicacions possibles en la gestió d’espais

Free variable crossing

Connection with ERP

NearbySensor allows crossing in a natural way any set ofvariables, physical

or logical.

Analysis and auto-learningThe system may alter any parameter based on an algorythm pursuing

an optimal point. Energy efficiency is a paradigm.

Field data are processed locally then sent to ERP/CRM, or in the

opposite way, a trigger in a ERP/CRM database may trigger an actuation

in the field.

Tracing by services The control structure fits better in the real management patterns

NearbySensor Advantages

� Rational base for Smart City&Building services implanting

� Easy to learn and manage. May be implemented and maintained by any

systems integrator.

� Adapts to and with any existing IT systems or control networks. Pay only for

what will be really useful.

� Get the full catalog of pieces or choose the ones you need.

� Feel the power of a IoE multi-service platform. Create your own process of

signals, data and system events as a unique category of sensors/actuators.

City&building automation

• NearbySensor introduces all the functionalities of automation control systems to IoT

and M2M solutions.

• NearbySensor is thought as a general city infrastructure, not as a one-service-

oriented solution.

• NearbySensor paves the way to rapid and secure Smart City project design and

deployment.

• NearbySensor includes a complete collection of HW and SW modules that allow a

fully operational and also fully customised final product.

A reliable company

NearbySensor develops projects in tight collaboration with certified system integrators:

• Pre-sales support

• Design phase co-participation

• NearbyBox 2-year full warranty (extensible)

• Software licenses based on number of network nodes. Optional upgrades to newer

versions.

• Exclusive and adapted training to corporate IT and maintenance managers

• Optional monthly-fee payment

Patent pending

Nearby Sensors SL started the process for a patent approval, in order to get its innovation recognised.

EACOM, experts on city and technology

EACOM is a group of consulting and engineering companies

focused on the deployment of urban networks.

More than 25 years designing and deploying:

• Fiber Optics networks (since as soon as 1990)

• Radio networks (Mobile telecom, broadcasting, urban wi-fi)

• Sensor networks in the public way

A group of engineers who have worked in and for telecom operators, systems

integrators, city contractors, and public agencies.

Central offices at Barcelona, Spain

Find Nearby Sensors SL offices at:

Calle Berruguete 60-62

PC 08035

Barcelona, Spain

Tel: +34 93 599 59 24

E-mail: nbs@nearbysensor.com